WSA Members In-Person Meeting and Presentation

Attend an in-person meeting and presentation for Watershed Stewards and the WSA Advisory Committee.
Ascend One Building – (Check-In Required) 8930 Stanford Blvd, Columbia, MD

• 6:00 – 6:30: Food and greetings
• 6:30 – 7:30: Paul’s Presentation

Food:  Sandwiches, chips, and desert will be provided – so please RSVP.

Our speaker: Paul Kazyak –
Today, Paul is now a proud grandfather but out of high school he joined the Navy. His post-navy career has taken him from the Adirondacks to Maryland. He has been an ecology teacher at graduate level and an important part of the Maryland Department of Natural Resources until he retired in 2016. Paul has been involved in (as he says) a fair amount of “environmental stuff”. Hopefully, he will expand on that for us.

Paul has also authored and contributed to several scientific studies and papers about Maryland Biological Stream Surveys (MBSS), the state of the streams and biological stream survey results.

His talk will look at biodiversity hotspots in the county, a quick overview of what fishes we have, how many types of benthic macroinvertebrates there are and how rare they are, a bit about herpetofauna, and how to use the Maryland streams map to find information. He will also dive into what human activities affect biodiversity, with a focus on impervious surface, road salt, legacy effects, migration barriers, loss of forest.