Boesch says scientists should inform policymakers, not call the shots
By ALEX DOMINGUEZ, Associated Press
By ALEX DOMINGUEZ, Associated Press
Published
07/31/10
CAMBRIDGE — A Broadneck Peninsula scientist on President Barack Obama's Gulf oil spill committee is accustomed to second-guessing and controversy - whether it's over a proposal to introduce foreign oysters into the Chesapeake Bay or a plan to limit how many crabs watermen can harvest.
Pamela Wood — The Capital
Don Boesch, president of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, speaks at a press conference about oysters with the Severn River as a backdrop.
Donald Boesch, who heads the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science and lives in the St. Margarets area, is one of the seven members of the panel that held its first public hearing earlier this month.
Boesch, whose center advises state government on environmental issues, was reluctant to discuss his role on the...
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