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  Indigenous ideals and shaping environmental movements

  ... Klusener, E. (2018). Capitalism vs. nature: The fight for a greener planet. Global Social Challenges. https://sites.manchester.ac.uk/global-social-challenges/2018/04/23/capitalism-vs-nature-the-fight-for-a-greener-planet/ Leopold, A. (1949) A San...
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  Cambridge Packing House event with Horn Point Laboratory graduate students

  ...rganized a nice event at the Cambridge Packing House. The Cambridge Mayor and various friends of the laboratory from Dorchester and Talbot County were invited. The Packing House is a renovated warehouse from the Phillips Packing Company in the ind...
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  I am an Ally but not an Educator: Your Knowledge is Your Responsibility!

  ...frequently left our zoom classes thinking, “Wow! Clearly, I have a lot I need to educate myself on.” Protest March in Rochester, Minnesota. “ #BlackLivesMatter ” by Rose Colored Photo is licensed under CC BY 2.0 . This past Friday we had our first...
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  Environmental (In)Justice in Rural Communities

  ...e with the impact of global climate change to incubate a perfect storm of injustice. The Eastern Shore, particularly Dorchester County, prides itself as being the birthplace of the Underground Railroad - a story that when retold by white residents...
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  2018 IAN Retreat at the Chesapeake Bay Environmental Center

  ...ng for this year’s IAN staff retreat. Last Wednesday, staff members--coming from Cambridge, Annapolis, and even Rochester, NY--made the trip to the CBEC for the annual tradition of team-building and workshopping as part of an ever-ongoing ef...
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  Local solutions: collaborations and information sharing to grow passion and facilitate community change

  ... 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...
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  Twas the Weeks Before Christmas: Saying Goodbye to Nick DiPasquale

  ...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 fe...
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  Changing Perceptions of the Chesapeake Bay and Its Watershed

  ...ng Perceptions of the Chesapeake Bay and Its Watershed ... I drive regularly between Ottawa, Ontario, where I live, and Chestertown, Maryland , where I grew up. My family still lives on the shore of the Chesapeake Bay . Over the 30 years that I ha...
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  Biscayne Bay Marine Health Inaugural Summit

  ...ernational Riverprize. The first recipient was the River Mersey in northwest England. The River Mersey flows through Manchester and Liverpool, cities that launched the Industrial Revolution. This river was so polluted that the city of Liverpool li...
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  Science literacy: the role of conceptual models in the Next Generation Science Standards

  ...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...
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  To get the grade: Collaborate! Stakeholder engagement and the missing link between research and action

  ...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...
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  The real art of the deal: Lessons in effective science advising

  ...can guests blogs. 2. Bowater, L., & Yeoman, K. (2013). Science communication: a practical guide for scientists . Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell. 3. Wilson, A. (1998) Handbook of Science Communication . CRC Press....
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  A new style of conceptual cross section diagrams developed for New York Harbor

  ...York Harbor region includes the five boroughs of New York City (Manhattan, Bronx, Queens, Brooklyn, Staten Island), Westchester County, New York, Nassau County on Long Island, New York and extensive regions of Northeast New Jersey. Our solution to...
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  Mid-Atlantic Volunteer Monitoring Conference

  ...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...
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  A report card to tell your mom about: Environmental report cards provide transparent assessments of our aquatic ecosystems

  ...tal issues. Environmental report cards provide a transparent snapshot of the health of systems ranging in size from the Chester River to the entire Mississippi River Watershed . Considering the great range of potential locations, watershed areas,...
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  Chesapeake Bay Science and Management: A need for more effective scientific communication and adaptive management

  ...would improve the data quality for modeling and management decisions. Citizen science has shown to be successful by the Chester Tester Program which can act as a model program to build citizen science programs in other river systems to improve mon...
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  Tackling watershed size: A collaborative effort - difficulties of science in management due to watershed size

  ...ongress 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...
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  Exploring New York Harbor: Walking across the Brooklyn Bridge

  ...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...
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  ShorePower project launched

  ...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...
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  Maryland Climate Change Summit

  ...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...
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  Enhancing the Chesapeake Bay report card with new indicators and new methods

  ... 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...
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  Teaching with a ‘flipped classroom’ over an interactive video network

  ...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...
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  The Conowingo Debate: The role of the dam in Chesapeake Bay restoration

  ...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...
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  Change of science and management in ecosystems along size gradient

  ...on different size scales. In this blog, we compare five cases along an increasing watershed size gradient (Fig. 1): the Chester River, South Florida, the San Francisco Bay/Delta, the Great Barrier Reef, and the Gulf of Mexico. Figure 1: Watershed...
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  Testimony to the Maryland General Assembly in support of compulsory soil phosphorus testing by farmers

  ...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...

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