A diverse staff of 17 senior scientists and a growing interdisciplinary team of more than 180
researchers, technicians, and students conduct long-term descriptive and experimental research that
cuts across traditional disciplinary boundaries. Studies range from the effects of nutrients and chemicals passing through our landscapes to maintenance
of productive fisheries, changes to our environment from biological invaders, or protection of fragile
wetlands and woodlands.
SERC's main campus encompasses 2,800 acres of land along the Rhode River, a subestuary of the
Chesapeake Bay, and includes forest, cropland, pasture, freshwater wetlands, tidal marshes, and
estuaries. Much of our research focuses on this subestuary and its 14-square-mile watershed as a
representative model system for the enormous (64,000-square-mile) Chesapeake drainage basin. The
Research Center serves as a natural laboratory and a focal point for long-term monitoring programs
and research projects.
Expanding outward from the main campus, SERC researchers conduct comparative studies at field sites
around the world-from Australia to Belize and Antarctica to Alaska.
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