NEWS FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE
MARCH 2017 

UMCES launches new, mobile-responsive website

We are excited to announce the launch of new website for the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. Designed to be accessible on smartphones and tablets, as well as the web, the new site  reflects UMCES' identity as a leader in environmental research and education while providing easy access to our research, resources, expertise, and educational programs. Check it out at www.umces.edu.
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We invite you to browse our new website and hunt for answers to questions we will post every week throughout the month of March. Enter for a chance to win some UMCES swag, and get to know us along the way.  ENTER NOW

Softening the blow: Working with watermen to fight crab virus

Molecular biologist Eric Schott is working alongside watermen time to understand and help lessen the impact of a deadly crab virus on softshell crab production on Maryland's eastern shore.  "If you can make sure that every crab that comes out of the water makes it to market in some way that's the best outcome," he said.

Winner of worldwide Nutrient Sensor Challenge announced


The Nutrient Sensor Challenge launched two years ago to spur the development and production of affordable, reliable, and accurate nutrient sensors to  monitor water quality, from freshwater lakes and streams to the coastal ocean.  The winners were announced at a special awards session at the Association for the Sciences of Limnology & Oceanography Aquatic Sciences (ASLO) meeting in Hawaii.  An independent judging panel selected Systea S.p.A., their instruments representing a cost-effective, commercially available solution for measuring both nitrate and phosphate.


Next Generation: Get to know graduate student Hadley McIntosh

" The Arctic is increasing in temperature faster than anywhere else globally and we need a better understanding of the natural release of methane, an important greenhouse gas, into the atmosphere. Methane has been studied extensively, but in Arctic systems, we don't know how much of it is building up in these lakes and what happens to it. Some of these lakes could be producing huge amounts of methane.

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