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    281 results for "chester":

    • Water quality monitoring
      Water quality monitoring ... Tom Leigh, Riverkeeper with the Chester River Association, out on a water quality monitoring trip on the Chester River ... birds, Chesapeake Bay, Chester River...
    • Water quality monitoring
      Water quality monitoring ... Tom Leigh, Riverkeeper with the Chester River Association, out on a water quality monitoring trip on the Chester River ... birds, Chesapeake Bay, Chester River...
    • West Fork
      West Fork ... West Fork of Langford Creek, a tributary of the Chester River ... Chesapeake Bay river, farms, agriculture ... Jane Thomas...
    • Wetlands off the Chester River
      Wetlands off the Chester River ... ... wetlands, chester river ... Ben Longstaff...
    • 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...
    • 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...
    • 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,...
    • An Eastern Shore overflight
      ...ely show large-scale processes like algal blooms and land use. Aquatic plants in McGill Creek Leaving from Cambridge-Dorchester regional airport, we headed north (basically following Route 301) to the Sassafras River on the northern Eastern Shore....
    • Annapolis walking tour
      ... and Charles Bolden (current NASA administrator), some 45 Rhoades scholars, David Robinson (NBA), Roger Staubach (NFL), Chester Nimitz (WWII Pacific fleet commander), Hyman Rickover (nuclear submarines), oceanographer Matthew Fountaine Maury, SiFi...
    • Beautiful Blackwater
      Beautiful Blackwater ... Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge is a gem in southern Dorchester County, Maryland. Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge Covering more than 27,000 acres of mostly tidal marsh, Blackwater...
    • Bill Dennison speech to Latornell conference, Ontario, Canada: Part 5 - Report card examples
      ...me a really powerful tool. And we've developed a coalition around these citizen and scientist groups. An example is the Chester River , and citizen science group call themselves the Chester Testers . There are eighty to a hundred of these voluntee...
    • 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...
    • Brisbane 2011: Living with Floods and Dancing with Dugongs: Part 15- Questions from the Seminar
      ...one hundred and sixty six sites. That is as many sites we can have with the money given to us by the government. In the Chester River, one of the tributaries of the Chesapeake Bay, there is a group of citizen scientists that call themselves the '...
    • 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...
    • 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...
    • 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...
    • Chesapeake Bay 2011 report card release at Baltimore Harbor
      ... and Chesapeake Bay. Two third place photos included a photograph by Guy Willey, Sr. of a submerged road in southern Dorchester County, Maryland, dramatically depicts the vulnerability of the Chesapeake Bay to climate change and sea level rise. Th...
    • 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...
    • Chesapeake Film Festival
      ...e panel discussion . The panel included another scientist, Greg Farley from Chesapeake Community College , the mayor of Chestertown, Margo Bailey, and the filmmakers of "A Sea Change" and "On Coal River" and it was moderated by Mark Steiner from N...
    • Chesapeake literacy
      ...tributaries of Virginia (e.g., James, York, Rappahannock, Potomac Rivers), Maryland (e.g., Potomac, Patuxent, Patasbco, Chester, Choptank Rivers) and Pennsylvania (Susquehanna River) are accompanied by many smaller tributaries. The rivers, creeks...
    • Coastal Bays report card release
      ...ociated with the report card release. Dave invited a few partners to make some informal remarks. Bob Church from the Worchester County Commission, Maryland State Delegate Jim Mathias, and Gee Williams, Mayor of Berlin all spoke passionately about...
    • Communicating climate change via a melting ice bear
      ...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
      ...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 B...
    • Discussion following Megan Ward seminar on Nanticoke Watershed Alliance: A New Model for Conservation
      ... 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...
    • Dorchester County citizens concerned about Chesapeake Bay
      Dorchester County citizens concerned about Chesapeake Bay ... I attended the 6th Annual Dorchester Citizens for Planned Growth meeting at the Dorchester County Historical Society on January 27. It was a good gathering...