Scientific, Technical Assessment and Reporting (STAR) Publications
STAR Scope and Purpose (March 2025)
Publication date:This document describes the role of the Scientific, Technical Assessment and Reporting (STAR) Team at the Chesapeake Bay Program.
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Enhancing the Chesapeake Bay Program Monitoring Networks: A Report to the Principals’ Staff Committee
Publication date:This report provides an overview of the Chesapeake Bay Program's monitoring network and identifies opportunities to address capacity shortfalls and implement enhancements.
2017 Technical Addendum Ambient Water Quality Criteria for Dissolved Oxygen, Water Clarity and Chlorophyll a for the Chesapeake Bay and Its Tidal Tributaries
Publication date:This 2017 addendum provides previously undocumented features of the procedures for assessing attainment of the Chesapeake Bay water quality criteria as well as refinements and clarifications to the previously published Chesapeake Bay water quality criteria assessment procedures.
Methods and Quality Assurance for Chesapeake Bay Water Quality Monitoring Programs
Publication date:This document provides field and laboratory methods and associated quality control requirements for use in Chesapeake Bay water quality monitoring programs.
Building Environmental Intelligence: Leading the Future of Water Quality Monitoring
Publication date:This report provides recommendations for Chesapeake Bay Program leadership to foster a strong and resilient monitoring network that will take the partnership into the next generation of watershed restoration.
Toxic Contaminants in the Chesapeake Bay and its Watershed (2012)
Publication date:This report summarizes the extent and severity of occurrence of toxic contamination in the Chesapeake Bay and its watershed.
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Review of Phase 5 Watershed Model Hydrologic Calibration
Publication date:The hydrologic calibration of the phase 5 watershed model was evaluated through 9 published acceptable criteria used in HSPF Expert system. The specific flow characteristics evaluated are: Error in total volume; Error in low flow or base flow recession; Error in 50% lowest flow; Error in 10% highest flow; Error in storm volumes; Summer volume error; Winter volume error; Summer storm volume error; and Storm peaks simulated verses observed for selected storms in inches. One Phase 5 base flow statistic was also used.
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The Advantages of Measures of Particulate Carbon, Nitrogen and Phosphorous by Direct Analysis
Publication date:This report offers sampling and analytical procedures that can be implemented to eliminate existing inconsistences in the methods used to determine particulate concentrations.