Eastern Shore Master Naturalists

Calendar

Visit this page to keep up with what’s going on. If you have any events to add please use the “Add Your Event” form.

Events Search and Views Navigation

Event Views Navigation

Today

Featured Featured

💡 CE: Virginia Master Naturalist Statewide Conference and Volunteer Training 2024 (Virtual)

Conference Theme – Connections: Humans, nature, and their mutual impacts Our 2024 Virginia Master Naturalist conference theme focuses on the role that VMN volunteers can play in building positive connections between people and the rest of the natural world in which we exist. Research shows that time spent in nature has positive benefits for human […]

💡CE: Mutton Hunk Fen NAP Birding Field Trip

Mutton Hunk Fen Natural Area Preserve 28583 Baker Road, Parksley, VA, United States

View multiple bird species including terns, shorebirds, raptors, early passerine migrants. Leaders:  Maggie Long 610-500-9971 and Joette Borzik.

🍁 Ed & Outreach Volunteer Opportunity: Exmore Fall Festival

Main Street Exmore Main Street, Exmore, VA, United States

Please contact Brenda Poist to sign-up or get more info. Volunteers needed: 3 from 9-12 3 from 12-4. Volunteers will: work on crafts building butterflies with the kids (at least one per shift) discuss Master Naturalists with interested parties discuss the Nature of Native Plants and Butterflies by working with a matching game of butterflies. […]

🌳 Volunteer Opportunity: Scientific Tree Survey with VCR-LTER

TNC Brownsville Preserve 11332 Brownsville Rd, Nassawadox, Virginia

The VCR-LTER (Virginia Coast Reserve-Long Term Ecological Research station) down in Oyster is looking for 2-4 volunteers to assist in conducting a fall tree census in Brownsville in late September – early October. The lab group is planning to visit Sept. 30 – Oct. 4. You may volunteer for one or more of these days. […]

💡CE: Live Mini Monarch Essentials

Join the Monarch Joint Venture for a virtual 3-week course to learn about monarch butterfly ecology, threats, and the effective conservation actions that you can take to help protect this iconic species. All classes are recorded and also available for later viewing. This is a three day series; Tuesdays, October 1, 8, and 15, 2024.

$75

🦪 Continuing Education: Chesapeake Oyster Science Symposium 2024 (Virtual)

Virtual

Event will be broadcast live over Zoom from the Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s Brock Environmental Center in Virginia Beach, VA Is your world an oyster? Are you or is someone you know currently practicing or considering entering the fields of oyster research, science, restoration, and/or aquaculture? Register Now The Chesapeake Oyster Alliance with support from the […]

🧤 Ed & Outreach Volunteer Opportunity: Eastern Shore Ag Day

Near Northampton County Parks & Rec 7247 Young Street, Machipongo, VA, United States

Please contact Brenda Poist to sign-up or get more info. Volunteers needed: 3 from 9-12 3 from 12-3. Volunteers will: work on crafts building butterflies with the kids (at least one per shift) discuss Master Naturalists with interested parties discuss the Nature of Native Plants and Butterflies by working with a matching game of butterflies. […]

💡 CE: What is an Endemic? 15 Endemic Bird Species

Eastern Shore Community College 29316 Lankford Highway, Melfa, VA, United States

Oct. 8 Program:                  Joanne Laskowski: 15 Endemic Bird Species USA What is an endemic? How many are year-round U. S. residents? Are any found on Virginia’s Eastern Shore? Joanne Laskowski, ESMN member and past president, environmental educator veteran birder answers all these questions and more. Meeting held at Eastern Shore Community College, Academic Building, 29316 […]

eBird: October Big Day

Like Global Big Day, October Big Day is an opportunity to unite around our shared love of birds. Last October, nearly 36,332 people from 191 countries submitted 83,735 checklists with eBird, demonstrating the power of birds to bring people together. Each year more and more participants join in this global celebration, how many people will […]

Free