Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

Join us to learn how to use the free smart phone app Hydrocolor to collect water quality data with the Chesapeake Water Watch!

The data you collect will not only help monitor the Chesapeake Bay, but also calibrate NASA remote sensing satellites for a future of better water quality monitoring. 

Join us for one or all free talks in this series! In anticipation of America's 250th anniversary, we invite you to join us for talks that examine our country's road to revolution and then independence. Presentations will be hosted by the Environmental Archaeology Lab and take place in person at SERC's 1735 Woodlawn History Center. Come for the talk and stay for the exhibits in this historic home. 

Attention outdoor enthusiasts and volunteer scientists! We need your help to get as many water samples from the Chesapeake Bay as possible on Monday, April 14th.

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!

Speaker: Alison Milligan, Master Naturalist and Watershed Steward

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.