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Chevron of Canada geese fly overhead.
Canada geese
Reflected fall colors on North Fork of Tred Avon River, near Easton MD.
Fall colors
Reflected fall colors on North Fork of Tred Avon River, near Easton MD.
Fall colors
Solar-powered drainage structure station, used to monitor nutrients flowing into drainage stations from surrounding fields.
Controlled drainage structure station
Drainage ditch in a agricultural field near Ruthsburg, Maryland. Ditch is being monitored by a team of scientists to see the amount of nutrients that comes off the fields.
Drainage ditch
Drainage ditch and control structure. The drainage control structure allows scientists to control the amount of drainage that goes into the ditch from the field.
Drainage ditch and control structure
Drainage ditch, control structure, and solar-powered control station in a field in the Choptank Watershed.
Monitoring agricultural drainage
Corn field that has not been tilled. An example of an agricultural best management practice. Choosing not to till reduces soil erosion.
No-till Field
Demonstrating how water quality measurements are taken in a field in Maryland.
Water quality measurements
A bank on the Choptank River in Maryland. This shoreline contains shrubbery and trees which provide good habitat for species, and help slow erosion.
Choptank Riverbank
a sample of marsh grass found in the surrounding marsh of the Choptank River, Maryland
Marsh grass sample
Osprey flying over nest found on the Choptank river, Maryland
Osprey Nest
An Osprey, also known sea hawk or fish hawk, found nesting in the Choptank River.
Pandion haliaetus (Osprey)
UMCES-HPL scientist J. Court Stevenson holds up a native north american phragmites. This is opposed to the invasive Phragmite australis subsp. australis. Found on the bank of the Choptank River in Maryland.
Phragmites australis subsp. americanus
Used to control the amount of drainage that comes from an agricultural field into a drainage ditch.
Controlled drainage structure
The frozen Choptank River, February 2007.
Ice on the Choptank River
The frozen Choptank River, February 2007.
Ice on the Choptank River
Ice on the Choptank River on 6 Feb 2007
Frozen Choptank River
Ice in the Choptank River near the Horn Point Lab dock on 6 Feb 2007
Frozen Choptank River
Frozen Choptank River looking towards Trappe on 6 Feb 2007
Frozen Choptank River looking towards Trappe
Ice in the Choptank River on 6 Feb 2007
Ice in the Choptank River
Ice on rip rap along the Choptank River behind Center Administration
Ice on rip rap
A tributary of the Choptank River. Runoff from the heavy rains of June and July 2006 are visible
A tributary of the Choptank River
A tributary of the Choptank River. Runoff from the heavy rains of June and July 2006 are visible
A tributary of the Choptank River
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