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Virginia Event Summary

More than 50 NOAA employees, state partners, and local high school students participated in the first annual NOAA Restoration Day in Virginia last month, co-sponsored by the NOAA Chesapeake Bay office in Virginia and the NOAA Restoration Center. The event gave NOAA employees in the lower Chesapeake Bay an opportunity to restore portions of Virginia Commonwealth University's Inger and Walter Rice Center for Environmental Life Studies (VCU Rice Environmental Center) in Charles City, VA, a 342-acre "living laboratory" for the University's undergraduate and graduate students which borders the James River.

During Restoration Day, volunteers planted underwater grass in the river — grass they had grown in their offices and classrooms. Participants also built and installed more than two dozen nesting boxes for migratory prothonotary warblers, removed more than 750 pounds of marine debris from the James River shoreline, and educated participants on collecting and understanding water quality data.

Contact: Michelle Burnett
More information: http://noaa.chesapeakebay.net/varestorationday.aspx

Agenda

9:30 AM		Registration
10:00 – 10:25 AM		Welcome
10:25 – 10:30 AM		Group photograph
10:30 – 12:00 PM		Restoration Activities: Morning Building Prothonotary Warbler Nesting Boxes - Help provide nest areas and protection for local birds by building Prothonotary Warbler nesting boxes. Marine Debris Clean-up - Remove trash and marine debris from along the shoreline. Dangers about marine debris to wildlife and what you can do to keep marine debris out of the Bay. Water Quality Testing- Sample water quality to help understand potential pollution concerns and learn about monitoring and observation activities in the Bay.
12:00 – 12:45 PM		Lunch at Harrison Lake Fish Hatchery
1:00 – 2:00 PM		Restoration Activities: Afternoon Underwater Grasses Planting - Plant trays of bay grasses that were previously grown in offices and classrooms beginning in late March and trnasplant them into the James River. Building Prothonotary Warbler Nesting Boxes - Help provide nest areas and protection for local birds by building Prothonotary Warbler nesting boxes. Water Quality Testing- Sample water quality to help understand potential pollution concerns and learn about monitoring and observation activities in the Bay.
2:00 - 2:20 PM		Wrap-up
2:30 PM		Adjourn

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