Rehoboth Beach, DE: On Tuesday, August 18, 2015, members of the Inland Bays Fish Survey and staff gathered at the Delaware Center for the Inland Bays (CIB) to remember and honor our friend and colleague Ron Kernehan, who died in July at his home in Lewes Beach. Ron Kernehan joined the CIB as a […]
– A Benefit for the Inland Bays- Rehoboth Beach, DE: Join us on the deck for the 8th Annual Decked Out! party to benefit the Center for the Inland Bays on Thursday, August 6th from 6:00–9:00 p.m. at our bayside location on Indian River Inlet. Enjoy the sounds of steel drum music as the sun […]
Indian River Inlet, DE: For more than a decade, the Delaware Center for the Inland Bays and its partners have held the annual Inland Bays Clean Up which has removed tons of trash from the beaches, bays and marshes of the three Inland Bays. From litter like plastic bottles and bags, to docking lumber and […]
Center for Inland Bays Working to Remove Hazardous Debris from the Bays Indian River Inlet, DE: When most people hear about the Delaware Center for the Inland Bays, they think about cleaning up pollution in the Bays. But one CIB committee is focused on the broader mission; the ‘wise use and enhancement’ of the Inland […]
Indian River Inlet, DE: For many, the annual Native Plant Sale at James Farm Ecological Preserve has become a spring tradition. Now in its eleventh year, the Gardening for the Bays Native Plant Sale on Saturday, May 2nd at the James Farm Ecological Preserve on Cedar Neck Road in Ocean View is the ‘one-stop-shop’ for […]
Rehoboth Beach, DE: Dr. Dennis Bartow of Ocean View was awarded the President’s Volunteer Service Award with thanks and appreciation from President Barack Obama for his devotion to service in his work for the Delaware Center for the Inland Bays. A retired educator and administrator from Montgomery County Pennsylvania, he came to the CIB […]
Rehoboth Beach, DE: “Although Delaware’s Inland Bays have long been recognized as waters of exceptional recreational and ecological significance, water quality is still a concern because the Bays continue to receive nutrient pollution from a variety of sources like wastewater and fertilizers, said Chris Bason, Executive Director of the Delaware Center for the Inland Bays […]
Rehoboth Beach, DE: The Delaware Center for the Inland Bays (CIB) is pleased to announce the appointment of Dr. Marianne Walch to the position of Science and Restoration Coordinator. Dr. Walch brings nearly 30 years of environmental and ecology research experience in academic, federal and state government positions to the CIB. For twelve years she […]
Letter to the Editor: On January 5th, DNREC Secretary David Small, decided to allow the City of Rehoboth Beach to move forward with plans to remove the City’s wastewater treatment plant discharge from Rehoboth Bay. For decades, the wastewater has degraded this ecologically sensitive estuary. Nutrients in the wastewater have contributed to murky waters, […]
At the mouth of Love Creek where it flows into Rehoboth Bay, the Delaware Center for the Inland Bays is working to improve wildlife habitat and enhance water quality by re-foresting 40 acres of farm field on the Perry Tract at the Angola Neck Preserve. This week, the CIB began the first phase of the […]
