Public Safety

The University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) is committed to providing a safe environment for faculty, staff, students, visitors, and volunteers in all its sites. UMCES provides campus security for each lab location by establishing a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with local law enforcement departments or other security entities: 

• Calvert County Sheriff’s Office (opens in a new tab) for Chesapeake Biological Laboratory (Solomons, MD)
• Dorchester County Sheriff’s Office (opens in a new tab) for Horn Point Laboratory (Cambridge, MD)
• Frostburg State University Police (opens in a new tab) for Appalachian Laboratory (Frostburg, MD)
• University of Maryland Baltimore Campus Police (opens in a new tab) for Institute of Marine Environmental Technology (Baltimore, MD

Emergency Preparedness and Crisis Communications Plans
Each campus operated by UMCES has established written Emergency Preparedness Plans.

• Appalachian Laboratory
• Chesapeake Biological Laboratory (opens in a new tab)
• Horn Point Laboratory 
• UMCES Crisis Communications Plan

For more information  contact Chief of Staff Dave Nemazie at 410-221-2006 or nemazie@umces.edu.