2026 Chesapeake Bay Landscape Professional
Last summer, I was talking to my niece Katie about her job in wetland delineation as an Environmental Scientist 2 with Bay Environmental in Chesapeake Virginia. I’m incredibly proud of the environmental work she does and love seeing her photos out in the field. We come from a family of educators and Earth science nerds so our conversations always jump to these topics. Katie Petersen and I in front of the Science Museum of Virginia in August! Katie was telling me about the Chesapeake Bay Landscape Professional (CBLP) Level 1 course she was taking for professional development and it sounded incredible. The entire course was about the maintenance of Green Infrastructure Best Management Practices (BMPs). That’s EXACTLY the work I had just started doing as an intern for the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District! It covered everything from rain gardens to permeable pavers to bioswales and basins. I decided to take a week off work and sign up for the class myself. It would be a great way to ...
