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    42 results for "chester":

    • 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...
    • 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...
    • 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...
    • 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 '...
    • 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...
    • 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...
    • 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...
    • 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...
    • 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...
    • 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...
    • Managing for Uncontrollable Environmental Change
      ...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...
    • 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...
    • 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...
    • Water quality monitoring with the Chester River Association
      Water quality monitoring with the Chester River Association ... Last Wednesday, IAN went out with the Chester River Association on one of their weekly water quality monitoring trips on the Chester River. You know what they say -...
    • 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....