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General Listing
Title of Listing:
Smithsonian Institution
Category:
Federal/National - Agencies
Subcategory:
Other Government, All Listings
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Web Site:
http://www.si.edu
Email:
Abstract:

The Smithsonian Institution serves as a national resource for exhibitions, scholarly and applied research, historical documentation and interpretive and educational programs and, contains a research department. The Smithsonian is an independent trust instrumentality of the United States holding some 140 million artifacts and specimens in its trust for "the increase and diffusion of knowledge." The Institution is also a center for research dedicated to public education, national service, and scholarship in the arts, sciences, and history. The Smithsonian is composed of sixteen museums and galleries and numerous research facilities in the United States and abroad, including the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC).

          The SERC is a research center located on the Chesapeake Bay near Annapolis, Maryland. The Center is dedicated to increasing knowledge about the interactions of organisms with their environment and to disseminating this knowledge to improve our stewardship of the biosphere. Research and education at the SERC involve investigating relationships among atmospheric, terrestrial, and aquatic environments, and studying ecological processes at a wide range of temporal and spatial scales. The SERC uses the geographic features of the Chesapeake Bay region to conduct long-term, intensive analyses of a complex landscape of interconnected ecosystems at the land-sea interface, focusing on ecological responses to land use, pollution of the atmosphere and drainage basins, and fisheries harvesting in the estuaries.
Topics
Ecosystems/Ecotoxicology, Marine Biology

Additional Topics/Tags/Keywords
History, Artifacts, Research, Pollution, Ecosystems

Organization:
Smithsonian Institution
Address:
1000 Jefferson Drive SW
Phone:
DescriptionNumber
City:
Washington
1.
Smithsonian Institution (202) 357-1300
State/Province/Territory:
DC
2.
SERC(301) 261-4190
Zip/Postal Code:
20560
3.
Country:
United States
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