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Birds, Ecology and Conservation: Birds and Our Working Landscape

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.

Challenges With Emerging Infectious Diseases

Climate Change: Policy and Process

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.

Determining Truth Among a Sea of Lies

EVs: The Transportation Revolution

Exploring the Long History of Epidemics in Maryland

From a Flight by Balloon to Men on the Moon

(Course Recording Now Available) A History of Aviation as reported in the newspaper press over four centuries from 1783 through 2021.

From Plankton to Plastic: The Chesapeake Under a Microscope

Global Warming: “A Crisis Like No Other”

Helping Our Wild Neighbors: A Year in the Life of a Wildlife Rescuer

History of Cyberwarfare – Yesterday and Today

(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.

Internet Safety for Seniors

Introducing Native Plants to your Home Landscape

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.

Journey to the Arctic Circle

Keystone Species in Maryland

Learn what keystone species are and why they are so important to their ecosystems.

Laser Fusion Experiments and Implications for Fusion Power

Life in the Dead Zone

Mother Earth: The Ultimate in Recycling

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.

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