Throughout our 2009 Annual Report, the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science shows how technological advances are helping improve the way we discover and manage the natural world.
Chesapeake Biological Laboratory Director Margaret Palmer believes there's a better way to mine for coal than blowing the tops off mountains, and shares what she knows with Stephen Colbert on The Colbert Report.
The UMCES Horn Point Laboratory oyster hatchery produced nearly 750 million oyster spat for Chesapeake Bay restoration in 2009, the most ever grown in one year at the laboratory’s Eastern Shore facility.
Graduate student Ryan Utz and his mentor Dr. Bob Hilderbrand from the UMCES Appalachian Laboratory have established thresholds for determining when specific types of development will likely have detrimental impacts.