Modeling
By simulating systems too large or too complex for real-world experiments, environmental models allow scientists to predict how management actions could affect our ecosystem.
Monitoring
Monitoring the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries allows us to detect changes that take place, reveals trends over time and improves our understanding of the natural world.
Quality Assurance
Our Quality Assurance Program ensures the accuracy of environmental data sets, including pollutants, water quality, land use, algae, fish, crabs and submerged aquatic vegetation.
Resource Lands Assessment
The Resource Lands Assessment (RLA) uses GIS models and expert knowledge to provide a regional, multi-state look at the most important remaining resource lands in the Chesapeake Bay watershed.
Chesapeake Bay TMDL
The Chesapeake Bay Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) is a federal "pollution diet" to restore the Chesapeake Bay and its vast network of streams, creeks and rivers.
Watershed Implementation Plans
Watershed Implementation Plans (WIPs) include detailed, specific steps each jurisdiction will take to meet the pollution reduction goals of the TMDL by 2025.
BMP Verification
Best Management Practice (BMP) verification is a process that includes initial inspection, follow-up checks and evaluation of BMP performance.