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A CBF Education Student Investigation: In this video, join CBF Educators Maya, Ochae, and Nate as they scour their neighborhoods looking for sources of nutrient pollutants and the methods used to reduce them.
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A CBF Education Student Investigation: CBF Pennsylvania Educator Doug Walters explores a tributary stream and discusses how to evaluate its health.
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A CBF Education Student Investigation: What happens when rain hits soil? How about pavement?
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A CBF Education Student Investigation: Riparian buffers, which are trees, shrubs or other vegetation along a stream or waterway, are an important tool to improve the health of the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem.
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A CBF Education Student Investigation: See for yourself how oysters make the water clearer. After watching it, use our Oyster Power Worksheet to figure out your family’s water usage and calculate how many oysters you’d need to filter that amount of water.
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We’ve heard about growing sustainable food, but what if farmers could go beyond preserving the environment and actually improve it? CBF’s Director of Science and…
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How do freshwater mussels trick fish into helping them out? Why are they good for streams and rivers? How many species of freshwater mussels are…
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Why is an oyster hard to shuck? How do young oysters choose their homes? What happens when an oyster filters water? CBF’s Maryland Fisheries Scientist…
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Snot otter, devil dog, mud-devil. No matter the endearing nickname, eastern hellbenders are vanishing from the Chesapeake Bay watershed, particularly in their primary habitats in the Pennsylvania region. Learn more in this edition of Back to Baysics.
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In honor of Chesapeake Bay Awareness Week, we're sharing five interesting facts about the Bay watershed that might surprise you.
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Why are underwater grasses so important? What do they tell us about the Chesapeake Bay? Find out in this edition of Back to Baysics.
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This film explores oysters as a keystone species with a remarkable, and it seems, indispensable ability to heal the Bay’s troubled waters.
