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About the Alliance: The Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay (Alliance) is a regional nonprofit organization whose vision is clean streams and rivers flowing through resilient landscapes, cared for by the people who live, work, and play in the Chesapeake Bay watershed; and whose mission is to bring together communities, companies, and conservationists to improve our…
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The Department of Natural Resources, Environmental Review Program, is seeking interested candidates for a Natural Resources Planner III position which will be based at the Tawes State Office Building in Annapolis, Anne Arundel County, MD. This position will work within the Department’s Resource Assessment Service Unit, Environmental Review Program. Responsibilities will include conducting and coordinating…
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You are invited to Patuxent Research Refuge for their inaugural Winter Film series event screening “Waters way: Thinking Like a Watershed” produced by the Bay Journal. The event will be held at the National Wildlife Visitor Center in Laurel, MD and will include two guest panelists to answer questions about their work and themes in…
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Registration for the Virginia Association for Environmental Education (VAEE) Annual Conference is now open! This conference will be held February 9-11, 2025 at Hotel Roanoke in Roanoke, VA. The VAEE Conference brings together environmental educators from across Virginia to engage in professional development and networking. This is a great opportunity for teachers and informal educators…
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Annelids, or segmented worms, are a highly diverse group of invertebrates that are key components of marine, freshwater, and terrestrial ecosystems. They include the familiar earthworms as well as a large diversity of less familiar freshwater and marine worms. Often one of the most abundant animal groups in an ecosystem, annelids perform key ecological roles…
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Maryland is home to 17 types of turtles. Of those, 12 species are threatened by habitat loss, and 9 are experiencing population decline. All four sea turtle species found in Maryland are protected by the Endangered Species Act. In this presentation, you’ll learn how to tell turtles apart, and you’ll learn about dangers that turtles…
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The Chesapeake Bay Trust has funding available for our research questions around effectiveness of stormwater and stream restoration programs at the watershed/catchment scale (Q1, Q2); effectiveness of restoration practices at the project scale (Q3a/b, Q4, Q5a/b/c); social science research questions to accelerate adoption of BMPs and help quantify targeted outcomes (Q6, Q7a/b/c); and trade-offs in…
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The Bureau of Watershed Protection and Restoration is proud to share our FY24 Annual Report, A Land of Rivers! 🌊 View the report at https://www.aacounty.org/public-works/bwpr/annual-reports-land-rivers This report documents the conditions of our waterways, describe solutions and communicate the urgent need to protect our County’s waters, and live up to our promise to make Anne Arundel…
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Eat Your Invasives: The Bay’s Battle with Blue Catfish Blue catfish have been terrorizing Chesapeake Bay’s native fish for decades; they consume smaller fish and invertebrates in huge quantities and compete with larger fish. Some of their prey species are economically important, like blue crabs and menhaden, while others are already the focus of recovery…
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The Alliance for Aquatic Resource Monitoring (ALLARM) is an aquatic community science center at Dickinson College. ALLARM is a nationally recognized technical and programmatic support center for community organizations interested in watershed assessment, protection, and restoration through the lens of citizen science. The Director for ALLARM oversees the operation, program development, strategic implementation, grant writing, community engagement and student…