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The principal objective of the Marine-Estuarine-Environmental Sciences (MEES) Graduate Program is to offer a high-quality learning experience to students with a committed interest in research and understanding within some subfield encompassed by the purposely broad area indicated in the title of the Program. In the usual case, there must be a demonstrated degree of interaction between the biological and physiochemical systems in the environmental area chosen. The University System of Maryland is able to provide the proper milieu and, through its present graduate school mechanisms, the scholarly control absolutely vital to the success of the Program.
The benefits of the Program, mentioned briefly above, are several in number. The State of Maryland (and the Nation) have made available to them a corps of persons equipped to fill the many responsible research and administrative posts constantly opening in the areas directly covered by the Program. Students are able to acquire advanced degrees in areas fulfilling their ambitions without going to institutions outside the State of Maryland, and the job market, in-state alone, favors their employment on graduation.
The MEES Program attracts high quality students, both internationally and nationally. Included in the rationale for the Program are the significant facts that, in many ways, the Program is the only of its kind within the Nation. The multidisciplinary nature, coupled with strategic physical locations of participating institutions, gives Maryland the ideal opportunity to serve wide-spread State and Federal needs and, at the same time, strengthen its own stature across the Nation as an attractive center of graduate learning in the environmental sciences. Unique in its nature, its organization, and its specific goals, the MEES Program is complementary to, not at cross-purposes with, all other graduate opportunities available throughout the University System of Maryland.
Read more about the MEES Program:
Message From the Director
Overview
Mission
History of the MEES Program
Program Committee Members
Administration
Major Scientific Achievements
Facts at a Glance
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