2023 Program Overview
Abstracts for the sessions are available here.
Thursday, September 14
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm - Informal dinner for presenters and other participants, location TBA
This will be a pay-as-you-go dinner at a local restaurant, but pre-registration will be required for headcount purposes. We will reserve a private room, depending on how many people sign up.
Friday, September 15
This will be the day for scholarly presentations.
8:15 am - 8:45 am - Registration and Breakfast
Perdue Hall, Atrium
8:45 am - 9:00 am - Welcome
Perdue Hall, Room 156
Beatriz Hardy, Chair, Chesapeake Studies Steering Committee
9:00 am - 10:30 am - “Chesapeake Restoration: Science Perspectives” Opening Keynote panel
Perdue Hall, Room 156
Moderator: Kandis Boyd, Environmental Protection Agency
Panelists:
Walter Boynton, Professor Emeritus, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
Anson “Tuck” Hines, Director, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
Mark Luckenbach, Professor and Associate Dean of Research and Advisory Services, Virginia Institute of Marine Science
Mike Roman, Professor, Horn Point Laboratory, UMCES
The panel will focus on 40 years of Chesapeake restoration from the perspective of Chesapeake scientists.
10:45 am - 12 noon - Concurrent sessions
Presentation Session A, Perdue Hall, Room 348
Clare Kelly, graduate student, Salisbury University, “Preserving and Building Community: A Rhetorical Analysis of the Smith Island Memoir of Captain Benjamin Franklin Marsh and Diary of Mabel Marsh”
Luka Hamel-Serenity, graduate student, University of Virginia, “Attachment, Displacement: Race and Planning in the Bay City”
Erin Trouba, graduate student, Penn State University, “Engaging Stakeholders in Local Water Quality Planning: Pennsylvania Countywide Action Plans”
PANEL DISCUSsion B: “Getting those stories told: Utilizing community literacy and community partnerships in creating museum exhibits celebrating local black history,”PERDUE Hall, Room 249
Melissa Reid, President, Calvin B. Taylor House Museum
Arnold Downing, Calvin B. Taylor House Museum
Clara Small, Professor Emerita, Salisbury University
James Briddell, independent scholar/practitioner
Bonita Tindley, independent scholar/practitioner
PRESENTATION Session C: “Community Collaboration and Local Research with a National Reach: CBNERR-MD (Chesapeake Bay NATIONAL ESTUARINE RESEARCH RESERVE) and Monie Bay,” PERDUE Hall, Room 156
Jennifer Raulin, Director, CBNERR-MD, “Welcome to our NERRDy Family”
Chris Snow, Research & Stewardship Operations Manager and Ornithologist, CBNERR-MD, “What Bird Was That and Why Doesn’t It Live Here?”
Kyle Derby, Research Coordinator, CBNERR-MD, “What Are Those People Doing Out There?! Research at Monie Bay”
Becky Swerida, Stewardship Coordinator, CBNERR-MD, “Getting SAVvy with Community Science”
Coreen Weilminster, Education Coordinator, CBNERR-MD, “Making Meaning of the Science through a Cultural Connection”
Christine Burns, Maryland Coastal Training Program Coordinator, CBNERR-MD, “Chesapeake Community Conversations with Christine”
12 noon - 1:00 pm - Lunch, Perdue Atrium (included in conference registration)
1:00 pm - 1:30 pm - “A Celebration of Chesapeake Studies” poster session
Perdue Hall, 1st floor
Blake Brown, student, Salisbury University, “Blue Catfish (Ictalurus furcatus) Skull Morphology Over Ontogeny in the Nanticoke River”
Cassidy Fredette-Roman, Environmental Protection Agency, “A Trait-Based Risk Assessment for Ranking Relative Vulnerabilities of Marine Mammal Populations to Macroplastic Entanglement and Ingestion”
Jacob Goodman, graduate student, and Gina Bloodworth, Associate Professor, Salisbury University, “Something Smells Funny in the Water: Water Quality Vulnerability on the Eastern Shore as Chicken Houses Multiply”
Luka Hamel-Serenity, graduate student, University of Virginia, “Collaboratory in Aberdeen Gardens - VA”
Thomas Kryzak, Independent Scholar, “Nutrient runoff recovery using Blanket Roll Technology”
Dina Leech, Associate Professor, and Danielle Clarke-Bradley, Grace Smith, and Abigail Sommer, undergraduate students, Longwood University, “More Data, More Insight: Dead Zone Formation in Aimes Creek near Longwood’s Baliles Center”
Caroline Shanley, graduate student, American University, “‘By Her Own Means:’ Divorce and Dissonance in Civil War-Era DC”
1:30 pm - 2:45 pm - Concurrent sessions
PRESENTATION Session D: “STRATEGIC SCIENCE and Research framework: expanding Bay Science Capacity through engaging the academic community,” PERDUE Hall, Room 156
Peter Tango, Chesapeake Bay Monitoring Coordinator/Acting Deputy Director, Maryland-Delaware-D.C. Water Science Center, United States Geological Survey, “Overview of SSRF and Database: One-stop Shop for CBP Science Needs”
Alex Gunnerson, Environmental Management Staffer, Chesapeake Research Consortium, “Building Scientific Capacity and Professional Development through the Environmental Management Career Development Program”
Tami Ransom, Associate Professor, Salisbury University, “Evolving Academic Courses to Address CBP Science Needs”
Presentation seSSION F, PERDUE Hall, Room 249
Gina Bloodworth, Associate Professor, Salisbury University, “Making the Wicomico River Watershed Atlas: place-based tools for geographic education and community collaboration”
Noah Bressman, Assistant Professor, Salisbury University, “Invasive Fishes of Delmarva: Past, Present, and Future”
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm - “Chesapeake Restoration and Public Policy and Advocacy” Closing Keynote panel
Perdue Hall, Room 156
Moderator: Tom Horton, Adjunct Professor of the Practice, Salisbury University, and former Baltimore Sun writer
Panelists:
Rich Batiuk, former Associate Director for Science, Analysis, and Implementation, Chesapeake Bay Program, Environmental Protection Agency; Co-founder of CoastWise Partners
Bill Dennison, Professor of Marine Science and Vice President for Science Application, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
Saturday, September 16—BOTH FIELD TRIPS HAVE BEEN CANCELLED due to no registrations by the early-bird registration date. We didn’t want to keep our field trip partners uncertain about whether or not the field trips would happen. We apologize for any inconvenience.
We are offering optional field trips (at an additional charge) to explore aspects of the Chesapeake and Delmarva for anyone who is interested. Both conference registrants and their guests will be able to participate.
Field Trip No. 1: Behind the Scenes at the Horn Point Laboratory and Oyster Hatchery—cancelled
Learn about the cutting-edge research at the University of Maryland Center of Environmental Sciences (UMCES) faculty and graduate students that they conduct in the Chesapeake Bay. Located just outside of Cambridge, Maryland, UMCES researchers are working on critical questions of oyster restoration, disruptions to food chains, the loss of submerged aquatic vegetation that is so critical for the shellfish industry in the Bay, as well as many other important environmental quality indicators. Following the tour of the UMCES facility, we will enjoy a dockside lunch at a locally-owned restaurant in Cambridge.
This tour will depart Salisbury at 9 a.m., returning by 3 p.m. The cost is $10/person, lunch not included. The van will pick up at the Guerrieri Academic Commons, Route 13 parking lot entrance, at 9 a.m. and then proceed to the Hampton Inn in Fruitland to pick up at approximately 9:10 a.m.
Field Trip No. 2: Following Harriet Tubman: The Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Visitor Center and Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge—cancelled
Visit the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Park and learn about this brave, fascinating woman. The tour will include the Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Visitor Center and portions of the surrounding Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge. Harriet Tubman was born into slavery and grew up near this site in southern Dorchester County, Maryland. After escaping slavery as a young woman, she returned to the area multiple times to help lead approximately 70 family members and friends to freedom. The site and the Visitor Center operate under the National Park Service, the Fish and Wildlife Service, and Maryland State Parks.
This tour will depart Salisbury at 9:30 a.m., returning by 2 p.m. The cost is $15/person, lunch not included. The van will pick up at the Guerrieri Academic Commons, Route 13 parking lot entrance, at 9:30 a.m. and then proceed to the Hampton Inn in Fruitland to pick up at approximately 9:40 a.m.