Publications

This report is the third in a series in which the Chesapeake Bay Environment Model Package was used to assess the environmental benefits of oyster restoration in the Chesapeake Bay. Here, the effects of oyster restoration to all potential Virginia oyster habitat were investigated.

View document [PDF] Ecosystem Effects of Oyster Restoration in Virginia Habitat and Lease Areas

This work contains the following themes as they relate to the Chesapeake Bay: Watersheds, Environmental Stewardship and Sustainability of the Bay/Stewardship

View document [PDF] Air Pollution and the Chesapeake Bay

This directive commits the Chesapeake Bay Program to develop strategies to protect and restore wetlands.

View document [PDF, 15.9 KB] Directive 97-2: Wetlands Protection and Restoration Goals

This work contains the following themes as they relate to the Chesapeake Bay: The Living Natural Bay/Ecosystems, Environmental Stewardship and Sustainability of the Bay/Stewardship .

View document [PDF] Protecting Wetlands: Tools for Local Governments

This document contains the method of producing both the Chesapeake Bay Program Land Use and the Phase 4.2 Watershed Model Landuse. It also documents the hindcasting & forecasting of model land use, the development of model segmentation, and model linkages.

View document [PDF] Chesapeake Bay Watershed Model Land Use and Model Linkages to the Airshed and Estuarine Models

This study was undertaken to compare results obtained with standard and alternative, new techniques for total nitrogen and chlorophyll determination in estuarine water samples.

View document [PDF] Methodological Comparisons for Nitrogen and Chlorophyll Determinations in Estuarine Water Samples.

An assessment of ambient toxicity of Delaware public peninsula creeks where agriculture is the dominant land use. The assessment evaluates potential persistent impacts and potential intermittent or pulsed impacts. Three watershed assessments have plastic culture practices.

View document [PDF] Ambient Toxicity and Chemical Characterization of Four Bayside Creeks of the Eastern Shore

This directive commits the Chesapeake Bay Program to engaging state Departments of Education, supporting interagency education groups in each Chesapeake Bay jurisdiction, convening biennial Education Summits, and reorganizing the Bay Program’s Communications Subcommittee to coordinate education and communications efforts.

View document [PDF, 16.1 KB] Directive 98-1: Chesapeake Bay Program Education Initiative

This document presents a strategy to accelerate the protection and restoration of submerged aquatic vegetation, or SAV, in the Chesapeake Bay and its tidal tributaries.

View document [PDF] Strategy to Accelerate the Protection and Restoration of Submerged Aquatic Vegetation in the Chesape

The goal of the Chesapeake Bay Striped Bass Management Plan is to enhance and perpetuate the striped bass stock in the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries, and throughout its Atlantic coast range, to generate optimum long-term ecological, social and economic benefits.

View document [PDF] Striped Bass Fishery Management Plan 1989