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Gateways Network Tops 100
Publication date: 1/30/2002 | Type of document: Fact Sheet
This press release announces the addition of 16 sites to the Chesapeake Bay
Gateways Network
Chesapeake Bay Gateways Map & Guide
Publication date: 7/1/2001 | Type of document: Brochure
The Gateways Network Map & Guide introduces visitors to the Chesapeake Bay
and to Gateway sites and water trails. The Gateways Network is a system of
parks, refuges, maritime museums, historic sites and watertrails where people
can experience and learn about the special places and stories of the Bay.
Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network Brochure
Publication date: 6/26/2000 | Type of document: Brochure
This work contains the following themes as they relate to the Chesapeake Bay:
The Bay as a Source of Recreation and Renewal
Data Hub
Publication date: 4/1/2000 | Type of document: Fact Sheet
The Data hub is a Chesapeake Bay Program web page where environmental monitoring
and geographic data related to Chesapeake Bay is located. A dynamic, form-driven
interface allows the user to access the information.
Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network Framework
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Publication date: 6/26/2000 | Type of document: Report
This work contains the following themes as they relate to the Chesapeake Bay: The Living Natural Bay/Ecosystems, Watersheds, Environmental Stewardship and Sustainability of the Bay/Stewardship
Chesapeake Bay Watershed Assistance Network Access to Federal Funds
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Publication date: 9/19/2007 | Type of document: Report
The Federal Agencies Committee (FAC) and the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Assistance Network led the effort in developing this document. It was developed for stakeholders involved in the implementation of the State Tributary Strategies. It addresses the commitment in the Resolution to Enhance Federal Cooperative Conservation in the Chesapeake Bay Program, "to provide restoration managers, local governments, watershed associations and landowners with more effective access to appropriate programs of Federal and state agencies, in order to accelerate restoration of the Chesapeake Bay and its tidal tributaries. Through input from FAC members, and EPA staff, this document was expanded to include ...
Chesapeake Bay Watershed Assistance Network
Publication date: 10/3/2005 | Type of document: Policy Memorandum
In January 2005, the Chesapeake Executive Council issued Directive 04-2 "Meeting the Nutrient Sediment Reduction Goals - Next Steps". The Council directed the Chesapeake Bay Program to create a network of assistance programs "to establish a better mutual understanding of how existing financing programs operate, explore possibilities for greater effectiveness and consider ways to improve financing of tributary strategies implementation. The doc describes the mission, goals, and desired results.
Suspension Feeders: A Workshop to Assess What We Know, Don't Know and Need to Know to Determine their Effects on Water Quality
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Publication date: 12/1/2002 | Type of document: Report
Available in digital format and hardcopy. Phytoplankton standing stocks, production, and species composition are potentially influenced by both the supply of nutrients to the bottom of the food web and removal by suspension feeders higher in the food web. Similarly, suspended sediment concentrations are determined by both their loading rates and their removal or settlement from the water column. Most management activities to date in the Chesapeake Bay watershed have addressed the supply end of these relationships by attempting to reduce nutrient and sediment loading to waters within the Chesapeake Bay watershed. However, to predict the relationship between nutrient or sediment loading and ...
Bay Plain and Piedmont: A Landscape History of the Chesapeake Heartland from 1.3 Billion Years Ago to 2000
Publication date: 1/1/2000 | Type of document: Report
A synthesis of human activity in the core portion of the Chesapeake Bay watershed written by the National Park Service, with the assistance of a partnership of federal and state agencies, academic institutions, public and private organizations and individuals. This landscape history provides accurate, up to date information on the natural and cultural resources of the Chesapeake Bay heartland, and reveals how a complex ever-changing web of relationships connects all of the region’s resources. This landscape history serves as a consolidated reference for interpreting the Bay watershed’s cultural and natural resources.
Forestry Best Management Practices and Water Quality in the Piedmont and Ridge and Valley Provinces of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
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Publication date: 12/16/2003 | Type of document: Report
The 2003 Chesapeake Bay Education Summit fulfilled the goal of creating a strategy that will guide the Chesapeake Bay Program Education Workgroup to meet its Chesapeake 2000 commitments. The summit emphasized the commitment to provide all students in the watershed with a meaningful Bay or stream outdoor experience by 2005. The strategy focuses on the areas of marketing, quality control, funding, tracking and a Web site. The insights gained from the summit will greatly help the Education Workgroup to further their successes and to focus their energy on the areas needed to provide all students in the watershed with a meaningful Bay and stream outdoor experience.
Chesapeake Bay Program Analytical Segmentation Scheme - Revisions, Decisions and Rationales 1983-2003, 2005 Addendum
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Publication date: 12/1/2005 | Type of document: Report
In October 2004, the Chesapeake Bay Program released Chesapeake Bay Program Analytical Segmentation Scheme: Revisions, Decisions, and Rationales 1983-2003 (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 2004). The Segmentation Scheme Report provided documentation on the development of the spatial segmentation scheme of the Chesapeake Bay and tidal tributaries over the period from 1983 to 2003. The 2003 revisions to the Chesapeake Bay Program segmentation scheme included multiple segments and split segments that crossed jurisdictional boundaries. This has led to some confusion as to the area within segments that are under the jurisdiction of the individual states and the District of Columbia. In an ...
Coupling Water Quality and Upper Tropic Level Models for Chesapeake Bay: A Planning Workshop
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Publication date: 3/1/2005 | Type of document: Report
Recent publications such as the Chesapeake 2000 agreement and the Fisheries Ecosystem Plan reflect the growing interest in integrated management of water quality and fisheries. The US EPA Chesapeake Bay Program (CBP) has invested in a variety of numerical modeling approaches that address issues related to management of the estuary. One of these approaches is the Chesapeake Bay Water Quality Model which has been a primary tool used to simulate estuarine ecosystem responses to alternative nutrient and sediment watershed management policies. The NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office (NCBO) has sponsored development of a fisheries-oriented trophic network model for the Bay using a widely applied software ...
Chesapeake Bay 2005 Health and Restoration Assessment Part One: Ecosystem Health
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Publication date: 3/1/2006 | Type of document: Environmental Assessments
The Chesapeake Bay 2005 Health and Restoration Assessment is presented in two parts. In Part One: Ecosystem Health, the most current data available are used to provide a scientifically based assessment of the Health of the Bay. In Part Two: Restoration Efforts, key restoration actions are measured against long-term restoration goals.