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Negative number: 75-5432-19 The Jean C. Schmidt Environmental Building at the Chesapeake Bay Center for Environmental Studies, now the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Edgewater, Maryland, 1975.

Negative number: 94-2478 Storrs Olson, ornithologist and resident manager of the Chesapeake Bay Center for Environmental Studies, now the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, studies a bird skull in the headquarters building, 1969. The Center is an ecological research center established on the Chesapeake Bay on 1 July 1965.

Negative number: 86-5064-11 James F. Lynch, Biological Ecologist, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, doing research in the woods around the Center, located in the Chesapeake Bay watershed in Edgewater, Maryland, 1986. Photo by Richard Hofmeister.

Negative number: 86-4241-36 Public education specialist Jim Schaefer helps children participating in the Canoe Activity offered for no charge at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Edgewater, Maryland, 1986. Photo by Richard Hofmeister.

Negative number: 89-10018-29 On a tour of the Environmental Research Center's new Charles McC. Mathias Laboratory, SERC Scientist Anson "Tuck" Hines (right) shows Senator Charles Mathias a tank for Chesapeake blue crabs. The new laboratory opened on 1 June 1989 and was named for Mathias, former U.S. Senator from Maryland, who championed legislation to protect the Chesapeake Bay from over-development and pollution.

Negative number: 92-6511-29 Smithsonian Environmental Research Center staffers, from left, Jon Hall, Catie Drew, Carol Towle, and Mark Haddon stand at the boardwalk's amphitheater over Fox Creek marsh, part of SERC's Java History Trail, 1992. Photo by Richard Strauss.

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