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Concluding Maryland DNR Science Week, Maryland Cold Water Fisheries biologists surveyed the Upper Gunpowder Falls trout population. Electrofishing crews analyzed and released over 200 fish. Early assessment of the 2024 population looks promising. #mddnrscienceweek
ALT Fish being collected and studied by DNR biologists. The Gunpowder River was foggy and the leaves are starting to turn.
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22 Oct 2023
On Friday, DNR scientists demonstrated how they document the oxygen, nutrients, salinity, temperature, & chlorophyll content of #ChesBay waters that help track the progress of efforts to reduce runoff & algal blooms as well as improve dissolved oxygen conditions #mddnrscienceweek
ALT Staff prepare to deploy a sonde, which takes readings every 15 minutes and is monitored by DNR staff. A sonde is a computer and a power supply that can be submerged, and has a wide variety of sensors attached to it to measure different water quality parameters.
ALT This container is used to collect a water sample for testing by DNR staff.
ALT Staff retrieve and collect the water sample.
ALT Water is tested in a mobile lab kept in a van. DNR staff regularly monitor 22 sites throughout the Chesapeake Bay and others in non-tidal waters throughout Maryland.
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20 Oct 2023
We wrapped up #mddnrscienceweek today with two events in Baltimore. The first focused on the equipment DNR scientists uses to monitor water quality, and the second was about the new MyCoast flooding app, where citizens can share flood photos. More info to come.
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20 Oct 2023
Yesterday officials toured this 55,000-panel solar site just outside Annapolis for #mddnrscienceweek. It's a former landfill that was filled and buried, then repurposed for green energy production
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20 Oct 2023
Ranger Erin Gale demonstrated the new Augmented Reality Sandbox topographic map at Tuckahoe State Park, an interactive teaching tool to demonstrate the impact of these changes in the terrain on the wetlands to school groups and other public audiences. #mddnrscienceweek
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20 Oct 2023
On Day 3 of #mddnrscienceweek, staff from Tuckahoe State Park and the Chesapeake and Coastal Service welcomed partners from Ducks Unlimited and Washington College’s Center for Environment and Society for a demonstration of the “Eveland Restoration” project on park property.
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18 Oct 2023
The next stop for #mddnrscienceweek takes a look at Albert Powell Hatchery in Washington County, one of several hatcheries across Maryland where DNR produces fish for stocking, education, and restoration projects.
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18 Oct 2023
The Albert Powell Hatchery in Hagerstown has a substantial operation to raise rainbow trout, releasing about 200,000 every year into Maryland streams and waterways #MDDNRscienceweek
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18 Oct 2023
On Day 2 of #mddnrscienceweek, Sec. Kurtz joined DNR scientists to collect and analyze macroinvertebrates (mostly bugs) and fish to develop a score that tells us whether a stream is biologically healthy instagram.com/p/CyiuC9tufl6/
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18 Oct 2023
Today I’m coming to you from Maryland’s Albert Powell Fish Hatchery in Hagerstown where each one of these tanks houses about 18,000 trout. In about a year they’ll be 10-12 inches and ready to be added to streams. #mddnrscienceweek
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17 Oct 2023
Maryland DNR Secretary Josh Kurtz joined biologists on the Patapsco River this morning to use an electro fishing machine to determine the diversity and population of fish in this small creek: #mddnrscienceweek
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17 Oct 2023
In addition to mussel propagation, the mobile hatchery is focused on outreach and education. Here natural resource technician Lena Sawyers shows mussel larvae reacting to salt water on the trailer's TV #mddnrscienceweek
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17 Oct 2023
Day two of #MDDNRScienceWeek is underway with a tour of the new mobile mussel hatchery, where mussels are raised for propagation for the Susquehanna River population
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17 Oct 2023
Yesterday we hiked into woodlands by Snow Hill, Worcester Co. to observe benefits of prescribed burns. Our MD Forest Service highlighted its partnership w/ @nature_org to use these fires to enhance woodland resilience to wildfire & build habitat for many species
#mddnrscienceweek
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17 Oct 2023
Sec. Kurtz joined DNR staff to kick off #mddnrscienceweek at Assateague State Park, observing the use of drones to monitor & map movement of Assateague’s manmade dune system that protects the island. As erosion & sea level rise continue, storms have more impact on the dune system
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16 Oct 2023
The @MarylandDNR employs scientists and technicians in numerous fields and every day they compile and analyze information across several subject areas with a wide range of partners. To recognize their work, we are celebrating our first Science Week (Oct. 16-20)! #mddnrscienceweek
ALT Maryland DNR Science Week October 16-20
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