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Winter Walk for Tree ID Field Experience

Open to the Public

Boots, gloves, winter tree key. Check! Time to learn about woody plant ID from Dr. Vanessa Beauchamp, associate professor in botany at Towson University. This field experience challenges us to look beyond the leaves and focus on other features used to distinguish tree species. Let’s learn about bark texture, leaf buds, and leaf and bundle […]

Cost: $10-25

CANCEL: Photo Safari: Black Squirrels and Winter Birds

Bird Watching Open to the Public

What is the best time for wildlife photography? Surprisingly, winter can be one of the best times. Fewer people out and fewer leaves on the trees mean fewer ways to mess up your shot. Critters tend to be bolder when food is scarce, finding their way into the open more often. Let’s use winter to […]

Cost: $20-25

Nature Connection: Shells

Nature Connection: Shells

For the Family Nature Connection Open to the Public

Did you know that Maryland’s state fossil is a shell? Ecphora gardnerae gardnerae is an extinct species of snail that lived here 5 million years ago. And shells in Maryland are not found only in Ocean City! In the Chesapeake Bay you’ll find shells from mussels, clams, oysters, whelks, and scallops, both native and invasive. […]

Cost: $0

Bee City USA & Bee Campus USA: Mobilizing Communities to Protect Pollinators

Community Science Lectures & Workshops Open to the Public

Native pollinators are in decline, but the good news is there are many ways we all can help. Join Laura Rost, National Coordinator of Bee City USA and Bee Campus USA at the Xerces Society, and Pamela Cowart-Rickman, photo editor at Washington College, to learn how communities across the US are joining together to make […]

Cost: $0-5

Wonders in the Sky

Lectures & Workshops Open to the Public

The sun and moon rise every day or night. We take it for granted. But should we be complacent about our closest star and Earth’s only satellite planet? Let’s learn from Banneker Planetarium’s Director Dave Ludwikoski about the lunar eclipse and blood moon occurring in March and the solar superstorms predicted for 2025. Information will […]

Cost: $5-10

Fossil Club: Extinction (And Other Fun Facts)

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Clubs Fossils Lectures & Workshops Open to the Public

This month, the Fossil Club is pleased to welcome NHSM’s Paleontology Curator George Spicka for an entertaining discussion of the numerous extinction events that have shaped life on Earth from prehistory to more recent times. George says: “Because of the Mega Fauna Extinction event that is now thought to have begun in Asia some 50,000 years […]

Cost: $0-5

Hurricane Hunting NASA Style—Using Space-Based And Airborne Measurements To Improve Understanding And Prediction Of Hurricanes

Lectures & Workshops Open to the Public

In this talk, Dr. Braun will discuss the current state of understanding of hurricanes and the amazing suite of tools that NASA provides to improve understanding, prediction, and response to these impactful storms. Close to 60 million Americans live within counties along the East and Gulf Coasts (140 million total in East and Gulf coast […]

Cost: $0-5

Vernal Pool Pop-Up Field Experiences

Photo by Jayne Ash

Field Experiences For the Family Open to the Public

Our popular vernal pool field experiences will be held as pop-up events this spring. Dates are difficult to predict and are based on rainfall and temperatures. Once a date with suitable conditions is chosen, registration will open about five days in advance of the event date. Watch our E-Blast newsletter and website calendar for date […]

The Artist in “Our” Museum – A Night with Charles Willson Peale

Art Open to the Public Special Event

As a final tribute to our Ice Age in Maryland Exhibit featuring the Woolly Mammoth, NHSM is welcoming, for one night only, the incomparable Charles Willson Peale to the museum. He who excavated a mastodon on a farm in New York and set it on display in 1802 is coming to see the woolly mammoth […]

Cost: $25-35