Learn about humans and the Susquehanna,
the Chesapeake Bay, and the Puget Sound ...
Discover how people have changed and are being changed by these watersheds.
Study the fascinating history of Native American and early European settlements along the river and visit their environmental headquarters in New York and Washington; meet with Native American leaders helping restore wetlands, rivers, and lakes on both sides of the country.
the Chesapeake Bay, and the Puget Sound ...
Discover how people have changed and are being changed by these watersheds.
Study the fascinating history of Native American and early European settlements along the river and visit their environmental headquarters in New York and Washington; meet with Native American leaders helping restore wetlands, rivers, and lakes on both sides of the country.
- Learn about the legacy of timbering on watersheds, the railroads, log booms, and saw mills, and how scientists are documenting its impact on streams over 100 years later.
- Visit Marcellus natural gas well and meet environmental scientists and geologists working in this field.
- Visit hydroelectric and nuclear power facilities in the Susquehanna and the Puget Sound watersheds and compare.
- Spend four days on the river, learning about the natural history of the Susquehanna River on a two-day overnight river sojourn. Paddle and snorkel the river to learn about its hydrology, geology, and ecology up close.
- Visit an active coal strip mine and how state-of-the-art reclamation and groundwater treatment technologies.
- Agriculture is the number one threat to the Chesapeake Bay; visit a working dairy farm within the watershed and learn about nutrient management and trading, and reduction.
- Learn about the construction of roads and bridges across the Susquehanna and its hydropower and nuclear power facilities.
- Study the aquatic life in the river - from macro invertebrates and mussels in the river bed sediments to fish and plants and how these natural ecosystems are impacted by land use and climate change.
- Learn about the importance of floods in watersheds, prehistoric mega-floods and the largest historical floods on record, and how they have shaped the landscape, the estuaries, and river and coastal communities therein.
- Go sea-kayaking in the Puget Sound and learn about volcanic hazards facing the cities of Tacoma and Seattle in the foothills of Mount Rainier.
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