For thirty years Maryland Sea Grant has provided citizens with in-depth, creditable information about Chesapeake Bay issues. Since 2002, Chesapeake Quarterly has served as Maryland Sea Grant's signature publication. The magazine's writers tell stories about the complex issues facing those who live in the Bay watershed — farmers, watermen, scientists, environmentalists, and others — and explain the science and outreach that inform decisions affecting us all.

Chesapeake Quarterly has won prestigious APEX awards for publication excellence over the past several years.

	2008 Erica Goldman received an award for "science and environment writing" for her feature article on the power of the Bay's "other filter feeders" — like mussels and clams — to clean up Chesapeake waters in an era when the oyster, the Chesapeake's major filter feeder, is in steep decline (Vol. 6, No. 2). Michael Fincham received a "magazine and journal writing" award for his in-depth look at Pfiesteria on the tenth anniversary of the "hysteria" set in motion by the appearance of this algal cell in Maryland's Pocomoke River (Vol. 6, No. 1).
	2007 The issue (Vol. 5, No. 2) won for excellence in the "magazines and journals" category. "The MSX Files: Unmasking an Oyster Killer" was devoted to the devastating oyster disease, caused by a mysterious parasite, that has plagued the Chesapeake Bay for more than fifty years. Jack Greer won an award for "The River’s Keeper,” a profile on Drew Koslow, the riverkeeper for Annapolis's South River, whose job is to defend the river against pollution and to serve as its eyes, ears, and voice (Vol. 4, No. 4).
	2006 The issue "Farms and the Bay" (Vol. 4, No. 1) won an excellence award in the category for print, 4-color magazines. This issue explores how farmers in the Chesapeake region face the dual challenges of working the land and protecting the waters.