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Study: Restored Oyster Reefs Better at Absorbing Pollution
Bay Daily
2013-05-06

It's a shell of a wastewater treatment system.

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Researchers say more oysters needed to clean up Chesapeake Bay
The Times - Picayune
2013-05-06

AP -- Behold the tiny oyster.

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To clean up the Chesapeake Bay, researchers say, we need to unleash oyster power
The Daily Item (Pennsylvania)
2013-05-06

Behold the tiny oyster.

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To clean up the Chesapeake Bay, researchers say, we need to unleash oyster power
The Ottumwa Courier (Iowa)
2013-05-06

Behold the tiny oyster.

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To clean up the Chesapeake Bay, researchers say, we need to unleash oyster power
The News Courier (Alabama)
2013-05-06

Behold the tiny oyster.

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Researchers think industrious oysters could clean up Chesapeake
The Washington Post
2013-05-05

Behold the tiny oyster.

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County receives positive watershed quality report
Southern Maryland News
2013-05-03

Walter Boynton of the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory delivered a bit of good news to county commissioners Tuesday that the county's watershed water quality improved in 2012.

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Calvert County urges residents to protect against vibrio
Southern Maryland News
2013-05-03

With warmer weather approaching, county officials want to make sure the public is aware of the possibility of contracting a type of bacteria that can sometimes be life threatening.

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Study Shows Water Quality Improvement
The Bay Net News
2013-04-30

An optimistic tone highlighted the latest report from the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory (CBL) regarding the water quality of several Calv

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Science Communication Both an Opportunity and an Obligation
Scientific American
2013-04-30

In the 1980s I was working in the middle of nowhere to build Louisiana's first marine laboratory.

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