Chesapeake Quarterly
September 2008, Vol. 7 No. 3

Looking for Light

Every spring, groups of people gather for a ritual — they wade into tributaries around the Bay, walk until they can no longer see their feet, then measure and record the water clarity. This spring, many wade-ins found the waters amazingly clear. Yet by summer, the waters had grown darker, even darker than the previous year. What is causing this steady decline? Scientists Larry Sanford and Chuck Gallegos suspect that studying sediment may help answer this question.



Featured Photographers

Maryland Sea Grant Writers and Editors

Jeff Brainard, writer and communications director, brainard@mdsg.umd.edu

Michael W. Fincham, writer and film producer, fincham@mdsg.umd.edu

Sandy Rodgers, art director and editor, rodgers@mdsg.umd.edu

Other Photographers

Chesapeake Quarterly also features the photography of others, including professional photographer Skip Brown. Brown began shooting for Maryland Sea Grant right out of college in the early 1980s and over the years has produced many classic Bay photographs.

Rights to the photographs in this gallery are owned by the photographer or by Maryland Sea Grant. Contact Skip Brown (skipbrownphoto@gmail.com) to inquire about the purchase of his photographs. For use of other photographs, contact Sandy Rodgers (rodgers@mdsg.umd.edu).

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