Press Releases

UMCES-led international research effort to weigh “green ammonia” impact on climate change and environment

September 19, 2023
The Global Nitrogen Innovation Center for Clean Energy and the Environment (NICCEE), spearheaded by the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) with key partners in the U.S. (New York University and University of Massachusetts Amherst), Canada (University of Guelph), and the UK (Rothamsted Research), will provide timely and crucial insights associated with the rapidly evolving technological innovation to produce ammonia using renewable energy for clean energy and food production.

UMCES’ Chesapeake Biological Laboratory receives transformative gift to study contaminated waterways

August 8, 2023
The University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science’s (UMCES) Chesapeake Biological Laboratory (CBL) announces a $1 million gift from Brian Hochheimer and Marjorie Wax to establish the Anthropogenic Changes in Estuarine Systems (ACES) Initiative, a five-year project to study chemicals in waterways that could be having harmful impacts on environmental and human health.

JES Avanti Foundation supports UMCES’ DolphinWatch efforts

July 25, 2023
The University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science’s Chesapeake Biological Laboratory announces its first sponsorship donation from the JES Avanti Foundation to support its Chesapeake DolphinWatch program.

Potent greenhouse gas produced by industry could be readily abated with existing technologies

July 5, 2023
Researchers have found that one method of reducing greenhouse gas emissions is available, affordable, and capable of being implemented right now. Nitrous oxide, a potent greenhouse gas and ozone-depleting substance, could be readily abated with existing technology applied to industrial sources.

Federal funding awarded for oyster restoration and resiliency research

June 23, 2023
This morning, Maryland U.S. Senators Ben Cardin and Chris Van Hollen joined oyster experts from the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science and other environmental partners to celebrate a nearly $1 million federal award for oyster restoration and resiliency research and roundtable discussion on the future of oyster research for restoration of the Chesapeake Bay.

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