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Online Resilience Education Database

Our free online database is filled with hundreds of documents, videos, photographs, studies, news articles and more. Now, you can explore the river from any device, anytime!

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Chesapeake Bay foundation : Chesapeake Classrooms Teacher’s Guide
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The complete 2024 Chesapeake Classrooms Teacher’s Guide is available in downloadable format. This is an excellent companion resource for planning and documenting your classroom MWEE!

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Chesapeake Bay Foundation : Educator’s Guide to the Water Quality Interactive Map
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Educator guide to understanding the CBF Water Quality map.  Includes field names and definitions, water quality parameters and methods, eutrophication process, how teacher and students can use the CBF GIS app (create graphs and analyze the data), and lesson plans and activities.

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Learn about Tides and Currents and their interaction in accordance with sea level rise.  Explore this Interactive Map on Sea Level Rise trends around the globe.

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Virginia Institute of Marine Science : Sea Level Rise Report Cards

Want to know how the sea level in your area is changing due to global warming and other factors? The Virginia Institute of Marine Science updates its website each year as annual tide-gauge data become available. The site displays recent sea-level trends and projects sea-level height to the year 2050 for 32 localities (including Norfolk) along the U.S. East, Gulf, West, and Alaskan coasts.

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Virginia Institute of Marine Science : Tidewatch Interactive Map
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An interactive map from VIMS, useful for advanced students studying climate change and sea level rise in Virginia.

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Virginia Institute of Marine Science : Sea Level Rise Projection Map
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An interactive map from VIMS, useful for advanced students studying climate change and sea level rise in Virginia.

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Chesapeake Bay Foundation : ‘What’s In Our Water(shed)?’ Interactive Map Activities
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Series of classroom investigative guides and interactive maps using ArcGIS. Discusses water quality through data analysis, creating graphs, analyzing results, and coming to a conclusion.

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Chesapeake Bay Foundation : Interactive Water Quality Map
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This is an interactive ArcGIS water quality map where students collect water quality data throughout the entire Chesapeake Bay Watershed with CBF educators and enter the data into the CBF database. Explore information collected at each data point, including turbidity, water temperature, dissolved oxygen, pH, salinity, phosphate, and nitrate.

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Chesapeake Bay Foundation : Interactive Map Portal
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An in-depth variety of maps featuring different angles and topics on the Chesapeake Bay’s 64,000 square miles.  Categories include geography, pollution, land use, aquatic life, and economic importance.

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Chesapeake Bay Foundation : Downloadable Chesapeake Bay Watershed Map
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Downloadable poster-sized map of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. Includes brief information about the natural history and fragile habitat of the Bay.

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Norfolk Academy : Article on New Solar Installation (2019)
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Norfolk Academy news article on their solar panel installation. Learn about energy conservation, solar teaching opportunities, and technical aspects of the panels.

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Chesapeake Bay Program : Recent Stories
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Keep up with the Bay Program’s most recent restoration efforts and research. Browse articles and in-depth feature stories to learn about the latest Bay news.

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Scientific American Article – Children Change Parents’ Minds on Climate Change
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A news article about Children who change their parents’ minds about climate change.  Focuses on Swedish teenager, Greta Thunberg, who mad a speech to the United Nations and is encouraging students to make their voices heard.

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Smithsonian Environmental Research Center Database
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Search in the database from the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center to add real world data to your classroom setting. Data sets include research & citizen science data, climate science, wetlands, ecology, National Ballast Information Clearinghouse and more!

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Interactive Water Quality Database
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Enjoy an online interactive database of water quality monitoring reports from the Environmental Protection Agency.   Learn the current health condition of any river in the US and check to see what actions are currently being done to improve health and reduce pollution.

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Chesapeake Bay Aerial Images
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Look at aerial images of chlorophyll, temperature, salinity, and primary productivity levels from the Chesapeake Bay remote Sensing Program based on year and location in the Bay.

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NOAA’s Historic Chesapeake Bay Data
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Access NOAA’s real time data from different points in the Chesapeake Bay as well as historic information back to the time of John Smith.

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NOAA’s Data Resources for Educators.
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Includes SOL aligned Data Driven Lesson Plans, Climate Data Resources, Historical Data Resources, Ocean & Freshwater Data Resources, and Weather & Atmospheric Data Resources.  The data collection consists of ocean and atmospheric data sources that are user friendly and appropriate for classrooms and informal education settings.

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NOAA’s Sea Level Rise Viewer.
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Enjoy NOAA’s interactive maps and local data! Explore modeled sea level rise data and scenarios through an Interactive Map with local scenarios and multiple data layers.

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VIMS BRIDGE Ocean Science Data Archive Database.
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Enjoy browsing VIMS BRIDGE, interactive maps, and datasets! Includes education datasets for the classroom on Biology, Human Activities, Ecology, Physics, Chemistry, Climate Geology, and Ocean Observing.

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Ryan Resilience Lab Event Request

Thank you for your interest in the Elizabeth River Project’s Ryan Resilience Lab. We’re delighted that our site is in high demand. As the Ryan Resilience Lab is operated by a small non-profit with a big environmental mission, please help us make sure your event is a great fit.

Our priority is to host groups with relevance to our mission: to restore the Elizabeth River through equitable collaboration with diverse communities, governments, and businesses. When space and staff support are available, we are happy to host such groups free of charge, but do request that you consider an organizational membership and allow us to offer the opportunity for individual memberships.

Please fill this form out at least 30 days in advance of the event.

Our maximum for indoor seated events is 85 theater style and 45 classroom style. For standing receptions, the maximum is 100 indoors or 125 indoor-outdoor.
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