30 Years Of Research Goes Up In Flames

DORCHESTER COUNTY, MARYLAND, ON THE STATE’S EASTERN SHORE, is the where the home and offices of Michael Kemp and his wife Laura Murray are located. Now it’s just the home that’s there. The offices, two large mobile trailers, had a total burn-out yesterday morning. Officially they were the offices of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental and Estuarine Study. All of their research papers for the past 30 years along with all the computers, servers, backups, etc. were destroyed.

While they are understandably devastated from losing their life’s work, the University needs to explain why nobody had redundant copies of the papers, or why there were no monitored fire alarms in the offices.

The Baltimore Sun has the STORY.

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