Hypoxia Collaborative Team
The Hypoxia Collaborative Team advises the design and implementation of a Chesapeake Bay-wide high-frequency hypoxia profiling network to improve the monitoring and assessment of the Bay.
Meetings
No upcoming meetings.
Hypoxia Collaborative Meeting - March 2025
Hypoxia Collaborative Team Meeting - October 2024
Hypoxia Collaborative Meeting - March 2024
About
Hypoxic (low dissolved oxygen) conditions, caused by excess nutrient loads from across the watershed, are a critical stressor for living resources in the Chesapeake Bay. These conditions are projected to worsen with increases in temperature and precipitation. Traditional water column monitoring in the Chesapeake Bay is designed for annual and seasonal insight, but it does not capture short-term dynamic events. High frequency monitoring throughout the water column would improve measurements of hypoxic volume. The Chesapeake Bay Program’s Science Technical Assessment & Reporting (STAR) has tasked this collaborative team with the design and implementation of a bay-wide high-frequency hypoxia profiling network to improve the monitoring and assessment of the Bay. Management applications of the hypoxia monitoring network include WQ criteria assessment and condition of fish habitat.
The development of this network draws together a diverse team of stakeholders consisting of representatives from federal and state government, as well monitoring and modeling experts from the research community. The team will focus on developing a sampling design, defining agency roles and responsibilities, documenting operational costs, recommending QA/QC protocols, prioritizing near term data products and management applications, and designing an analytical framework and model integration. All findings from the collaborative team will be provided in a final report to STAR and broader Chesapeake Bay Program partnership.
Publications
Chesapeake Bay Water-Column Hypoxia Monitoring End-of-Year Data Report 2024
Publication date:This report comprehensively details the NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office's buoy-based hypoxia monitoring and analysis program for the year 2024.
View document [PDF] Chesapeake Bay Water-Column Hypoxia Monitoring End-of-Year Data Report 2024
Chesapeake Bay Water-Column Hypoxia Monitoring End-of-Year 2023 Data Report
Publication date:This report comprehensively details the NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office's buoy-based hypoxia monitoring and analysis program for the year 2023.
View document [PDF] Chesapeake Bay Water-Column Hypoxia Monitoring End-of-Year 2023 Data Report
Chesapeake Bay Water-Column Hypoxia Monitoring Quality Assurance Project Plan
Publication date:The QAPP for the Bay-wide high frequency hypoxia profiling network, prepared by the NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office and approved by the Chesapeake Bay Program Quality Assurance Project Manager.
Our Members
- Peter Tango (Chair)
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) ptango@chesapeakebay.net - Bruce Vogt (Vice Chair)
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Bruce.Vogt@noaa.gov - Allison Welch (Staffer)
Chesapeake Research Consortium awelch@chesapeakebay.net - Christina Garvey (Staffer)
Chesapeake Research Consortium christina.garvey@noaa.gov - Cindy Johnson
Virginia Department of Environmental Quality csjohnson@deq.virginia.gov - Lee McDonnell
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency mcdonnell.lee@epa.gov - Mark Trice
Maryland Department of Natural Resources mtrice@dnr.state.md.us - Tom Parham
Maryland Department of Natural Resources tparham@dnr.state.md.us - Sean Corson
NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office sean.corson@noaa.gov - Kevin Schabow
NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office Kevin.Schabow@noaa.gov - Jeremy Testa
University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science jtesta@umces.edu - Larry Sanford
University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science lsanford@umces.edu - Marjy Friedrichs
Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) marjy@VIMS.edu - Durga Ghosh
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) dghosh@chesapeakebay.net - Dan Dauer
Old Dominion University (ODU) ddauer@ODU.edu - Carl Friedrichs
Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) carl.friedrichs@vims.edu - Piero Mazzini
Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) pmazzini@vims.edu - David Scheurer
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) david.scheurer@noaa.gov - Steve Hummel
Virginia Department of Environmental Quality Steven.Hummel@deq.virginia.gov - Amanda Shaver
Virginia Department of Environmental Quality amanda.shaver@deq.virginia.gov - Jay Lazar
NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office jay.lazar@noaa.gov