Chesapeake Biological Laboratory

12/13/2023

Happy 40th to the Chesapeake Bay Program! UMCES Scientists have been there from the beginning, bringing together govt, academic and NGO leaders to create the best strategies and tools for cleaning up the Bay and waters flowing into it! ~ https://40years.chesapeakebay.net/

12/12/2023

Congratulations to Stacy Hutchinson for completing Leadership Maryland's professional development program dedicated to bolstering MD by harnessing the strength of its local business and community leaders!! 🎉

11/13/2023

UMCES Prof Eric Schott took part in the 'Healthy Harbor' test swim ~ "I did a cannonball into the Harbor and I plan to do it again in 2024!!!"😆✅ Follow this link to read the article and watch the video!

Data from Waterfront Partnership’s 2023 Healthy Harbor Report Card, an annual report released today that tracks water quality, ecosystem health and restoration impacting Baltimore’s Harbor and streams, supports Waterfront Partnerships plans to hold a public swimming event in 2024.

10/02/2023

UMCES Chesapeake Biological Laboratory is hosting its Open House this Saturday, October 7th, from 11am - 4 pm. Come join us for some family fun and learn more about the environment and science on Solomons!

02/06/2023

Nearly a century ago, when pioneering crab biologist Reginald Truitt was working with the Bay’s blue crabs, the crustaceans spent nearly five months burrowed into mud as they hibernated during cold months... But today?

“They’ve probably shaved three weeks at either end,” said Tom Miller, who heads the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science's Chesapeake Biological Lab. “So their winter has gone from five months, down conservatively to four months, possibly to as little as three-and-a-half months.”

Via Chesapeake Bay Journal

Warming water is threatening to undo decades of efforts aimed at improving aquatic habitat in the Chesapeake region, from headwater streams to the open water of the Bay itself.

02/03/2023

Want to work with us this summer?

Half of the undergraduate students admitted to the Maryland Sea Grant Research Experience for Undergraduates program are matched with CBL faculty advisors!

Apply through MDSG by Feb. 15th: https://bit.ly/3RCphzS

The application is open. The deadline for submission is Feb.

02/03/2023

will adjust their calls in the face of underwater noise pollution, with Helen Bailey, research professor at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, describing it to the BBC as “similar to when we shout louder when we are talking in a noisy bar.” https://conta.cc/3jj6617

A new study has found that noise pollution severely impairs successful cooperation between dolphins, causing them to “shout” to overcome it.

01/31/2023

At the top of the world: CBL scientists take part in scientific cruise to North Pole

Lee Cooper and Jackie Grebmeier of the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory in Solomons have been visiting the Arctic on research expeditions for more than 30 years, but they had never visited

01/16/2023

Drs. Jackie Grebmeier and Lee Cooper traveled to the North Pole this past fall on an science research cruise.

Read about their travels in this SpinSheet Magazine article:

Annapolis photographer Ted Morgan captured this month’s wintry cover shot on a sunny day in the Sailing Capital. SpinSheet is a Chesapeake Bay sailing magazine written by sailors for sailors. Our sailing coverage goes "deep" rather than "wide," and we use this platform to celebrate the people, pla...

01/06/2023

...the effects of could reverberate all across the animal kingdom, says Benjamin Colbert, a researcher at University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science CBL 🐬 🔊 👨‍🔬

Learn more from Benjamin's interview in this National Geographic article: https://conta.cc/3hE5OkJ

They rely on sound to socialize and hunt. But amid the din of this industrialized region, dolphin populations have dropped over 80 percent in 15 years.