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Week of December 9, 2013

News from Across the Â鶹ÊÓƵ Campuses

Dec. 11^th - Dr. Deborah Steinberg, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, This event is a part of the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory Distinguished Scholar Seminar Series.

Dec. 10^th - - This event will be held from 12:20 - 1:30pm at The National Socio-Environmental Synthesis Center (SESYNC), located at 1 Park Place, Suite 300, Annapolis, MD 21401.

Dec. 10^th - (Stroud Water Research Center), host, M. Kemp. Seminar will be held the Horn Point Laboratory auditorium (Coastal Science Bldg.) at 11:00 am on Wednesday. The seminar is open to the public.

State of Maryland News

(Maryland Department of the Environment, News Release, 12/4/13)

(By Brentin Mock, Grist.org, 12/3/13)

(Maryland Department of the Environment, Social Media Release, 12/3/13)

National and International News

: It was one of the : in April 2010 an explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil drilling rig killed 11 men and sent 210m gallons of oil into the Gulf of Mexico, causing a black tide covering 68,000 square miles of ocean and spreading along 16,000 miles of coastline. is the first book from photographer , who documented the spill from a Cessna floatplane, 3,000ft above the Louisiana coastline. It includes 27 of his award-winning aerial photographs that have gone on show around the world, and an essay by that gives context to Spill as an artistic response to the environment and nature (The [UK] Guardian - Environment Blog, 12/9/13)

(By Nafeez Ahmed, The [UK] Guardian - Earth Insight Blog, 12/9/13)

(By Lindsay Abrams, Salon.com, 12/9/13)

(By Wayne Scott, Salon.com, 12/8/13)

(By Kate Sheppard, The Huffington Post - Green Blog, 12/6/13)

(By The Associated Press as reported by The [UK] Guardian - Environment Blog, 12/6/13)

(By Lindsay Abrams, Salon.com, 12/6/13)

(Sarah Lazare, CommonDreams.org, 12/5/13)

(By Coral Davenport, The New York Times - Energy & Environment, 12/5/13)

(By Sarah Goodyear, The Atlantic Cities Blog, 12/5/13)

(By Jacob Chamberlain, CommonDreams.org, 12/4/13)

(By Sarah Laskow, Grist.org, 12/4/13)