Celebrate Earth Day with UMCES all month long with these virtual seminars!
Depleting the Immense Protein Factory that was Chesapeake Bay
Ecologist and author of "Shifting Baselines in the Chesapeake Bay" Vic Kennedy will use eyewitness reports by early colonists, newspaper articles, and management reports from the 1800s to describe a Chesapeake Bay that we can now only imagine. WATCH
What’s in Our Water? A Chemical Perspective
We use chemicals in our daily lives, but which ones end up in a local stream or the Chesapeake Bay? Environmental chemist Michael Gonsior gives an overview of the invisible chemical world that defines our local waters. WATCH
Stream Restoration: Is it Helping Our Streams and the Chesapeake Bay
April 20, 7-8 p.m.
Watershed scientist Solange Filoso has monitored restored streams in Maryland for over a decade. She will share her assessment of restoration effectiveness and discuss the importance of monitoring data to policy and management decisions. WATCH
Changing Weather, Changing Farms
April 27, 7-8 p.m.
Environmental economist Lisa Wainger will describe adaptations that farmers are making to improve crop growth under changing weather, and how these changes are likely to prevent harm to water quality.
Global Change and Wildland Fire
April 28, 11 a.m.- noon
Wildfire expert Mark Cochrane discusses climate change, human dimensions of land-cover change, and the potential for sustainable development. REGISTER