Join us for this year’s Open House “Sustainable Solutions through Science.” Learn about cutting edge research our faculty and graduate students conduct in the Chesapeake Bay and across the world's oceans. Explore environmental science through exhibits, presentations, and hands-on activities. Board the research vessel RACHEL CARSON and explore aquaculture and more at the boat ramp. Visit one of the East Coast's largest oyster hatcheries. Games and free t-shirts for the kids and food for all provided by Ruritans and Rita's Italian Ice. This is a great family event, so plan to spend some time with us and learn about the world of a marine scientist.
“This is the best day of the year for the community to learn about the science of the Bay. Everyone at the lab is on deck to explain their research with activities and displays that make it easy to understand,” said Horn Point Laboratory Director Mike Roman.
Visitors to the Open House will be able to:
- Build a healthy marsh and learn who are our best partners in this effort.
- See an animation of the travels of oyster larvae as they move from the reef where they spawned to their new, permanent home reef.
- Match up a DNA sequence to microscopic creatures important to the food chain.
- Touch a sturgeon whose ancestors date to the Jurassic period
- Play in a digital sand box to create shorelines and model weather’s impact around the Bay with laser imaging.
- Meet and talk to graduate students about their environmental career goals.
- At the children’s activity tent, create eco-friendly animals that live in the water with recycled materials.
- Play games that teach fun facts about the Bay.
- Go on a scavenger hunt through the exhibits to learn how the Bay’s lasting health starts with each of us making a cleaner environment today.
- Enjoy a shuttle tour of the campus.
- Explore all living things found at HPL's campus with the Maryland Biodiversity Project (MBP). Add species to the website as you observe them while walking the HPL campus.
FREE! Rain or shine. Directions to the laboratory.
Questions? Contact Carin Starr 410-221-8408 or cstarr@umces.edu
