Warm-up this winter in the comfort of your own home with the enlightening Winter Lecture Series hosted by the Annapolis Maritime Museum & Park (AMM) beginning Thursday, January 13, 2022. The popular educational and informative series of eight wintertime talks provides rich and stimulating topics from an esteemed group of scholars, photographers, and historians.
Lectures will be held virtually Thursday evenings at 7 p.m., January 13th through March 3rd, 2022. Admission is $10 per lecture and FREE for First Mate-level AMM members and above.
Lectures will take place virtually on amaritime.org. Pre-registration is required.
The 2022 Winter Lecture Series is presented by JP Morgan Private Bank and Homestead Gardens.
Complete Schedule:
| January 27 | 7 pm The 6th Great Extinction: Devastating Wildlife and all of Biodiversity
Presenter: Gerald Winegrad | Former State Senator and Author |
| February 3 | 7 pm Ancient Oysters and Modern Messes: How Archaeology Can Help Clean the Bay
Presenter: Leslie Reeder-Myers | Assistant Professor-Department of Anthropology at Temple University |
| February 10 | 7 pm Blacks of the Chesapeake’s Campaign to Preserve A Local Legacy: Elktonia, Carr’s, & Sparrow’s Heritage Preservation Project
Presenter: Vince Leggett | Founder and President of the Blacks of the Chesapeake Foundation |
| February 17 | 7 pm Commodore Matthew C. Perry: Sailor, Diplomat, Naval Educator
Presenter: Dr. Matthew Perry | Scientist Emeritus |
| February 24 | 7 pm Measuring Milestones and Meeting Goals: Progress in Bay Restoration
Presenter: Ann Swanson | Executive Director of the Chesapeake Bay Commission |
| MARCH 3 | 7 pm Ospreys on the Patuxent: Their Important Role in this Ecosystem
Presenter: Greg Kearns | Senior Park Naturalist-Maryland-National Capital Park & Planning Commission |
Learn about the grave threats to biodiversity threatening wildlife, insects including pollinators, and many other species. This is the only great extinction linked to humans, the last being 60 million years ago. Hear from Gerald Winegrad, an experienced naturalist with many years of work in wildlife conservation and trips around the globe to observe nature’s fascinating creatures. • He will be returning from an eco-expedition to Antarctica.
Oysters struggle to grow in much of the upper Chesapeake Bay today, but thousands of archaeological sites full of oyster shells tell us that they were once plentiful. • These sites show how Indigenous people fished the Bay for thousands of years, and how the relationship between people and the Bay has shifted over the past few centuries. • Address how Chesapeake environments and cultures have changed, and investigate a few archaeological clues about what we could do differently today.
Hear accounts and memories about famous beach venues owned and operated by Elizabeth Carr-Smith and her sister Florence Carr Sparrow during the 1930s-1970s with a focus on music, entertainment, and leisure during times of segregation.
This presentation will discuss Commodore Matthew Perry’s early accomplishments in 1820- 30s at sea fighting piracy, claiming Key West for the U.S.A., repatriating free slaves to Africa, and repressing the illegal slave trade. His leadership with naval steam power and commanding first steam-powered ships, including during the Mexican War and the expedition to Japan, where his successful Treaty of Peace and Amity ended over 200 years of isolation by Japan.
This presentation focuses on the first watershed-wide EPA studies that were conducted 50 years ago to document the Chesapeake Bay’s problems. This triggered a massive restoration effort that is widely recognized among the most successful in the world. Progress in water quality is often discussed, but how are we progressing towards the other desired outcomes – crabs, oysters, wetlands, forests, and forest buffers? What measures are still needed to accelerate progress and ensure results?
Explore osprey biology on the Patuxent River, diet behavior, and threats to the population. The provision of nesting platforms and re-introduction efforts of the osprey. Efforts to increase their numbers and public awareness with educational banding program Satellite tracking of migration
