USM National Green Campus
News Archive
Week
of May 30, 2011
News
from Across the USM Campuses
Aug. 15th-16th
- University of Baltimore
Environmental Sciences Summer Academy - UB Environmental Sciences
Summer Academy students will become familiar with local ecosystems, their
complexity and the current issues involved in environmental protection and
preservation. They will be exposed to the methods and equipment used to
assess and characterize ecosystem features, and introduced to the scientific
method and the basics of analytical research. If you have questions, please
call Marguerite Weber at
410.837.4087 or e-mail mweber@ubalt.edu. Students
requiring special accommodations are encouraged to apply (please contact
the Disability Support Services Center at 410.837.4775).
Application.
Gadget
aims to breathe life into Baltimore's harbor dead zone: Solar-powered device to be tested for improving water quality (By Timothy B. Wheeler, The Baltimore Sun,
5/27/11) [Article quotes Eric Schlott of the University of Maryland Center for
Environmental Science]
Environmental
Insights (University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, May
2011)
State
of Maryland News
Maryland
Port Administration greening an old harbor dumping ground: Agency restoring Baltimore's Masonville Cove
as urban park, bird preserve (By Timothy B. Wheeler, The Baltimore Sun, 5/28/11)
Green
groups seek to defend Bay pollution diet (By Tim Wheeler, The Baltimore Sun
- B'More Green Blog, 5/25/11)
Gas
price drop by 11 cents in a week (By Michael Dreser, The Baltimore Sun -
Getting There Blog, 5/23/11)
How
Coal-Fired Power Plants Drain Health and Wealth (By Tom Pelton, The Bay
Daily - Chesapeake Bay Foundation, 5/23/11)
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