Company Profile

Company Description:

Maryland Sea Grant is a university-based partnership with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. We are a service organization administered by the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science.

Our organization plays an important role in the network of organizations working to preserve and restore the Chesapeake Bay and Maryland’s coastal waters. We serve as a bridge between scientific expertise and the needs of people who manage, conserve, enjoy, and make a living from the Chesapeake Bay, America’s largest and most productive estuary.

Our mission combines scientific research, education, and public outreach. Guided by our strategic plan, we work to develop sound ideas and practices that can enhance the Bay’s ecology as well as the businesses and jobs that depend on it. With a variety of partners, we act as an “neutral broker” to share science-based, useful, unbiased solutions to a wide audience.

Over four decades, our research has informed science-based management to restore water quality and achieve sustainable commercial and recreational fisheries in Maryland. We engage communities to advance ecosystem restoration efforts, and we are working to understand the effects of climate change on public health and the stability of Maryland’s maritime economy.