Into the Dead Zone: What Happens When We Build Cities?

Take to the Anacostia River with Philippe Cousteau and the EarthEcho Expeditions team as they journey across the water and underground in Washington, DC, to explore the impact of urbanization on the water cycle.

Expedition Checklist

Service Learning in Action with the Annapolis Maritime Museum

Students from the Annapolis Maritime Museum’s Oyster Education Partnership provide EarthEcho Expeditions team members Philippe and Ashlan Cousteau with an introduction to oyster reefs. The students demonstrate how to monitor the growth of spat and juvenile oysters, and explain how their service learning experience is improving the health of the Chesapeake Bay.

How To Measure Turbidity

How To Measure Dissolved Oxygen

Service Learning at Annapolis Maritime Museum

Chesapeake Bay Blue Crab

Measuring dissolved oxygen with Earth Force students

Admiring oysters with the Oyster Recovery Partnership’s Steve Allen

On the bay with NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office’s Steve Giordano