July 2022 Director's Corner “Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.” – Dr. Seuss The June CRC Roundtable webinar was live from the Chesapeake Community Research Symposium, a new and exciting challenge for us! Our panelists were speakers and session chairs [...]
June 2022 Director's Corner “Floods are 'acts of God,' but flood losses are largely acts of man.” - Gilbert F. White The May CRC Roundtable webinar was of special significance to CRC because it is out of tropical storm Agnes that we were born as a formal organization - we too [...]
Learning from Disaster: The Environmental Impacts and Lessons of Hurricane Agnes Denice Wardrop, executive director of CRC, and Tom Horton, Chesapeake Bay Writer and Professor at Salisbury University, moderated the webinar with two expert speakers who provided unique perspectives on the environmental impacts of flooding. Drew Dehoff, Susquehanna River Basin Commission; [...]
Note from the Moderator Melissa Fagan, CRC’s Environmental Management Career Development Program Coordinator This month is full of milestones, one of them being that April’s CRC Roundtable webinar was the 20th we’ve hosted! In the context of celebrating milestones - this year we are celebrating CRC’s 50th anniversary AND the webinar [...]
CRC’s 50-Year-Long Role in Developing Environmental Leaders Melissa Fagan, the Environmental Management Career Development Program Coordinator of CRC, moderated the webinar with three alumni speakers who provided insight on their experiences as previous staffers. Kevin Schabow, Office of Habitat Conservation, NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office; Julie Hester, Civic Engagement, The Keith Campbell [...]
April 2022 Director's Corner “The commonality between science and art is in trying to see profoundly - to develop strategies of seeing and showing." - Edward Tufte This month’s CRC Roundtable focused on the way that “seeing and showing”, via storytelling in words and photographs, furthers our intentions and actions towards [...]
Bringing the Bay Home: The Role of Photography and Writing in the Restoration Effort Denice Wardrop, executive director of CRC, moderated the webinar with two expert speakers who provided inspiring perspectives on the role of photography and writing in the restoration efforts. Dave Harp, a photographer who currently has a virtual [...]
Aligning Behavior for the Bay Denice Wardrop, executive director of CRC, moderated the webinar with two expert speakers who provided new perspectives that continued January’s discussion on incorporating social science into the Bay restoration effort. Amanda Guthrie, PhD student at the Center for Coastal Resource Management (CCRM), Virginia Institute of Marine [...]
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 [...]
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: [...]
