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UMCES Appoints New President
After 27 years, Dr. Don Boesch will step down from his position as President of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) on August 31, 2017. Over his tenure, Dr. Boesch has received numerous awards and recognitions for his exemplary leadership on coastal and marine research and policy around the country, including being presented with a Governor’s Citation by...
Read MoreVoluntary Farmland Conservation
A partnership between The Nature Conservancy (TNC) and the Delaware Maryland Agribusiness Association, and funding from USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), has been providing tools to farmers in Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia to prevent nutrient and sediment pollution in the Bay. Farmers want to prevent pollution while also increasing efficiency and productivity on their lands,...
Read MoreUMBC: NSF Funds Blaney
Lee Blaney, a researcher at University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), recently received two separate pieces of very good news from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The first was that his proposal for a CAREER Award on Environmental forensics–Emerging water quality tools to detect leaking sewers in urban streams was selected for funding. This project will allow him to focus on issues...
Read MoreSERC: Archaeological Dig
A group of scientists and volunteers gathered in July to take part in an archaeological dig at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center. They worked in the sweltering heat to uncover dozens of artifacts right on the center’s campus. The group is directed by Jim Gibb, an archaeologist who is currently running 14 different projects, all done with citizen scientists. The lab has been...
Read MorePSU: Treating Wastewater
Researchers at Penn State University studied the effectiveness of wastewater treatment by tracking the fate of different contaminants. Their goal was to track the compounds through wastewater treatment and at the wells at their Living Filter, a place where treated water is sprayed to undergo additional filtration. The contaminants tracked were acetaminophen, ampicillin, caffeine, naproxen,...
Read MoreJHU: Wastewater Contaminants
Bacterial resistance to antimicrobials and antibiotics is one of the most pressing public-health concerns around the world. Water systems are one of the major contributors to the spread of resistance, as improperly treated drinking water and wastewater can concentrate antibiotic and antimicrobial compounds while also carrying pathogens to and from human hosts. In the United States, the...
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