As erosion threatens treasured places around the Chesapeake Bay, communities are turning to nature-based solutions. Explore how living shorelines are helping to protect coasts and heritage on opposite shores of the Bay.
Living shoreline plants have a tough job: they must hold down the sandy shoreline with their roots and ease waves with their stems, all while surviving salty water.
Researchers are on a mission to determine which key components make a living shoreline successful at preventing erosion—but first they must gather crucial data.
Oyster biology is both an obstacle and an opportunity when it comes to living shorelines. Learn how and why oysters are sometimes included in living shoreline projects.
A living shoreline is under construction in Baltimore City—part of a sweeping project that aims to restore more than 50 acres of habitat along 11 miles of shoreline.
THE MARYLAND SEA GRANT DOCUMENTARY "Who Killed Crassostrea virginica? — The Fall and Rise of Chesapeake Bay Oysters" investigates the historic crash of the oyster fishery. Was this ecological calamity a tragedy of overfishing? A casualty of pollution? An accident of history? A scientific mistake? The film re-evaluates these theories in light of recent findings from science labs, from the bottom of the Bay, and from long-forgotten historical archives. It reveals how scientific detective work solved a 40-year mystery.
The hour-long documentary has premiered at the D.C. Environmental Film Festival and at several other festivals. It was also broadcast on Maryland Public Television April 10 and 11, 2011.
As erosion threatens treasured places around the Chesapeake Bay, communities are turning to nature-based solutions. Explore how living shorelines are helping to protect coasts and heritage on opposite shores of the Bay.
Living shoreline plants have a tough job: they must hold down the sandy shoreline with their roots and ease waves with their stems, all while surviving salty water.
Researchers are on a mission to determine which key components make a living shoreline successful at preventing erosion—but first they must gather crucial data.
Oyster biology is both an obstacle and an opportunity when it comes to living shorelines. Learn how and why oysters are sometimes included in living shoreline projects.
A living shoreline is under construction in Baltimore City—part of a sweeping project that aims to restore more than 50 acres of habitat along 11 miles of shoreline.
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