Interning at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC)
Follow Caroline Kanaskie '17 through a day of interning at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) in Edgewater, Maryland. Kanaskie is also a coordinator for the Alliance for Aquatic Resource Monitoring (ALLARM), which provides Dickinson students with an enhanced educational experience to learn fundamental environmentalism, community engagement, science education and nonprofit skills. For more information on ALLARM visit
Kanaskie is one of more than 400 Dickinson students gaining valuable experience this summer through internship and research opportunities around the world. Learn more at
Senator Chris Van Hollen Tours Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (d-Md.) toured the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) in Edgewater today. The Senator learned about the work the faciliity does and the importance of that work - locally and globally. Leading the tour was Anson Tuck Hines, director of SERC.
Correction - The BiodiversiTree (reforestation experimental network)
is a 100-year experiment on effects of tree species diversity on forest ecosystem services.
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center | Wikipedia audio article
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00:01:53 2 Site
00:02:15 3 Research
00:04:03 4 Technical innovation
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I cannot teach anybody anything, I can only make them think.
- Socrates
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The Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) is a United States 2,800-acre (11 km2) environmental research and educational facility operated by the Smithsonian Institution. It is located on the Rhode and West Rivers near Edgewater in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, near the western shore of Chesapeake Bay. The center's focus of study is the ecosystems of coastal zones, particularly in the Chesapeake Bay estuary and nearby wetlands.
NEON begins to monitor changing ecology of the U.S. - Science Nation
The National Ecological Observatory (NEON) is a large-facility project managed by NEON, Inc., and funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF). NEON is a continental-scale research platform for discovering and understanding the impacts of climate change, land-use change and invasive species on ecological systems.
NEON will gather long-term data on the biosphere's response to changes in land use and climate, as well as its interactions with the geosphere, hydrosphere and atmosphere. Data will be collected by automated sensors, an airplane and field crews in 20 NEON regions, or 'domains,' over 30 years-time. Scientists and the public everywhere can access the data online. The Mid-Atlantic domain comprises the core site in Front Royal, Virginia, at the Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute's 3,200-acre campus, along with two additional sites located at Blandy Experimental Farm near White Post, Virginia, and the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Edgewater, Maryland.
Research in this episode was supported by NSF grant #1246537, NEON Initial Operations.
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Miles O'Brien, Science Nation Correspondent
Marsha Walton, Science Nation Producer
Matsunaga 4th Grade Field Trip to SERC
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, MD
South River Edgewater Maryland
First Lego League 2010 Competition - Edgewater, MD
We really failed the first round because one of my teammates kept screwing up where he was aiming the robot
Explore Smithsonian: How do Scientists Track and Monitor Blue Crab Populations?
Blue crab populations are severely declining and scientists want to know why. Ride on a trawl boat with Smithsonian researchers as they trawl the Chesapeake Bay. Learn how they capture, identify, tag, and release the crabs for population studies.
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STAR Seminar: Mark S. Castro: Atmospheric Mercury Trends
Mark S. Castro from the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Appalachian Laboratory presents Atmospheric Mercury Trends. This seminar is part of the Science and Technical Analysis Reporting (STAR) seminar series. For this and other IAN seminars, visit:
STAR Seminar Chesapeake Bay Sentinel Site Cooperative
The Chesapeake Bay Sentinel Site Cooperative (CBSSC) is a partnership among local, state and federal agencies as well as academic institutions, non-profit organizations, local communities and regional organizations. The Cooperative brings together experts from scientific, resource management, and environmental stewardship organizations to inform local management decisions relating to coastal flooding and sea level rise. The CBSSC is made up of six core ecological Sentinel Sites each collecting long-term data including marsh elevation, water levels, water quality, and vegetation type and distribution. The Cooperative also connects to and relies on broader observing networks such as the National Water Level Observation Network, or NWLON, and the Virginia Estuarine and Coastal Observing System (VECOS).
The CBSSC strives to better coordinate existing resources among partners while reducing redundancy and increasing effectiveness in understanding sea level rise and coastal flooding. A cooperative, by definition, is jointly owned and run by its members, who share in the mutual benefits generated from collaborative work. By using this collaborative model, the hope is to bring both traditional and non-traditional partners together around the common issue of flooding and sea level rise to better understand and mitigate the impacts to both the natural environment and coastal communities.