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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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  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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  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...
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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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  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...
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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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  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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  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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  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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  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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  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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  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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  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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  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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  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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  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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  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 -...

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