Eastern Shore Master Naturalists

🧤 Volunteer: TNC Youth Engagement Event Assistance
2024-07-16 09:15 - 2024-07-19 13:15 (America/Halifax) | TNC Brownsville Preserve, 11332 Brownsville Rd, Nassawadox, Virginia, 23413
Butterfly Activity (and more) Field Trip Assistance/Youth Engagement
Brownsville Preserve (Nassawadox, VA)

Fri, July 11 (6th-12th Grade): 9:15 am-1:15 pm (4 volunteers)
Mon, July 14 (3rd-5th Grade): 9:15 am-1:15 pm (3 volunteers)
Tues, July 15 (pre-K – 2nd Grade): 9:15 am-1:15 pm (2 volunteers)

The VCR Outreach & Education Team is seeking 2-3 volunteers for each date to assist with the Accomack County Public School Migrant Youth Program’s visit to Brownsville Preserve on Monday, July 15th, Tuesday, July 16th, and Monday, July 22nd, 10:00 am-1:00 pm. Activities may include habitat exploration, butterfly/insect netting, wagon rides, kayaking on 7/15 (optional for volunteer), and geocaching and will be led by TNC staff with volunteer assistance. ACPS staff will also be on hand, and bilingual skills are not required (students speak English, Spanish, and/or Haitian Creole). Training will be provided, and volunteers must agree to TNC’s Youth Safety policies.
Please contact, VCR Outreach & Education Coordinator, Margaret Van Clief at mvanclief@tnc.org or (757) 414-9227 to sign up for one or more of the above dates.

Better Impact Category 13/Education & Outreach

💡 ESMN Chapter Meeting: Speaker Christopher Hein, Director of VIMS Geology Lab
2024-07-17 17:00 - 19:30 UTC | Virginia Institute of Marine Science Eastern Shore Laboratory, Seaside Hall, 36 Atlantic Street, Wachapreague, VA, United States
Christopher Hein, Director of the VIMS Geology Lab will give an update on the Cedar Island Project.
The project aims to improve barrier-island and marsh resilience on a 216-acre site to protect against coastal erosion and island breaching, while expanding wildlife habitat and ecosystem services. This will help protect underserved coastal communities against the impacts of coastal flooding and damage from storm surge.
Christopher Hein. Photo by VIMS.
ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

More info about Cedar Island.
http://geology.blogs.wm.edu/2016/08/06/twenty-years-of-change-at-cedar-island/Twenty Years of Change at Cedar ISland
Leveraging the Interdependencies Between Barrier Islands and Backbarrier Saltmarshes to Enhance Resilience to Sea-Level Rise
CEDAR ISLAND MARSH COULD MEAN MORE BIRD HABITAT, LESS EROSION FOR EASTERN SHORE
Buying Time – Living on the Edge
Dr. Hein’s vitae as of September 2023

All 2024 speaker meetings will be the third Wednesday of every other month at Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) Eastern Shore Laboratory, Seaside Hall, 40 Atlantic Street, Wachapreague. Note that per VIMS you may park on Atlantic Avenue along the yellow curbs.
Social time 5-5:30pm; speaker 5:30; brief business meeting 6:30.
Better Impact Category 2: Continuing Education (speaker portion only)

See VMN CE Webinars and VMN High Five From Nature Series for additional CE opportunities.
