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Tagged Stories: "monitoring"

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Bridging the gap between modeling and monitoring

May 14, 2024

The new Bay TMDL Indicator refines how water quality in the Chesapeake watershed is measured

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The Bay Program revamps the Chesapeake Healthy Watershed Assessment

February 20, 2024

Explore conditions across the watershed with this updated tool

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Aerial photo of a river winding through farmland and forest.

10 reasons to be hopeful about the Chesapeake Bay in 2024

January 19, 2024

Rebounding oysters, shrinking dead zones and unprecedented funding gives us hope

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A man moves a tree whose root ball is wrapped in burlap down a small, grassy hill toward a sidewalk, where it will be planted along a residential street.

Recent data show a slight dip in the Chesapeake Bay’s water quality

October 17, 2023

Monitoring stations across the watershed show mixed results in the amount of pollution measured

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Two rivers join to form one below Harpers Ferry seen from above

Six key programs that monitor the health of the Chesapeake Bay watershed

April 17, 2023

Detecting changes over time guides environmental protection

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Three volunteers stand near the side of a river and review water quality samples.

My Clean Water Story: Peter Tango

November 18, 2022

Our monitoring coordinator is still trying to scratch the “water quality itch”

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Headshot of Peter in an office.

Bay’s dead zone is predicted to be 13% smaller this summer

June 28, 2022

Thank cooler temperatures and less rainfall for a below average hypoxia forecast

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Getting to know the guardians of the Severn River

June 24, 2021

Every summer, you can find the Severn River Association patrolling its 51 monitoring stations

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Taking a deeper dive on oxygen in the Chesapeake Bay

September 29, 2020

New monitoring technology is helping scientists better estimate dead zones

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Smaller-than-normal dead zone predicted for the Chesapeake in 2020

June 17, 2020

Below-average spring rainfall brings less nitrogen pollution into the Bay

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