locations. These include the Tobacco Research
Farm near Upper Marlboro in Prince George's
County, and ornamental fruit research at the
Sharpsburg Research and Education Center in
Washington County, the Agronomy-Dairy Forage
Farm near Ellicott City, the Horse Research
Center near Jessup in Howard County, and the
Beef Research Center at Springfield in Carroll
County. Research on vegetables, corn, soybeans,
and other field crops is conducted at the Wye
Research and Education Center in Queen Anne's
County, the Poplar Hill Research Farm, the
Salisbury Research Substation in Wicomieo Coun-
ty, and the University's College Park and Eastern
Shore campuses. Broiler production research is
also conducted at the Salisbury Research Substa-
tion.

In 1982, the University and the Maryland Agri-
cultural Experiment Station initiated the Center
for Advanced Agricultural Concepts at the Wye
Research and Education Center. This program
stresses a multi-disciplinary approach to research
and concentrates on bringing a combination of
resources to bear on the challenges to agriculture.
The program includes six major research areas: 1)
integrated pest management; 2) cattle breeding and
genetics; 3) plant breeding and genetics; 4) energy
development, use, and conservation; 5) quality of
life studies; and 6) interaction of land and water.
The Center for Advanced Agricultural Concepts
seeks as one of its major goals the rapid dissemina-
tion of important research information to agricul-
tural leaders, scientists, scholars, and the general
public.

CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL
AND ESTUARINE STUDIES

Administrative Offices
Horn Point Environmental Laboratories
Box 775
Cambridge 21613 Telephone: 228-9250

Chesapeake Biological Laboratory
Box 35
Solomons 20688 Telephone: 326-4281

Joint UM/DNR Shellfish Biology Program
Box 351
Crisfield 21817 Telephone: 968-1655

Appalachian Environmental Laboratory
Frostburg State College
Gunter Hall
Frostburg 21532 Telephone: 689-3115

The Center for Environmental and Estuarine
Studies was established by the Board of Regents in

Independent Agencies/405

1970. The Center, in cooperation with the Univer-
sity campuses, conducts studies of environmental
problems important to the State of Maryland. The
program includes research in fields that have
environmental significance, direct service to State
agencies and to the public, technical education,
and, in collaboration with the campuses, instruc-
tion at the graduate level through the University-
wide Marine-Estuarine-Environmental Sciences
Program.

The Center has administrative offices and facili-
ties at the Horn Point Environmental Laboratories
on a 721-acre site on the Choptank River near
Cambridge. This property was originally given to
the City of Cambridge by the late Francis P.
DuPont and was conveyed by Cambridge to the
State of Maryland for use by the University in
1971.

In addition to the Horn Point laboratories, the
Center consists of the Chesapeake Biological Labo-
ratory at Solomons Island on the Patuxent River,
the Joint UM/DNR Shellfish Biology Program at
Crisfield, and the Appalachian Environmental
Laboratory on the Frostburg State College Cam-
pus. Specialized facilities include research vessels,
controlled growth facilities at the Chesapeake
Biological Laboratory, hatcheries at Horn Point
and Crisfield for shellfish propagation, and com-
prehensive analytical facilities for terrestrial, estua-
rine, and marine environmental sciences.

At present, research programs of the Center
include studies of the Chesapeake Bay and the
accompanying coastal waters of the mid-Atlantic
region; forests, fish, and wildlife of the land areas
of the State; waste management; and investigations
directed toward basic comprehension of the Mary-
land environment. Educational emphasis includes
estuarine ecology, resource analysis, the process of
public decision making in matters that affect
environmental quality, and environmental educa-
tion in cooperation with other public agencies and
groups.

MARYLAND STATE AGENCY FOR
SURPLUS PROPERTY

Director: Gerald W. Smith

P. 0. Box 122
Brock Bridge Rd.
Jessup 20794 Telephone: 799-0440

The Maryland State Agency for Surplus Proper-
ty is a self-supporting operation sponsored as a
public service by the University of Maryland.
Originally organized in 1947, the present Agency