SERC Scientist Tuck Hines and Senator Mathias

Summary

On a tour of the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center's (SERC) new Charles McC. Mathias Laboratory, SERC scientist Tuck Hines shows Senator Mathias a tank for Chesapeake blue crabs. The opening of the new laboratory at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, MD, was celebrated on June 1, 1989. The laboratory was named for Sen. "Mac" Mathias, former U.S. Senator from Maryland (1968-1986), who championed legislation to protect the Chesapeake Bay from over-development and pollution.

Subject

• Mathias, Charles McC (Charles McCurdy) 1922-
• Hines, Anson "Tuck"
• Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC)
• Chesapeake Bay Center for Environmental Studies
• Chesapeake Bay Center for Field Biology (CBCFB)
• United States Congress Senate

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

Featured in "Torch," August 1989

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives Accession 98-015, Box 2, Folder: August 1989

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

June 1, 1989

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

• Openings
• Chesapeake Bay (MD)
• Laboratories
• Smithsonian Institution
• Personnel management
• Employees
• Ecology
• Scientists
• Environmental research
• Smithsonian Institution--Employees
• Edgewater, Maryland

Place

Edgewater, MD

Form/Genre

• Photographic print
• Person, candid

ID Number

SIA2011-1027 and 89-10018-29

Physical description

Number of Images: 1; Color: Black and White; Size: 10w x 8h; Type of Image: Person, candid; Medium: Photographic print

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