The Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) and the Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF) announced a new partnership centered on oyster restoration Nov. 14. The new partnership includes relocating the foundation’s oyster restoration center to the SERC campus in Edgewater, Maryland. The restoration center will produce spat-on-shell oysters and “reef balls” giant concrete
In low-lying spots bordering the Chesapeake Bay, it’s easy to spot the dead trees, leafless and shorn of limbs. These “ghost forests,” their gray trunks pointing skyward from a marsh or open water, bear mute witness to the creeping inundation of coastal land as the sea level rises.
In low-lying spots bordering the Chesapeake Bay, it’s easy to spot the dead trees, leafless and shorn of limbs. These “ghost forests,” their gray trunks pointing skyward from marsh or