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.
Maryland Sea Grant Welcomes New Watershed Specialist
Eric Buehl is Maryland Sea Grant Extension's new watershed restoration specialist for the state's mid and upper Eastern Shore. He is working with communities, citizen groups, and governments to help improve water quality in the rivers and creeks that feed into the Chesapeake Bay. Buehl, who has lived on the Eastern Shore since 1989, will serve Maryland's Talbot, Caroline, Queen Anne's, Kent, and Cecil counties.
He joins the Extension program's team of five watershed restoration specialists, succeeding Dr. Amy Scaroni in the position. The specialists work to secure funding to install and monitor measures like rain gardens that capture nutrients from stormwater runoff. Read more about Eric and the other specialists' work at: https://www.mdsg.umd.edu/news/sea-grant-welcomes-new-watershed-specialist.
Do you want to help young learners explore the Chesapeake Bay and other marine environments? It can be tricky to know where to start, so we’ve put together this list of selected Bay and marine education resources that can be found online.
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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