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Timelapse of clouds rolling over large bay area.
Cloud Timelapse
Documentary about the 2016 Chesapeake Bay Report card. Explaining the process behind it and going over the anual results.
2016 Chesapeake Bay Report Card
This diagram shows the features, values, and threats for Guanabara Bay and its watershed, near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Guanabara Bay Values and Threats
Conceptual diagrams illustrating four east-west transects across the Maryland Coastal Bays to provide insights into the features of the Bays.
Maryland Coastal Bays conceptual diagrams
Conceptual diagram illustrating ecosystem characteristics along the Verrazano Bridge Transect. Source: New York Harbor: Resilience in the face of four centuries of development. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rsma.2016.06.004
Verrazano Bridge Transect
Goose and duck hunters build these blinds on the calm waterways of Chesapeake Bay tributaries.
Duck blind
Found on golf courses or vacant gravell parking lots, this noisy plover is best known for its
Killdeer (Charadrius vociferus) nest in busy…
A graph depicts the trend of increasing prorocentrum minimum levels since 1970 in the Chesapeake Bay.
Prorocentrum Minimum Levels since 1970
A conceptual diagram illustrates the key features of the Chesapeake Bay watershed as well as the inputs that stimulate eutrophication and the symptoms of eutrophication.
The Causes and Effects of Eutrophication
A map depicts the general distribution of several of Maryland's common harmful algal blooms, in the Chesapeake and Coastal Bays.
The Distributions of Common Harmful Algal Blooms…
A graph depicts the increasingly high levels of hypoxia in the Chesapeake Bay since 1970.
Trends in Hypoxic Volume Since 1970
A baby terrapin makes its way to the water.
Baby diamondback terrapin (Malaclemys terrapin
A blue heron scans the water for its fish dinner. On a Tred Avon River dockside at Easton Point, Easton, MD.
Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias)
A blue heron waits on a Tred Avon River dockside at Easton Point, Easton, MD.
Great Blue Heron (Ardea herodias)
The Chesapeake Bay watershed received an above average annual amount of precipitation in 2013. This accompanied degrading conditions in some regions of the Chesapeake Bay watershed and improving conditions in others.
Chesapeake Bay Watershed Percipitation Map 2013
Emergent wetland species are planted in a buoyant matrix that floats at the water surface. The roots of these plants grow through the matrix and take up the nutrients they need to grow directly from the water, potentially decreasing nutrient concentrations.
Floating Wetlands Structure and Impact
A diagram showing that inorganic nitrogen (N) in wet deposition has decreased in the Chesapeake Bay watershed between the periods 1989–1991 and 2001–2009.
Inorganic Nitrogen in Chesapeake Bay Watershed…
The Chesapeake Bay watershed’s population is growing quickly. The watershed is currently home to 17.5 million people, and this number is projected to reach 20 million by 2030.
Population Map Chesapeake Bay Watershed
Illustration map of Moreton Bay in Australia
Australia: Moreton Bay
Mangroves and oyster reefs at Pumpkin Bay in the Ten Thousand Islands, Florida.
Mangroves and oyster reefs
Manchac Swamp in Louisiana.
Manchac Swamp, Louisiana
A private dock in a small rural waterfront community.
Dock
Shoreline on Duck Pond, Neavitt Maryland
Shoreline
Baltimore Cityscape
Baltimore, Maryland
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