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Open Standards for the Practice of Conservation and Miradi Software
This talk describes how the Open Standards for the Practice of Conservations provides a common framework for designing, managing, monitoring, and learning from conservation projects and programs that...
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Choptank Complex Habitat Focus Area
The Delmarva/Choptank River Complex, which includes the Choptank and Little Choptank Rivers, is located on Maryland's Eastern Shore. This area is a treasured part of the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem,...
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A view of stream habitat conditions in the Chesapeake Bay watershed through...
A recent assessment of stream habitat conditions was used to construct a model f brook trout distributions throughout their native range in the Chesapeake Bay. Our approach uses very large datasets and...
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What climate changes means for Chesapeake Bay restoration
Dr. Raymond Najjar, from the Department of Meteorology at the Pennsylvania State University, presents research on climate change and how it will affect Bay restoration.
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Global, National, & Local Trends of Nitrogen Use Efficiency in Agriculture.
More than half of the people in the world are nourished by crops grown with synthetic nitrogen (N) fertilizers. However, more than a billion people are still undernourished, and global population will...
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Using Chesapeake Bay Program Decision Support Tools for Developing Locals...
Olivia will show how the Chesapeake Bay Program's decision support tools are used to develop local TMDLs and TMDL implementation plans. These decision support tools include CAST and BayFAST and the...
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An Overview of Citizen Science and Crowdsourcing in Federal Agencies
Anne presents an overview of citizen science and crowdsourcing in federal agencies. The Commons Lab Inventory, led by the Anne, is a collection of federally supported citizen science and crowdsourcing...
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STAR Seminar: Citizen Science Success Stories from Virginia
As the Chesapeake Bay Program begins a multi-year effort to increase data available for tracking Bay restoration progress by incorporating citizen science into the CBP monitoring network, this...
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UMCES Chesapeake Bay Report Card – the 2014 Results
The overall health of Chesapeake Bay improved in 2014, with significantly improving trends in both total nitrogen and total phosphorus in the Bay. Overall, the tidal waters of the Chesapeake scored a C...
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Chesapeake Bay Sentinel Site Cooperative
The Chesapeake Bay Sentinel Site Cooperative (CBSSC) is a partnership among local, state and federal agencies as well as academic institutions, non-profit organizations, local communities and regional...
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Impacts of Shoreline Hardening and Watershed Land Use on Nearshore Habitats
As part of a larger study of multiple stressors in near-shore habitats, we measured water quality in 50 mid-Atlantic coastal bays and sub-estuaries. Total nitrogen and total phosphorus concentrations...
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Interacting Effects of Land Use and Shoreline Armoring on Submerged Aquatic...
We used two approaches to study the interactive effects of land use and shoreline armoring on submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV) in Chesapeake Bay. One approach developed spatial-statistical models...
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Fish, Crabs and Habitat: Exploring the Land-water Interface
Details explaining a study done on the effects of land use and shoreline hardening on fish and crabs.
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Phragmites australis – Common Reed
An introduced form of Phragmites australis, Common Reed, has exploded in abundance in wetlands of the Chesapeake Bay since the 1980s. Phragmites quickly turns diverse native wetlands into monocultures...
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USGS Watershed Monitoring Results
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), as a partner of the Chesapeake Bay Program, is responsible for determining the extent to which nitrogen, phosphorus, and suspended-sediment loads delivered to bay...
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USGS River Input Monitoring Results
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), as a partner of the Chesapeake Bay Program, is responsible for determining the extent to which nitrogen, phosphorus, and suspended-sediment loads delivered to bay...
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Targeting Behaviors Around the Bay: Where to aim?
Who’s willing to change their behaviors in the interest of Chesapeake Bay health? Limited by financial constraints, it may be ideal for watershed organizations to focus their stewardship and...
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Monitoring, Modeling, and Research as part of the Baltimore Urban Waters...
The National Urban Waters Federal Partnership is comprised of 13 Federal Departments, including the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), and U.S. Department of...
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SAV Monitoring Program - Sustainability and funding challenges
Since the early 1980s, the Virginia Institute of Marine Science, with the support of the Chesapeake Bay Program partnership, and with funding from the EPA and other local, state, and federal partners,...
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Submerged Aquatic Vegetation (SAV) Update - The Future of Annual Baywide...
Chesapeake Bay support a diverse assemblage of 10-15 species of submersed aquatic vegetation (SAV) whose distributions are generally constrained by salinity. Two species are found in the higher...
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Modeling the Impacts of Water Quality on SAV in the Tidal Chesapeake Bay
Although environmental requirements of submerged aquatic vegetation have been studied for years, reliable metrics for predicting their response to current or future conditions remain elusive. The...
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The Chesapeake Atlantis Model: An Adaptive Management Tool for Visualizing...
There have been numerous indicators that there has been progress in improving the water quality indicators for the Chesapeake Bay system. Less clear, are the effects of these water quality improvements...
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EPA's Climate Change Indicators: Overview
EPA’s Office of Atmospheric Programs (OAP) compiles and publishes a set of key indicators related to the causes and effects of climate change into a peer-reviewed report entitled: Climate Change...
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Decadal-scale Changes in Sediment and Nutrient Delivery from Conowingo...
Reduction of suspended sediment (SS), total phosphorus (TP), and total nitrogen is an important focus for Chesapeake Bay watershed management. The Susquehanna River, the bay’s largest tributary, has...
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Ecosystem Services Analysis: A Primer Part 1
This lesson is intended as a primer for understanding environmental economics, focusing particularly on the valuation of ecosystem services. The first section of the presentation focuses on an...
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Ecosystem Services Analysis: A Primer Part 2
This lesson is intended as a primer for understanding environmental economics, focusing particularly on the valuation of ecosystem services. The first section of the presentation focuses on an...
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Shifting Strategies as a Result of Reduced Federal Funding
This presentation highlights decreasing trends in funding for certain federal programs and then presents an adaptive management strategy that helps move projects forward. The data utilized in the...
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