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The CBP partnership was established in 1983 with a charter to protect and restore Chesapeake Bay. Recent cost estimates to restore water quality in Chesapeake Bay are in excess of $20 billion, and the CBP is subjected to intensive and continual scrutiny. There is an opportunity to have national and international impact through dissemination of results. Chesapeake Bay is considered the ‘model’ ecosystem restoration program in the world, and thus needs to have the necessary science underpinnings to showcase the application of an adaptive management approach using science-based ecosystem management.

UMCES is uniquely positioned to deal with issues on a holistic watershed basis and therefore is ideally suited to support the CBP by interacting with and supporting locally-led efforts within the watersheds to focus regional and state efforts. It is essential that the restoration efforts be carefully targeted and well coordinated to explicitly solve the current environmental challenges facing Chesapeake Bay. UMCES, and in particular the IAN initiative, is striving to forge linkages between management, monitoring, and research within the Chesapeake Bay region through promoting interactions between technical resources within the scientific community and the needs of the management community. Some of the IAN activities that have been initiated include the following: the newsletter series, which cogently takes complex scientific knowledge and distills it into information useful to the management community; conferences relevant to specific issues (such as the Hurricane Isabel in Perspective conference); and an Annapolis seminar series which aims to actively link researchers and managers by accessing expertise on a wide range of relevant watershed and Bay issues.

UMCES also works in partnership with the NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office, and these collaborative efforts are increasingly linking these institutions with the specific aim of maximizing overall resources and establishing more effective results. The EcoCheck program, a NOAA/UMCES partnership based in Oxford is an example, and this partnerships links through the Tidal Monitoring Assessment Workgroup (TMAW) to assisting CBP in the redesign of the monitoring framework and indicators within Chesapeake Bay.

Timeframe

Start: 30th June, 2007
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Duration: Ongoing

Funding Agencies:
Environmental Protection Agency

Partners:
University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science

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Total Maximum Daily Loads: A citizen's guide to the Chesapeake Bay TMDL (Newsletter)

Geographic Region Isolation Runs for Developing Nutrient Load Allocations for the Chesapeake Bay Restoration (Presentation)

A Chesapeake Bay Basin-wide Benthic Index of Biotic Integrity (Presentation)

Predicting Criteria Achievement Under Management Scenarios: Model Simulations Inform Monitoring Data (Presentation)

Computer Model of Water Clarity in Shallow Water for Chesapeake Bay Water Quality Management (Presentation)

New Stream Health Indicator Being Developed (Newsletter)

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On the Chesapeake Bay cleanup, agribusiness tries to muddy the waters

Greater than normal oxygen-starved waters predicted for summer

Elizabeth River rises from the depths Dedicated group is slowly bringing one of nation's most polluted rivers back to life

Scientists predict large Bay 'dead zone' this summer

Average isn't always normal when it come to yearly flows to Bay: Timing is everything when it comes to freshwater surges into Chesapeake Bay

No evidence of "dead zone" in bay

Bay's 'dead zone' better

Chesapeake Bay news is a breath of fresh air: The water's oxygen shortage diminished in August despite heavy June rains, scientists say.

High oxygen found in Rappahannock: Scientists think river's levels will drop again because of pollution

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How maps can lie: Chesapeake watershed stream health

eNews

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Welcome to Richard Tian

Job Vacancy: Estuarine Response Data Analyst

STAR team formed at Chesapeake Bay Program

Research findings for key bay fisheries species

New Chesapeake Bay Program Office Data and Modeling Specialist

New Chesapeake Bay Program Office Database Manager

Jeni Keisman, PhD

New IAN personnel

IAN personnel changes

New UMCES/CBPO Water Quality Analyst

New IAN Personnel

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Key Contact(s):

Dave Nemazie
Associate Vice President for External Affairs
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Dave Nemazie Integration and Application Network Dave Nemazie Associate Vice President for External Affairs nemazie@umces.edu work(410) 221-2006 University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science

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PO Box 775
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