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Virginia Site Details

This page describes the fourth annual NOAA Restoration Day event. It includes details about the day's activities and background information about the effort.

This is the second year that the annual NOAA Restoration Day initiative included two coordinated events held at different locations -- one on the Upper Bay in Maryland and one on the Lower Bay in Virginia. A combined total of approximately 250 volunteers and staff from NOAA and other partner organizations were involved in this event on June 12, 2007.

Maryland Event Details:
Jug Bay Component of the
Chesapeake Bay NERR in MD

• What: On-going event for HQ NOAA staff in Maryland.
• When: Tuesday, June 12, 2007
• Who: Approximately 180 participants (160 NOAA headquarters employees from Silver Spring, MD and DC metro area and 20 partners).
• Where: Jug Bay, a component of the Chespeake Bay NERR in MD. Just 45 minutes from Silver Spring, MD.
• Address: 16801 Mount Calvert Road,
  Upper Marlboro, MD
• Time: 9:00am – 4:00pm
• Activities:
  • planted underwater bay grass grown earlier in 22 NOAA office grow tanks;
  • transplanted wild rice;
  • seined, sampled and trawled for fish;
  • mapped and removed invasive plants;
  • built wood duck boxes;
  • conducted flora and fauna surveys using marsh transects;
  • conducted GPS/digital elevation mapping;
  • and, much more...
• Contact: Alison Hammer
  
  
  • See MD Agenda Details
  • See MD Event Photos
    
    

Virginia Event Details: VCU Rice Center

• What: Second Virginia initiative, expanding upon Maryland's on-going event. Coordinated by the Virginia NOAA Chesapeake Bay office in partnership with the Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU) and the US Fish and Wildlife, Harrison Lake National Fish Hatchery.
• When: Tuesday, June 12, 2007
• Time: 10:00am – 4:00pm
• Who: 80 total participants (40 VA NOAA staff and 40 external partners)
• Where: VCU Rice Environmental Center in Charles City, VA -- 90 minutes outside Norfolk, VA.
• Activities all contribute to the transition of a 70-acre lake into a tidal wetland:
  • conducted shoreline plantings
  • cleaned the shoreline
  • held an Atlantic Sturgeon education session ending with a release
  • kayak and pontoon trips to adjacent Cypress Swamp that will be used as a control site for tidal wetland creation
  • photo documentation of vegetation along lake frontag
  • tree census in the control site for VCU’s long term records
• Contact: Paula Jasinski
  
  
  • See VA Agenda Details
  • See VA Event Photos
    
    

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