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Communicating climate change via a melting ice bear (Blog Post)
...over several days. Prior to Sydney, the ice bear exhibit has been shown in Copenhagen, London, Toronto, Montreal and Manchester. Sydney is the most tropical location to date for the ice bear exhibit. The puddles of water that stream away from the...
Connect the Dots climate action day at Blackwater (Blog Post)
...vel rise will impact the mid-Atlantic states harder than anywhere in the US, and no where is it more evident than in Dorchester County on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Projections put the County’s tidal marshes, and in particular those of Blackwa...
Discussion following Megan Ward seminar on Nanticoke Watershed Alliance: A New Model for Conservation (Blog Post)
... do it" was an important moment in the thought process. The three core counties of the Nanticoke River watershed are Dorchester and Wicomico Counties, Maryland and Sussex County, Delaware. The cities of Cambridge and Salisbury are largely in diffe...
Dugong oil vat, sand mining and Geoff Moore (Blog Post)
...cated to Nev's farm and used as a horse trough and grew water lilies. Nev is an amazing character, a stalwart of the Peachester Historical Society, to which he has contributed many artefacts. The most significant are his art works from his time as...
Enhancing the Chesapeake Bay report card with new indicators and new methods (Blog Post)
... relate to the regional report cards? The various citizen scientists and local Riverkeeper/Waterkeeper groups, like the Chester Testers , are increasingly using the MTAC protocols for tidal and nontidal indicators (e.g., Total Nitrogen, Total Phos...
Exploring New York Harbor: Walking across the Brooklyn Bridge (Blog Post)
...ive contracts for his associates. Opening day (May 24, 1883) for the Brooklyn Bridge was quite an event, with President Chester Arthur , New York Governor and future President Grover Cleveland leading the ceremonial march which included Emily Roeb...
International RiverFoundation remarks (Blog Post)
... . This river in Northwest England is located at the original center of the industrial revolution with the cities of Manchester and Liverpool in the watershed. The Grand River in Ontario, Canada was the second recipient of the International Riverp...
Local solutions: collaborations and information sharing to grow passion and facilitate community change (Blog Post)
... a trip up the East Coast to attend the 2018 Local Solutions: Eastern Climate Preparedness Conference in the city of Manchester, New Hampshire . The conference was one I had heard about somewhat serendipitously through the Bay Brief (a weekly news...
Managing for Uncontrollable Environmental Change (Blog Post)
...l Laboratory. References Holling, C.S., 1978. Adaptive Environmental Assessment and Management. John Wiley and Sons, Chichester. Kates , R.W., 1985. The interaction of climate and society. pp3-36 In: R.W. Kates, J.H. Ausubel, and M. Berberain (eds...
Maryland Climate Change Summit (Blog Post)
...d about the importance of integrating climate responses with economic development. Margo Bailey , long serving Mayor of Chestertown, talked about their initiatives to create rain gardens and barrels, bike lanes, farmers markets and ban plastic gro...
Mid-Atlantic Volunteer Monitoring Conference (Blog Post)
...Monitoring Conference ... Caroline Donovan and I participated in the Mid-Atlantic Volunteer Monitoring Conference in Winchester, Virginia last month. This conference focused on volunteer monitoring efforts in Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Dela...
Science literacy: the role of conceptual models in the Next Generation Science Standards (Blog Post)
...ientific Literacy: A conference for reform-minded science educators, hosted by graduate students at the University of Rochester Warner School of Education . As New York State adopts the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS), this one-day confer...
ShorePower project launched (Blog Post)
...to green energy sources. The Center for Environment and Society at Washington College , a small liberal arts college in Chestertown , Maryland, is a partner in the project with the role of disseminating results and working toward broad adoption of...
Tackling watershed size: A collaborative effort - difficulties of science in management due to watershed size (Blog Post)
...t by congress and currently watersheds can span anywhere from a single state to several states; for example, Maryland’s Chester River watershed spans less than 1,000 km2 (Fig 2); in comparison with the watershed of the Mississippi , which feeds in...
Teaching with a ‘flipped classroom’ over an interactive video network (Blog Post)
...iscussed various case studies across size and population gradients, we had a serious of relevant experts, including the Chester Riverkeeper, David Foster , Jane Thomas from IAN to talk about the Palau case study, Simon Costanzo from IAN to talk ab...
Testimony to the Maryland General Assembly in support of compulsory soil phosphorus testing by farmers (Blog Post)
...ibutary monitoring through citizen scientists, we fundamentally lack data at the scale of the farm fields. Farms on the Chester River, on the eastern shore of Maryland. The reason that we need data at the scale of the farm field is to be able to r...
The Conowingo Debate: The role of the dam in Chesapeake Bay restoration (Blog Post)
...impacts: Ecological impacts of Hurricane Sandy on Chesapeake and Delmarva Coastal Bays '. The debate was held in the Dorchester Public Library on April 17. The session was introduced by Shelly Baird , the Executive Director of Nanticoke Watershed...
The real art of the deal: Lessons in effective science advising (Blog Post)
...merican guests blogs. 2. Bowater, L.,...
To get the grade: Collaborate! Stakeholder engagement and the missing link between research and action (Blog Post)
...ould be granted to everyone. “It isn’t that they can’t see the solution. It’s that they can’t see the problem.” - G. K. Chesterton. The parable of the blind men and an elephant is illustrative of the importance of communication, respect for differ...
Twas the Weeks Before Christmas: Saying Goodbye to Nick DiPasquale (Blog Post)
...m Director for the past six and a half years, retired December 31st, 2017. Following retirement, Nick will be living in Chestertown, Maryland . He has promised to stay active and vocal regarding Chesapeake Bay issues. In fact, Nick’s last few talk...

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