The 2025 Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation (CERF) Achievement Award for Organizational Coastal Stewardship has been awarded to UMCES. The award recognizes UMCES’s 100-year legacy of advancing scientific knowledge, public education, and management solutions in support of coastal and estuarine health worldwide.

Sometime between 1381 and 1391, an earthquake exceeding magnitude 8.0 rocked the northeastern Caribbean and sent a tsunami barreling toward the island of Anegada. Now, in an open-access paper recently published in Geophysical Research Letters, led by Hali Kilbourne, an associate research professor at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, researchers narrow the tsunami time frame to the last decades of the 14th century. The researchers expect this finding to support ongoing efforts to prepare for future Caribbean tsunamis.

Governor Wes Moore has commissioned Solomons resident and University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Professor Thomas Miller as the 111th Admiral of the Chesapeake Bay.

A new paper published in Environmental Science & Technology Letters warns of an emerging global threat posed by salt contamination of water supplies in tidal rivers worldwide.

The University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science has named Dr Jenn Burns, a highly respected expert in marine physiology and ecology with a distinguished career in polar research and science leadership, as the new Director of its Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology (IMET).

Over 80 scientists, policymakers, farmers, and innovators from around the world gathered in Washington, D.C. for NICCEE’s North American Nitrogen Governance Workshop and Nitrogen Summer Institute.

Today, the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) released its 19th annual Chesapeake Bay and Watershed Report Card, the most comprehensive annual assessment of the Chesapeake Bay and its Watershed. The overall Chesapeake Bay earned a grade of C (50%). The Chesapeake Bay Watershed Health, which includes ecology, society, and economy indicators, scored C+ (57%).

The University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) has named Dr. Beth Polidoro, a renowned expert in marine science and environmental chemistry, the new Director of its Chesapeake Biological Laboratory (CBL).

UMCES will celebrate its centennial year with an event series highlighting legacy and future vision for 2025 and beyond.