The University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) is a multi-university scientific

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within the

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dedicated to environmental science, estuarine studies, and

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. Its origins are found in a 1925 research station on Solomons Island. In 1973 it became the Center for Environmental and Estuarine Studies and in 1997 it assumed its current name. The center focuses on environmental research and education in Maryland, United States, with special attention to problems of the

Chesapeake Bay The Chesapeake Bay ( ) is the largest estuary in the United States. The bay is located in the Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic region and is primarily separated from the Atlantic Ocean by the Delmarva Peninsula, including parts of the Ea ...

, and includes climate research. Research programs are undertaken across the US and globally. Its educational opportunities include graduate studies and undergraduate research internships. The center has about 60 faculty and 110 graduate students.

Donald Boesch Donald F. Boesch (born November 14, 1945) is a professor of marine science and, from 1990 to 2017, president of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. From 2006-2017, he concurrently served as Vice Chancellor for Environment ...

served as the institution's president from 1990 until 2017, and has been succeeded by Peter Goodwin. UMCES programs are conducted at five constituent research locations: *Appalachian Laboratory (

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) in cooperation with

Frostburg State University Frostburg State University (FSU) is a public university in Frostburg, Maryland. The university is the only four-year institution of the University System of Maryland west of the Baltimore-Washington passageway in the state's Appalachian highlan ...

. *

Chesapeake Biological Laboratory The Chesapeake Biological Laboratory (CBL) is a marine science laboratory on the Chesapeake Bay in Solomons, Maryland, and it is the oldest state-supported marine laboratory on the East Coast of the U.S. It was founded in 1925 in a small waterma ...

(

Solomons, Maryland Solomons, also known as Solomons Island, is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Calvert County, Maryland, United States. The population was 2,368 at the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census, up from 1,536 in 2000. S ...

) *Horn Point Laboratory (

Cambridge, Maryland Cambridge is a city in Dorchester County, Maryland, United States. The population was 13,096 at the 2020 census. It is the county seat of Dorchester County and the county's largest municipality. Cambridge is the fourth most populous city in Ma ...

) * Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology (

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, Maryland) in cooperation with the

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and the

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. *Maryland Sea Grant College (

College Park, Maryland College Park is a city in Prince George's County, Maryland, United States, located approximately from the northeast border of Washington, D.C. Its population was 34,740 at the 2020 United States census. It is the home of the University of Mary ...

) in cooperation with the

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- UMD College of Agriculture and Natural Resources and the

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. The Center also administers the Integration and Application Network, which provides scientific data, reports and visualization tools for researchers, students and the general public.

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Chesapeake Research Consortium
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