Effects of nutrient enrichment in the Nation's estuaries: A decade of change

This report provides an assessment of eutrophic conditions for 141 U.S. estuaries. The report was based on data and information provided by scientists and experts from around the country. Results from the assessment show that two-thirds of the estuaries evaluated exhibited moderate to high levels of eutrophication. Report production was a collaborative effort between Suzanne Bricker (NOAA NCCOS), EcoCheck (NOAA-UMCES Partnership) and IAN. More information is available from the NEEA website. You can also access the individual chapters from the NCCOS website.

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Author(s)	Bricker S, Longstaff BJ, Dennison WC, Jones AB, Boicourt K, Wicks EC and Woerner JL
IAN Author(s)	Ben Longstaff, Bill Dennison, Adrian Jones, Kate Boicourt, Caroline Donovan, Joanna Woerner
Publisher	National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science, Silver Spring, MD
Date Published	2007-07-31
Type	Report
Project	EcoCheck National Estuarine Eutrophication Assessment
Location(s)	St. Croix River and Cobscook Bay Englishman and Machias Bay Narraguagus Bay Blue Hill Bay Penobscot Bay Muscongus Bay Damariscotta River Sheepscot Bay Kennebec and Androscoggin River Casco Bay Saco Bay Wells Bay Great Bay Hampton Harbor Merrimack River Plum Island Sound Boston Harbor Massachusetts Bay Cape Cod Bay Waquoit Bay Buzzards Bay Narragansett Bay Gardiners Bay Connecticut River Long Island Sound Great South Bay Hudson River and Raritan Bay Barnegat Bay New Jersey Inland Bays Delaware Bay Delaware Inland Bays Assawoman Bay Isle of Wight Bay Chincoteague Bay Sinepuxent Bay Patuxent River Potomac River Rappahannock River York River James River Chester River Choptank River Tangier and Pocomoke Sounds Chesapeake Bay Albemarle Sound Pamlico and Pungo Rivers Neuse River Pamlico Sound Bogue Sound New River Cape Fear River Winyah Bay North and South Santee Rivers Charleston Harbor Stono and North Edisto Rivers St. Helena Sound Broad River Savannah River Ossabaw Sound St. Catherines and Sapelo Sounds Altamaha River St. Andrew and St. Simons Sounds St. Marys River and Cumberland Sound St. Johns River Indian River Biscayne Bay Florida Bay South Ten Thousand Islands North Ten Thousand Islands Rookery Bay Caloosahatchee River Charlotte Harbor Sarasota Bay Tampa Bay Suwannee River Apalachee Bay Apalachicola Bay St. Andrew Bay Choctawhatchee Bay Pensacola Bay Perdido Bay Mobile Bay East Mississippi Sound Lake Borgne Lake Pontchartrain West Mississippi Sound Breton and Chandeleur Sound Mississippi River Barataria Bay Terrebonne and Timbalier Bays Atchafalaya and Vermilion Bays Mississippi and Atchafalaya Plume Mermentau River Calcasieu Lake Sabine Lake Galveston Bay Brazos River Matagorda Bay San Antonio Bay Aransas Bay Corpus Christi Bay Baffin Bay Upper Laguna Madre Lower Laguna Madre Tijuana Estuary San Diego Bay Mission Bay Alamitos Bay Anaheim Bay San Pedro Bay Santa Monica Bay Morro Bay Elkhorn Slough Monterey Bay Central San Francisco and San Pablo and Suisun Bays San Francisco Bay Drakes Estero Tomales Bay Eel River Humboldt Bay Klamath River Rogue River Coquille River Coos Bay Umpqua River Siuslaw River Alsea River Yaquina Bay Siletz Bay Netarts Bay Tillamook Bay Nehalem River Columbia River Willapa Bay Grays Harbor Hood Canal Skagit Bay and Whidbey Basin South Puget Sound Port Orchard Sound Puget Sound Bellingham and Padilla and Samish Bays Sequim and Discovery Bays
Number of Pages	328
Filesize	254.3 MB
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Effects of nutrient enrichment in the Nation's estuaries: A decade of change