2011

Walter Boynton

Walter Boynton was a Professor at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. He served on the faculty of the Center's Chesapeake Biological Laboratory in Solomons since 1975. As an estuarine ecologist, Dr. Boynton has conducted research for 34 years in the Chesapeake Bay region and other coastal environments of the United States as well as internationally. Dr. Boynton has been active in developing large-scale reviews of estuarine processes that are of particular value to environmental managers. He had led long-term studies of the Chesapeake Bay funded by the National Science Foundation, is President of the Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation, and a member of the Patuxent River Commission. He chaired the Chesapeake Bay Program's Tidewater Monitoring and Analysis Workgroup.