Science
Chesapeake Bay Literacy Meets Chesapeake Bay Action
(Posted by Bill Dennison.) The seven essential things that one needs to know to become literate about Chesapeake Bay have been described in a previous post on the Integration and Application Network blog as the following: Chesapeake Bay is a large, shallow and productive estuary formed by a drowned river valley. The extensive Chesapeake watershed…
Read MoreFor Bay Clean Up, Goals Without Consequences Are Seldom Met
(posted by Tim Simpson)
Goals without consequences are almost never met by nations, states or individuals. Weight loss comes to mind. While being overweight has health consequences (not unlike ignoring the health of the Bay), their onset is gradual and long-term so it’s easy to ignore our well intentioned goals. But, what does it matter if we wait one more year? That same logic has been applied to the Bay Program and we are almost to the point of not having leaders who remember what a healthy Bay is.
Read MoreD.C. Environmental Film Festival Features Chesapeake Bay Films
(Posted by Jeanne McCann.)
The D.C. Environmental Film Festival is showing four timely films on Wednesday, March 23, from 6 p.m. – 9 p.m., at the Carnegie Institution for Science (Elihu Root Auditorium, 1530 P St., NW; Metro: Dupont Circle, 19th St. exit. Red line, Metrobuses: S1, S2, S4, S9, G2) Elizabeth Buckman, Vice President, Communications, Chesapeake Bay Foundation, will moderate the program, and introduce the filmmakers.
Read MoreHouse Ag Committee’s Assault on Science
(Posted by Bill Thompson.)
The assault against science and facts hit a new low when opponents of mandatory efforts to regulate clean water in the Chesapeake Bay used a March 16 House Agriculture subcommittee hearing to further their attempts to undercut the U.S. EPA’s Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDL) requirements.
Read MoreShifting Baselines
Posted by Bill Dennison.
Incremental changes that occur slowly over long periods of time are often difficult to detect.
Read MoreDoctor for the Bay
(Posted by Walter Boynton)
I’m a general ecologist and I’m primarily interested in estuaries. In a sense this is equivalent to being a general practitioner in the medical field…the local doc sees lots of different illnesses and so do general ecologists. I’ve been involved in studies of fish recruitment, seagrass ecology, power plant impacts on estuaries and nutrient effects on estuarine water quality and others that don’t readily come to mind. All have been interesting, some have been really baffling and still others have been largely solved. Trying to understand how nature works is basically what we do.
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