海洋-河口-环境科学（MEES）计划是马里兰大学系统（USM）内一项雄心勃勃的全州研究生计划。由于MEES计划不仅吸引了USM授予学位的人员，而且也吸引了USM研究机构以及政府和非政府机构以及其他非学术单位的教师，因此MEES计划为学生提供了无与伦比的机会，可以将最佳环境的专业知识相结合该地区的科学家来指导他们的研究计划。MEES在四个基金会（包括环境与社会，地球与海洋科学，生态系统和环境分子科学与技术）中提供硕士学位和博士学位。这些专业包括恢复生态学，水产养殖，渔业管理，海洋生物技术，毒理学，遥感和景观
The Marine-Estuarine-Environmental Science (MEES) Program is an ambitious state-wide graduate level program within the University System of Maryland (USM). Because it draws faculty from not only USM's degree-granting but also from USM research institutions as well as from government and non-government agencies and other non-academic units, the MEES program affords students an unparalleled opportunity to combine the expertise of the best environmental scientists in the region to guide their program of study. MEES offers masters and doctoral degrees in four Foundations including Environment & Society, Earth & Ocean Science, Ecological Systems, and Environmental Molecular Science & Technology. These specialties include such disciplines as restoration ecology, aquaculture, fisheries management, marine biotechnology, toxicology, remote sensing, and landscape ecology, among others. The title of the program emphasizes its strengths in marine and estuarine sciences, although the program spans environmental science as a whole, irrespective of habitat. The interests of students in the program are diverse, but generally center on some aspect of the interaction between biological, physical and/or chemical systems in the environment. Research activities range from studies of molecular mechanisms to fisheries ecology, chemical pollutants, or economics of environmental impact. Since its faculty members come from so many sources, MEES provides unique and valuable graduate education across the broad range of the environmental sciences.