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Ahoy! Tour our Ocean Survey Vessel!
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
9:30 am – noon
and
1 pm – 4:30 pm
Penn’s Landing, Philadelphia
* Educational displays, children’s activities and more!
* Please wear shoes and attire suitable for the ship tour.
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- Mid-Atlantic Regional Office, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
- Environmental Science Center, Fort Meade. Maryland - Celebrating Our 10th Anniversary!
- Freshwater Biology Lab, Wheeling, West Virginia
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- Greenscaping Workshop to Air on Cable TV -- Subscribers to Tredyffrin's and Easttown's Townships cable TV will have several opportunities to view Steve Donohues' Greenscaping Workshop throughout the month of July. The half hour workshop is scheduled to air on Spotlight Tredyffrin (Comcast Channel 2 / Verizon FIOS Channel 24) on Tuesdays @ 7 p.m. ; Wednesdays @ 7 a.m. and 1 p.m.; Fridays @ 7 a.m. and Saturdays @1 p.m. GreenScaping encourages property and homeowners to reduce, reuse, recycle and rebuy. The basic tenets of the EPA program are to reduce or prevent pollution, conserve natural resources, maximize ecological function and save time and money while enjoying a greener/healthier yard. The program advocates reducing the use of high maintenance plants and lawns and all the mowing, watering, fertilizing, and pruning that go with them, in favor of using low maintenance native plants. It is estimated that more than 95% of the land area in the lower 48 states have been taken or modified for human use. This program gives homeowners tools for converting excess lawn area to habitat to support the many endangered or threatened species of plants, insects, birds and other animals that have been displaced by development. To borrow a DVD of Steve's presentation send an email (donohue.steven@epa.gov).
- Lehigh Valley Visioning Meeting -- On June 24, Dave Campbell, Marie Holman, and Virginia Thompson of the Office of Environmental Innovation attended a "visioning" meeting sponsored by the Lehigh Valley Alliance for Sustainable Communities on the campus of Northampton Community College in Bethlehem, Pa. The alliance is composed of several dozen organizations in a loosely knit structure, all of which are working to promote a more sustainable Lehigh Valley. It was an opportunity to discuss whether forming a "Committee of 100," modeled on an organization by the same name in Washington, DC, could bring the same technical and expert heft to land-use planning in the Lehigh Valley. The Washington, DC "Committee of 100"
is 100 years old and was founded by a cousin of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The OEI staff attended as part of its new Lehigh Valley initiative; the meeting provided a good overview of some of the organizations involved in issues within the area. - Test of New Region 3 GeoBrowser Analysis and Visualization Tool -- The Office of Environmental Information and Analysis along with the Computer Services Branch and the Information Services Branch will be providing feedback on an advanced copy of the GeoBrowser being developed by the GIS Team. The application allows anyone to view and explore a host of Geospatial data in an easy to use browser-based format. The browser has the look and feel of Google Earth by employing its high-resolution imagery, streets and USGS Topo base maps.
- Ocean Survey and Boat Tour Planned -- The Coastal Science Team will be aboard the Ocean Survey Vessel Bold between June 29 and July 12, 2009 sampling waters along our mid-Atlantic coast. Then, the Bold will be open to the public for tours on July 14 at Penns Landing in Philadelphia. Planning for both the sampling trip and the tour are in the works.