Sampling Ballast Water in Baltimore Harbor

ID: SIA2011-1200

Creator: Reid, Don

Form/Genre: Photographic print

Date: 1994

Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 01-080, Box 1, Folder: Research Reports Spring 1994

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Summary

Linda McCann (left) of the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC), and David Smith and Marjorie Wonham of Williams College in Massachusetts sample ballast water in Baltimore Harbor. Foreign and domestic cargo ships jettison millions of gallons of ballast water into North American ports and waterways. Drawn aboard in foreign countries to stabilize large ships during ocean crossings, this water can contain hundreds of species of marine or freshwater organisms. Biologists call the discharge of these organisms "ecological roulette" on a global scale, and the result may cause irreversible changes in marine estuaries and freshwater ecosystems. This discharge of ballast water from foreign ports makes the Chesapeake Bay a hotspot for the release of alien species and their potential invasion.

Subject

  • McCann, Linda
  • Smith, David
  • Wonham, Marjorie
  • Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC)
  • Williams College

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

Smithsonian Institution Research Reports Spring 1994

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 01-080, Box 1, Folder: Research Reports Spring 1994

Contact information

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

Date

1994

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

  • Marine Biology
  • Animals
  • Marine ecology
  • Marine sciences
  • Smithsonian Institution
  • Personnel management
  • Employees
  • Ballast (Ships)
  • Ecology
  • Baltimore Harbor (Maryland)
  • Marine biology
  • Marine animals
  • Marine biology--Research
  • Chesapeake Bay
  • Smithsonian Institution--Employees

Place

  • Chesapeake Bay (Md. and Va.)
  • Baltimore (Md.)
  • Baltimore Harbor, MD

Form/Genre

  • Photographic print
  • Group, candid

ID Number

SIA2011-1200

Physical description

Number of Images: 1 Color: Black and White; Size: 4w x 6h; Type of Image: Group, candid; Medium: Photographic print

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