Eastern Shore Master Naturalists

Volunteer: Guided Nature Walk with TNC to Collect Data for Nature Challenge
2024-04-26 08:00 - 10:00 UTC | Sunnyside Road and Seaside Road, Northampton County, VA 23310, Sunnyside Road & Seaside Road, 23310, United States
REGISTRATION REQUIRED
Join TNC’s Wetlands Program Manager, Kati Booth, on an exploration of TNC’s Cubberly site, a beautiful forested wetland along Cobb Mill Creek that lies within Delmarva Migratory Bird Stopover Habitat.

Volunteer: Community Science Challenge
2024-04-26 00:00 - 2024-04-29 23:59
Are you up for a challenge? Join The Nature Conservancy and community partners to compete in the annual community science challenge from April 26th-29th!
Category 14 Bioblitz/City Nature Challenge Eastern Shore iNaturalist Surveys. If you wish you can log your hours on the ESMN iNaturalist page so that we can get an aggregate for the chapter.
It’s easy to get involved. Take pictures of wild plants and animals and upload them to the iNaturalist app (free) on your smart device or computer. You can record sounds and animal evidence, too (feathers, scat, bones). You don’t even have to leave your home. Take a picture of the spider in the corner of your bathtub or the ant crawling on the kitchen counter. Walking your dog this weekend? Take a picture of the dandelion between the sidewalk cracks. Visit your favorite park or nature preserve to see what’s blooming, crawling, flying and singing.
Don’t let the word “city” fool you, everyone can participate!
How do you participate in the Nature Challenge?
1. Download iNaturalist (free) on your smart device. • Apple/iPhone app download link • Android app download link
2. Take pictures of wild plants and animals. You can also record sounds and evidence of wildlife, such as scat or feathers.
3. Where and when? Anywhere! When you’re walking the dog, in your backyard, the ant crawling up the sidewalk, your favorite park, or a nature preserve. Nature is everywhere!
Make observations between Friday, April 26th and Monday, April 29th. Feeling unsure about how to use iNaturalist? Watch this recording of what to do or attend this free webinar on April 17th. Any observations made in Accomack and Northampton counties on iNaturalist will automatically count towards the Challenge.

CE: WATCH - “Against the Current” WHRO Documentary about ESVA Sea-level Rise
2024-04-24 20:00 - 21:00 | Virtual
In case you missed the limited screening:
“Against the Current” premiere on Wednesday, April 24th at 8PM on WHRO TV15. This special provides a powerful glimpse of how Virginia’s Eastern Shore residents are subject to the challenges of rising water’s effects on their lives and livelihood. Through resilience and perseverance, they learn to co-exist and celebrate their rural home. How can this unique community shed light on the national conversations happening around these climate issues? (WHRO)
This show includes interviews of Eastern Shore residents and highlights projects supported by ESMN, including oyster reef restoration in Wachapreague and eel grass seed collection.

Category 2: Continuing Education

Volunteer: Invest in Our Planet Earth Day Celebration at the Exmore Town Park
2024-04-20 09:00 - 15:00 | Exmore Town Park, 10A3, A-52, Exmore, VA, 23350, United States
MANY VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
At the Invest in Our Planet Earth Day Celebration at the Exmore Town Park SATURDAY April 20th, there are numerous volunteer opportunities:

ESMN/DCR have three tables each with two shifts 9am -12pm and 12pm – 3pm.

VDCR Natural Heritage Program (Category 15: ESMN OutreachTable/Tours Eastern Shore Events)
ESMN Ed & Outreach (Category 15: ESMN OutreachTable/Tours Eastern Shore Events)
Plant Eastern Shore Natives campaign (Category 15: PLANTS Plant Eastern Shore Natives Presentations)

We particularly need help with the afternoon session noon-3pm for this event. We appreciate morning volunteers arriving a bit early to help setup and afternoon volunteers staying to help with takedown. Please complete this form to RSVP to volunteer!
Contact Brenda Poist or Shannon Alexander for more information.

NEW: The Nature Conservancy is looking for volunteers for their information booth. Email Jen to help.

10 a.m.—12:30 p.m.: 2 volunteers needed
12:30—3 p.m.: 2 volunteers needed

Category 13: Assist with Educational Programs

NEW: Help is also needed at the UVA/LTER booth where they will be handing out research information, making a mural of water issues, and (pending a working data set) may be doing a small activity about sea level rise. Contact Cora A. Baird for more info/to signup.
Category 23: Education and Outreach

NEW: Other event highlights include music, Earth Day, and National Parks Day in the Exmore Town Park. Entertainment featuring Paul Pesco, Alvy Powell and others. Earth Day activities, vendors, food–and lots more music.

First Day of National Park Week - Entrance Fees Waived at National Parks Today
2024-04-20 00:00 - 23:59

Continuing Ed: VMN Webinar - It’s Not Just About Counting Trees: The How, Why, What, Who and Where of a Tree Inventory
2024-04-18 13:00 - 14:00
Registration required. Get more info and sign up here.
Category 2 Continuing Education

Continuing Ed: Webinar - Hone Your Observation Skills Using iNaturalist
2024-04-17 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual
REGISTRATION REQUIRED
Join The Nature Conservancy as Maura Duffy, TNC’s Conservation Coordinator in Virginia, demonstrates how to use the free iNaturalist app and website to make wildlife observations and identify species.
All registrants will receive an email with the Zoom meeting information a few days before the presentation. We will also share a recording to those registrants who cannot join us live.
Category 2: Continuing Education

TNC Brownsville Open Farm Day
2024-04-13 10:00 - 15:00 | TNC Brownsville Preserve, 11332 Brownsville Rd, Nassawadox, Virginia, 23413
Celebrate Earth Month at the Volgenau Virginia Coast Reserve (VVCR)! You’re invited to the 7th Open Farm Day at Brownsville Preserve.
This free, all-ages event features guided nature walks, wagon rides, family activities and more! A midday picnic lunch will be served (available while supplies last).
Volunteer: There are positions teaching concepts (category 13 – Assist with Educational Activities) and positions helping with parking and lunch (no volunteer hours).

CE: SciPhi Seminar: What's Eating You? Ticks!
2024-04-12 09:30 - 11:30
SciPhi Seminar of the ESVA, “Tick Talk for the Shore: A Discussion of Species, the Diseases They Carry, and Prevention,” Dr. Marilyn Ailes, Room 148, ESCC, Melfa.
This talk qualifies for Continuing Education.
Category 2: Continuing Education
See VMN CE Webinars for additional CE opportunities.

Continuing Ed: TNC’s Bird Conservation Projects on the Eastern Shore
2024-04-09 17:00 - 20:00
The Nature Conservancy (TNC) staff will provide updates on the latest projects on the Eastern Shore of Virginia, including monitoring shorebirds and habitat restoration studies.
Meet at 5:00 pm for social time; Room 147/148 of the Academic Building at the Eastern Shore Community College.
Category 2 Continuing Education (speaker time only)

Volunteer: The Nature Conservancy - Youth Environmental Education SPECIFIC DATES TBD
2024-04-08 00:00 - 2024-05-31 00:00
© TNC
April-May SPECIFIC DATES TBD Naturalist: youth environmental education Brownsville Preserve & Parramore Island Learn more and sign up to help.
Category 13 The Nature Conservancy/Assist with Educational Programs.
