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An icon representing degraded water quality.
Degraded water quality
Saltwater intrudes into freshwater, a problem often affiliated with excess coastal groundwater extraction.
Saltwater intrusion
A diagram illustrates the current state of Assateague Island's dunes and grasslands and shows the impacts climate change will likely have on this ecosystem.
Climate Change Effects on the Dunes of Assateague…
A diagram illustrates the current conditions of the forest and shrub ecosystem on Assateague Island and shows the impacts climate change will likely have on native species in this area.
Climate Change Impacts on Assateague's Forest…
A conceptual diagram illustrates the current threats to native salt marsh species as well as the threats these species will face as their habitat is altered by climate change.
Effects of Climate Change on the Salt Marsh…
Conceptual diagram illustrating the processes in which oceanographic data are collected.
Collecting oceanographic data
Conceptual diagram illustrating current and historical hydrological conditions of the zones in Florida Bay.
Florida Bay hydrological conditions
Conceptual diagram illustrating salinity in the Florida bay and Biscayne Bay over the years, based on core samples.
Historical salinity in south Florida bays
Conceptual diagram illustrating the causes of seagrass die-off in Florida Bay.
Model explaining seagrass die-off in Florida Bay
Conceptual Diagram illustrating the general requirements for seagrass and clam aquaculture. These both include sandy sediment and shallow water.
Habitat requirements of seagrass and hard clams
Conceptual diagram illustrating an interpolated measure of salinity of the Lagoon of Venice.
Salinity of the Lagoon of Venice
This conceptual diagram illustrates the sources, both anthropogenic and natural, of bacteria in the water column, as well as the factors that influence the survival of the bacteria.
Sources and survival of bacteria in the water…
Conceptual diagram illustrating the two-layer flow of the Chesapeake Bay and other estuaries, and the sediment influence.
Sediment influence and water clarity
Illustration of a 2D estuary with continental island and offshore reef
Estuary 2D: continental island and offshore reef
Illustration of mixing
Mixing
Illustration of estuary base with dunes and salt wedge
Estuary 2D: dunes and salt wedge
Illustration of estuary base with inverse salt wedge
Estuary 2D: inverse salt wedge
Illustration of estuary base with salt wedge
Estuary 2D: salt wedge
Illustration of closed and stratified lagoon base
Lagoon 2D: closed and stratified
Illustration of lake base with stratified water column in epilimnion and hypolimnion
Lake 2D: stratified
Illustration of high salinity concentration
Concentration: high salinity
Illustration of intermittent salinity concentration
Concentration: intermittent salinity
Illustration of low salinity concentration
Concentration: low salinity
CBOS (Chesapeake Bay Observing System) buoy at the mouth of the Choptank River. There are several of the units throughout Chesapeake Bay, maintained by the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
CBOS Buoy
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