baltimoresun.com - Bay & Environment: Celebrating bay successes

The University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science is bringing in the feds over the next week to celebrate its successes.

This Friday in Annapolis, the university is presenting Paul S. Sarbanes with an award for his work on the Chesapeake Bay. Though in recent years he's become much better known for the business regulations required by Sarbanes-Oxley, in his day Sarbanes also brought millions of dollars to bay cleanup efforts.

Then on Monday, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer will be in Solomons to dedicate the Chesapeake Biological Lab's new fisheries complex. Bernie Fowler, the indefatigable Southern Maryland environmentalist and former state senator, who has a lab of his own named after him at the complex, will be there too.

The Chesapeake Biological Lab is the oldest, state supported marine biological laboratory on the East Coast, according to UMCES. That means researchers have been enjoying one of the most glorious views in all the bay watershed for more than 80 years.

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Rona Kobell reports on the Chesapeake Bay, and in her seven years with The Sun, she's visited clam farms in Virginia, a peeler pen on Taylors Island and a small market on Smith Island that serves what many people consider the best crab cake in the world (to judge for yourself, head to the Drum Point Market in Tylerton). Rona enjoys hanging out with her husband and daughter.

Tom Pelton writes about the environment and has been at The Sun for 10 years. He lives in the city with his wife, two daughters, and an exotic ecosystem that involves a cat, hamsters, hermit crabs, cacti, running shoes, drums, guitar, violins, mild cheeses and strong opinions.
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Tim Wheeler writes about growth and base-realignment for The Sun. A reporter and editor here since 1985, the West Virginia native has spent most of his adult life around the bay. He lives in Catonsville, one of Baltimore's older, walkable suburbs.

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