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Category Archives: Chesapeake Bay
The Chesapeake Bay Trust
The Chesapeake Bay Trust provides grant funding for on-the-ground Chesapeake Bay restoration projects throughout Maryland, reaching thousands of students, organizations and community leaders each year. Since its inception in 1985, the Trust has awarded more than $20 million in grants, funding thousands of projects that have made a measurable impact on improving the Bay’s health and restoring Maryland’s most treasured natural resource.
The Chesapeake Bay Trust is an independent, nonprofit grant-making organization chartered in 1985 by the Maryland General Assembly to engage the public in the protection and restoration of the Chesapeake Bay and its tributary rivers and streams. Funding provided by the Trust sparks on-the-ground change in communities throughout Maryland and works to cultivate a new generation of Bay stewards.
The Trust receives approximately $4 million in contributions annually and reinvests those dollars through a variety of grant programs in community-led projects that reach each of Maryland’s 23 counties and Baltimore City. In its first year, the Trust funded just 10 grants. Since then, through aggressive growth of our expertise, capacity, and funding, the Trust has received over 10,000grant requests, awarding over $30 million to support environmental education and habitat restoration projects that have measurable impacts on the environment and that actively engage citizens in Bay and river restoration efforts.
The Trust’s goal is to increase stewardship through grant programs, special initiatives, and partnerships that support environmental education, on-the-ground restoration, and community engagement activities.
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Chesapeake Biological Laboratory
The Chesapeake Biological Laboratory is a marine research facility of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES). UMCES sister campuses include the Horn Point Laboratory, Cambridge, on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, and the Appalachian Laboratory, Frostburg, in the mountains of Western Maryland. UMCES research fleet is located on the CBL Campus.
Founded in 1925, the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory has long been a national leader in fisheries, environmental chemistry and toxicology, and ecosystem science and restoration ecology. The breadth of expertise among our faculty opens the door for research that cuts across the boundaries of traditional scientific disciplines and fosters collaboration with leading researchers within the CBL community and beyond.
Located where the Patuxent River meets the Chesapeake Bay, CBL’s team of faculty and student researchers are developing new scientific approaches to solving environmental management problems facing our nation, region and the world. From the vast Arctic Ocean to the local streams of Calvert County, CBL is constantly pioneering new frontiers in environmental science.
Training and educating the nation’s next generation of environmental scientists is critical to fulfilling the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory’s mission. While CBL focuses on providing graduate level students opportunities to learn from and work with active field researchers, the laboratory also offers programs designed to engage students of all ages.
My River Speaks
My River Speaks
My River Speaks: The History and Lore of the Magothy River is the first and only book detailing the history of the Magothy River. It reflects anecdotal and archival research on the history, geography, and lore of the Magothy. The once “forgotten river” of the Chesapeake now speaks.
The author, Marianne Taylor, has lived along the banks of the Magothy River for more than 30 years. In the midst of her 22-year career as an English teacher, she served as a docent for the Baltimore Museum of Art. It was there she discovered her passion for history.
News Release: Magothy River’s Secrets Unraveled in Second Edition. Lovers of the Magothy River have spoken. By popular demand, author Marianne Taylor and publisher Bay Media, Inc. have released a second edition of My River Speaks. Local writer Marianne Taylor, moved by a passion for uncovering the layers of history and love of the Magothy River, carefully unravels its secrets in My River Speaks. The second edition contains an elaborate index, helpful for research purposes.
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Oyster Recovery Partnership
The mission of the Oyster Recovery Partnership is to restore the ecological and economic benefits of oysters to Chesapeake Bay by creating habitat through the rehabilitation of historically productive oyster bars and seeding those bars with hatchery disease-free oysters produced at the University of Maryland’s Center for Environmental Science Horn Point Lab.
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Sandy Point Shoal Light
In 1883 the Sandy Point Shoal caisson with a 37-foot Empire-style eight-sided, red brick tower with a white roof and black lantern housing a 4th order Fresnel lens was built. This caisson replaced an earlier Sandy Point Light that had been built on land where Sandy Point State Park is located now. It was an on shore brick tower constructed in 1858 that was situated in a poor location. Sandy Point Shoal Light has a wooden caisson foundation supporting a round 35-foot-diameter cement-filled cast-iron cylinder on which a 2 1/2-story octagonal brick structure rests. The structure is 24 by 24 feet with truncated corners giving it an octagonal shape. Although not originally painted, the brick portion of the structure is now painted red.
Podickory Point Yacht and Beach Club
Podickory Point is a privately owned yacht and beach club on the Chesapeake Bay, two miles northwest of the Bay Bridge, near the mouth of the Magothy River and is surrounded by the state-owned nature preserve of the Sandy Point State Park.
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Upper Bay Charter Captains Association
The Upper Bay Charter Captains Association (UBCCA) is an organization whose members hold both United States Coast Guard captain license and a Maryland Fishing Guide license. The Association is dedicated to the promotion of the Upper Chesapeake Bay. Its primary focus is to offer world class Striped Bass fishing plus great opportunities for Black Drum, Bluefish, Croaker, Flounder, Perch, Spanish Mackerel, Spot, Trout, and others. Boats of all sizes are available also for cruising and sightseeing to many upper Chesapeake locations including Baltimore’s Inner Harbor, Rock Hall, Kent Island, St. Michaels, Annapolis, and Tilghman Island and many other areas throughout the Bay region.
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Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay
The Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay is a regional nonprofit organization that builds and fosters partnerships to protect and to restore the Bay and its rivers. The Alliance does not lobby or litigate. Instead, we do the slow, hard work of bridging dialogue between groups that don’t see eye-to-eye, forming strategies for joint solutions, and building the capacity of communities for local-level action.
The Alliance is unique in its focus on collaboration to address issues that affect the Bay and its streams and rivers. We engage, educate, partner and inspire through our work with other organizations, communities, businesses and individuals. Our strength is in developing innovative solutions that can be implemented to protect the Bay. We believe long-term strategies and actions to protect and enhance the Bay can be achieved through collaboration and common goals.
Chesapeake Bay Foundation
The Chesapeake Bay Foundation is the only independent 501(c)(3) organization dedicated solely to restoring and protecting the Chesapeake Bay and its tributary rivers. Since our founding 40 years ago, our goal has been to improve water quality by reducing pollution.