Join us on June 18th, 2025 at Noon for this month’s installment of the Land and Wildlife Speaker Series featuring Matt Neff from the Calvert Marine Museum. This month’s webinar topic will be frog ecology and identification.

Matt Neff is in his third year as Curator of Estuarine Biology at the Calvert Marine Museum. Since joining the museum, he has launched several new exhibits, including one focused on the Eastern Hellbender, an endangered salamander once found in the Bay. Matt is also starting his 13th season with FrogWatch, a citizen science program that trains individuals to listen for and record frog calls during the breeding season. Last year, over 1,100 observations of 14 different frog species were submitted across the Southern Maryland and surrounding DMV area. Prior to his work at the museum, Matt spent 12 years as a zookeeper in the Department of Herpetology at the Smithsonian National Zoo. With a lifelong passion for animals and environmental education, Matt is excited to continue sharing his love for the natural world, particularly the native species of Southern Maryland.