the mees student handbook


The Marine Estuarine & Environmental Sciences Graduate Program (MEES) is an inter-institutional graduate program leading to the Master (M.S.) and Doctoral (Ph.D.) degrees from five (5) campuses within the University System of Maryland (USM). This handbook provides the policies and procedures for the MEES Graduate Program.

Future revisions will also be archived here, so please bookmark this page and use this handbook which generally details program specifics as a helpful resource and combines some information from several alternative sources which include laboratory and campus websites to help make life easier for you.

Use this handbook as a reference for the appropriate steps and considerations when you have a question or problem.

If you have concerns that are not addressed in the handbook, please email the MEES Program Office at: mees@umd.edu.

The MEES Graduate Program Office