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Category Archives: Water
Magothy River Beach Water Quality
The Earth 911 web site offers a service to check the Beach Water Quality for Beaches on the Magothy River. Resources also include information on how to keep beaches clean, beach safety, and water conservation.
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Magothy River Sailing Association
Founded in 1974, MRSA is one of the largest and most active sailing clubs on the Chesapeake Bay. Our member-run activities include racing, cruising, junior training, and a variety of interesting programs in conjunction with monthly dinner meetings, parties and picnics.
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Tagged Chesapeake Bay, clubs, magothy river, sailing
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Chesapeake Bay Commission
The Chesapeake Bay Commission is a policy leader in the restoration of the Chesapeake Bay. As a tri-state legislative assembly representing Maryland, Virginia and Pennsylvania, the Commission’s leadership covers a full spectrum of Bay issues: from managing living resources and conserving land, to protecting water quality. By combining its unique access to both the legislative and executive branches of each Bay state with well-honed skills in research, policy-development and consensus building, the Commission has achieved consistently strong and effective results in pursuit of Bay restoration goals.
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Tagged bay restoration, Chesapeake Bay, water quality
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Chesapeake Quarterly
Chesapeake Quarterly online is the web adaptation of Maryland Sea Grant’s quarterly magazine, which explores scientific, environmental, and cultural issues relevant to the Chesapeake Bay and its watershed.
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Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
The Smithsonian Environmental Research Center is a 2,800-acre environmental research and educational facility operated by the Smithsonian Institution located in Edgewater, MD on the Rhode and West Rivers.
SERC has 3,000+ acres of wildlife conservation area along 14 miles of pristine shoreline. There are two trails open to everyone, each approximately 1.5 miles long. They offer Saturday programs for the public ranging from walks and talks to canoe tours of Muddy Creek and the Rhode River.
The center’s focus of study is on the ecosystems of coastal zones, particularly in the Chesapeake Bay wetlands. The Center leads the Nation in research on linkages of land and water ecosystems in the coastal zone and provides society with knowledge to meet critical environmental challenges in the 21st century.
The SERC conducts research on a wide variety of topics that include terrestrial, atmospheric, and estuarine environmental research within the disciplines of botany, ecology, environmental education, biology,chemistry, mathematics, microbiology, physics, and zoology. The Center trains interns, graduate students, pre-doctoral and doctoral students. Annually, the Center receives over 10,000 students, teachers, and families who come to visit. It also gives advice, consultation, and testimony to local, state, federal, and international governmental agencies, natural resource managers, policy makers, and conservation groups.
Additionally, it serves as a center of research and education on human impacts in land-sea interactions of the coastal zone. Their laboratory focuses on being a model of human interaction with the environment. The Center receives $20,000,000 in current extramural grants and contracts funded from governmental agencies, foundations, and industry.
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Tagged Chesapeake Bay, conservation, smithsonian, trails, wetlands, wildlife
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The Severn River Association
The Severn River Association is the oldest organization dedicated to the preservation of a river in America and Anne Arundel County’s largest and oldest civic group.
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Tagged anne arundel county, civic group, severn river
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Magothy River Flotilla
The U. S. Coast Guard Auxiliary is an organization of civilian volunteers—part of the U. S. Coast Guard team—who help promote safety among recreational boaters. We offer boating safety classes, vessel safety checks, on-water boater-assistance patrols and marine environmental protection programs. We also help maintain buoys, daybeacons and other aids to navigation. And we help U.S. Coast Guard and state officials carry out a wide array of other missions.
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Tagged boating safety classes, coast guard auxiliary, flotilla, volunteer
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Chesapeake Bay Recovery Partnership
The Chesapeake Bay Recovery Partnership is a newly formed public-private partnership between the Oyster Recovery Partnership and the State of Maryland (Department of Natural Resources).The partnership was created to raise funds from public and private sources and to implement large-scale, integrated Chesapeake Bay restoration projects that will include oyster restoration, bay grass replenishment, planting of forest buffers and cover crops, and nutrient and sediment reduction.
South River Federation
The South River Federation, Inc is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization whose mission is to restore, protect, preserve and celebrate the South River and its ecosystem. Behind this mission is growing movement to create a new mindset about the behavior and involvement of every individual who impacts the South River. The Federation is a growing, healthy, grass-roots nonprofit environmental organization with some 500 members, three staff and a board of directors comprised of dedicated community leaders. Full time staff includes the South RiverKeeper who monitors and documents the health of the South River via weekly bacteria testing and water quality sampling from May through September.
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Tagged Chesapeake Bay, river, riverkeeper
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Chesapeake Research Consortium
The Chesapeake Research Consortium, Inc. (CRC) is a non-profit corporation chartered by the State of Maryland. It is an association of six institutions, each with a long-standing involvement in research on problems affecting the Chesapeake Bay and its watershed. The Chesapeake Research Consortium supports scientific and technical activities (including research) in the tidal Chesapeake Bay, its drainage basin and adjoining airshed, as well as adjacent offshore waters of the Middle Atlantic Bight. Recognizing that processes acting in Earth systems far from the Bay also affect it, its environment and resources, CRC may also support appropriate projects far beyond the traditional Bay boundaries.