DEPARTMENT OF RESEARCH AND EDUCATION

The Commission

Chairman: Earle T. Hawkins, 1958
Secretary: Franklin Tresselt, 1961

W. Theodore Boston, 1957; B. H. Willier, 1959; E. N. Cory, 1960.
L. Eugene Cronin, Director
Harry A. Hensel, Administrative Assistant
Solomons (Calvert County) Telephone: Solomons 2771

The Department of Research and Education was created in 1941
to study and promote conservation work in Maryland and to carry
on the work of the State Weather Service. Supervision of the De-
partment is vested in a Commission of Research and Education, con-
sisting of five members appointed by the Governor from among the
citizens of the State, each of whom must have either special training
in, or experience with, natural resources. The members are appointed
for five-year terms with overlapping tenure of office. They select
their Chairman and appoint the Director of the Department and his
staff (Code 1951, Art. 66C, secs. 18-21).

The Department conducts three major programs. These respond
to the needs of other departments of the Board of Natural Resources
and usually require their cooperation. At the Chesapeake Biological
Laboratory at Solomons Island, the Department studies the Bay and
the organisms in it, particularly fish and shellfish of economic im-
portance. The Inland Resources Division studies game, mammals
and birds, fresh water fish, and forests of the State. The Conserva-
tion Education Division helps to educate the public, especially school
teachers, about the natural resources of Maryland and their effective
conservation. It issues a periodical—the Maryland Tidewater News
—research reports, educational pamphlets, and other printed ma-
terials.

A training program at the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory pro-
vides summer apprentice training for biology students and courses and
participation in workshops for graduate students, teachers, and con-
servation law enforcement officers. In addition, the Department
supports the Maryland Weather Service, a joint Federal-State proj-
ect, at the Friendship International Airport, and the Chesapeake Bay
Institute of The Johns Hopkins University, which conducts special
investigations on behalf of the State.

Appropriations 1957 1958

General Funds ................. $168,247 $190,621
Special Funds .................. 24,364 26,342

$192,611 $216,963
Staff: 24

WATER POLLUTION CONTROL COMMISSION

Chairman: Levi Phillips, Jr., 1959

Ex officio Members: A. L. Penniman, Jr., State Board of
Health; John P. Tawes, Chairman, Board of Natural Re-
sources; L. Eugene Cronin, Director, Department of Research
and Education; Ernest A. Vaughn, Director, Department of
Game and Inland Fish.

Appointed Members: George F. Hazelwood, 1961; F. G. Het-
tinger, 1963.