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transporting oysters (Crassostrea virginica) to a restoration reef in Chesapeake Bay
Transporting Oysters
A golf course is adjacent to hardened shoreline in Ocean Pines, Maryland. An Oyster Gardener grows oysters in a Taylor float nearby (foreground).
Golf course at Ocean Pines
Eastern oysters (Crassostrea virginica) growing along rocks at Virginia Beach State Park.
Oysters on rocks
Illustration of a flow deflector, or J-hook Vane, used to dissipate stream energy and reduce bank erosion.
Civil Engineering: Flow deflector (J-hook Vane)
Illustration of cross vane weir
Civil Engineering: Cross vane weir
Conceptual diagram illustrating the factors that affect the heath of a system, the overall condition of that system, and how the response of society correlates with those aspects.
PSR indicators
Conceptual Diagram illustrating the approach and how it changes over the time period of a applied science project.
Three stages of environmental management
Barge crane unloads rock for shoreline protection…
Drs. Bill Dennison and Don Boesch and graduate students at a Maryland BayStat meeting
BayStat
Sign warning against pets, people and vehicles in the area of coastal bird nesting.
Coastal Bird Nesting Area
Conceptual diagram illustrating an interpolated measure of oxygen in the Lagoon of Venice.
Dissolved oxygen in the Lagoon of Venice
Sign preventing disturbance of natural habitat including sea oats and other dune plants.
Protected Dune Area
Conceptual diagram illustrating an interpolated measure of salinity of the Lagoon of Venice.
Salinity of the Lagoon of Venice
Conceptual diagram illustrating the clean water train, used to help visualize the concepts of managing a healthy water source.
The clean water act
Oyster shells which will be used for larvae to settle on, as part of the Oyster Recovery Partnership's plan to restore oysters to Chesapeake Bay
Oyster shells
Large buoys like these mark the boundaries of Oyster Sanctuaries for restoration of the native species in Chesapeake Bay.
Oyster sanctuary marker
Large buoys like these mark the boundaries of Oyster Sanctuaries for restoration of the native species in Chesapeake Bay.
Oyster sanctuary marker
Conceptual diagram illustrating the long term restoration goals in the Chesapeake Bay, USA.
Chesapeake Bay restoration goals
This tank is located at the Oyster Hatchery, at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science Horn Point Laboratory in Cambridge, Maryland. The Horn Point oyter hatchery produces over five-hundred million oyster larvae for research, educational projects, and oyster restoration in the Chesapeake Bay and surrounding rivers.
Oyster Hatchery Tank
Poor vs effective management for storm water in developments near a coastal/marine ecosystem.
Poor vs effective storm management
Diagram illustrating how restoration of riparian forest buffers helps recycle nutrients and improve water quality.
Riparian forest buffers
Waterton Pk signage
Aerial view of Poplar Island in the mid-Cheasapeake Bay. Poplar Island is being restored by the US Army Corps of Engineers
Aerial view of Poplar Island in the…
Illustration of marsh restoration sign
Marsh restoration
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