Recently Added Publications

Publication date: February 1st, 2017 in Report

Bay Barometer: Health and Restoration in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed (2015-2016)

The data in Bay Barometer reflect the Chesapeake Bay’s health over the course of many years and, in some cases, decades. The publication offers a snapshot of the best available information from 2015 and 2016 on ecological health and our efforts to protect and restore the nation’s largest estuary, as well as our progress toward achieving the goals and outcomes of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement.

Publication date: January 25th, 2017 in Report

Chesapeake Bay Program Strategic Communications Plan

This plan guides the communications efforts of the Chesapeake Bay Program partnership.

Publication date: December 19th, 2016 in Report

Animal Waste Management Systems Expert Panel Recommendations

Publication date: November 14th, 2016 in Report

Urban Tree Canopy BMP Expert Panel Recommendations

Publication date: October 21st, 2016 in Report

Assessing Water Quality with Submersed Aquatic Vegetation

Submersed aquatic vegetation is comprised of rooted flowering plants that have colonized primarily soft sediment habitats in coastal, esturine, and freshwater habitats. In Chesapeake Bay, seagrasses in saline regions and freshwater angiosperms that have colonized lower-salinity portions of the estuary constitute a diverse (Approximately 20 species) community of submersersed aquatic vegetation (collectively as SAV; Hurley 1990). Seagrasses are typically defined as the approximately 60 species of marine angiosperms (den Hartog, 1970); however respreantatives of the several hundred species of freshwater macrophytes are often found in estuarine habitats (Hutchinson 1975). For the purpose of this article, the term submersed aquatic vegetation is used for both marine angiosperms and freshwater nmacrophytes that are found in Chesapeake Bay.

Publication date: February 2nd, 2016 in Report

Bay Barometer: Health and Restoration in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed (2014-2015)

The data in Bay Barometer reflect the Chesapeake Bay’s health over the course of many years and, in some cases, decades. The publication offers a snapshot of the best available information from 2014 and 2015 on ecological health and our efforts to protect and restore the nation’s largest estuary, as well as our progress toward achieving the goals and outcomes of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement.