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Whether gathering samples in the field, analyzing data in the lab or informing the public about innovative scientific advancements, UMCES staff and students are helping improve our collective understanding about the natural world around us. UMCES researchers are regularly recognized by the media for their ability to explain today’s complex environmental issues in ways that help non-scientists better understand the inner workings of our natural environment.

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The Easton Star Democrat (Mon 8 Mar, 2010)
19-year-old sentenced for destroying ram
Staff quoted: Mike Roman

CAMBRIDGE Dorchester County Circuit Court Judge Brett Wilson sentenced a 19-year-old Trappe man to 60 days in jail, 80 hours of community service and monetary restitution for destroying one of the historic Don Pedro du Pont ram statues last September.

The Associated Press (Mon 8 Mar, 2010)
Md. Man Get 60 Days In Jail In Ram Statue Theft
Staff quoted: Horn Point Laboratory

CAMBRIDGE, Md. (AP) ― A 19-year-old Trappe man has been sentenced to 60 days in jail for destroying one of the two historic Don Pedro statues taken from the entrance of a University of Maryland lab in Cambridge.

The Washington Post (Mon 1 Mar, 2010)
Manure becomes pollutant as its volume grows unmanageable
Staff quoted: Don Boesch

Nearly 40 years after the first Earth Day, this is irony: The United States has reduced the manmade pollutants that left its waterways dead, discolored and occasionally flammable.

United Press International (Mon 1 Mar, 2010)
Manure a growing pollution problem
Staff quoted: Don Boesch

WASHINGTON, March 1 (UPI) -- Environmentalists and scientists say animal manure is becoming a growing pollution problem in the United States.

KBKW Radio (Seattle, WA) (Wed 24 Feb, 2010)
Coast Guard Cutter Polar Sea departs for Bering Sea cruise
Staff quoted: Lee Cooper

SEATTLE — The Coast Guard Cutter Polar Sea, one of the world's most powerful non-nuclear icebreakers, homeported in Seattle, departs the week of Feb. 22 for a two-month deployment in support of the Bering Sea Ecosystem Study (BEST).

The Cumberland Times-News (Wed 24 Feb, 2010)
Astronaut, FSU alumnus to speak on life in space
Staff quoted: UMCES

February 17, 2010 — FROSTBURG — NASA astronaut and Frostburg State University alumnus Ricky Arnold will return to the Frostburg campus to speak about his work as a mission specialist, which has taken him to the ocean floor and into Earth's orbit.

The Cumberland Times-News (Sun 21 Feb, 2010)
Educators come to area to learn to teach about environment: Rescheduled event wasn't dampened by large snow drifts
Staff quoted: Cassie Doty

FROSTBURG — Cassie Doty had to work around the snow drifts Friday.

Cape Cod (MA) Times (Sun 21 Feb, 2010)
Editorial: Defend the data
Staff quoted: Jeff Cornwell

Brian Howes is the man behind the numbers.

The Washington Post (Thu 18 Feb, 2010)
Planet Panel: Missteps and moisture
Staff quoted: Don Boesch

Q: As the controversy swirling around the IPCC deepens at the same time some are questioning the significance of global warming now that large portions of the U.S. are buried under record-breaking snow, what kind of information do policymakers need to make decisions about climate change?

The Salisbury Daily Times (Sun 14 Feb, 2010)
Science 'beginning to understand' what ills bay: Daylong seminar serves as 40-year retrospective
Staff quoted: Michael Kemp, Court Stevenson

SALISBURY -- Scientific experts on the Chesapeake Bay told an audience at Salisbury University on Saturday what most who gathered already knew:

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