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    280 results for "chester":

    • 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...
    • 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...
    • 2012 Chester River Report Card
      2012 Chester River Report Card ... This report card summarizes 2012 water quality in the Chester River, based on data collected by the Chester River Association and various partners. They collect data for five indica...
    • 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...
    • 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...
    • 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...
    • 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...
    • International RiverFoundation remarks
      ... . 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...
    • Skipjack Nathan
      Skipjack Nathan ... The Skipjack Nathan of Dorchester is a traditional 65 foot skipjack sailing boat available for daysailing, event and private charter from Cambridge. ......
    • 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...
    • 2011 Chester River Report Card
      2011 Chester River Report Card ... This report card summarizes 2011 water quality in the Chester River, based on data collected by the Chester River Association and various partners. It examines the health of the riv...
    • 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...
    • Grassed waterways (best management practice)
      Grassed waterways (best management practice) ... Grassed waterways (best management practice) near Chester River ... aerial, flyover, management, land use, practice, creek, river, ecosystem, farm, private ... Jane Thomas...
    • Grassed waterways (best management practice)
      Grassed waterways (best management practice) ... Grassed waterways (best management practice) near Chester River ... aerial, flyover, management, land use, practice, creek, river, ecosystem, farm, private ... Jane Thomas...
    • Grassed waterways (best management practice)
      Grassed waterways (best management practice) ... Grassed waterways (best management practice) near Chester River ... aerial, flyover, management, land use, practice, creek, river, ecosystem, farm, private ... Jane Thomas...
    • Chester River
      Chester River ... Looking down the West Fork of Langford Creek towards the Chester River ... aerial, flyover, langford creek, river, tributary, langford, water body ... Jane Thomas...
    • Chester River
      Chester River ... West Fork, Langford Creek looking towards the Chester River ... aerial, flyover, creek, langford, water body, tributary ... Jane Thomas...
    • Farm Land
      Farm Land ... near Rock Hall, Maryland ... aerial, flyover, agriculture, land, rock hall, private, chester river, managment ... Jane Thomas...
    • 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 '...
    • Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge
      ...lackwater National Wildlife Refuge ... Blackwater, Located in Maryland, during the winter ... 2011reportcardcontest, dorchester, saprile@goeaston.net, winter, tree, river, picturesque ... Steve Apille...
    • Elliotts Island Road
      Elliotts Island Road ... Tide over the road at Elliott's Island,Dorchester County, MD ... 2011reportcardcontest, flooding, road, Elliott's Island, guywwilley@yahoo.com, irene, underwater, c...
    • 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...
    • 2010 Chester River Report Card
      2010 Chester River Report Card ... This report card summarizes 2010 water quality in the Chester River, based on data collected by the Chester River Association and various partners. It examines the health of the riv...
    • Dugong oil vat, sand mining and Geoff Moore
      ...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...
    • 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...