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Welcome to Marine Estuarine Environmental Sciences (MEES)
The MEES graduate program offers master of science and doctoral degrees in a variety of environmental disciplines but has core strengths in marine, estuarine and coastal sciences such as restoration ecology, aquaculture, fisheries management, oceanography, marine biotechnology, toxicology, environmental chemistry, remote sensing, and landscape ecology. The MEES program collaborates with USGS, NASA, the Smithsonian, NOAA and other widely recognized research organizations.
In 2008, we celebrated our 30th anniversary as a state-wide University System of Maryland (USM) graduate program. Since its inception in 1978, the MEES Program has been a broad-based, interdisciplinary environmental science graduate program. We have a very active group of graduate students. The Program flourishes from student and faculty participation affiliated with departments located throughout the USM at the University of Maryland Baltimore (UMB), University of Maryland Baltimore County (UMBC), University of Maryland College Park (UMD), and University of Maryland Eastern Shore (UMES) campuses, the Center of Marine Biotechnology Institute (COMB), and at the laboratories of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Sciences (UMCES) including Horn Point Laboratory (HPL), the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory (CBL), the Appalachian Laboratory (AL), and Maryland Sea Grant College (MDSG).
Many of our alumni have gone on to important careers in environmental sciences. Please peruse the alumni section of our website to see what some of our grads are up to. Last month we celebrated our first space-alumnus as Richard Arnold blasted into orbit onboard the space shuttle Columbia and conducted three space walks!
I hope you will explore the range of our program activities, course offerings and alumni news presented on this website. We are grateful for the support of our alumni and friends, and welcome their continued assistance in networking and as benefactors. If you have not done so yet, please consider donating to the MEES program (click here to see how). The Program depends on these gifts to fund student travel meetings, graduate awards, and more.
Dr. Kennedy T. Paynter, MEES Director |
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