• Located on the first floor of the historic Solomons House, the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory Visitor Center offers guests the opportunity to explore exhibits highlighting the health of the Chesapeake Bay, environmental research, watershed science, and a Patuxent River aquarium. Founded in 1925 as the oldest publicly supported marine laboratory on the East Coast, faculty, staff, and student at this University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science campus have provided national leadership in the fields of fisheries, estuarine ecology, environmental chemistry and toxicology for almost 100 years. Visitors will discover who CBL scientists are, what they are researching, and why it is important.

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