Fisheries Biologist Dr. David Secor and Dr. Hiroyuki Ariyama of Japan will be honored by the Japanese Society of Fisheries Science for their research into how typhoons and low-oxygenated waters are impacting a crab native to the waters of Osaka Bay.

In recent years, a coalition of concerned citizens from city government, civic organizations, business leaders, scientists, community activists, and schools has banded together to help restore the Harbor and created the Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore (WPB).

The Outdoors Maryland Award for Stewardship of the Environment was established in 2008 to honor individuals or institutions for their commitment to celebrating and caring for the world around us.

2010 was a remarkable year for the Center. As environmental emergencies transpired and debates arisen, the Center’s experts answered the call and provided the science-based guidance needed to help cope with the problems at hand.

The Presidentially-appointed Oil Spill Commission has released its landmark report, Deep Water: The Gulf Oil Disaster and the Future of Offshore Drilling, on the causes and consequences of the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster, and is proposing comprehensive reforms of both government and industry practices to overhaul the U.S. approach to drilling safety and greatly reduce the chances of a similar, large scale disaster in the future.

UMCES Chesapeake Biological Laboratory fisheries biologist Dr. Tom Miller explains how the most basic of fisheries management measures can work, provided policymakers have the courage to give them a try.

As leading scientists and journalists descend upon San Francisco for the fall meeting of the American Geophysical Union, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory scientist Dr. Hali Kilbourne will be one several leading experts working to assist reporters in their coverage of climate science.

The University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science and Governor Martin O’Malley recently honored Captain Michael Reusing for 44 years of service to the University and its research fleet.