It was founded in 1925 in a small waterman's shack by Dr. Reginald V. Truitt and is part of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science.
He served as Professor of Theoretical Ecology at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science's Chesapeake Biological Laboratory in Solomons, Maryland until his retirement in 2008.
Los Alamos National Laboratory | Jet Propulsion Laboratory | Chesapeake Bay | Oak Ridge National Laboratory | Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory | Biological specimen | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory | Argonne National Laboratory | Chesapeake, Virginia | Brookhaven National Laboratory | Lincoln Laboratory | Biological membrane | Applied Physics Laboratory | Chesapeake and Ohio Railway | Chesapeake | Cavendish Laboratory | Pacific Northwest National Laboratory | Mars Science Laboratory | Idaho National Laboratory | Ballistic Research Laboratory | United States Naval Research Laboratory | National Physical Laboratory | Marine Biological Laboratory | Air Force Research Laboratory | International Union of Biological Sciences | Chesapeake and Ohio Canal | Rutherford Appleton Laboratory | Convention on Biological Diversity | Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory | biological pest control |