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All Chesapeake Forum Library Courses are now available FREE OF CHARGE. Registration is required to access the course recording links. Your Registration Confirmation from Chesapeake Forum will have the YouTube links for the course session(s). If you want to be on our mailing list for the Course Offering mailer that goes out prior to each semester, be sure to include your full mailing address when registering.
- with Douglas Levin, Ph.D
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Winter/Spring 2021
A sonar mapped oyster reef reveals geologic history of the Chesapeake Bay from 20,000 years ago.
- with Pamela Conrad, Ph.D.
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Winter 2022
Join ‘Pan’ Conrad, noted Mars Mission astrobiologist and Episcopal priest and pastor, for a wide-ranging conversation that ties together geographic exploration on earth, space exploration and tourism, empire building and colonialism, science fiction and moral discernment.
- with Ron Lesher
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Fall 2021
Who knew that Lewis Carroll ever contemplated or wrote a draft of the third book of the Alice Trilogy? We will explore some of the hidden meanings in Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass, and Exeunt Alice.
- with Ron Lesher
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Fall 2020
If black holes emit no light and swallow all that surrounds them, how can we know anything about them? Come and explore what we know about black holes and how we know this.
- with Michele Dodge
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Spring 2022
RECORDING NOW AVAILABLE! Join a wildlife photographer as she explores the birds of the Great Pacific Flyway, a major north-south migratory path over the Sacramento Valley of California. As a wildlife rescuer, she will also show what happens when wildlife clashes with humanity.
- with Larry Rudner, Ph.D.
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Winter 2022
Artificial Intelligence is the science and practice of systems that exhibit characteristics we associate with intelligent human behavior. This two-session overview course emphasizes interactive discussions regarding the implementations of AI in the United States and abroad.
- with Hunter Harris
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Fall 2020
Each session is a separate video production accessible to registered participants. Climb aboard Airship 103 and enjoy the flights, the views, and technical and operational aspects unique to blimps.
- with Wayne Bell, Ph.D.
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Fall 2020
In collaboration with Pickering Creek Audubon Center, three (virtual) classes that focus on Eastern Shore songbirds that grace the Eastern Shore landscape. No birding experience needed.
- with Wayne Bell, Ph.D
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Winter/Spring 2021
Got waterfowl? Want to see some loons and gannets? How about a warbler or two and maybe even an elusive rail? A “yes” to any or all of these questions qualifies you for this course, with no birding experience necessary.
- with Wayne Bell, Ph.D.
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Winter 2022
Two classes coupled with two day-long field trips will focus on waterfowl and coastal specialties likely to be seen in selected birding hotspots on Maryland's Eastern Shore. No birding expertise necessary.
- with Wayne Bell, Ph.D.
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Spring 2022
Two classes coupled with two all day field trips will focus, respectively, on songbird migrants and shorebird transients likely to be seen on selected birding hotspots in Maryland and Delaware.
- with Wayne Bell, Ph.D.
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Fall 2021
Participate in class sessions and field trips to identify local birds while learning ecological concepts that both inform and challenge our working landscape past, present and future.
- with Payne Kilbourn
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Winter 2022
Although Congress has yet to enact legislation to address ‘Climate Change,’ the U.S. Government has pursued and funded various initiatives for the problem of a rapidly changing climate.
- with Stephen Goldman
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Spring 2022
(Course Recording Now Available) A History of Aviation as reported in the newspaper press over four centuries from 1783 through 2021.
- with Lawrence Rudner, Ph.D.
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Spring 2022
(Recording Now Available) Recent cyber-attacks by nation states are causing disruptive damage to their targets. Examples are presented and discussed in terms of their approach, magnitude, and perceived motivations. Historical perspectives are addressed.
- with Hans Kuschnerus
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Fall 2020
Change is relentless, accelerating and often frustrating. We will discuss how to ride the technology waves and how to become a smart, joyful consumer.
- with Lynn Randle
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Summer 2021
Learn about native plant solutions to common gardening questions, as well as the many reasons "going native" is so important to the well being of our Chesapeake Bay environment.
- with Sammi Ocher
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Winter/Spring 2021
Learn what keystone species are and why they are so important to their ecosystems.
- with Lawrence Rudner, Ph.D.
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Winter/Spring 2021
An interactive discussion of policies surrounding implementations of AI in America and abroad.
- with Doug Levin, Ph.D.
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Fall 2021
The Earth is 4.6 billion years old and change is happening continuously. In this presentation, we will explore the impact of change on the earth’s ocean crust when considering such things as our global communications capabilities.
- with Rich Wagner, Ph.D.
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Winter/Spring 2021
This is the story of prehistoric human populations, languages, and cultures over 8,000 years.
- with Doug Levin
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Spring 2022
(Recording Now Available!) Join Doug’s class and learn why beaches erode and how rip currents work. You will examine globally collected sand samples, or your own, and learn how to analyze their differences.
- with Sharika Crawford, Ph.D.
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Fall 2021
COURSE IS NOW OVER. RECORDING IS AVAILABLE. Learn what ended the worldwide Caribbean turtle fishery of a century ago and why this is a cautionary note for the sustainability of fishing the Chesapeake.
- with Harrison Jackson
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Fall 2021
COURSE IS NOW OVER, BUT THE RECORDING IS STILL AVAILABLE! Join Pickering Creek Audubon Center naturalist, Harrison Jackson, for a dive into the strange aquatic animals that live in the Chesapeake and coastal bays of Maryland.
- with Forest Hansen, Ph.D.
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Fall 2020
We will explore answers to these questions: What is the mind? What is wrong with typical answers to this question? Is there a better answer? Why is this important? Join us for a discussion as we explore the mind.
- with Rich Wagner, Ph.D.
- Course Type: Library
- Semester: Fall 2020
Join us as we conclude our spring semester course, Why is Life? We'll continue our discussion of the latest findings and theories about the nature of life, its origins on earth, and the universe.