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Restoring tropical forests isn’t meaningful if those forests only stand for 10 or 20 years
By Matthew Fagan, UMBC; Leighton Reid, University of Missouri-St. Louis, and Margaret Buck Holland, UMBC Tropical forests globally are being lost at a rate of 61,000 square miles a year. And...
Posted: March 20, 2019, 12:15 AM
UMBC’s Chris Swan contributes to landmark global stream ecology study
A single leaf dropping into a stream has just a tiny impact, but, together, the billions of leaves that drop into waterways every year help keep global ecosystems going. How this works and why...
Posted: February 27, 2019, 3:19 PM
Three generations, thousands of miles: Scientists unlock the mystery of a dragonfly’s migration
Thanks to photos and films featuring clouds of stunning orange and black monarch butterflies flying across North America, many people today are familiar with how monarchs migrate. The migration...
Posted: December 19, 2018, 1:03 PM
Faculty receive START and SURFF awards to pursue new research and creative work
UMBC’s Office of the Vice President for Research recently presented awards to support the work of two dozen UMBC faculty examining topics from health disparities among people with diabetes to...
Posted: December 18, 2018, 8:22 PM
Bahama Oriole Project team awarded NSF grant to offer more UMBC undergrads international research experiences
UMBC is recognized as a national leader in undergraduate teaching, in part because the university connects so many students with meaningful research opportunities. Now, a new $300,000 NSF...
Posted: November 6, 2018, 6:34 PM
New UMBC research suggests need to rethink goals of global reforestation efforts
Many countries have made commitments to restore huge areas of forest as part of the Bonn Challenge, organized by the International Union for Conservation of Nature. For example, Costa Rica has...
Posted: November 6, 2018, 6:07 PM
Twenty years of the Baltimore Ecosystem Study: An icon of urban ecology research
The Baltimore Ecosystem Study (BES) is one of only two urban Long-Term Ecological Research projects initially funded by the National Science Foundation, and this year it turns 20. When the BES was...
Posted: November 2, 2018, 8:06 PM
South Africa to Colorado: Summer research helps UMBC STEM BUILD students chart their course
For an undergraduate getting their start in science, traveling far from home for an immersive research experience can be transformational. Living and working in a completely new environment, with...
Posted: September 12, 2018, 2:33 PM
Drones to track one of the largest dam removals on the Eastern Seaboard
Matthew E. Baker Professor of Geography and Environmental Systems, UMBC This month, the Bloede Dam will be removed from the Lower Patapsco River near Ilchester, Maryland. The restoration is a...
Posted: September 5, 2018, 9:59 PM
UMBC’s Matthew Baker teams up with Chesapeake Conservancy to create detailed stream maps
Thousands of waterways, from major rivers like the Potomac and Susquehanna to tiny headwaters, flow through the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Many of them appear on official stream maps produced by...
Posted: August 15, 2018, 10:49 PM
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