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Subject:
Forest, Robert Lee  Search this
Buechner, Helmut K (Helmut Karl)  Search this
Chesapeake Bay Center for Environmental Studies)  Search this
Office of Ecology  Search this
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC)  Search this
Java Farm Maryland  Search this
Chesapeake Bay Center for Field Biology (CBCFB)  Search this
Date:
July 1, 1965
Category:
Chronology of Smithsonian History
Notes:
Guide to Smithsonian Archives. Archives and Special Collections of the Smithsonian Institution Number 4. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1983, p. 148.
Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institution for the year 1966. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1966, p. 73.
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7098, "S. Dillon Ripley Chronology."
Summary:
The Chesapeake Bay Center for Field Biology (CBCFB) is created as a division of the National Museum of Natural History (NMNH). The center is located on 700 acres of land seven miles south of Annapolis, Maryland, on property called Java Farm bequeathed to the Smithsonian Institution in 1962 by Robert Lee Forest. CBCFB is an administrative unit of the Office of Ecology in the NMNH. The office is headed by Helmut K. Buechner, formerly professor of zoology, Washington State University. In 1969 it is renamed the Chesapeake Bay Center for Environmental Studies (CBCES) and begins to focus on research programs in estuarine ecology. It is later renamed the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center.
Contact information:
Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu
Topic:
Gifts  Search this
Ecology  Search this
Major Events in Smithsonian History  Search this
New Bureaus  Search this
Research  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Archives - History Div
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sic_862