Environmental Finance Center News
Resourcefulness and Resilience: Hendricks Delivers Keynote on Hybrid Stormwater Systems
Assistant Professor Marccus D. Hendricks delivered a keynote at the 2021 American Water Resources Association Mid-Atlantic Conference on hybrid stormwater systems. In his presentation, Dr. Hendricks proposes the merits of leveraging existing infrastructure, community resources and networked plans as...View Article Details for Resourcefulness and Resilience: Hendricks Delivers Keynote on Hybrid Stormwater Systems
Clearing Up the Runoff
Assistant Professor Marccus Hendricks, along with colleagues from the National Center for Smart Growth, the iSchool, the A. James Clark School of Engineering, Facilities Management and others will study stormwater runoff from campus into regional waterways using new outdoor sensors, which provide a ...View Article Details for Clearing Up the Runoff
EFC Releases New Online Course: Landscaping for Resilience in a Changing Climate
The EFC is pleased to announce the release of a new online course at the MOST Center: Landscaping for Resilience in a Changing Climate. Developed in collaboration with the Chesapeake Bay Landscape Professional Program and University of Maryland Extension, this course outlines ways in which a changin...View Article Details for EFC Releases New Online Course: Landscaping for Resilience in a Changing Climate
EPA awards University of Maryland’s Environmental Finance Center six-year grant
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has selected the University of Maryland as the recipient of a six-year award to expand the work of the university’s Environmental Finance Center (EFC). The grant, one of only nine awarded nation-wide, will allow the center to develop new financing initi...View Article Details for EPA awards University of Maryland’s Environmental Finance Center six-year grant University of Maryland’s Environmental Finance Center to Create Region’s First Online Stormwater Training Center
The University of Maryland’s Environmental Finance Center (EFC) begins work this month on the region’s first Municipal Online Stormwater Training (MOST) Center, a web-based resource to help municipalities within the Chesapeake Bay Watershed access and implement innovative stormwater management techn...View Article Details for University of Maryland’s Environmental Finance Center to Create Region’s First Online Stormwater Training Center EFC Recognized for Climate Change Efforts in Oxford
EFC’s Work in Oxford Hailed a Case Study in “Consensus on Climate Change” by International Policy DigestOver the past decade, communities up and down the nation’s eastern shoreline have been battling the particularly biting effects of climate change. Violent storms, erratic weather and devastating f...View Article Details for EFC Recognized for Climate Change Efforts in Oxford