UMCES president warns canceled federal awards threaten oyster restoration and research capacity University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science leaders told lawmakers canceled or reduced federal awards are already cutting roughly 10% of grants and contracts at the institution and that proposed cuts from agencies like NOAA could greatly reduce funding for coastal restoration work including oyster hatcheries.

Canceled federal awards are jeopardizing crucial oyster restoration efforts at UMCES, threatening both environmental health and the economy.

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When science meets music: Florida’s oyster decline is being told through jazz A professor teamed up with student musicians to inspire interest in data about the ‘catastrophic scale’ of the crisis A university professor has set her team’s research on the plight of Florida’s...

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Women’s History Special: Demi Johnson, Teenage Oyster Farmer March is Women’s History Month, a time when we honor and celebrate the extraordinary contributions women have made and continue to make toward making our society safer and better — women like Demi …

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