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- Lectures on the Shore: Our Disappearing Osprey - Chesapeake Forum
The recent dramatic drop in the osprey population serves as an early warning for the health of the Chesapeake Bay What does the future hold as fledging survivability reaches unsustainable levels? Each spring, the skies above the Chesapeake Bay come alive with the return of ospreys—majestic raptors whose arrival signals the end of winter and […]
- Explore Our Lifelong Learning Community - Chesapeake Forum
Our Mission Chesapeake Forum, an Academy for Lifelong Learning, provides affordable courses and discussions on a wide variety of topics for people of all ages and backgrounds where ideas are shared with civility and mutual respect
- Explore Our New Course Offerings - Chesapeake Forum
Discover new courses and register today at Chesapeake Forum Enhance your skills and knowledge Sign up now!
- Discover Free Courses at Chesapeake Forum
All Chesapeake Forum Library Courses are available FREE OF CHARGE After clicking the “Course Details” button to open a course, you will find the YouTube links for the course session (s), and in newer courses, links to any handouts that might have been provided, at the bottom of the course description Simply click the link (s) to get to the YouTube Video recording ENJOY!
- Boats for the Bay – Exploring Chesapeake Watercraft
Using the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum’s Water Lines exhibition in the new Welcome Center as a classroom, Pete will show specific examples of regional watercraft types and the cultures that produced and used them in the Chesapeake Bay region
- Oysters of the Chesapeake Bay - Chesapeake Forum
Learn about the oysters of the Bay, their important role in the Bay’s ecosystem, and how they are doing Oysters are considered a keystone species in many aquatic systems around the world, including the Chesapeake Bay However, a variety of factors have contributed to a major decline in Chesapeake oyster populations Disease, overfishing, and pollution […]
- Understanding Coastal Erosion Island Loss - Chesapeake Forum
Check out the geological, and archaeological histories of islands that have eroded away in the Chesapeake Bay region Darrin Lowery starts this program off with a discussion about coastal erosion by explaining that coastal erosion in the Chesapeake Bay region is not unique to the 20th or 21st centuries Many islands vanished long before the […]
- 20,000 Years of History from One Oyster Reef in the . . . - Chesapeake Forum
A sonar mapped oyster reef reveals geologic history of the Chesapeake Bay from 20,000 years ago
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