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Image courtesy of NASA In just a few days, North America will experience a phenomenon that hasn’t occurred in nearly twenty years: a total solar eclipse which will pass from Oregon to South Carolina.

The University of Maryland Golf Course now features three rain gardens, completed this spring on Earth Day. With the help of grant funds from the Chesapeake Bay Trust, staff from the University's Building & Landscape Maintenance, Facilities Planning, and Student Affairs installed the gardens in three locations.

This week, on July 5, we celebrate the birthday of A. E. Douglass who was born in 1867. Although an astronomer by training, Douglass is incredibly important to the field of arboriculture. He is known as the “Father of Dendrochronology,” a method of determining a tree’s age based on its rings. He observed a correlation between tree rings and the solar magnetic activity cycle and his research further went on to help detect climate changes from year to year within the tree, as rainier years often produced more growth, hence a wider ring.

For its seventh consecutive year, the University of Maryland has been named a Tree Campus USA by the Arbor Day Foundation.   COLLEGE PARK, Md. – The University of Maryland was honored with 2014 Tree Campus USA® recognition by the Arbor Day Foundation for its commitment to effective urban forest management.