Coastwatch
Community Calendar
Link to past events in 2004.
| January | February | March | April | May | June |
| July | August | September | October | November | December |
JANUARY 2005
January
FEBRUARY 2005
February
MARCH 2005
March 19,
Saturday
Non-Toxic Landscaping
and Gardening Fair
Sponsored by the Cape Ann League of Women Voters, this Fair
includes speakers, displays, and hands-on demos. The use of toxic products
on your lawn and gardens can have negative effects on children, pets and the
environment. Build your awareness of the value of organic and non-toxic materials
in landscaping and gardening.
March 18,
Friday
Reducing and Preventing
Beach Closures in New England Communities: Strategies for Detection, Correction,
and Financing
This workshop is co-hosted by NEIWPCC and EPA New England to provide tools and guidance for beach managers, state and local health officials, public works departments, park managers, town managers, and elected officials interested in reducing and preventing beach closures. Representatives from both marine and freshwater beach communities are encouraged to attend. Speakers will be from state and local communities who have experience in reducing beach closures.
Rob Gough, SSCW Executive Director, will be speaking on Tracking Illicit Discharges.
For additional information, contact Susy King at NEIWPCC, 978-323-7929, sking@neiwpcc.org
March 31, Thursday
FAME: Building and
Sailing an 1812 Privateer
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Phillips Library Auditorium, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem MA
Capt. Michael Rutstein, owner and operator of the schooner Fame of Salem,
will talk about his experience researching and building his replica of the
famous 1812 privateer. The presentation includes a slideshow of the schooner's
construction, using many traditional methods and materials, at the H. A. Burnham
Boatyard in Essex.
The original FAME, built in Gloucester and owned in Salem, was a fast `Chebacco' fishing schooner that was reborn as a privateer when war broke out in the summer of 1812. She took at least 21 prizes before being wrecked in the Bay of Fundy in March of 1814. Launched in 2003, the new FAME is a full-scale replica of this famous schooner and is based at Salem's Pickering Wharf Marina.
Call SSCW at 978-741-7900
for more information or email info@salemsound.org.
Everyone is welcome. No admission charge. Pre-registration is not required.
Co-sponsored with the Peabody Essex Museum
APRIL 2005
April 9,
Saturday
Ducks of the Salem
Sound Watershed
9:00 AM - Noon
Meeting Place: Parking lot behind Manchester Town Hall
During this
field trip, Rob Gough, Salem Sound Coastwatch's Director and avid birder,
will introduce participants to many of the dozens of species of ducks that
can be found within the watershed as we explore some of the region's diverse
habitat types. We'll discuss tips for sorting out the identification of these
various ducks, their habitat requirements, and amazing adaptations.
Program is limited to the first 15 registrants.
For more information or to register, call SSCW at 978-741-7900 for more information
or email info@salemsound.org.
Fee: members: Free; Nonmembers: $10 donation requested.
April 11,
Wednesday
5th Annual Earth
Day Event: Environmental Justice
Salem State College, Salem MA
Sponsored by Salem State College and Heathlink. An evening of information
and activities in honor of Earth Day, this event will include speakers, presenters
and more.
April 16, Saturday
North River Clean-up
11:00 AM - 1:00 PM pizza
Meet at the Gazebo in Leslie's Retreat Park between Bridge and Commercial
Streets, Salem.
To celebrate Earth Day, Massachusetts Community Water Watch is sponsoring
a cleanup on the North River. After breaking into teams, teams will disperse
to several sites along the North River (the farthest is a 5-minute drive from
the park) to get the litter and garbage out of the river and off the river
banks. All supplies are provided. All participants are invited back to the
park at 1:00 p.m. for pizza and celebration.
April 21, Thursday evening
Benefit Gathering for a Healthier and Greener Salem
co-sponsored by Salem Sound Coastwatch, Salem Alliance for
the Environment,
and Friends of Salem Woods
$15 Donation per person or $100 for a table of 8
7:00 - 11:00 PM
Upstairs at the Lyceum
Music by Julie Doherty and Band - cash bar - dancing
Everyone welcome.
Three environmental groups from Salem are co-sponsoring a FUN-raiser, FUND-raiser, Friend-raiser at the Lyceum. We'll have a great music, food and cash bar. Come help us make this second annual Salem party a HUGE SUCCESS!!
Tickets at the door or call SSCW at 978-741-7900.
April 22, Friday
Earth Day
Make it an Earth day to remember.
Pick up the phone and call SSCW at 978-741-7900 to find out about environmental
volunteer opportunities in your neighborhood or join us in Beverly on Saturday
April 30th.
April 25, Monday
Manchester Coastal
Stream Team meeting
7:15 PM - 8:30 PM
Manchester Town Hall, Room 7
To read more about MSCT's
activities visit their web page.
April 26,
Tuesday evening
Spring into Action
7:00 PM - 8:15 PM
Beverly Public Library (Program Room - downstairs) 32 Essex St, Beverly MA
(directions)
Find out about Salem Sound Coastwatch's volunteer opportunities this summer. Join our team of volunteer “citizen scientists" who have helped SSCW become a leader in protecting coastal habitats, commercial and recreational marine resources, and water quality. We will be out in the salt marsh again this summer as well as on the coast looking for marine invasive species. We will continue to collect water samples to monitor the health of our waters. Rob Gough and Barbara Warren will give a quick review of all SSCW's monitoring programs and discuss how you can become trained to make a difference.
Registration not required, but please send us an email if you are interested in attending or volunteering. To get more information, call SSCW at 978-741-7900 or email info@salemsound.org.
April 30, Saturday
Beverly's
Earth Day Celebration at
Lynch Park
Salem Sound Coastwatch will join Beverly in celebrating
Earth Day with a marine invasives exhibit and display. The event is organized
by the Open Space & Recreation Committee.
Hope to see you there. Directions
Activities
10:00 AM - 2:00 PM
Rain
Date: May 7 same time
MAY 2005
May 5, Thursday
evening
Clean Beaches
and Streams Orientation and Training
6:30 PM -
7:30 PM
Salem Sound Coastwatch's Office
201 Washington Street Suite 9, Salem MA
Contribute to the protection of the water quality of Salem Sound
and its surrounding communities by collecting water samples from designated
coastal sites from May through September. The orientation will include an
overview of the program, description of volunteer duties, and a training demonstration.
Samples will be collected early in the morning every other week on Tuesday
mornings.
We need your help! Please call us at 978-741-7900 to become a monitor.
To read more about this program.
4th
Annual SSCW North River Awareness Week
May 6-13, 2005
Salem Sound Coastwatch is again sponsoring this week-long series of community
events and presentations in celebration of the North River -- a river in recovery!
For more information about the events below, please call 978-741-7900.
May 6, Friday
North
River Fish Sampling Demonstration -
Please
join us
for this informative, mid-day "lunch & learn" event
Noon - 12:30 PM
Meet at North River at Howley Street, Peabody (just past the Salem/Peabody
city line), next to the Super Stop & Shop (parking suggested in the corner
of the Super Stop & Shop's parking lot).
Join Brad Chase, Fisheries Biologist with the MA Division of Marine Fisheries, for a riverside demonstration of the Division's fish sampling project conducted at the North River this spring. This project is part of an effort to develop an index of rainbow smelt population abundance in four rivers throughout the region. Brad will display the catch from the morning's sampling and provide a brief overview of the project's findings to date. An update on the status of spawning smelt (based on eggs found) at this site (the site of recent efforts to restore habitat in a portion of the North River for this fish. No registration required -- just show up ready to learn about fish and their habitats.
May
11, Wednesday
North
River Awareness WALK -
Please
join us
for this informative, mid-day "lunch & learn" event
NOON - 12:30 PM
Meet at the North River Park (aka Leslie's Retreat Park) parking lot beside
O'Rourke Bros Memorials (73 North St) between Route 114, Commercial St, and
Bridge St.
Join Rob Gough, Salem Sound Coastwatch Director, for a brief 'walk and talk' along the banks of the North River Canal. An overview of the key environmental issues that the river is facing will be presented (pointing out examples as we see them), as well as a discussion of the the river's role within the environmental (and human) community. Participants will be given an opportunity to share their own concerns and wishes for the river and its drainage basin, as we discuss a vision for the future of this natural resource. No registration required -- just show up at the park at noon.
May 12, Thursday
evening
History
of the Rivers of Salem - Please
join us for this entertaining and scholarly evening lecture by Jim McAllister
7:00 - 8:30 PM
Phillips Library Auditorium, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem MA
Jim McAllister, Salem historian, photographer, author, teacher, and tour guide,
will take us back in time when the North and South Rivers flowed freely, then
time-travel us through history from the perspective of the rivers. Jim is
known for his act of making history come alive. This will be Jim's first talk
focusing on the rivers of Salem and the life they supported.
The Salem Rotary Club newsletter writes that "Jim has a knack of reporting
history in such a way that one would think he was relating events which took
place the week before last-and does it in such a way that his listeners are
wide-eyed and sitting on the edge of their seats." The Spoke
Call SSCW at 978-741-7900
for more information or email info@salemsound.org.
Everyone is welcome. No admission charge. Pre-registration is not required.
Co-sponsored with the Peabody Essex Museum
May
14, Saturday
Marine Invasive Species Monitoring Workshop
Lynch Park, Beverly MA
Directions
9:00
AM - Noon
Free, but registration required, and there is the expectation that you will
join a invasive species monitoring team for the summer. Limited to 30 people.
Salem Sound Coastwatch's Coastal Habitat Marine Invasive Monitoring Program trains volunteers to monitor the presence of marine invasive species on docks, rocky shoreline, and tidepools. Please join us in the effort to better understand invasive species locally by participating in our monitoring program. At this workshop, Salem Sound Coastwatch will present information on invasive species identification and survey techniques, as well as background information on the pathways of introduction and the goals and structure of this monitoring program.
This workshop
will begin with a quick overview of the marine invasive species issue in Massachusetts
including identification of species of concern, priority transport mechanisms,
and current impacts. Then we will be walk out to the rocky shoreline
at low tide to review monitoring techniques. The last hour will be spent at
the Beverly Public Pier / Old Ferry Public Landing
to learn techniques for monitoring docks.
Wear comfortable, appropriate clothes for walking on wet cobbles and lying
on the dock to peer over the edge.
Workshop is
free, but there is an expectation that workshop participants will volunteer
as monitors in the field . To register, please call Salem Sound Coastwatch:
978-741-7900 or email info@salemsound.org.
Registration limited to 30 people.
This workshop is funded by MA Office of Coastal Zone Management.
May
22, Sunday afternoon
Marine Invasive Species Monitoring Workshop
Lynch Park, Beverly MA Directions
2:30
- 5:30 PM
Free, but registration required, and there is the expectation that you will
join a invasive species monitoring team for the summer. Limited to 30 people.
Salem Sound Coastwatch's Coastal Habitat Marine Invasive Monitoring Program trains volunteers to monitor the presence of marine invasive species on docks, rocky shoreline, and tidepools. Please join us in the effort to better understand invasive species locally by participating in our monitoring program. At this workshop, Salem Sound Coastwatch will present information on invasive species identification and survey techniques, as well as background information on the pathways of introduction and the goals and structure of this monitoring program.
This workshop
will begin with a quick overview of the marine invasive species issue in Massachusetts
including identification of species of concern, priority transport mechanisms,
and current impacts. Then we will be walk out to the rocky shoreline
at low tide to review monitoring techniques. The last hour will be spent at
the Beverly Public Pier / Old Ferry Public Landing
to learn techniques for monitoring docks.
Wear comfortable, appropriate clothes for walking on wet cobbles and lying
on the dock to peer over the edge.
Workshop is
free, but there is an expectation that workshop participants will volunteer
as monitors in the field . To register, please call Salem Sound Coastwatch:
978-741-7900 or email info@salemsound.org.
Registration limited to 30 people.
This workshop is funded by MA Office of Coastal Zone Management.
JUNE 2005
June 1, Wednesday
evening
Summer
of Salt Marsh Monitoring Kickoff Meeting
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Beverly Public Library (downstairs) 32 Essex St, Beverly MA (directions)
For the last six years, SSCW with the help of dedicated volunteers has used the Wetland Habitat Assessment Toolbox (WHAT) to monitor six salt marsh systems. Come hear what the monitoring results tell us about tidally restricted salt marshes, in particular, post-restoration changes at the Great Neck salt marsh in Ipswich and the Eastern Point salt marsh in Gloucester. We will cover WHAT monitoring plans for Gloucester this summer and the new method for rapid assessment of salt marshes in the Salem Sound, developed by Mass Coastal Zone management.. Come learn so that you can join us out on the marshes this summer.
June 23,
Thursday evening
Join
us for an Evening Sail on the Schooner FAME!
6:00 - 8:00 PM
The Schooner FAME is a full-scale replica of privateer ship from the War of 1812 . Based at Salem’s Pickering Wharf Marina, the FAME is a wonderful, unique way to experience the wonders of Salem Sound.
Set sail with us on Thursday, June 23, for a fundraising cruise to benefit Salem Sound Coastwatch. We'll depart Pickering Wharf at 6:00 pm and take a leisurely sail around the Sound lasting nearly 2 hours. Complimentary beverages and gourmet appetizers will be served as we enjoy the ocean, the wind, and the craftsmanship of this fine vessel. (Appetizers generously donated by Whole Foods, Swampscott, MA!)
Tickets are $50 per person and the voyage is limited to 30 people. So don’t hesitate to reserve your place for this special event. Rain date is June 30th same time.
Our thanks go to Michael Rutstein, owner of the FAME, for his generous donation
to make this SSCW fundraiser possible.
June 25 - July 31
2005 Salem Sound Fishing Derby - CANCELLED
Due to staffing changes at SSCW, this year's derby has been cancelled. If
you are interested in participating in a future derby in 2006, let
us know.
June 26,
Sunday afternoon
Art & Nature Center Drop-in: "Inspired by the Sea"
Peabody Essex Museum, Salem MA
1:00 - 4:00 PM
Join artist Barbara Warren, program director for Salem Sound Coastwatch, for
an afternoon of sea life inspired art play. Examine some of the rich diversity
of life in Salem Sound and create your own fabulous images of marine life
using various materials. Program made possible by the Lowell Institute.
June 30, Thursday
Rain
date for Schooner Fame Sail for Salem Sound
JULY 2005
July 16 and 17
Salem
Maritime Festival - Derby
Wharf
August 2005
SEPTEMBER 2005
September
7, Wednesday 7:00am - 8:00am
WHAT- Bird Monitoring
Eastern Point & Good Harbor Beach, Gloucester
This is the last session of bird monitoring this year. We will conduct a 20-minute
observation at each marsh. We should have a larger number of species since
fall migration is well underway by this time.Email or call if you are interested
in joining us.
September
10, Saturday 8:00am - Noon
North River Clean up
Meet in the Stop and Shop parking lot on Howley Street,
Peabody, MA, off of Harmony Grove Road.
The North River needs your help. We join others from the Citys of Salem and
Peabody to pick up trash along Harmony Grove Road and from the river where
the rainbow smelt spawn in the spring. Trash bags, gloves, and refreshments
will be provided..
September
24, Saturday 9:30am - 11:30am
COASTSWEEP - Help us CLEAN our shoreline
Salem Sound Coastwatch (SSCW) invites you to join us and other community volunteers for the 18th year of COASTSWEEP.
We will decide in September where we are picking up trash this
year. If you have a special place that you believe has been overlooked or
continues to have a trash problem, call and let us know. We are looking for
a beach cleanup team leaders. SSCW will supply trash bags and gloves.
COASTSWEEP is part of an international campaign organized by The Ocean Conservancy
in Washington, DC. Participants all over the world collect marine debris and
record the types of trash they collect. This information is then used to help
reduce future marine debris problems. The Massachusetts Office of Coastal
Zone Management with the Urban Harbors Institute and the University of Massachusetts,
Boston promote Massachusetts’ statewide effort to clean up our shoreline.
In 2003, over 3,000 Massachusetts COASTSWEEP volunteers collected 35,000 pounds
of trash and marine debris.
September
29, Thursday 9:10am - 4:15pm
Monitoring Marine Invasive Species:
Train the Trainers Workshop
Beverly Public Library
This workshop will provide teachers and trainers with the information one
would need to teach others about MIS and to establish a monitoring progam.
The morning session will cover the history and impacts of MIS, the introduction
pathways and species identification. The afternoon session will discuss monitoring
techniques and the challenges of setting up a volunteer monitoring network.
Then, we will head out to a floating dock and the rocky shoreline to experience
the monitoring techniques first hand.
Registration required. Workshop free, thanks to MA Office of Coastal Zone
Management, EOEA.
OCTOBER 2005
October
6, Thursday 6:30pm - 8:30pm
SESD - Tour
South Essex Sewage District, Fort Avenue, Salem
In 1998, SESD completed the installation of secondary treatment of sewage.
We still hear tales of how bad it was when they operated as a primary treatment
plant. Join us on this tour of the facilities to see how they operate now.
Free, but registration required.
Limited to 15 SSCW members only.
October
15, Saturday 10:00am - 11:00am
Tou of CAT COVE
Meet at Cat Cove, Fort Avenue, Salem
Join Alan Young, SSCW board member and Salem State College Biology professor,
for a tour of Smith Pool, tide gates, and all the lab areas.
The Cat Cove facility was built in 1969 and occupied by the Massachusetts
Department of Marine Fisheries until 1997. It is comprised of a 5500 square
foot laboratory building and an 8 acre tide-gate controlled pool (Smith Pool)
on 16 acres of land. When the DMF moved to Gloucester, Salem State College
acquired the facility and had the building renovated to house the Northeastern
Massachusetts Aquaculture Center (NEMAC) and support the new Aquaculture Concentration
within the B.S. Biology major program.
The environmentally controlled laboratory facilitates controlled experiments
and propagation of both marine and freshwater aquatic organisms. Major emphasis
targets shellfish (primarily soft-shell clam) culture and mariculture of fishes
with aquaculture potential in New England. The laboratory is fully equipped
with large flow-through tanks, analytical instrumentation, and all the materials
needed to run a hatchery effectively.
Free, but registration required.
Limited to 15 SSCW members only.
October
18 , Tuesday - SSCW SPEAKERS SERIES
Low Impact Development Forum
Space is limited so please download and complete
the Registration Form.
9:00 AM - Registration and continental breakfast
9:30 - 3:00 PM - Presentations
3:00 - 3:30 PM - Panel Discusssion
LID Principles, techniques, & Implementation
Strategies
Timothy Reardon,
Regional Planner, Metropolitan Area Planning Council
LID Regulatory Implementation on a Local Level
Angus Jennings,
Principal Planner, Concord Square Development Company, Inc.
Former Town Planner for the Town of Marshfield
12:15 - 1:15 PM-- Lunch
(on your own with a variety of lunch possibilities within walking distance)
LID Case Studies throughout Massachusetts
and the Country
Steven P. Roy,
Board member of the non-porfit LID Center and Senior Planner,
Geosyntec Consultants, Inc.
Place and Fee:
Peabody Institute Library
The George B. Gordon Meeting Room (directions)
15 Sylvan Street, Danvers
$35 for Salem Sound Coastwatch members
$45 for nonmembers (become a member and receive a $10 credit towards membership
$20 for students with ID
All proceeds go directly to supporting the Salem Sound Coastwatch
mission.
Space is limited so please download and complete the Registration
Form.
Event poster may be printed as a PDF using Acrobat Reader.
LID addresses the problem of stormwater runoff , the major source of pollution to our waterways. LID is an innovative stormwater management approach based on the principle of managing rain where it falls. LID’s goal is to employ techniques that infiltrate, filter, store, evaporate, and detain runoff at its source through small, cost-effective landscape features located at the lot level. Guest speakers will address how LID can be used in urban areas and in redevelopment projects and potential funding sources for LID projects.
November
3, Thursday 6:30pm - 8:45pm
Member / Volunteer Appreciation & Annual Meeting
"The Shipwrecks of Salem Bay"
Guest Speaker: Raymond Bates
Salem Maritme Visitors Center, Essex St. Salem
Join Salem Sound Coastwatch as we celebrate the beginning of our 15th year.
Bring friends and family to enjoy food, conversation and listen to Raymond
Bates’ shipwreck stories. A Marblehead resident and local author, Ray
is an experienced waterman, commercial diver, and trained historian.
In his book, Shipwrecks of Boston’s North Shore, Ray chronicles the
region’s shipwrecks and tragedies from
the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries.
Free of charge and open to the public.
RSVP requested but not required. For information, call 978-741-7900.
Decmber
13, Tuesday 9:30am
- Noon
CLEAN WATERS FOR BOATING
-- A Public Forum -- all welcome!
Danversport Yacht Club, Ballroom. 161 Elliott Street
in Danvers
Salem Sound
Marine Sanitation Needs
Best Management Practices
The results of the summer’s Boaters Survey will be discussed. Representatives
from EPA, CVA and CZM will be present to provide information on current resources
and regulations. There will be the opportunity to engage in discussions regarding
local solutions and methods for implementing improvements.
| SSCW |
|||
|
Salem
Sound
|
|||
