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August 2019
SERC Science Saturday
Discover how the atmosphere interacts with land and water. Bring the family for a day of hands-on activities alongside Smithsonian scientists. No preregistration required. No food will be available for purchase, but you are welcome to bring your own lunch or snacks. Free. Information
Find out more »Kids on the Creek
The Spa Creek Conservancy invites families to learn and celebrate Spa Creek at this free community event. Free boat rides begin at 11:30 a.m. (Boat rides are for children ages 5 and up. Due to limited space only one parent allowed with children ages 5-8 and no parents for children over the age of 8.) Scavenger Hunt with prizes will have kids exploring Truxtun Park and learning about the critters that live there. Seining, fish identification and counting with a…
Find out more »Anne Arundel Watershed Stewards Academy Info Session
Anne Arundel Watershed Stewards Academy is a great opportunity to learn how to solve environmental problems in your community and find a local network of energized leaders. WSA's hands-on, research-based certification course gives Stewards the tools to implement change in their communities, turning knowledge into action. Want to get off the sidelines and make a real change? Master Watershed Stewards serve Anne Arundel County communities by installing landscape projects that reduce pollution and organizing campaigns to encourage habits that make a…
Find out more »September 2019
Anne Arundel Watershed Stewards Academy Info Session
Anne Arundel Watershed Stewards Academy is a great opportunity to learn how to solve environmental problems in your community and find a local network of energized leaders. WSA's hands-on, research-based certification course gives Stewards the tools to implement change in their communities, turning knowledge into action. Want to get off the sidelines and make a real change? Master Watershed Stewards serve Anne Arundel County communities by installing landscape projects that reduce pollution and organizing campaigns to encourage habits that make a…
Find out more »Trash Talk: Local research on the sociology & ecology of plastic pollution & how to reduce it
Speaker: Julie Lawson, DC Mayor's Office, and former director of Trash Free Maryland. Open to the public. Brown bag lunches are welcome and there is a cafeteria on site. Parking at Stadium via Gate #6.
Find out more »Reversing Global Warming: Introduction to Drawdown
Maryland Women Indivisible Strong Effective (WISE) presents a free interactive workshop about how to take action to transform our world and reverse climate change using the information provided in Project Drawdown. It will be lead by the Greenbelt Climate Action Network. Project Drawdown is a coalition of more than 200 researchers and other experts from 22 countries led by author, environmentalist, and entrepreneur Paul Hawken. Over the course of five years of rigorous scientific research, they identified and modeled the 100…
Find out more »How to Enjoy the Severn River… A Stand-up Journey
The Severn River Association presents a John Wright Speaker Series talk on how the Stand-Up Paddleboard (SUP) sport began and how the Severn River can be explored on a SUP board. Guest speaker: Capital SUP co-founder Kevin Haigis. He will talk about the launching of Capital SUP six years ago and how the company creates on-the-water activities that attract SUP enthusiasts from all over the region. Kevin will also explain why Capital SUP owners and staff volunteer in water quality monitoring and…
Find out more »Endocrine Disrupting Pesticides and the Health of the Bay, People and Pollinators
Join the Pesticides and the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Project for its 13th annual conference bringing together stakeholders and people working for a healthy Chesapeake Bay watershed. The conference will focus on cutting-edge research about the impacts of endocrine-disrupting pesticides and solutions for addressing these impacts. Speakers: Keynote: Linda Birnbaum, PhD Director of the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences and the National Toxicology Program. Her own research and many of her publications focus on the pharmacokinetic behavior of environmental chemicals; mechanisms…
Find out more »October 2019
Trash Talk: Report from the Kent Island Beach Cleanup
There will be a discussion of the findings of the September 21 Kent Island Beach Cleanup, held in conjunction with the Ocean Conservancy's International Coastal Cleanup. Open to the public. Brown bag lunches are welcome and there is a cafeteria on site. Parking at Stadium via Gate #6. Details to come.
Find out more »Chesapeake Cuisine: Nourishing a Healthier Bay
Watershed Stewards Academy invites you to get inspired by the local, seasonal flavors of the Chesapeake, just in time for your Thanksgiving celebrations! Join John Shields, owner of Gertrude’s Restaurant at the Baltimore Museum of Art, and author of The New Chesapeake Kitchen, as he shares his passion for healthy food flavors and local ingredients. Drawing on his long and storied career, John makes a strong case for a healthy locavore diet and champions a holistic view of community foodways. Enjoy…
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