March 2022 Director's Corner “Everything is connected to everything else - somehow, someway.” February’s CRC Roundtable continued last month’s conversation about the human dimension of Chesapeake Bay restoration with a focus on human relationships and collective impact. While we have made significant progress in improving the health of the Bay, the [...]
Bringing the Bay Home: The Role of Photography and Writing in the Restoration Effort Communication experts know that facts often do little to persuade; it is stories and emotions that change minds and win people over. Through photography, poetry, prose, murals, sculpture, song, and more, artists are able to reach people in a way [...]
Aligning Behavior for the Bay Of the 18 million people in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, no two are the same. Each person has their own beliefs, concerns, and motivations. Acknowledging this, how do we align social behavior, community sustainability, and the wider Bay restoration effort to achieve the best outcome for all? We [...]
Behavior and the Bay: The Human Dimension of Chesapeake Bay Restoration Denice Wardrop, executive director of CRC, moderated the webinar with three expert speakers that provided a unique perspective on integrating social science into the restoration effort and briefly summarized some ongoing efforts focusing on what they've learned and what's next: [...]
February 2022 Director's Corner “We don't need an evolution of how we're doing this, we need a revolution.” The January CRC Roundtable webinar centered on the human dimension of Chesapeake Bay restoration and discussed the incorporation of more social science into the restoration effort. Conservation, policy, and practice can and should [...]
Behavior and the Bay: The Human Dimension of Chesapeake Bay Restoration Collectively, we have been working towards the restoration of Chesapeake Bay for around five decades; in fact, CRC celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2022. We have seen a lot of progress, but we also still have a long way to go. What needs [...]
January 2022 Director's Corner Welcome to a new format of the Director’s Corner and of Streamlines! Over the last year, we have enjoyed building a space for collective musing, vexing, and connecting via our webinar series (Roundtable) and the expanded readership of this newsletter. What we hoped would happen has, indeed, [...]
PFAS in the Chesapeake Bay Region The December CRC Roundtable webinar focused on what we currently know about per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), what we need to know, and how the Bay states and EPA are tackling the issue. PFAS, also known as forever chemicals, have been used in the U.S. [...]
Call for Special Session Proposals Deadline - December 8, 2021 We are excited to announce a call for special session proposals for the Chesapeake Community Research Symposium 2022! It is our sincere hope that you will consider putting together a proposal for a session OR workshop activity. All topics that fall within the [...]
Alien Invaders in the Chesapeake Bay From plants to insects to fish, it is estimated that there are more than 200 known or possible invasive species in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. These species, whether introduced accidentally or purposefully, can cause irreparable harm to native species in the region by competing for [...]
