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.
I report on the environment and Chesapeake Bay. A native of West Virginia, I have focused mainly on Maryland's environment since moving here in 1983. Along the way, I've crewed aboard a skipjack in the bay, canoed under city streets up the Jones Fall from the Inner Harbor, and gone deep underground in a western Maryland coal mine. Recently, I have been covering the growth and development transforming the landscape. I love seafood, rambles in the country and good stories. I hope to share some here.
