Stories by Stephanie Smith
Stephanie is the Web Content Manager at the Chesapeake Bay Program. A native of the Midwest, she received her Bachelor’s in Professional Writing from Purdue University and Master of Science degree from the University of Michigan. Stephanie’s lifelong love of nature motivates her to explore solutions to environmental problems and teach others what they can do to help.
It takes a partnership to save an estuary
November 7, 2018For more than three decades, the Chesapeake Bay Program partnership has been leading the restoration effort
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Helping barn owls fly the nest
September 29, 2017Researchers and volunteers help support the raptors at Monie Bay
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Education program gets teachers on the estuary
September 15, 2017Week-long workshop introduces educators to science and restoration on the Bay
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Scientists help sturgeon on road to recovery
September 8, 2017Once-abundant prehistoric fish now rare sight in Bay waters
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Preserving the pristine Mattawoman Creek
September 1, 2017This tributary of the Potomac River is one of Maryland’s healthiest waterways
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Could blue crabs weather a changing climate?
August 24, 2017Researchers work to predict how warming temperatures, increased acidity might affect iconic crustaceans
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Salt marshes provide playgrounds for seaside dragonlets
August 18, 2017Critical habitat threatened by rising sea levels
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Sika deer quietly encroach on Chesapeake’s Eastern Shore
August 11, 2017Overlooked for decades, close to 12,000 of the non-native deer now inhabit Delmarva Peninsula
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Summertime blooms abound at Kenilworth Park
August 4, 2017Aquatic gardens home to thousands of lotuses and waterlilies
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Restoration effort brings new life to Church Creek
July 28, 2017Project transforms headwaters of notoriously polluted waterway
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