Maritime
Environmental Resource Center: A Maryland
Ballast Water Initiative / Cummings
Join Kick-Off of Maritime Environmental Resource
Center (Jul 22, 2008; PDF | 177 KB) Maritime Environmental Resource Center. The new Maritime Environmental Resource
Center at the University of Maryland Center for
Environmental Science will be based in Solomons
in Southern Maryland and receive about $5 million
over five years from the state and federal governments.
Scientists plan to test ultraviolet light, filters
and chemicals to see how effective they are at
destroying exotic larvae and other creatures
inadvertently transported in ship ballast tanks.
