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The New York Times Green Blog (Thu 17 May, 2012)
Sterilizing That Blasted Ballast
Staff quoted: Mario Tamburri
In the dank bowels of the ship, a million microbes squirm and writhe. Their watery cradle — the ballast — plays a central role in balancing the weight of giant cargo ships that regularly shuttle back and forth between the world's oceans.
Science (Fri 11 May, 2012)
Researchers Set Course To Blockade Ballast Invaders
Staff quoted: Mario Tamburri
BALTIMORE, MARYLAND—Standing aboard one of the newest research vessels in the United States, Mario Tamburri looks more like a plumber than a marine ecologist. Blame it on the pipes: Bright red, blue, and green tubes twist and turn across the deck of the repurposed barge. Tamburri, who is based in Solomons and directs the Maritime Environmental Resource Center (MERC), part of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, points to a narrow outlet. It's here, he says, that researchers can tap into the barge's precious scientific cargo: its ballast water and the organisms that live in it.
Maritime Reporter and Marine News (Tue 20 Mar, 2012)
Work Boats Exchange: Stage Set for Top Owners, Suppliers
Staff quoted: Mario Tamburri
Commercial fleet owners and marine suppliers are preparing for the industry's first Work Boats Exchange, a hosted buyer event to be held April 9-12 at the Ritz-Carlton Fort Lauderdale.
CBS Smart Planet (Tue 13 Mar, 2012)
Globe-trotting hitchhikers: invasive species assault U.S. waters
Staff quoted: Mario Tamburri
A container ship from China pulls into the port of San Francisco. Attached to its hull, or living in the ship's nooks and crannies below the water line, are tens of thousands of organisms, many of which are native to Chinese waters. The ship begins to unload its containers. It's only in port for about 24 hours. But during this time, a game of probability begins, and it has nothing to do with the products that will soon be trucked or sent by rail to Wal-Marts and Home Depots across the country.
WAMU (NPR) - Metro Connection (Fri 17 Feb, 2012)
Invasive Species Hitch A Ride... And Harm Our Waters
Staff quoted: Mario Tamburri
At Baltimore's Inner Harbor, new Mercedes Benzes are rolling out one after another, out of a 100-foot tall ship hailing from South Hampton, England. The ship arrived to Baltimore the day before, bringing car shipments for the U.S. market. But that's not all the ship brought.
BYM Marine & Maritime News (Mon 6 Feb, 2012)
UK. International expert joins IMarEST Ballast Water Conference line up
Staff quoted: Mario Tamburri, David Wright
Dr Mario Tamburri, Research Professor, University of Maryland and Director, Maritime Environmental Research Center (MERC), has joined the international speaker line-up at the forthcoming Institute of Marine Engineering, Science and Technology (IMarEST) Ballast Water Technology 2012 Conference, with its theme Impending Convention Requirements and Challenges, taking place Thursday 23 and Friday 24 February 2012 in central London.
The Annapolis Capital (Sat 8 Oct, 2011)
Research barge will test ballast water treatment
Staff quoted: Don Boesch, Mario Tamburri
There's a big problem with shipping that's often not visible to the naked eye.
Marine News (Sat 1 Oct, 2011)
Barge Loaded BWT Testing
Staff quoted: Patrick Hagan, Mario Tamburri, Dennis King
It was perhaps no coincidence that the dedication of the Maritime Environmental Research Center's (MERC) barge-based Mobile Test Platform coincided perfectly with the latest meeting of the Great Lakes Ballast Water Collaborative Meeting at Baltimore, MD's inner harbor on 27 September. What transpired there shed new light on both the coming battles and the developing collaboration in the world of BWT technologies. As a barge-loaded effort, the story will be of particular interest to MarineNews readers.
Maritime Professional (Tue 27 Sep, 2011)
The Epicenter of Ballast Water Treatment Technologies (for a Day)
Staff quoted: Patrick Hagan, Mario Tamburri
Baltimore, MD: For about eight hours on Tuesday, the collective world of invasive species and ballast water treatment technology experts, policy makers, classification societies, vendors and (seemingly) about half the PhD's on the planet were gathered in Baltimore's inner harbor for the dual purpose of (a.) dedicating the newest tool in the fight to standardize the effort to eradicate ship-borne invasive species, and (b.) the regular meeting of the Great Lakes Ballast Water Collaborative Meeting. If you missed either event, you also missed the opportunity to come up to speed on the latest in policy, regulatory and scientific progress (?) in the effort to standardize the global battle against invasive species. The dictionary defines the word epicenter as the point of the earth's surface directly above the focus of an earthquake, or, more simply, "a focal point." On Tuesday, both answers were more than appropriate.
Maritime Professional (Tue 27 Sep, 2011)
The Epicenter of ballast water treatment technologies (for a day)
Staff quoted: Mario Tamburri
The dedication of the Maritime Environmental Research Center's (MERC) barge-based Mobile Test Platform coincided perfectly with the latest meeting of the Great Lakes Ballast Water Collaborative Meeting at Baltimore, MD's inner harbor on Tuesday. What transpired there shed new light on both the coming battles and the developing collaboration in the world of BWT technologies.