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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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