Changing the Face of Bay Restoration and Science The environmental workforce that will inhabit and take care of the Bay area will be critical in bringing the full range of solutions to the table to face the challenges of the future. There are new faces emerging, including the new network of Bay professionals being [...]
A Restoration Conversation with the Nansemond Indian Nation and the Upper Mattaponi Indian Tribe Our community within the Chesapeake Bay watershed includes tens of thousands of people who identify as American Indian. We all have a common goal of restoring and protecting the Chesapeake Bay and its watershed. How can we better listen to, engage with, [...]
Minding and Mending Our Streams The Chesapeake Bay starts in the freshwater streams of the watershed: small trickles of water join rushing rivers that eventually bring their billions of gallons of water to the Bay. The health of streams is vital to our communities, our wildlife, and the overall water quality of the larger [...]
Chesapeake Waters and Their Caretakers: Three Stories From Three Perspectives To celebrate Earth Day, we reflected on decades of Chesapeake Bay restoration efforts informed by the journeys of three panelists with multidimensional experiences in various components of the Bay health effort, including the Bay Program, research, and activism. We asked our community to reflect on [...]
Taking A Deep Dive Into Shallow Waters Our March webinar took place on Wednesday, March 17th, 2021 from 12-1pm. We discussed the progress being made on the science of shallow water monitoring, modeling, and management, as shallow water is a dynamic piece of the Chesapeake Bay watershed puzzle. There are myriad interactions between land and sea [...]
