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The Horn Point Laboratory (HPL) is an
environmental research facility of the University
of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) the
principal institution for advanced environmental research and graduate studies within the University
System of Maryland. The other UMCES laboratories are the Chesapeake
Biological Laboratory, in Southern Maryland, and the Appalachian
Laboratory, in the mountains
of Western Maryland.
Directed by Professor Michael
Roman, HPL is located on the banks of the Choptank River,
a tributary of the Chesapeake Bay on Maryland's Eastern Shore. The laboratory
is interdisciplinary with faculty engaged in research on the biology, chemistry,
physics, and ecology of organisms and ecosystems from wetlands and estuarine
waters of the Chesapeake Bay to the continental shelf and open waters of the
world's oceans. Areas of scientific expertise include oceanography, plankton
dynamics, marine macrophyte and wetland ecology, systems ecology, nutrient
dynamics and eutrophication, physiological ecology of benthic invertebrates,
benthic-pelagic interactions, and aquaculture. HPL is a member of the Southern
Association of Marine Laboratories (SAML) and the National
Association of Marine Laboratories (NAML)
Read
the Colonial History of Horn Point (by
C. Stevenson)
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by visting Dorchester
County.
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