CRC Roundtable | March 2024

By |2024-03-20T15:59:40-04:00March 20th, 2024|Categories: Climate/Sea Level Rise, CRC News, CRC Roundtable, DEIJ, Education, Estuarine Processes, Living Resources, Watershed Processes|Tags: |

How to Protect Local Waterways In 2019, the Local Government Advisory Committee and Local Leadership Workgroup began work on a suite of learning materials that frame the Chesapeake Bay Program’s goals through the lens of a very important audience: local government officials. Elected officials make decisions for their communities that impact restoration progress. This [...]

CRC Roundtable | February 2024

By |2024-03-07T15:54:06-05:00February 5th, 2024|Categories: CRC News, CRC Roundtable, Watershed Processes|Tags: |

Stream Restoration: Are current practices giving us what we want? In March 2023, the Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee brought together scientific and management experts to assess stream restoration practices. Over the course of three days, the group explored common practices, assessment approaches, and ecosystem impacts with the goal of improving restoration outcomes.  Watch [...]

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CRC Roundtable | January 2024

By |2024-01-19T12:11:56-05:00January 8th, 2024|Categories: Climate/Sea Level Rise, CRC News, CRC Roundtable, DEIJ, Watershed Processes|Tags: |

Planning for the Chesapeake Bay Watershed of the Future The Chesapeake Bay watershed is a dynamic system; change is occurring on scales from tidal to geological. Human development has a tremendous impact on the environment around us, and in turn, our communities are impacted by the environment through heat islands, flooding, pollution, and more. [...]

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CRC Roundtable | December 2023

By |2023-12-18T15:51:03-05:00December 14th, 2023|Categories: CRC News, CRC Roundtable|Tags: |

Blending Art and Science: Using Visuals to Unwrap Science 🎁 The pathway to understanding is easier for many people when diagrams, illustrations, photographs, or video footage are involved. Visual explanations can increase information retention, transmit information more quickly, and motivate viewers more effectively than other forms of information. In today’s fast-paced society, there is [...]

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CRC Roundtable | November 2023

By |2023-11-16T13:53:17-05:00November 10th, 2023|Categories: Climate/Sea Level Rise, CRC News, CRC Roundtable, Estuarine Processes, Living Resources, Watershed Processes|Tags: |

Shifting to the Shallows: Informed Site Selection One of the core conclusions of the Comprehensive Evaluation of System Response (CESR) report is that there is great potential and urgency in the restoration of shallow water areas; they are the places where many of our favorite Bay species live and reproduce as well as where [...]

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CRC Roundtable | October 2023

By |2023-11-10T09:00:12-05:00October 10th, 2023|Categories: Climate/Sea Level Rise, CRC News, CRC Roundtable, Estuarine Processes, Living Resources, Watershed Processes|Tags: |

Shifting to the Shallows: Refocusing Chesapeake Restoration Efforts The implications of the Comprehensive Evaluation of System Response (CESR) report ripple through all aspects of the Chesapeake Bay restoration effort. One of the core conclusions of CESR is that there is great potential and urgency in the restoration of shallow water areas; they are the [...]

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CRC Roundtable | September 2023

By |2023-09-22T10:59:13-04:00September 22nd, 2023|Categories: Climate/Sea Level Rise, CRC News, CRC Roundtable, Estuarine Processes, Living Resources, Watershed Processes|Tags: |

Evaluating Chesapeake Bay System Response: A CESR Q&A The Comprehensive Evaluation of System Response (CESR) report was released by the Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee (STAC), an independent liaison between the Bay’s scientific community and the Chesapeake Bay Program. Over 60 experts were involved in its creation, and its pages reflect on how the restoration effort [...]

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CRC Roundtable | August 2023

By |2023-09-22T10:34:53-04:00September 22nd, 2023|Categories: CRC News, CRC Roundtable, DEIJ|Tags: |

The Bay Stewards, Scientists, and Managers of the Future What does restoring the Chesapeake Bay mean? The conversation lately has recognized that turning back time is impossible - we can restore the Bay to a better-functioning version of itself, but it will never be the same as it was in the 1800s with imposing [...]

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CRC Roundtable | July 2023

By |2023-07-19T17:12:09-04:00July 7th, 2023|Categories: Climate/Sea Level Rise, CRC News, CRC Roundtable, DEIJ, Estuarine Processes, Living Resources, Watershed Processes|Tags: |

Expanding the Chesapeake Bay Watershed report card to include social, economic and environmental justice indices Geographically explicit, data-rich Chesapeake Bay report cards have been developed annually by the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science for 16 years. But over the past several years, the report card expanded to include the Chesapeake watershed and [...]

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CRC Roundtable | June 2023

By |2023-06-21T15:48:28-04:00June 9th, 2023|Categories: CRC News, CRC Roundtable, Watershed Processes|Tags: |

Harvesting Restoration Opportunities from the Farm Bill Agriculture is one of the largest land uses in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. The food produced here supports the growing population in the watershed and beyond, but production also leads to nutrients entering the Bay. The Farm Bill provides critical support to producers and environmental protections. While [...]

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