Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

Speaker: Cody Desautel, Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation

Learn about participatory science projects happening throughout Maryland, Virginia and D.C. at the next regional meeting of the Association for Advancing Participatory Sciences (AAPS). This 2-hour event will feature posters and 5-minute lightning talks, held at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History at 10th & Constitution Avenue, Washington, D.C. Free and open to everyone! The only requirement is to register, which helps us plan the space and refreshments.

Join us for a dig day with the Environmental Archaeology Lab! Help us look for evidence of a structure near the Java Ruins on our campus in Edgewater, Maryland. You'll have the chance to work together and with researchers to do a variety of tasks, including sieving sediment and washing/sorting artifacts.

Attention outdoor enthusiasts and volunteer scientists! We need your help to get as many water samples from the Chesapeake Bay as possible on May 29th.

There will be two high-resolution satellites, Landsat-9 and Sentinel-2a, gracing the skies above the Chesapeake Bay. We can use your water samples to improve the water quality monitoring algorithms for not one but two satellites. Your small act can still make a big impact in safeguarding our coastal ecosystems. Don't miss out on the fun!