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Chesapeake Bay Links |
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Chesapeake Bay Links |
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General Databases and Software
EPA's Chesapeake Bay Program Data Hub - Processed and raw data on Water Quality, Chesapeake Bay Living Resources, Geographic Information Systems, Watershed Modeling, and Environmental Indicators.
Maryland Department of Natural Resources' Data Sets - Includes population, economic, agricultural, and water quality data.
Maryland Agriculture Statistics Service - compiles information pertaining to Maryland agricultural production, market prices, cropping practices, crop conditions, agricultural weather, estimates of acreage to be planted or livestock to be produced and other data pertinent to maintaining accurate records. These reports are distributed to farmers, agribusiness firms, wholesalers and retailers to assist them in making management decisions.
State NRCS/NRI
Virginia Air Quality Data - The Department of Environmental Quality operates air monitoring stations throughout Virginia. The purpose of this program is to determine compliance with air quality standards, to provide real time monitoring data for air pollution episodes, to provide monitoring data for trend analysis, and to evaluate the effectiveness of air pollution control regulations.
Maryland Natural Heritage Program - By focusing on those plants, animals, and natural communities which are most in danger of disappearing, the Maryland Heritage and Biodiversity Conservation Program (HBCP) helps to ensure that these essential elements of Maryland's diverse biological heritage are not lost. HBCP is the lead authority within DNR for endangered species protection. It is also responsible for the conservation of all other wildlife species which are neither hunted nor trapped. HBCP's continuing inventory of Maryland's ecological resources, whether rare or more common, provides a dynamic, scientifically-defensible basis for accurately determining the rarity of species and communities, as well as for identifying significant natural areas and setting protection priorities.
Patuxent Wildlife Research Center - has special responsibilities for such national data bases as the Bird Banding Laboratory, Breeding Bird Survey, Colonial Waterbird Survey, and the North American vertebrate collections of the National Museum of Natural History
Submerged Aquatic Vegetation - A site at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) to provide you with:A brief primer on SAV in Chesapeake Bay; relevant information on special reports or projects from the VIMS researchers; recent and historical SAV distribution information (continual updating here); a full bibliography of papers published about SAV in Chesapeake Bay; field observations and aerial updates for 1998; links to other sites that relate to SAV in Chesapeake Bay or elsewhere.
Virginia Coast Reserve Biodiversity Project 1996-1997 - Includes searchable database of species found in this Long Term Ecological Research site.
Virginia Natural Heritage Program - Since 1989, the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation has dedicated its natural heritage staff to the identification, protection, and stewardship of Virginia's biodiversity. To date, inventory has identified over 1000 conservation sites containing one or more rare species or communities.
Data Base of the Occurrence and Distribution of Pesticides in Chesapeake Bay - Agriculture Network Information Center data base including most of the pesticide residue data measured in surface water, surface microlayer, groundwater, sediment, and biota, of Chesapeake Bay from 1976 to 1994. The twelve pesticides targeted include: alachlor, atrazine, carbofuran, chlordane, chlorpyrifos, chlorothanonil, diflubenzuron, linuron, metolachlor, permethrin, simazine, toxaphene
Chesapeake Bay Recreational Fisheries Statistics - Estimates of recreational catch and landings for eighteen finfish species from the Chesapeake Bay are available for the years 1988-1995. These data have been extracted from the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), Marine Recreational Fishery Statistics Survey (MRFSS) data base and provide estimates of fish caught within Maryland and Virginia waters of the Chesapeake Bay.
Fish Health in the Chesapeake Bay - University System of Maryland hosted set of pages on health issues of fish found in the Chesapeake Bay region, including the toxic algae, Pfiesteria
Ichthyological Collection at VIMS - one of the largest and most diverse collections of marine and estuarine temperate zone fishes from Nova Scotia to North Carolina. The collection has extensive large holdings of fishes from the Chesapeake Bay, and middle Atlantic Bight. The collection also includes large and diverse holdings of demersal deep-sea fishes from the western North Atlantic.
Juvenile Abundance Monitoring Surveys - Virginia Institute of Marine Science conducts research in the Virginia portion of the Chesapeake Bay. The objective of the survey is to monitor trends in abundance of juvenile fish. Special focus is on bluefish, striped bass, shad and river herring.
Virginia
Marine Resources Commission - a state agency charged with the protection and
utilization of marine life and habitat in Virginia.
Maryland Department of Forestry Chesapeake Bay and Water Quality Programs - Information about Critical Areas, Buffer Zones, and other methods of using Forestry to reduce non-point source pollution.
Maryland Digital Data - available online from the Maryland Office of Planning
Modeling and Analysis: Impacts of Land Use Changes on the York River Watershed - A study at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science integrating land use mapping with watershed modeling.
Chesapeake Bay Observing System - Current and historical data from a system of buoys maintained by the Horn Point Environmental Lab. Data covers variables including wind, temperature, salinity, currents, and humidity.
York River Contaminant And Sediment Transport (CAST) Project - VIMS project to establish the capability of simulating sediment and associated pollutant transport, as well as to understand their influence on water quality and ecosystems. Data is available for Temperature, Dissolved Oxygen, and Salinity profiles, Total Suspended Solids, Particulate Organic Carbon, Particulate Nitrogen, and Chlorophyll A.
Financing Stream Quality Restoration - Lists of federal and state funding programs for stream corridor restoration and water quality in Pennsylvania, Virginia and Maryland
NAWQA Study Units:
Lower Susquehanna River Basin Study Unit - Consists of 9,200 square miles in the lower Susquehanna River basin from Sunbury, PA, downstream to the Chesapeake Bay at Havre de Grace, MD.
Maryland Electronic Capital - Links to all levels of the Maryland State Government, including the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches, agency, city, county, and other information.
Maryland State Data Center - Includes sample profiles of 1990 census data, historic trends and forecasts are available here for Maryland, its six planning regions and jurisdictions. Projections include population, race, age, households, labor force, jobs, income and school enrollment.
Chesapeake Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve - Established in 1980, the Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and NOAA agreed that a multi-site system would be the best way to represent Maryland's portion of the Chesapeake Bay. The Reserve's Monie Bay Component was designated in 1985, while Jug Bay and Otter Point Creek were designated in 1990.
University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES) - The foremost institution for environmental research within the University System of Maryland and is a world leader in the science of coastal environments. The Center's faculty members include scientists, engineers, and economists who work together in a truly transdisciplinary community.
Chesapeake Bay Researcher's Directory - Compiled and published by the Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee of the Chesapeake Bay Program since 1991. Originally produced as a book, the committee decided in 1995 to make the directory available online instead.
Maryland Institute for Ecological Economics - Established to fill the growing need to integrate the study and management of "nature's household" (ecology) and "humankind's household" (economics). Ecological economics is the name that has been given to the effort to transcend traditional disciplinary boundaries in order to address the interrelationships between ecological and economic systems in a broad and comprehensive way. Projects in the Chesapeake Bay region include:
Integrated Ecological Economic Modeling and Valuation of Watersheds - This project is aimed at developing integrated knowledge and new tools to enhance predictive understanding of watershed ecosystems (including processes and mechanisms that govern the interconnected dynamics of water, nutrients, toxins, and biotic components) and their linkage to human factors affecting water and watersheds. The goal is effective management at the watershed scale.
Maryland Sea Grant Extension - Provides University research-based education and outreach in Maryland, as well as throughout the region and nationally. Programs are carried out in a diversity of areas related to marine and coastal issues that include aquaculture, commercial and recreational fishing, natural resource conservation and biodiversity, coastal water quality, seafood processing and nutrition. A staff of experts is available to answer questions and produces reports, for example:
Environmental Concern, Inc. - A non-profit, non-advocacy corporation. The corporation's charter defines the goals and objectives of the firm as providing quality research and technical information transfer regarding wetland quality, creation, enhancement and preservation.
Sara Gottlieb / Maryland Sea Grant Extension / Last Updated: 04/02/02