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DIRECTOR S WELCOME The Chesapeake Biological Laboratory CBL is proud to release our 2018 annual report which documents our significant achievements over the last year We are home to award winning faculty staff and students who conduct work of an international caliber This work is supported by about 8M in competitively awarded grants and contracts We return about 2 in value for every dollar the state invests in us Behind the scenes our laboratory staff works to make our campus as efficient green and sustainable as possible We train the next generation of environmental leaders Our graduates include senior officials in national and regional governments academics at universities around the world leaders in NonGovernment Organizations and companies with an environmental focus We provide unbiased scientific advice to local state and federal agencies to help solve the pressing environmental challenges of the 21st Century You will find some of CBL s stories in this report but we encourage you to find the rest of the story by visiting our many public events or visiting us on the web www umces edu CBL It is the single highest honor of my life to lead CBL into the future Every day I work with passionate faculty staff and students who care deeply about our community our state nation and planet I hope you will find their work and stories as inspirational as I do WHO WE ARE Thomas Miller Ph D Director and Professor CBL is part of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science UMCES UMCES is Maryland s Graduate University for the Environment We hold true to our founding vision of developing a deeper understanding of the Chesapeake Bay and Maryland s coastal ocean and of providing the independent objective science to the state of Maryland We achieve this vision by encouraging our internationally respected researchers to work in collaborative interdisciplinary teams to address and solve complex environmental problems We value personal and scientific integrity We value independent creative thinking We seek and encourage diverse voices to ensure an inclusive equitable and sustainable future Technological advances mean that our researchers have more information to analyze than ever before To address this opportunity and challenge we are pioneering the application of Environmental Intelligence to understand and manage the environmental issues that face the planet We use statistical approaches like artificial intelligence AI to integrate and synthesize our scientific data to gain the insight needed to address our questions As examples in 2018 CBL researchers used AI to help count jellyfish in the Patuxent River and applied sophisticated statistics to estimate the number of oysters in the Chesapeake Bay for the first time Looking to the future these capabilities will increase our ability to deepen our understanding of the natural world and to provide better and more timely advice to the state 146 Williams Street Box 38 Solomons Maryland 20688 Phone number 410 326 4281 www umces edu CBL HISTORY Established in 1925 by the visionary scientist Reginald Truitt CBL is the founding laboratory of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Far ahead of his time Truitt recognized that to understand the declines in the oyster and crab fisheries that were a concern then some things never change it seems he needed to understand not only their biology but also the chemistry and physics of the Bay how all the plants and animals in the Bay interact and what factors drove the Bay and its resources Today we recognize this as an ecosystem based approach but in 1925 there was nothing else like it Driven by Environmental Intelligence We continue to stay true to Truitt s original vision We continue to conduct groundbreaking research and communicate the results of our work to local state and federal agencies to improve the management of the Chesapeake Bay and our nation s coastal ecosystems that Truitt so loved Truitt selected Solomons as the base for his new laboratory because the people in Solomons extended a warm welcome and even supplied CBL s first building From the beginning CBL recruited staff and trained students Initially activity occurred only in the summer months but by 1931 Truitt had built Beaven Hall the first permanent building on our campus The outlines of our future growth were already evident Today we occupy 20 buildings on the tip of Solomons Island including three modern state of the art research laboratories Yet we strive to remain part of the community and regularly welcome residents and visitors to our campus BEHIND THE SCENES Robert Caret Chancellor UNIVERSITY SYSTEM OF MARYLAND Associate Professors Hongsheng Bi Michael Gonsior Lora Harris Laura Lapham Chris Rowe Johan Schijf UMD CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Associate Research Professors Helen Bailey Solange Filoso Andrew Heyes Hali Kilbourne Peter Goodwin President William Dennison Vice President for Science Applications David Nemazie Chief of Staff Lynn Rhen Vice President of Administration Eric Davidson Director Appalachian Laboratory Russell Hill Director Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology Thomas Miller Director Chesapeake Biological Laboratory Michael Roman Director Horn Point Laboratory Lawrence Sanford Interim Vice President of Education CBL DIRECTOR S CIRCLE MEMBERS J D Blackwell Chris Goudreau Sue Hu Torben HugeJensen Alex Sidlowski CBL ADMINISTRATION FACULTY STAFF ADMINISTRATION Thomas Miller Director and Professor Stacy Hutchinson Associate Director Elissa Lee Executive Assistant to the Director Jeane Wharton Assistant Director of Development Rhonda Hall Manager of Budget and Finance Theresa Holloway Manager of Business Operations Brian Duke Manager of Facilities Michael Santangelo Manager of Information Technology FACULTY Professors Emeritus Robert Anderson Walter Boynton Edward Houde Robert Ulanowicz David Wright Professors David Secor Mario Tamburri Carys Mitchelmore Michael Wilberg Research Professors Lee Cooper Jackie Grebmeier Dennis King Lisa Wainger Assistant Professors Jeremy Testa Ryan Woodland Assistant Research Professors Dong Liang Vyacheslav Lyubchich Genevieve Nesslage Senior Faculty Research Assistants Jerry Frank Janet Barnes Nancy Kaumeyer Kim Blodnikar Adriene Capers Cheryl Clark Katherine Davis Martin Getrich Casey Hodgkins Faculty Research Assistants Alynne Bayard Linton Beaven Maria Ceballos Ashley Cord Mindy Forsyth Skyler Golt Amy Green Ceana Hoburn Taylor Hollady Aimee Hoover Jaclyn Mantell Mike O Brien Elizabeth Price Erin Reilly General Assistants Kristen Hychka Matthew Weber STAFF Sara Brzezinksi Outreach Coordinator Martin Caroll IT Support Specialist Helen Cummings Interim Librarian Thomas Darnall Plumber Specialist Cindy Dixon Accounting Associate Jeannette Duran Program Management Specialist Dale Garner MultiTrade Supervisor III Jeremy Garner Maintenance Mechanic Nancy Hupp Program Administrative Specialist Dan Janzen IT Support Specialist Lance Kelly Maintenance Mechanic Larry Lentner IT Coordinator Willis Long Multi Trade Maintenance Aide Samantha Mais Grants Coordinator Elaine Proctor Maintenance Mechanic Scott Raymond Multi Trade Chief 1 Frank Stebbing HVAC Mechanic III Patricia Stebbing Program Management Specialist University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Chesapeake Biological Laboratory Annual Report 2018

IMPACT OF OUR RESEARCH Led by CBL Professor Mike Wilberg CBL researchers working in collaboration with biologists at the Maryland Department of Natural Resources have produced the first assessment of the oysters in the Maryland portion of Chesapeake Bay in 135 years The assessment required by the Sustainable Oyster Population and Fishery Act of 2016 is a scientific study that uses available data to estimate the abundance of wild oysters in the Maryland portion of the Bay the fraction of oysters that die each year from natural causes including disease and the fraction of oysters that is harvested each year by fishing The assessment develops benchmarks to determine if abundance and harvest are at sustainable levels and determines the overall health of the fishery Analyzing 19 years of data from winter 19992017 from 36 regions within the Maryland portion of Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries the assessment concluded that oyster abundance is less than in 1999 but there is a north south gradient in how oysters are performing Despite abundance being lower than in 1999 the population has shown substantial recovery in many regions since 2000s when there was a major disease outbreak that caused mass mortality The information developed will help inform future management decisions Marine organisms growing on the outside of ships i e biofouling presents significant problems for the maritime industry by increasing drag fuel consumption and exhaust emissions as well as facilitating coating breakdown and vessel corrosion Ship biofouling is also a notable vector for the global scale transfer and introduction of non native aquatic species which can have enormous ecological and economic impacts on coastal environments A number of in water cleaning and capture IWCC and in water grooming IWG technologies and systems have been developed in recent years CBL Professor Mario Tamburri director of our Alliance for Coastal Technologies and our Maritime Environmental Resource Center in partnership with international researchers and state and federal agencies has established an initiative to evaluate ship in water biofouling cleaning grooming The goals of this program are to refine and standardize methods and procedures for testing the efficacy and safety of IWCC IWG systems provide rigorous independent data on the performance of IWCC IWG systems that can be used to apply for permitted commercial use in ports around the world and provide the scientific foundation for developing ship biofouling regulations In 2018 Tamburri and his team completed the first set of tests of an IWCC system in Baltimore and Alameda CA They will test two different IWG systems in Fort Lauderdale and Dubai in 2019 The Arctic Ocean is experiencing seasonally warming seawater and rapid sea ice retreat that are changing ecosystems Several CBL faculty members have active research programs in the Arctic including Professors Jacqueline Grebmeier and Lee Cooper who are studying the ecosystem response to major environmental changes occurring on the side of the Arctic Ocean influenced by the Pacific Ocean through the Bering Strait Grebmeier and Cooper are leading an international program the Distributed Biological Observatory that evaluates life in the water column and bottom sediments in the northern Bering and Chukchi seas The CBL team participates in annual cruises on both US and Canadian icebreakers and cooperates with other countries sending oceanographic ships into the Arctic including China Japan and the Republic of Korea Funding through the NSF NOAA and NASA supports both field collections and analyses at CBL that investigate the impacts of climate change on biological populations biodiversity and other ecosystem responses Their research has shown that populations of clam species that are critical food for diving seaducks and walruses are contracting northward in the Pacific Arctic as seasonal sea ice decreases and bottom water temperatures warm Similarly populations of amphipods small shrimp like crustaceans living in surface sediments that are food for gray whales are also being reduced and gray whales are having to migrate further north for summer feeding In 2018 unprecedented warm air and seawater conditions prevented sea ice from forming in the winter for the first time in the northern Bering Sea One result was a northward expansion of commercial pollock and Pacific cod as far north as Bering Strait where they had been previously blocked by a cold barrier when sea ice was present Research studies in 2019 will extend this important 30 year time series of biological data on change in the Arctic CBL Associate Professor Michael Gonsior led a team student Katie Martin and Associate Professors Andrew Heyes and Lora Harris to investigate the impact of septic wastewater systems on Southern Maryland streams It has been generally accepted that septic systems can contaminate surface and groundwater with human pathogens and chemicals Recent estimates report that an average of 11 lb of total nitrogen per person each year goes into the groundwater from septic fields demonstrating how nitrogen from septic systems eventually makes its way from the watershed to the Chesapeake Bay Maryland Sea Grant funded an innovative approach is needed to measure these flows in a project titled Tracking Septic System Performance by using Innovative Mass Spectrometric Approaches and Traditional Nutrient Measurements Quantification of unique wastewater tracers e g the artificial sweetener sucralose revealed direct evidence of septic system wastewater in streams Additional data agreed very well with quantitative wastewater tracers and the results from state ofthe art analytical methods confirmed the presence of detergents shampoos and other household products surfactants These surfactants are not present in natural streams and hence can be used as unique wastewater fingerprints The already analyzed data leaves no doubt that water from septic systems flow into our examined streams serving as a source of nitrogen loading see figure We will continue to investigate the concentration of wastewater tracers and nitrogen species in traditional and advanced BAT systems to further constrain estimates of how much of the stream flow is derived from septic system effluent and to predict nitrogen loadings in impacted streams more precisely View our list of 2018 publications https www umces edu cbl about Graduated CBL AT A GLANCE 6 Current Enrollment 28 Awards Given 26 When I started my journey at CBL as a Ph D student in Fisheries Science I was excited about doing my part to understand how to manage and protect wild fish populations I was fortunate enough to be in Dr Hongsheng Bi s research group where my love of technology and innovation flourished as we tried to solve data limitations in Chesapeake Bay through use of underwater imaging devices With the guidance and support of the courses I took and the professors that taught them I was able to learn about ecology statistics and programming to process the large amount of data we were collecting and make sense of it These learning experiences at CBL fit together to allow for a subject matter expertise that would be of tremendous value in the aquaculture industry Currently I am developing a technology within my own company to address problems in the shrimp aquaculture industry So much of what I learned at CBL has prepared me and given me the confidence to become an entrepreneur with the hopes of scaling and impacting how we grow food in marine systems Opportunities to conduct research at the edge of technology a network of supportive staff and faculty and pathways to a meaningful career that I am passionate about all contributed to one of the most rewarding journeys of my life Suzan Shahrestani My year was full of thinking about oysters especially those in the Chesapeake Bay In December I successfully defended my Master s thesis research in which I developed updated estimates of non fishing mortality for oysters in the Maryland portion of the Chesapeake Bay using a novel method and found evidence that oysters may have developed some resistance to disease since 2002 in Maryland I had the opportunity to present my research this year at three national and regional conferences thanks in part to funding from the Graduate Education Committee at CBL Lastly I was involved in the first modern stock assessment for oysters in Maryland this year which was a deeply rewarding experience for me and confirmed my interests in pursuing a career related to stock assessment Although I m excited to finish my Master s degree and start a new job soon I will miss the CBL community I am extremely grateful for all the support and opportunities for growth as a scientist that this institution has given me over the past two and a half years Kathryn Doering University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science President Peter Goodwin and Board of Regents Staff Award recipient and CBL Facilities Manager Brian Duke On Campus Events 30 Helen Bailey In May 2018 newly installed UMCES President Peter Goodwin awarded his first President s Award for the Application of Science to CBL Associate Research Professor Helen Bailey for her work establishing the DolphinWatch program Helen has been studying dolphins and whales since her PhD at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland Little was known about the bottlenose dolphins in the Chesapeake Bay when Helen arrived at CBL in 2009 She has leveraged the potential of citizen scientists to help her with her observations With support from the lab and from the Chesapeake Bay Trust Helen helped develop and release a cellphone app that allows anyone to report a sighting of a dolphin in the Bay with a swipe of the finger Since its launch Chesapeake DolphinWatch now has 3755 registered users who reported 1128 sightings of dolphins in 2018 both in the Bay and in Maryland s coastal Bays Helen would love it if you joined her network of Citizen Scientists at ChesapeakeDolphinWatch org or download the Chesapeake DolphinWatch application Jackie Grebmeier CBL Research Professor Jackie Grebmeier has a long and distinguished career working on the ecology of the Arctic seas This contribution was recognized by the American Association for the Advancement of Science AAAS which elected Jackie a lifetime fellow in the Association in recognition of her extraordinary achievement in advancing science The AAAS has had an annual tradition of recognizing fellows since 1874 As an indication of the standing of the award four of the 2018 Nobel Laureates were AAAS fellows Jackie was recognized by AAAS not only for the excellence of her own research see vignette to the left but also because of her commitment to communicate her science to governments agencies and the community As an example in 2018 Jackie served as an official US Delegate supporting the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy to the 2nd Arctic Science Ministerial in Berlin Germany that brought together representatives from 24 countries undertaking Arctic research including policy leaders for determining joint direction for Arctic science internationally In addition to this high profile work Jackie works tirelessly in native communities in Alaska to explain the impacts of climate change on their world Publications Presentations 70 90 Return on State Investment 1 87 CBL IN THE COMMUNITY FY18 Grants Awarded TOTAL 7 971 839 Professor Carys Mitchelmore demonstrates how a turtle might mistake a plastic bag for a jellyfish at the 2018 Annual Open House Off Campus Events 4 Patuxent River Wade In left to right former Maryland Senator Bernie Fowler Congressman Steny H Hoyer and Chesapeake Biological Laboratory Director Thomas Miller Outreach Engagement Activities 13 4 426 Combined Total Participation CBL is a vibrant part of the Solomons Island community and has maintained an outreach program dating back to its founding in 1925 Today the CBL Outreach Program is a coordinated effort that seeks to benefit the local community by providing information about our innovative research and opportunities to actively engage in our programs These goals are accomplished through the Visitor Center Science for Citizens seminar series annual Open House volunteer opportunities group and campus tours participation in community events and other outreach activities The CBL Visitor Center provides guests with the opportunity to learn about cutting edge research being pioneered by CBL s team of faculty and student scientists Last year was a particularly exciting time in the Visitor Center In addition to significant renovations intended to preserve the historic Solomons House the oldest structure on Solomons Island a new touchscreen exhibit about the Chesapeake Bay and blue crabs was unveiled In 2019 guests can look forward to a new aquarium exhibit In addition to independently staffing the Visitor Center CBL volunteers lead campus tours and engage the public in learning about CBL research at community event Thank you for your gift Your support for CBL programs and exhibits Beyond the Visitor Center in 2018 volunteers supported research activities students is appreciated To learn more about supporting CBL by verifying dolphin click detections in the graduate students contact Jeane Wharton Assistant Director Patuxent River analyzing sound files for Development at jwharton umces edu or 410 326 7240 dolphin feeding buzzes in the Maryland Offshore Wind Energy Area and conducted a research project testing different methods for data production in paleoclimate research CBL works with donors to match their interests with our research and education programs Generous donors support students as they complete their graduate degrees In 2018 CBL had 95 donors 21 of whom were first time supporters The number of donations of 1 000 or more was 17 almost twice the number in 2016 and three donations of 10 000 were received In 2018 an anonymous donor and longtime friend and supporter of CBL offered a matching challenge grant of up to 10 000 Donations during a six week campaign culminating in an online GivingTuesday challenge were matched dollar for dollar Almost 40 000 was raised to support students and programs Funds Raised 64 575 Thank You Why I Give to Support CBL I consider the environment and the science required to understand it both fascinating and important I am happy to donate funds to support students and the important research at CBL GARY GREENWOOD VIRGINIA Our annual gift to the UMCES Foundation helps those in need of assistance in reaching their educational goals Our gift supports 21st Century environmental leaders DICK SUE HU MARYLAND My annual gift is moderate yet it helps a student attend a conference or provides research material I have the additional pleasure of meeting the student and following the work in a personal way ANNE HARRISON MARYLAND

IMPACT OF OUR RESEARCH Led by CBL Professor Mike Wilberg CBL researchers working in collaboration with biologists at the Maryland Department of Natural Resources have produced the first assessment of the oysters in the Maryland portion of Chesapeake Bay in 135 years The assessment required by the Sustainable Oyster Population and Fishery Act of 2016 is a scientific study that uses available data to estimate the abundance of wild oysters in the Maryland portion of the Bay the fraction of oysters that die each year from natural causes including disease and the fraction of oysters that is harvested each year by fishing The assessment develops benchmarks to determine if abundance and harvest are at sustainable levels and determines the overall health of the fishery Analyzing 19 years of data from winter 19992017 from 36 regions within the Maryland portion of Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries the assessment concluded that oyster abundance is less than in 1999 but there is a north south gradient in how oysters are performing Despite abundance being lower than in 1999 the population has shown substantial recovery in many regions since 2000s when there was a major disease outbreak that caused mass mortality The information developed will help inform future management decisions Marine organisms growing on the outside of ships i e biofouling presents significant problems for the maritime industry by increasing drag fuel consumption and exhaust emissions as well as facilitating coating breakdown and vessel corrosion Ship biofouling is also a notable vector for the global scale transfer and introduction of non native aquatic species which can have enormous ecological and economic impacts on coastal environments A number of in water cleaning and capture IWCC and in water grooming IWG technologies and systems have been developed in recent years CBL Professor Mario Tamburri director of our Alliance for Coastal Technologies and our Maritime Environmental Resource Center in partnership with international researchers and state and federal agencies has established an initiative to evaluate ship in water biofouling cleaning grooming The goals of this program are to refine and standardize methods and procedures for testing the efficacy and safety of IWCC IWG systems provide rigorous independent data on the performance of IWCC IWG systems that can be used to apply for permitted commercial use in ports around the world and provide the scientific foundation for developing ship biofouling regulations In 2018 Tamburri and his team completed the first set of tests of an IWCC system in Baltimore and Alameda CA They will test two different IWG systems in Fort Lauderdale and Dubai in 2019 The Arctic Ocean is experiencing seasonally warming seawater and rapid sea ice retreat that are changing ecosystems Several CBL faculty members have active research programs in the Arctic including Professors Jacqueline Grebmeier and Lee Cooper who are studying the ecosystem response to major environmental changes occurring on the side of the Arctic Ocean influenced by the Pacific Ocean through the Bering Strait Grebmeier and Cooper are leading an international program the Distributed Biological Observatory that evaluates life in the water column and bottom sediments in the northern Bering and Chukchi seas The CBL team participates in annual cruises on both US and Canadian icebreakers and cooperates with other countries sending oceanographic ships into the Arctic including China Japan and the Republic of Korea Funding through the NSF NOAA and NASA supports both field collections and analyses at CBL that investigate the impacts of climate change on biological populations biodiversity and other ecosystem responses Their research has shown that populations of clam species that are critical food for diving seaducks and walruses are contracting northward in the Pacific Arctic as seasonal sea ice decreases and bottom water temperatures warm Similarly populations of amphipods small shrimp like crustaceans living in surface sediments that are food for gray whales are also being reduced and gray whales are having to migrate further north for summer feeding In 2018 unprecedented warm air and seawater conditions prevented sea ice from forming in the winter for the first time in the northern Bering Sea One result was a northward expansion of commercial pollock and Pacific cod as far north as Bering Strait where they had been previously blocked by a cold barrier when sea ice was present Research studies in 2019 will extend this important 30 year time series of biological data on change in the Arctic CBL Associate Professor Michael Gonsior led a team student Katie Martin and Associate Professors Andrew Heyes and Lora Harris to investigate the impact of septic wastewater systems on Southern Maryland streams It has been generally accepted that septic systems can contaminate surface and groundwater with human pathogens and chemicals Recent estimates report that an average of 11 lb of total nitrogen per person each year goes into the groundwater from septic fields demonstrating how nitrogen from septic systems eventually makes its way from the watershed to the Chesapeake Bay Maryland Sea Grant funded an innovative approach is needed to measure these flows in a project titled Tracking Septic System Performance by using Innovative Mass Spectrometric Approaches and Traditional Nutrient Measurements Quantification of unique wastewater tracers e g the artificial sweetener sucralose revealed direct evidence of septic system wastewater in streams Additional data agreed very well with quantitative wastewater tracers and the results from state ofthe art analytical methods confirmed the presence of detergents shampoos and other household products surfactants These surfactants are not present in natural streams and hence can be used as unique wastewater fingerprints The already analyzed data leaves no doubt that water from septic systems flow into our examined streams serving as a source of nitrogen loading see figure We will continue to investigate the concentration of wastewater tracers and nitrogen species in traditional and advanced BAT systems to further constrain estimates of how much of the stream flow is derived from septic system effluent and to predict nitrogen loadings in impacted streams more precisely View our list of 2018 publications https www umces edu cbl about Graduated CBL AT A GLANCE 6 Current Enrollment 28 Awards Given 26 When I started my journey at CBL as a Ph D student in Fisheries Science I was excited about doing my part to understand how to manage and protect wild fish populations I was fortunate enough to be in Dr Hongsheng Bi s research group where my love of technology and innovation flourished as we tried to solve data limitations in Chesapeake Bay through use of underwater imaging devices With the guidance and support of the courses I took and the professors that taught them I was able to learn about ecology statistics and programming to process the large amount of data we were collecting and make sense of it These learning experiences at CBL fit together to allow for a subject matter expertise that would be of tremendous value in the aquaculture industry Currently I am developing a technology within my own company to address problems in the shrimp aquaculture industry So much of what I learned at CBL has prepared me and given me the confidence to become an entrepreneur with the hopes of scaling and impacting how we grow food in marine systems Opportunities to conduct research at the edge of technology a network of supportive staff and faculty and pathways to a meaningful career that I am passionate about all contributed to one of the most rewarding journeys of my life Suzan Shahrestani My year was full of thinking about oysters especially those in the Chesapeake Bay In December I successfully defended my Master s thesis research in which I developed updated estimates of non fishing mortality for oysters in the Maryland portion of the Chesapeake Bay using a novel method and found evidence that oysters may have developed some resistance to disease since 2002 in Maryland I had the opportunity to present my research this year at three national and regional conferences thanks in part to funding from the Graduate Education Committee at CBL Lastly I was involved in the first modern stock assessment for oysters in Maryland this year which was a deeply rewarding experience for me and confirmed my interests in pursuing a career related to stock assessment Although I m excited to finish my Master s degree and start a new job soon I will miss the CBL community I am extremely grateful for all the support and opportunities for growth as a scientist that this institution has given me over the past two and a half years Kathryn Doering University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science President Peter Goodwin and Board of Regents Staff Award recipient and CBL Facilities Manager Brian Duke On Campus Events 30 Helen Bailey In May 2018 newly installed UMCES President Peter Goodwin awarded his first President s Award for the Application of Science to CBL Associate Research Professor Helen Bailey for her work establishing the DolphinWatch program Helen has been studying dolphins and whales since her PhD at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland Little was known about the bottlenose dolphins in the Chesapeake Bay when Helen arrived at CBL in 2009 She has leveraged the potential of citizen scientists to help her with her observations With support from the lab and from the Chesapeake Bay Trust Helen helped develop and release a cellphone app that allows anyone to report a sighting of a dolphin in the Bay with a swipe of the finger Since its launch Chesapeake DolphinWatch now has 3755 registered users who reported 1128 sightings of dolphins in 2018 both in the Bay and in Maryland s coastal Bays Helen would love it if you joined her network of Citizen Scientists at ChesapeakeDolphinWatch org or download the Chesapeake DolphinWatch application Jackie Grebmeier CBL Research Professor Jackie Grebmeier has a long and distinguished career working on the ecology of the Arctic seas This contribution was recognized by the American Association for the Advancement of Science AAAS which elected Jackie a lifetime fellow in the Association in recognition of her extraordinary achievement in advancing science The AAAS has had an annual tradition of recognizing fellows since 1874 As an indication of the standing of the award four of the 2018 Nobel Laureates were AAAS fellows Jackie was recognized by AAAS not only for the excellence of her own research see vignette to the left but also because of her commitment to communicate her science to governments agencies and the community As an example in 2018 Jackie served as an official US Delegate supporting the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy to the 2nd Arctic Science Ministerial in Berlin Germany that brought together representatives from 24 countries undertaking Arctic research including policy leaders for determining joint direction for Arctic science internationally In addition to this high profile work Jackie works tirelessly in native communities in Alaska to explain the impacts of climate change on their world Publications Presentations 70 90 Return on State Investment 1 87 CBL IN THE COMMUNITY FY18 Grants Awarded TOTAL 7 971 839 Professor Carys Mitchelmore demonstrates how a turtle might mistake a plastic bag for a jellyfish at the 2018 Annual Open House Off Campus Events 4 Patuxent River Wade In left to right former Maryland Senator Bernie Fowler Congressman Steny H Hoyer and Chesapeake Biological Laboratory Director Thomas Miller Outreach Engagement Activities 13 4 426 Combined Total Participation CBL is a vibrant part of the Solomons Island community and has maintained an outreach program dating back to its founding in 1925 Today the CBL Outreach Program is a coordinated effort that seeks to benefit the local community by providing information about our innovative research and opportunities to actively engage in our programs These goals are accomplished through the Visitor Center Science for Citizens seminar series annual Open House volunteer opportunities group and campus tours participation in community events and other outreach activities The CBL Visitor Center provides guests with the opportunity to learn about cutting edge research being pioneered by CBL s team of faculty and student scientists Last year was a particularly exciting time in the Visitor Center In addition to significant renovations intended to preserve the historic Solomons House the oldest structure on Solomons Island a new touchscreen exhibit about the Chesapeake Bay and blue crabs was unveiled In 2019 guests can look forward to a new aquarium exhibit In addition to independently staffing the Visitor Center CBL volunteers lead campus tours and engage the public in learning about CBL research at community event Thank you for your gift Your support for CBL programs and exhibits Beyond the Visitor Center in 2018 volunteers supported research activities students is appreciated To learn more about supporting CBL by verifying dolphin click detections in the graduate students contact Jeane Wharton Assistant Director Patuxent River analyzing sound files for Development at jwharton umces edu or 410 326 7240 dolphin feeding buzzes in the Maryland Offshore Wind Energy Area and conducted a research project testing different methods for data production in paleoclimate research CBL works with donors to match their interests with our research and education programs Generous donors support students as they complete their graduate degrees In 2018 CBL had 95 donors 21 of whom were first time supporters The number of donations of 1 000 or more was 17 almost twice the number in 2016 and three donations of 10 000 were received In 2018 an anonymous donor and longtime friend and supporter of CBL offered a matching challenge grant of up to 10 000 Donations during a six week campaign culminating in an online GivingTuesday challenge were matched dollar for dollar Almost 40 000 was raised to support students and programs Funds Raised 64 575 Thank You Why I Give to Support CBL I consider the environment and the science required to understand it both fascinating and important I am happy to donate funds to support students and the important research at CBL GARY GREENWOOD VIRGINIA Our annual gift to the UMCES Foundation helps those in need of assistance in reaching their educational goals Our gift supports 21st Century environmental leaders DICK SUE HU MARYLAND My annual gift is moderate yet it helps a student attend a conference or provides research material I have the additional pleasure of meeting the student and following the work in a personal way ANNE HARRISON MARYLAND

IMPACT OF OUR RESEARCH Led by CBL Professor Mike Wilberg CBL researchers working in collaboration with biologists at the Maryland Department of Natural Resources have produced the first assessment of the oysters in the Maryland portion of Chesapeake Bay in 135 years The assessment required by the Sustainable Oyster Population and Fishery Act of 2016 is a scientific study that uses available data to estimate the abundance of wild oysters in the Maryland portion of the Bay the fraction of oysters that die each year from natural causes including disease and the fraction of oysters that is harvested each year by fishing The assessment develops benchmarks to determine if abundance and harvest are at sustainable levels and determines the overall health of the fishery Analyzing 19 years of data from winter 19992017 from 36 regions within the Maryland portion of Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries the assessment concluded that oyster abundance is less than in 1999 but there is a north south gradient in how oysters are performing Despite abundance being lower than in 1999 the population has shown substantial recovery in many regions since 2000s when there was a major disease outbreak that caused mass mortality The information developed will help inform future management decisions Marine organisms growing on the outside of ships i e biofouling presents significant problems for the maritime industry by increasing drag fuel consumption and exhaust emissions as well as facilitating coating breakdown and vessel corrosion Ship biofouling is also a notable vector for the global scale transfer and introduction of non native aquatic species which can have enormous ecological and economic impacts on coastal environments A number of in water cleaning and capture IWCC and in water grooming IWG technologies and systems have been developed in recent years CBL Professor Mario Tamburri director of our Alliance for Coastal Technologies and our Maritime Environmental Resource Center in partnership with international researchers and state and federal agencies has established an initiative to evaluate ship in water biofouling cleaning grooming The goals of this program are to refine and standardize methods and procedures for testing the efficacy and safety of IWCC IWG systems provide rigorous independent data on the performance of IWCC IWG systems that can be used to apply for permitted commercial use in ports around the world and provide the scientific foundation for developing ship biofouling regulations In 2018 Tamburri and his team completed the first set of tests of an IWCC system in Baltimore and Alameda CA They will test two different IWG systems in Fort Lauderdale and Dubai in 2019 The Arctic Ocean is experiencing seasonally warming seawater and rapid sea ice retreat that are changing ecosystems Several CBL faculty members have active research programs in the Arctic including Professors Jacqueline Grebmeier and Lee Cooper who are studying the ecosystem response to major environmental changes occurring on the side of the Arctic Ocean influenced by the Pacific Ocean through the Bering Strait Grebmeier and Cooper are leading an international program the Distributed Biological Observatory that evaluates life in the water column and bottom sediments in the northern Bering and Chukchi seas The CBL team participates in annual cruises on both US and Canadian icebreakers and cooperates with other countries sending oceanographic ships into the Arctic including China Japan and the Republic of Korea Funding through the NSF NOAA and NASA supports both field collections and analyses at CBL that investigate the impacts of climate change on biological populations biodiversity and other ecosystem responses Their research has shown that populations of clam species that are critical food for diving seaducks and walruses are contracting northward in the Pacific Arctic as seasonal sea ice decreases and bottom water temperatures warm Similarly populations of amphipods small shrimp like crustaceans living in surface sediments that are food for gray whales are also being reduced and gray whales are having to migrate further north for summer feeding In 2018 unprecedented warm air and seawater conditions prevented sea ice from forming in the winter for the first time in the northern Bering Sea One result was a northward expansion of commercial pollock and Pacific cod as far north as Bering Strait where they had been previously blocked by a cold barrier when sea ice was present Research studies in 2019 will extend this important 30 year time series of biological data on change in the Arctic CBL Associate Professor Michael Gonsior led a team student Katie Martin and Associate Professors Andrew Heyes and Lora Harris to investigate the impact of septic wastewater systems on Southern Maryland streams It has been generally accepted that septic systems can contaminate surface and groundwater with human pathogens and chemicals Recent estimates report that an average of 11 lb of total nitrogen per person each year goes into the groundwater from septic fields demonstrating how nitrogen from septic systems eventually makes its way from the watershed to the Chesapeake Bay Maryland Sea Grant funded an innovative approach is needed to measure these flows in a project titled Tracking Septic System Performance by using Innovative Mass Spectrometric Approaches and Traditional Nutrient Measurements Quantification of unique wastewater tracers e g the artificial sweetener sucralose revealed direct evidence of septic system wastewater in streams Additional data agreed very well with quantitative wastewater tracers and the results from state ofthe art analytical methods confirmed the presence of detergents shampoos and other household products surfactants These surfactants are not present in natural streams and hence can be used as unique wastewater fingerprints The already analyzed data leaves no doubt that water from septic systems flow into our examined streams serving as a source of nitrogen loading see figure We will continue to investigate the concentration of wastewater tracers and nitrogen species in traditional and advanced BAT systems to further constrain estimates of how much of the stream flow is derived from septic system effluent and to predict nitrogen loadings in impacted streams more precisely View our list of 2018 publications https www umces edu cbl about Graduated CBL AT A GLANCE 6 Current Enrollment 28 Awards Given 26 When I started my journey at CBL as a Ph D student in Fisheries Science I was excited about doing my part to understand how to manage and protect wild fish populations I was fortunate enough to be in Dr Hongsheng Bi s research group where my love of technology and innovation flourished as we tried to solve data limitations in Chesapeake Bay through use of underwater imaging devices With the guidance and support of the courses I took and the professors that taught them I was able to learn about ecology statistics and programming to process the large amount of data we were collecting and make sense of it These learning experiences at CBL fit together to allow for a subject matter expertise that would be of tremendous value in the aquaculture industry Currently I am developing a technology within my own company to address problems in the shrimp aquaculture industry So much of what I learned at CBL has prepared me and given me the confidence to become an entrepreneur with the hopes of scaling and impacting how we grow food in marine systems Opportunities to conduct research at the edge of technology a network of supportive staff and faculty and pathways to a meaningful career that I am passionate about all contributed to one of the most rewarding journeys of my life Suzan Shahrestani My year was full of thinking about oysters especially those in the Chesapeake Bay In December I successfully defended my Master s thesis research in which I developed updated estimates of non fishing mortality for oysters in the Maryland portion of the Chesapeake Bay using a novel method and found evidence that oysters may have developed some resistance to disease since 2002 in Maryland I had the opportunity to present my research this year at three national and regional conferences thanks in part to funding from the Graduate Education Committee at CBL Lastly I was involved in the first modern stock assessment for oysters in Maryland this year which was a deeply rewarding experience for me and confirmed my interests in pursuing a career related to stock assessment Although I m excited to finish my Master s degree and start a new job soon I will miss the CBL community I am extremely grateful for all the support and opportunities for growth as a scientist that this institution has given me over the past two and a half years Kathryn Doering University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science President Peter Goodwin and Board of Regents Staff Award recipient and CBL Facilities Manager Brian Duke On Campus Events 30 Helen Bailey In May 2018 newly installed UMCES President Peter Goodwin awarded his first President s Award for the Application of Science to CBL Associate Research Professor Helen Bailey for her work establishing the DolphinWatch program Helen has been studying dolphins and whales since her PhD at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland Little was known about the bottlenose dolphins in the Chesapeake Bay when Helen arrived at CBL in 2009 She has leveraged the potential of citizen scientists to help her with her observations With support from the lab and from the Chesapeake Bay Trust Helen helped develop and release a cellphone app that allows anyone to report a sighting of a dolphin in the Bay with a swipe of the finger Since its launch Chesapeake DolphinWatch now has 3755 registered users who reported 1128 sightings of dolphins in 2018 both in the Bay and in Maryland s coastal Bays Helen would love it if you joined her network of Citizen Scientists at ChesapeakeDolphinWatch org or download the Chesapeake DolphinWatch application Jackie Grebmeier CBL Research Professor Jackie Grebmeier has a long and distinguished career working on the ecology of the Arctic seas This contribution was recognized by the American Association for the Advancement of Science AAAS which elected Jackie a lifetime fellow in the Association in recognition of her extraordinary achievement in advancing science The AAAS has had an annual tradition of recognizing fellows since 1874 As an indication of the standing of the award four of the 2018 Nobel Laureates were AAAS fellows Jackie was recognized by AAAS not only for the excellence of her own research see vignette to the left but also because of her commitment to communicate her science to governments agencies and the community As an example in 2018 Jackie served as an official US Delegate supporting the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy to the 2nd Arctic Science Ministerial in Berlin Germany that brought together representatives from 24 countries undertaking Arctic research including policy leaders for determining joint direction for Arctic science internationally In addition to this high profile work Jackie works tirelessly in native communities in Alaska to explain the impacts of climate change on their world Publications Presentations 70 90 Return on State Investment 1 87 CBL IN THE COMMUNITY FY18 Grants Awarded TOTAL 7 971 839 Professor Carys Mitchelmore demonstrates how a turtle might mistake a plastic bag for a jellyfish at the 2018 Annual Open House Off Campus Events 4 Patuxent River Wade In left to right former Maryland Senator Bernie Fowler Congressman Steny H Hoyer and Chesapeake Biological Laboratory Director Thomas Miller Outreach Engagement Activities 13 4 426 Combined Total Participation CBL is a vibrant part of the Solomons Island community and has maintained an outreach program dating back to its founding in 1925 Today the CBL Outreach Program is a coordinated effort that seeks to benefit the local community by providing information about our innovative research and opportunities to actively engage in our programs These goals are accomplished through the Visitor Center Science for Citizens seminar series annual Open House volunteer opportunities group and campus tours participation in community events and other outreach activities The CBL Visitor Center provides guests with the opportunity to learn about cutting edge research being pioneered by CBL s team of faculty and student scientists Last year was a particularly exciting time in the Visitor Center In addition to significant renovations intended to preserve the historic Solomons House the oldest structure on Solomons Island a new touchscreen exhibit about the Chesapeake Bay and blue crabs was unveiled In 2019 guests can look forward to a new aquarium exhibit In addition to independently staffing the Visitor Center CBL volunteers lead campus tours and engage the public in learning about CBL research at community event Thank you for your gift Your support for CBL programs and exhibits Beyond the Visitor Center in 2018 volunteers supported research activities students is appreciated To learn more about supporting CBL by verifying dolphin click detections in the graduate students contact Jeane Wharton Assistant Director Patuxent River analyzing sound files for Development at jwharton umces edu or 410 326 7240 dolphin feeding buzzes in the Maryland Offshore Wind Energy Area and conducted a research project testing different methods for data production in paleoclimate research CBL works with donors to match their interests with our research and education programs Generous donors support students as they complete their graduate degrees In 2018 CBL had 95 donors 21 of whom were first time supporters The number of donations of 1 000 or more was 17 almost twice the number in 2016 and three donations of 10 000 were received In 2018 an anonymous donor and longtime friend and supporter of CBL offered a matching challenge grant of up to 10 000 Donations during a six week campaign culminating in an online GivingTuesday challenge were matched dollar for dollar Almost 40 000 was raised to support students and programs Funds Raised 64 575 Thank You Why I Give to Support CBL I consider the environment and the science required to understand it both fascinating and important I am happy to donate funds to support students and the important research at CBL GARY GREENWOOD VIRGINIA Our annual gift to the UMCES Foundation helps those in need of assistance in reaching their educational goals Our gift supports 21st Century environmental leaders DICK SUE HU MARYLAND My annual gift is moderate yet it helps a student attend a conference or provides research material I have the additional pleasure of meeting the student and following the work in a personal way ANNE HARRISON MARYLAND

DIRECTOR S WELCOME The Chesapeake Biological Laboratory CBL is proud to release our 2018 annual report which documents our significant achievements over the last year We are home to award winning faculty staff and students who conduct work of an international caliber This work is supported by about 8M in competitively awarded grants and contracts We return about 2 in value for every dollar the state invests in us Behind the scenes our laboratory staff works to make our campus as efficient green and sustainable as possible We train the next generation of environmental leaders Our graduates include senior officials in national and regional governments academics at universities around the world leaders in NonGovernment Organizations and companies with an environmental focus We provide unbiased scientific advice to local state and federal agencies to help solve the pressing environmental challenges of the 21st Century You will find some of CBL s stories in this report but we encourage you to find the rest of the story by visiting our many public events or visiting us on the web www umces edu CBL It is the single highest honor of my life to lead CBL into the future Every day I work with passionate faculty staff and students who care deeply about our community our state nation and planet I hope you will find their work and stories as inspirational as I do WHO WE ARE Thomas Miller Ph D Director and Professor CBL is part of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science UMCES UMCES is Maryland s Graduate University for the Environment We hold true to our founding vision of developing a deeper understanding of the Chesapeake Bay and Maryland s coastal ocean and of providing the independent objective science to the state of Maryland We achieve this vision by encouraging our internationally respected researchers to work in collaborative interdisciplinary teams to address and solve complex environmental problems We value personal and scientific integrity We value independent creative thinking We seek and encourage diverse voices to ensure an inclusive equitable and sustainable future Technological advances mean that our researchers have more information to analyze than ever before To address this opportunity and challenge we are pioneering the application of Environmental Intelligence to understand and manage the environmental issues that face the planet We use statistical approaches like artificial intelligence AI to integrate and synthesize our scientific data to gain the insight needed to address our questions As examples in 2018 CBL researchers used AI to help count jellyfish in the Patuxent River and applied sophisticated statistics to estimate the number of oysters in the Chesapeake Bay for the first time Looking to the future these capabilities will increase our ability to deepen our understanding of the natural world and to provide better and more timely advice to the state 146 Williams Street Box 38 Solomons Maryland 20688 Phone number 410 326 4281 www umces edu CBL HISTORY Established in 1925 by the visionary scientist Reginald Truitt CBL is the founding laboratory of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Far ahead of his time Truitt recognized that to understand the declines in the oyster and crab fisheries that were a concern then some things never change it seems he needed to understand not only their biology but also the chemistry and physics of the Bay how all the plants and animals in the Bay interact and what factors drove the Bay and its resources Today we recognize this as an ecosystem based approach but in 1925 there was nothing else like it Driven by Environmental Intelligence We continue to stay true to Truitt s original vision We continue to conduct groundbreaking research and communicate the results of our work to local state and federal agencies to improve the management of the Chesapeake Bay and our nation s coastal ecosystems that Truitt so loved Truitt selected Solomons as the base for his new laboratory because the people in Solomons extended a warm welcome and even supplied CBL s first building From the beginning CBL recruited staff and trained students Initially activity occurred only in the summer months but by 1931 Truitt had built Beaven Hall the first permanent building on our campus The outlines of our future growth were already evident Today we occupy 20 buildings on the tip of Solomons Island including three modern state of the art research laboratories Yet we strive to remain part of the community and regularly welcome residents and visitors to our campus BEHIND THE SCENES Robert Caret Chancellor UNIVERSITY SYSTEM OF MARYLAND Associate Professors Hongsheng Bi Michael Gonsior Lora Harris Laura Lapham Chris Rowe Johan Schijf UMD CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Associate Research Professors Helen Bailey Solange Filoso Andrew Heyes Hali Kilbourne Peter Goodwin President William Dennison Vice President for Science Applications David Nemazie Chief of Staff Lynn Rhen Vice President of Administration Eric Davidson Director Appalachian Laboratory Russell Hill Director Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology Thomas Miller Director Chesapeake Biological Laboratory Michael Roman Director Horn Point Laboratory Lawrence Sanford Interim Vice President of Education CBL DIRECTOR S CIRCLE MEMBERS J D Blackwell Chris Goudreau Sue Hu Torben HugeJensen Alex Sidlowski CBL ADMINISTRATION FACULTY STAFF ADMINISTRATION Thomas Miller Director and Professor Stacy Hutchinson Associate Director Elissa Lee Executive Assistant to the Director Jeane Wharton Assistant Director of Development Rhonda Hall Manager of Budget and Finance Theresa Holloway Manager of Business Operations Brian Duke Manager of Facilities Michael Santangelo Manager of Information Technology FACULTY Professors Emeritus Robert Anderson Walter Boynton Edward Houde Robert Ulanowicz David Wright Professors David Secor Mario Tamburri Carys Mitchelmore Michael Wilberg Research Professors Lee Cooper Jackie Grebmeier Dennis King Lisa Wainger Assistant Professors Jeremy Testa Ryan Woodland Assistant Research Professors Dong Liang Vyacheslav Lyubchich Genevieve Nesslage Senior Faculty Research Assistants Jerry Frank Janet Barnes Nancy Kaumeyer Kim Blodnikar Adriene Capers Cheryl Clark Katherine Davis Martin Getrich Casey Hodgkins Faculty Research Assistants Alynne Bayard Linton Beaven Maria Ceballos Ashley Cord Mindy Forsyth Skyler Golt Amy Green Ceana Hoburn Taylor Hollady Aimee Hoover Jaclyn Mantell Mike O Brien Elizabeth Price Erin Reilly General Assistants Kristen Hychka Matthew Weber STAFF Sara Brzezinksi Outreach Coordinator Martin Caroll IT Support Specialist Helen Cummings Interim Librarian Thomas Darnall Plumber Specialist Cindy Dixon Accounting Associate Jeannette Duran Program Management Specialist Dale Garner MultiTrade Supervisor III Jeremy Garner Maintenance Mechanic Nancy Hupp Program Administrative Specialist Dan Janzen IT Support Specialist Lance Kelly Maintenance Mechanic Larry Lentner IT Coordinator Willis Long Multi Trade Maintenance Aide Samantha Mais Grants Coordinator Elaine Proctor Maintenance Mechanic Scott Raymond Multi Trade Chief 1 Frank Stebbing HVAC Mechanic III Patricia Stebbing Program Management Specialist University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Chesapeake Biological Laboratory Annual Report 2018

DIRECTOR S WELCOME The Chesapeake Biological Laboratory CBL is proud to release our 2018 annual report which documents our significant achievements over the last year We are home to award winning faculty staff and students who conduct work of an international caliber This work is supported by about 8M in competitively awarded grants and contracts We return about 2 in value for every dollar the state invests in us Behind the scenes our laboratory staff works to make our campus as efficient green and sustainable as possible We train the next generation of environmental leaders Our graduates include senior officials in national and regional governments academics at universities around the world leaders in NonGovernment Organizations and companies with an environmental focus We provide unbiased scientific advice to local state and federal agencies to help solve the pressing environmental challenges of the 21st Century You will find some of CBL s stories in this report but we encourage you to find the rest of the story by visiting our many public events or visiting us on the web www umces edu CBL It is the single highest honor of my life to lead CBL into the future Every day I work with passionate faculty staff and students who care deeply about our community our state nation and planet I hope you will find their work and stories as inspirational as I do WHO WE ARE Thomas Miller Ph D Director and Professor CBL is part of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science UMCES UMCES is Maryland s Graduate University for the Environment We hold true to our founding vision of developing a deeper understanding of the Chesapeake Bay and Maryland s coastal ocean and of providing the independent objective science to the state of Maryland We achieve this vision by encouraging our internationally respected researchers to work in collaborative interdisciplinary teams to address and solve complex environmental problems We value personal and scientific integrity We value independent creative thinking We seek and encourage diverse voices to ensure an inclusive equitable and sustainable future Technological advances mean that our researchers have more information to analyze than ever before To address this opportunity and challenge we are pioneering the application of Environmental Intelligence to understand and manage the environmental issues that face the planet We use statistical approaches like artificial intelligence AI to integrate and synthesize our scientific data to gain the insight needed to address our questions As examples in 2018 CBL researchers used AI to help count jellyfish in the Patuxent River and applied sophisticated statistics to estimate the number of oysters in the Chesapeake Bay for the first time Looking to the future these capabilities will increase our ability to deepen our understanding of the natural world and to provide better and more timely advice to the state 146 Williams Street Box 38 Solomons Maryland 20688 Phone number 410 326 4281 www umces edu CBL HISTORY Established in 1925 by the visionary scientist Reginald Truitt CBL is the founding laboratory of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Far ahead of his time Truitt recognized that to understand the declines in the oyster and crab fisheries that were a concern then some things never change it seems he needed to understand not only their biology but also the chemistry and physics of the Bay how all the plants and animals in the Bay interact and what factors drove the Bay and its resources Today we recognize this as an ecosystem based approach but in 1925 there was nothing else like it Driven by Environmental Intelligence We continue to stay true to Truitt s original vision We continue to conduct groundbreaking research and communicate the results of our work to local state and federal agencies to improve the management of the Chesapeake Bay and our nation s coastal ecosystems that Truitt so loved Truitt selected Solomons as the base for his new laboratory because the people in Solomons extended a warm welcome and even supplied CBL s first building From the beginning CBL recruited staff and trained students Initially activity occurred only in the summer months but by 1931 Truitt had built Beaven Hall the first permanent building on our campus The outlines of our future growth were already evident Today we occupy 20 buildings on the tip of Solomons Island including three modern state of the art research laboratories Yet we strive to remain part of the community and regularly welcome residents and visitors to our campus BEHIND THE SCENES Robert Caret Chancellor UNIVERSITY SYSTEM OF MARYLAND Associate Professors Hongsheng Bi Michael Gonsior Lora Harris Laura Lapham Chris Rowe Johan Schijf UMD CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE Associate Research Professors Helen Bailey Solange Filoso Andrew Heyes Hali Kilbourne Peter Goodwin President William Dennison Vice President for Science Applications David Nemazie Chief of Staff Lynn Rhen Vice President of Administration Eric Davidson Director Appalachian Laboratory Russell Hill Director Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology Thomas Miller Director Chesapeake Biological Laboratory Michael Roman Director Horn Point Laboratory Lawrence Sanford Interim Vice President of Education CBL DIRECTOR S CIRCLE MEMBERS J D Blackwell Chris Goudreau Sue Hu Torben HugeJensen Alex Sidlowski CBL ADMINISTRATION FACULTY STAFF ADMINISTRATION Thomas Miller Director and Professor Stacy Hutchinson Associate Director Elissa Lee Executive Assistant to the Director Jeane Wharton Assistant Director of Development Rhonda Hall Manager of Budget and Finance Theresa Holloway Manager of Business Operations Brian Duke Manager of Facilities Michael Santangelo Manager of Information Technology FACULTY Professors Emeritus Robert Anderson Walter Boynton Edward Houde Robert Ulanowicz David Wright Professors David Secor Mario Tamburri Carys Mitchelmore Michael Wilberg Research Professors Lee Cooper Jackie Grebmeier Dennis King Lisa Wainger Assistant Professors Jeremy Testa Ryan Woodland Assistant Research Professors Dong Liang Vyacheslav Lyubchich Genevieve Nesslage Senior Faculty Research Assistants Jerry Frank Janet Barnes Nancy Kaumeyer Kim Blodnikar Adriene Capers Cheryl Clark Katherine Davis Martin Getrich Casey Hodgkins Faculty Research Assistants Alynne Bayard Linton Beaven Maria Ceballos Ashley Cord Mindy Forsyth Skyler Golt Amy Green Ceana Hoburn Taylor Hollady Aimee Hoover Jaclyn Mantell Mike O Brien Elizabeth Price Erin Reilly General Assistants Kristen Hychka Matthew Weber STAFF Sara Brzezinksi Outreach Coordinator Martin Caroll IT Support Specialist Helen Cummings Interim Librarian Thomas Darnall Plumber Specialist Cindy Dixon Accounting Associate Jeannette Duran Program Management Specialist Dale Garner MultiTrade Supervisor III Jeremy Garner Maintenance Mechanic Nancy Hupp Program Administrative Specialist Dan Janzen IT Support Specialist Lance Kelly Maintenance Mechanic Larry Lentner IT Coordinator Willis Long Multi Trade Maintenance Aide Samantha Mais Grants Coordinator Elaine Proctor Maintenance Mechanic Scott Raymond Multi Trade Chief 1 Frank Stebbing HVAC Mechanic III Patricia Stebbing Program Management Specialist University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Chesapeake Biological Laboratory Annual Report 2018