Keeping Our Heads Above Water: Understanding Sea Level Rise Around the Bay Our February webinar took place on Wednesday, February 17th, 2021 from 12-1pm. We built on last month’s climate resilience discussion to talk specifically about sea level rise. Sea level rise is one of the most tangible symptoms of climate change and it impacts a variety [...]
Tackling a Global Problem at the Community Level: Building Climate Resilience Our January webinar took place on Wednesday, January 27th, 2021 from 12-1pm. We discussed progress, challenges, and a way forward on delivering climate change information to local communities with the Chesapeake Bay Program’s Climate Resiliency Workgroup. During the first half of the webinar, our invited speakers provided an overview [...]
Citizen Science for the Win-Win Our December webinar took place on Wednesday, December 16, 2020 from 12-1pm and we discussed citizen science with two of the Bay region’s most far-reaching citizen science programs: the Chesapeake Monitoring Cooperative (CMC) and Chesapeake DolphinWatch. During the first half of the webinar, our invited speakers provided an overview of their respective programs. For the second half of the [...]
Adding EJSCREEN and Local Tools to Your Environmental Justice Toolbox Our third webinar took place on Wednesday, November 18, 2020 from 12-1pm and we discussed Adding EJSCREEN and Local Tools to Your Environmental Justice Toolbox. During the first half of the webinar, our invited speakers provided an overview of two environmental justice tools. For the second half of the [...]
Integrating Environmental Justice into Decision-Making Our second webinar took place on Wednesday, October 21, 2020 from 12-1pm and we discussed Integrating Environmental Justice into Decision-Making. During the first half of the webinar, our invited speakers provided an overview from federal, state, and citizen perspectives. For the second half of the webinar, we invited your [...]
Environmental Monitoring in the Time of COVID-19 Our first webinar took place on Wednesday, September 23, 2020 from 12-1pm and we discussed Environmental Monitoring in the Time of COVID-19. During the first half of the webinar, our invited speakers provided an overview from federal, state, and citizen perspectives. For the second half of the [...]
Straight roads do not make skillful drivers… Paulo Coelho I am always struck by our ability as scientists and practitioners to embrace and experience a curved and complex path, and to have boundless curiosity for the nooks and crannies of understanding. The stories of [...]
‘Tis a season of lists: Zoom calls, errands, year-end reports, gifts. In the spirit of trying to let as few spinning plates drop as possible, I requested, and received, my father’s Christmas list. He’s a well-read, independent, widowed, and talkative 87-year old native New Yorker, and so the list is always thoughtful and intentional, a [...]
The Chesapeake Bay Program’s Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee (STAC) is administered by the CRC and funded through a cooperative agreement with the Chesapeake Bay Program (CBP) Partnership – currently spanning the period 2016-2022. The CRC has had a long-standing role of administering all activities of STAC, an active committee with 38 members from academic and [...]
Democratizing Science in the Chesapeake Bay Citizen science creates a participatory pathway for the public to engage in the scientific process and data collection. Through our conversations with the community, we’ve learned that the term “citizen science” can be exclusive and wanted to clarify the use of the term in this article. Citizenship, or the [...]
