CBL Research Assistant Professor Dr. Helen Bailey and her student Aimee Hoover are working with The Leatherback Trust on a project that investigates the migration of young leatherback sea turtles between when they leave their nesting beach as hatchlings and the time they reach maturity. This period is known as “the lost years” because even today, not much is known about where turtles travel during this time.

UMCES' Chesapeake Biological Laboratory (CBL) alumnus Adam Peer and CBL Director Dr. Tom Miller were recipients of the Best Paper of the Year 2014 awarded by the American Fisheries Society for its journal North American Journal of Fisheries Management.

To study restored streams in Anne Arundel County, Filoso went driving by day and sometimes by night, in summer and in winter. Every two weeks, in daylight, she collected water samples from the streams for chemical analyses.

CBL Professor Dr. David Secor is tracking the migration patterns of the Chesapeake’s most popular fish to catch and eat: the striped bass.

Hailing from Peoria, AZ, Andrea Sylvia came to the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory in January 2013 to pursue her Masters degree through the Marine-Estuarine-Environmental Sciences (MEES) Graduate Program. Having successfully defended her thesis on April 9, 2015, Andrea is now the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory’s newest graduate!

In 1960, CBL Research Associate David Cargo started a daily routine of strolling down the CBL research pier and recording the number of jellyfish he could see in the water. Today, CBL Assistant Professor Dr. Hongsheng Bi and his students are continuing the same method — and are working on a new jellyfish-counting method as well.

CBL Professor Dr. David Secor is co-leading the Chesapeake Sturgeon Initiative, a project that seeks to discover what a fish that swam with dinosaurs and fed Jamestown colonists needs to survive in the Chesapeake Bay today.

Gov. O'Malley names Chesapeake Biological Laboratory scientist Walter Boynton an Admiral of the Chesapeake.

CBL Research Professor Dr. Lisa Wainger is examining both the environmental and economic costs and benefits of fighting one of the southern Louisiana waterways’ most troublesome invasive species: water hyacinth.