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MD -- Patuxent Wildlife Research Center -- Rachel Carson Centennial Celebration ceremony:

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Description of Pictures: Rachel Carson Centennial Celebration: Public Ceremony
9:45am Color Guard – Presentation of Flag: Bowie High School Jr. Naval ROTC
Pledge of Allegiance
National Anthem – Ms. Katherine Howell
10:00 Welcome – Master of Ceremonies Mr. Jim Fowler – Introduction of honored guests
10:10 Overview of Scientific Research – Dr. Judd Howell, Director PWRC
10:15 Overview of Education Programs (Sense of Wonder) -- Mr. Brad Knudsen, Refuge Manager, PRR
10:20 Rachel Carson Council – Dr. Diana Post, President
10:25 Remarks – USGS Director Dr. Mark Myers
Remarks – Representative from Governor O’Malley’s Office – Eric Schwaab
Remarks – The Honorable John Sarbanes
Remarks – The Honorable Paul Sarbanes, Retired
Remarks – Representative from Senator Cardin’s Office Heather Campbell
Remarks – Department of the Interior, Deputy Secretary Dr. Lynn Scarlett
11:00 Closing Remarks

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Press release about the event from http://www.fws.gov/arsnew/regmap.cfm?arskey=21441

Wildlife expert and media celebrity Jim Fowler was joined by wildlife friends as well as Congressional and Government officials in the centennial celebration of the birth of Rachel Carson - scientist, author and pioneer in the environmental movement. The public was invited to participate in a variety of events including a ceremony that featured Government and Congressional dignitaries (as well as a bald eagle) followed by a day filled with activities on May 19th at the Patuxent Research Refuge's National Wildlife Visitor Center in Laurel, MD. The celebration was sponsored by the U.S. Geological Survey, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Rachel Carson Council.

Government officials and dignitaries present at the ceremony were: President of the Rachel Carson Council, Inc. Dr. Diana Post, Deputy Chief of the National Wildlife Refuge System Mr. Jim Kurth, Director of the U.S. Geological Survey Dr. Mark Myers, Ms. Heather Campbell representing Senator Benjamin Cardin, Deputy Secretary of Natural Resources Mr. Eric Schwaab representing Maryland Governor Martin O'Malley, Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior Ms. Lynn Scarlett, Congressman John Sarbanes and retired Representative Paul Sarbanes. After the "Sense of Wonder" ceremony, families were able to explore nature and stir up their sense of wonder at programs and activities featuring live animals, hands-on activities, exploratory nature hikes, habitat tram tours and more. Refreshments were sold at the "Crane Café" sponsored by Friends of Patuxent

Other activities honoring Rachel Carson's legacy included displays, exhibits, weekend films and a lecture series. The USGS Patuxent Wildlife Research Center sponsored a Scientific Lecture Series at the National Wildlife Visitor Center on Thursday and Friday, May 17th and 18th. The lectures, "Where have we been, where are we now, and where are we going," discussed Carson's career, legacy and current issues in contaminant ecology and wildlife conservation.

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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. PATUXC_070519_047.JPG: Jim Fowler
2. PATUXC_070519_056.JPG: Col. Harlan Tucker in the middle.
3. PATUXC_070519_100.JPG: Mike Callahan, a naturalist from the Nanjemoy Creek Environmental Education Center
4. PATUXC_070519_190.JPG: National Anthem – Ms. Katherine Howell
5. PATUXC_070519_238.JPG: To the left of Col. Harlan Tucker is Judy Davis, mayor of the city of Greenbelt.
6. PATUXC_070519_241.JPG: Left to right: Katherine Howell (sang Star-Spangled Banner), Diana Post (executive director of the Rachel Carson Council), Dr. Judd Howell, ??, Deputy Director Doyle, Dr. Suzette Kimball.
7. PATUXC_070519_274.JPG: Left to right: Jim Kurth (Director of the U.S. Geological Survey), Heather Campbell (Representative from Senator Cardin's Office), John Sarbanes (Congressman), Paul Sarbanes (U.S. Senator, retired), Diana Post (President of the Rachel Carson Council), Jim Fowler, Lynn Scarlet (Department of the Interior, Deputy Secretary), Eric Schwaab ( Representative from Governor O'Malley's Office), and Dr. Mark Myers (USGS Director).
8. PATUXC_070519_615.JPG: An Air Force show was going on some miles away so these planes flew over part way through.
Wikipedia Description: Patuxent Wildlife Research Center
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Patuxent Wildlife Research Center is a biological research center in Maryland. It is one of only 17 research centers in the United States run by the U.S. Geological Survey. This USGS research center is located on the 12,841 acre U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Patuxent Wildlife Research Refuge, the only National Wildlife Refuge whose purpose it is to support wildlife research.

Mission:

Since its establishment in 1936 as the first wildlife experiment station in the United States, the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center has been a leading international research institute for wildlife and applied environmental research, for transmitting research findings to those responsible for managing the United States's natural resources, and for providing technical assistance in implementing research findings so as to improve natural resource management.

Patuxent's scientists have been responsible for many important advances in natural resource conservation, especially in such areas as migratory birds, national monitoring programs for amphibians and birds, wildlife population analysis, waterfowl harvest, habitat management, wetlands, coastal zone and flood plain management, contaminants, endangered species, urban wildlife, ecosystem management, and management of national parks and national wildlife refuges.

The Center develops and manages national inventory and monitoring programs and is responsible for the North American Bird Banding Program and leadership of other national bird monitoring programs. The Center's scientific and technical assistance publications, wildlife databases, and electronic media are used nationally and worldwide in managing biological resources.

The focus of the Center's mission and vision for the future is to continue its dynamic international, national, and regional leadership in wildlife research. The Center will enhance its accomplishments in generating, interpreting, evaluating, and transmitting the scientific information needed to better address the pressing problems of managing the United States's biological resources, especially those under the stewardship of the Department of the Interior, other Federal and non-Federal partners. Today's challenges in natural resource management involve new approaches such as adaptive management, landscape and ecosystem scale management, partnerships among multiple stakeholders, and transfer and use of the huge store of existing information using modern technology.

The Center is a Federal research facility directed by the United States government to conduct research necessary to fulfill Federal responsibilities, primarily those of the Department of the Interior. The U.S. Geological Survey Biological Resources Division, of which the Center is a part, works with others to provide the information needed to manage the United States's biological resources. Thus, scientific information needs of partner agencies strongly influence much of the Center's scientific agenda.

The Center also receives funds directly from agencies benefiting from our research and from other partner organizations, such as those co-located at its Laurel headquarters. Such support provides critical resources that enhance the scope and value of the Center's activities, within the mission of the Division.

Science conducted at the Center, like any scientific enterprise, ultimately, is driven by the pressing public natural resource needs coupled with the intellectual creativity and motivation of its scientists and technical staff. No research program will succeed unless it flows from the creative energies of its scientists. The research of Center scientists must be engaged at the cutting edge of scientific understanding to assure the long term success of natural resources management.

Note: much of this material was copied directly from the USGS web page on Patuxent, a public domain resource. Please edit to make more encyclopedic.

History:

The land that now comprises the 12,841 acres of the Patuxent Wildlife Research Center was mostly farmland from the colonial period through at least World War I. Well-known landholders such as the Snowden and Duvall families owned substantial amounts of land during the colonial period and well through the 19th century. The legacy of the Snowden family can still be found in two historic homes of the area, one of which (Snowden Hall) actually stands on Patuxent Refuge property. In addition to these dwellings, there still exists quite a few cemeteries whose headstones bear the inscriptions of both the Snowdens and Duvalls, in addition to lesser-known surnames such as the Woodwards, Donaldsons, and Waters families.

Almost all of the 8,100 acres that makes up what is now called the "North Tract" (the Patuxent River bisects the refuge into the North and Central/South Tracts) were transferred in 1991 from the Defense Department's Fort Meade landholdings. It is here that the history of Patuxent Refuge is most apparent to the everyday visitor. Prior to the Department of Defense's ownership of the land in 1917, many old roads that would eventually be incorporated into use for training exercises by the Army existed. Part of the DOD's Trainfire Road, now known as the Wildlife Loop, once linked the railroad town of Woodwardville with Laurel, Maryland. Long before the area became a densely-wooded haven for wildlife amidst a heavily-populated urban corridor, the old Duvall and Lemons Bridges transported people between Prince Georges and Anne Arundel Counties. The former still exists as a newer bridge rebuilt in the 1940s, whereas only cement posts along either side of the river offer any vestige of what was Lemon's Bridge. Perhaps the most historic old road of all, which utilized Duvall Bridge, was the old Telegraph Road. It once linked Baltimore and Washington, and today it is still possible to see century-old telegraph poles along the road in both the Central and South Tracts.

Fort Meade:

Fort George G. Meade, an active Army base, is near the research center. In October 1991, 7,600 acres were transferred from the base to the Patuxent National Research Refuge; in January 1993, another 500 were transferred, as part of Defense Appropriation Bills for 1991 and 1992, respectively.

As part of the U.S. Defense Department's 2005 Base Realignment and Closure process, several additional activities are scheduled to move to Fort Meade around 2010. These include the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), Adjudication and Office of Hearing and Appeals Offices, and several DoD media activities. Several parcels of land have been made available for commercial lease.

A September 2007 environmental impact report described the expansion, and particularly the proposed two additional 18-hole golf courses, as a "significant threat to the biological and territorial integrity of the Patuxent Research Refuge, a unique national interest in the forefront of scientific research and protection." In response, the Army said that it is taking steps to limit the environmental damage but that the golf courses are needed for "maintaining the quality of life for soldiers and their families."
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  - 2007_MD_Greek_071108 AFI -- "Journey: The Greek-American Dream" (w/Maria Iliou, Paul Sarbanes, George Pelecanos)
  - 2006_MD_Census_061026 US Census Bureau -- New building dedication ceremony
  - 2006_DC_Global_060613 Wilson Center -- Panel (Global Competition and Comparative Advantage) (w/Paul Samuelson)
  - 2002_MD_SS_Parade_021123 MD -- Silver Spring -- Thanksgiving Day Parade (2002) and Day of Remembrance w/Charles Moose
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