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Posted October 19, 2021
Tuesday, October 26, 2021: The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: Ins, Outs, Demands & Frustrations of Serving as Lead Author of Working Group II (Free UMCES Webinar)
As part of a multi-year global climate change assessment process, Working Group II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) seeks to assess the vulnerability of socio-economic and natural systems to climate change, negative and positive impacts of climate change, and options for adapting to it…. But why should we believe what these scientists…
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Posted October 19, 2021
Tuesday, November 2, 2021: Risk Assessment in the Face of Climate Change (Free UMCES Webinar)
Traditionally, long-term observations have been a key component in assessing the risks of weather-induced losses. However, most recent climate trends require the inclusion of future climate projections into the methods and models used to assess the risks. In this seminar, Dr. Slava Lyubchich will discuss how this step has important implications for building codes, pricing…
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Posted September 28, 2021
Tuesday, October 19, 2021: Climate Warming & the Changing Pacific Arctic Marine Ecosystem (Free UMCES Webinar)
The Bering and Chukchi Seas are undergoing dramatic sea ice reduction and warming conditions that are shifting the composition of bottom-dwelling prey for marine mammals, seabirds and commercial fish in the region. Field studies by CBL scientists are tracking ecosystem status and trends within the international Distributed Biological Observatory (DBO) network. In this webinar, internationally…
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Posted September 20, 2021
Tuesday, October 12, 2021: Climate Impacts on Golden Tilefish: Past & Present (Free UMCES Webinar)
Golden tilefish is a large, bottom-dwelling marine fish that is particularly susceptible to climate change because it can tolerate only a very narrow range of temperatures. In 1882, millions of golden tilefish died in a sudden mortality event caused by an unusually strong influx of arctic water into the Mid-Atlantic. Since then, scientists have been…
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Posted September 16, 2021
Tuesday, October 5, 2021: Future Wildland Fire: Land Management & Climate Change (Free UMCES Webinar)
Every year we seem to hear of more and more catastrophic wildfires burning here and abroad. The trend is real but the predicament that we face with future wildland fires is the result of both earlier land management actions and the growing influence of climate change. To adapt to changing conditions and mitigate the threats…
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Posted September 14, 2021
Tuesday, September 28, 2021: Climate Change 101 – UMCES Chesapeake Biological Lab Webinar (Solomons, MD)
You’ve heard the term climate change, but have you ever wondered how our climate is actually changing? How do we know humans are causing it? And, so what? Earth’s climate has always changed. If it is a serious problem, what do we do now? Dr. Kilbourne will start with the basics and lay out the facts…
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Posted April 21, 2021
Tuesday, April 27, 2021: Changing Weather, Changing Farms, Opportunities to Reduce Chesapeake Harm
Free UMCES Webinar: Future Chesapeake Bay health will depend on the combined influence of environmental changes and peoples’ responses to those changes. Dr. Lisa Wainger will describe research into these combined effects that found that adaptations that farmers are already making to improve crop growth under changing weather are likely to prevent some harm to…
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Posted April 14, 2021
Tuesday, April 20, 2021: Stream Restoration: Is it Helping Our Streams and the Chesapeake Bay?
Free UMCES Webinar: Healthy streams are dynamic, diverse ecosystems that provide society with many benefits. Since many streams in the Chesapeake Bay watershed are severely degraded, stream restoration is increasingly used to improve their water quality. Yet, the effectiveness of projects implemented is still questionable, and recovery is a slow, complex task. Dr. Solange Filoso…
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Posted April 8, 2021
Tuesday, April 20, 2021: Stream Restoration: Is it Helping Our Streams and the Chesapeake Bay?
Free UMCES Webinar: Healthy streams are dynamic, diverse ecosystems that provide society with many benefits. Since many streams in the Chesapeake Bay watershed are severely degraded, stream restoration is increasingly used to improve their water quality. Yet, the effectiveness of projects implemented is still questionable, and recovery is a slow, complex task. Dr. Solange Filoso has monitored…
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Posted April 5, 2021
Tuesday, April 13, 2021: What’s in Our Water: A Chemical Perspective of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Free UMCES Webinar: Have you ever wondered what’s in your drinking water? We use chemicals in our daily lives, but which ones might end up in a local stream or the Chesapeake Bay? How efficient can wastewater treatment be, and what chemicals are unintentional made in the process? Water is the foundation of life, but…
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Posted March 30, 2021
Tuesday, April 6, 2021: Depleting the Immense Protein Factory that was Chesapeake Bay
Free UMCES Webinar: In 1940, H.L. Mencken referred to Chesapeake Bay as “the immense protein factory.” In the late 1800s, its oyster and shad fisheries led the world in harvests and economic value. Waterfowl rafts covered miles of its winter surface. Sturgeon and terrapins were everywhere. Dr. Victor Kennedy, author of Shifting Baselines in the…
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Posted March 22, 2021
Tuesday, March 30, 2021: Free Webinar: The US Ocean Decade – Messages for the Chesapeake Bay and CBL
This year marks the start of the UN Decade for Ocean Science for Sustainable Development. This exciting program seeks to conduct the science we need for the oceans we want. Involvement of government, academic and citizen scientists is strongly encouraged – and we are seeing involvement of groups who have not been traditionally represented in…
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Posted October 20, 2020
October 27, 2020: Reducing Plastic Waste and Pollution
FREE public webinar. We’re all used to disposal plastic, but some of it ends up in our streams, rivers, the Chesapeake Bay, and ultimately the ocean, harming the wildlife and sealife. CBL scientists partnered with restaurants on Solomons Island and with the Calvert and St. Mary’s County Public Middle Schools to work together on reducing…
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Posted October 12, 2020
October 20, 2020: Decades of Change in the Patuxent River and its Tributary Companions
FREE public webinar. The Patuxent River estuary has been changing for centuries, but we have relatively detailed information on the ecology of the river for only the most recent decades. In annual reports of the overall ‘health’ of the River, the Patuxent consistently receives poor grades, despite extensive restoration efforts. During this seminar, discover how…
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Posted October 8, 2020
October 13, 2020: Patuxent River Research Cruises: Building on a scientific & educational legacy
FREE public webinar. It is critical to understand how natural and human factors affect the Chesapeake Bay’s ecosystems if we are to restore, manage and sustain this unique estuary. In 2018, CBL developed the Patuxent River Research Cruise Program (PAX) to build our scientific knowledge of the Patuxent River ecosystem while helping to train the…
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Posted September 29, 2020
October 6, 2020: Striped Bass are Built for Success: Weathering pollution, climate change, & their own charismatic stripes
FREE public webinar. Chesapeake Bay striped bass move up and down the Atlantic coast from their estuarine birthplace. Until recently we have only seen glimpses of this movement when tagged fish are caught by anglers or scientists. Now with electronic transmitters embedded in the tummies, or chemical tracers in bones in their ears we can…
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Posted September 24, 2020
Oyster Aquaculture: A boon, competition or neutral for restoration and fishing
FREE public webinar. The Chesapeake Bay jurisdictions have committed to restoring oyster populations in 10 Bay Tributaries by 2025 – and seem to be on a path to achieve this goal. During this time oyster aquaculture in the Chesapeake has expanded to a point where its yield may soon rival natural harvests. But this growth…