The Calvert Marine Museum News

On Sunday, April 20 at 2:00 p.m., a special preview of Michael W. Fincham’s new documentary film, Who Killed Crassostrea virginica: The Fall and Rise of the Chesapeake Oyster will be presented in the museum’s auditorium.  Confronting head on the conflicting claims about the calamities that struck down the world’s richest oyster grounds, this fresh perspective re-evaluates the usual suspects – disease, overfishing, pollution, and mismanagement – in the light of recent research and introduces some unexpected ideas to the public debate around these issues. This presentation is co-sponsored by the Southern Maryland Oyster Cultivation Society (SMOCS), and is free and open to the public.

On Thursday, April 17, from 7:00 p.m. -9:00 p.m., Green Kitchens will be presented by Sandy Neville.  Planning to renovate your kitchen? Interested in going green and using sustainable materials? Want to know the most environmentally appropriate countertop? Then this workshop is for you. Sandy Neville is a LEED Accredited professional green building consultant with a background in Interior Design, Kitchen and Bath Design, and Architecture. The presentation will take place in the auditorium, and is free and open to the public.

On Saturday, April 19, the museum is proud to present the official opening of the new Paleontology Gallery.  At 2:30 p.m., a lecture by Dr. Tanya Atwater entitled Plate Tectonics and the Ice Ages, animated: How the Two Conspired to Make our Local Landform, will be presented in the museum auditorium. Dr. Atwater, working with Dr. Peter Vogt, created the geo-animations for the new paleontology hall. She is an American geophysicist and marine geologist who specializes in plate tectonics, in particular the evolution of the San Andreas fault plate boundary. She is presently a professor of geological sciences at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Director of the UCSB Educational Multimedia Visualization Center. The lecture is free and open to the public.