ICARE Day Celebrates 5 Years Of Environmental Research, Community Partnerships  - UMBC: University Of Maryland, Baltimore County

ICARE Day Celebrates 5 Years Of Environmental Research, Community Partnerships  - UMBC: University Of Maryland, Baltimore County

Since fall 2021, UMBC’s Interdisciplinary Consortium for Applied Research in the Environment (ICARE) has supported master’s students pursuing environmental science research related to Baltimore and the surrounding area. Students in the program have studied everything from “forever chemical” contamination in local waterways to educational outreach using horseshoe crabs to stormwater management. Trainees have looked at urban bat populations, commu…

University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Researcher

May 19, 2025 Horn Point Laboratory Cambridge, Md. (May 19, 2025) – Dr. Joaquín Martínez Martínez, a microbial oceanographer at University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES), has been awarded $1,153,105 from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to lead groundbreaking research exploring the role of viruses in marine food webs and nutrient cycling. In collaboration with Dr. David Talmy of University of Tennessee Knoxville, the …