Aquarium Conservation Team (ACT) in action.
The Aquarium is a leader and ally in efforts to restore the Chesapeake Bay. The Aquarium serves as the Coastal Ecosystem Learning Center for the bay region.
The Aquarium Conservation Team (ACT) provides volunteer participants like you with hands-on opportunities to help restore habitats, learn about watershed dynamics, and develop the knowledge and skills to serve as participants or leaders in environmental stewardship.
We strive to foster a sense of community responsibility and participation in the preservation and restoration of the bay by providing educational and action opportunities.
The Chesapeake Bay
The Chesapeake Bay is the largest estuary in the United States and one of the largest in the entire world. With waters that lap at the very foundations of the Aquarium's main buildings, the bay's importance to the Aquarium and to the city of Baltimore cannot be overstated.
Similarly, the bay's importance to the 15 million people whose waters drain into the bay, from Washington, D.C., Virginia, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and as far north as upstate New York, cannot be overstated.
The impact of so many people on the health of the bay is immense. Pollution, overfishing, development, and the introduction of foreign species have occurred as the result of human activities on the water’s surface and shorelines.
That damage also occurs hundreds of miles away, near the waters that drain to the bay, as a result of the most mundane of human activities – from building homes and businesses to growing fruits and vegetables, from driving cars to mowing lawns.
Learn More
» Discover simple steps that everyone one of us can take in our daily lives to help restore the health of the bay.
» Access Real Time Water Quality Data in the Chesapeake Bay.
» Learn more about your watershed.
