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Rising to a Grand Challenge: Food, Energy and Water in a Changing Climate

Apr 12, 2023

Institutional Grant Team Works for Balanced Approaches to Existential Problems

While hand pumps are no longer the norm, 13% of Marylanders still get their water from individual wells, and new UMD survey data suggest many are contaminated with bacteria

UMD Well Water Data Finds Contamination Frequent on Farms

Mar 13, 2023

Extension Researcher Finds Bacteria, Suggests Filter Use to Boost Safety

Rising sea levels are causing more flooding and threatening a sanitary crisis driven by failure of the septic tank systems used by tens of thousands of Marylanders living in coastal areas or near tidally influenced water bodies.

$1.35M Grant to Fund UMD-Led Team’s Study of Climate Change and Septic Tank Failure

Feb 28, 2023

Growing Hazard for Coastal Dwellers Doesn’t Affect All Marylanders Equally, Researchers Say

The loss of seabird species to invasive predators from rats to feral pigs has damaged island terrestrial environments and marine ecosystems alike in places around the world. Photo courtesy of Island Conservation

Restoring Island-Ocean Connections Creates Broad Benefits, Study Finds

Dec 6, 2022

UMD Scientist Helps to Highlight Need for Coordinated Conservation of Linked Terrestrial, Marine Ecosystems

DOE Funds $6 Million for UMD-Led Creation of Biofuels and Bioplastics from Food Waste

Sep 1, 2021

UMD Professor Stephanie Lansing to head consortium of scientists and industry partners seeking to reduce use of fossil fuels & landfills by creating renewable resources

UMD Research Reveals Massive Cropland Expansion in Brazil

Dec 18, 2018

Brazil’s intensive row crop area nearly doubled since 2000, researchers find.

UMD Study Uncovers Germ Cell Findings with Implications for Disease Research

May 11, 2018

Research opens the door for future stem cell research in chicken models.

UMD Researchers Find Gene that May Greatly Increase Strawberry Production

Feb 13, 2018

Strawberries make up a $3 billion agricultural industry in the United States alone.

UMD Researcher Develops Innovative Water Treatment System to Clean and Sustain the Port of Baltimore

Jan 22, 2018

Project improves water and air quality, reduces pollution, and creates renewable energy.

UMD and NASA Join Forces to Improve Global Food Security through Satellite Data

Dec 8, 2017

$3 million from Capital One, $2.1 million from Maryland Department of Commerce, and creation of innovation lab announced today.

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