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Working to diversify and advance environmental science, UMBC, USGS and EPA sign new agreement
On a recent Friday, representatives of UMBC, the U.S. Geological Survey and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency gathered in UMBC’s Albin O. Kuhn Library Gallery and pledged to work together...
Posted: May 5, 2023, 9:09 AM
UMBC to co-lead new Baltimore Social-Environmental Collaborative with $2.3M grant
American cities face environmental challenges that are exacerbated by climate change, from air and water quality issues to flooding and heat. Low-income neighborhoods and areas that were...
Posted: October 4, 2022, 4:22 PM
Bedrock to treetops: NSF awards $4.8M to urban environment study led by UMBC’s Claire Welty
There is an essential resource constantly flowing beneath our feet: groundwater. Urban denizens may not think about it often, or at all, because they don’t rely on wells, “but it’s still there,”...
Posted: September 2, 2020, 4:23 PM
Convicts Are Returning to Farming—Anti-Immigrant Policies Are the Reason
By Stian Rice, visiting assistant research professor, Center for Urban Environmental Research and Education, UMBC Prison inmates are picking fruits and vegetables at a rate not seen since Jim...
Posted: June 7, 2019, 1:24 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
Innovative soil project offers new approach to sustainable landscaping by giving roots room to grow
Stu Schwartz, senior research scientist for the Center for Urban Environmental Research and Education (CUERE) at UMBC, has long looked with concern at the issue of soil compaction and its effect...
Posted: September 29, 2016, 3:17 PM
UMBC researchers collaborate to improve sustainability, with impacts in Maryland and across the nation
Local sustainability researchers and thought leaders took center stage on October 16, 2015, at a forum for urban sustainability in Baltimore, hosted by UMBC’s School of Public Policy. The forum...
Posted: October 23, 2015, 4:18 PM
CUERE Seminar: Effects of Urbanizaion on Shallow Hydrogeolic Systems (5/1)
CUERE Seminar presents Dr. John M. Sharp, Jr. from the National Science Foundation and University of Texas. His talk will be on “Effects of urbanization on shallow hydrogeolic systems.” Friday,...
Posted: April 24, 2015, 3:21 PM
CUERE Seminar: Sources and Processes Affecting Particulate Matter (4/24)
CUERE Seminar Series presents Dr. Chris Hennigan with UMBC’s Department of Chemical, Biochemical, and Environmental Engineering Department and his talk on “Sources and Processes Affecting...
Posted: April 16, 2015, 5:46 PM
CUERE Seminar: Turning our Waste into Energy: Anaerobic Digestion and Microbial Fuel Cells (4/17)
CUERE Seminar presents Dr. Stephanie Lansing with the Environmental Science and Technology Department at University of Maryland College Park. Her talk will be on “Turning our Waste into Energy:...
Posted: April 9, 2015, 7:45 PM
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