This fact sheet provides water monitoring information about nitrogen, including why it's important and how it's monitored.

This fact sheet provides water monitoring information about pH, including why it's important and how it's monitored.

This fact sheet provides water monitoring information about phosphorus, including why it's important and how it's monitored.

This fact sheet provides water monitoring information about salinity, including why it's important and how it's monitored.

This fact sheet provides water monitoring information about site conditions, including water depth, weather, tidal stage, etc.

This fact sheet provides water monitoring information about water clarity and turbidity, including why they're important and how they're monitored.

This set of fact sheets provides useful information about water monitoring parameters like dissolved oxygen, chlorophyll, and benthic macroinvertabrates.

Low dissolved oxygen (DO) conditions pose a persistent threat to aquatic life in coastal ecosystems. In Chesapeake Bay, DO criteria are used to evaluate restoration progress, but traditional assessment methods—such as binary pass/fail outcomes and attainment deficit metrics—can obscure important spatial and temporal variability across tidal segments.

In October 2024, the COAST Card team made their final site visit to the Chesapeake Bay. There, they participated in field trips, a workshop on the Chesapeake Global Collaboratory, and discussed the final year of the COAST Card Project. This trip marked the end of the site visits for the project and the final of four countries visited for the project.

The 1925 Chesapeake Bay Report Card was produced to celebrate the UMCES Centennial. Inspired by 1920s design, this report card offers a glimpse of what a Chesapeake Bay Report Card might have been like in 1925, when UMCES was founded. The state of the Bay in 1925 is not an accurate scientific assessment, but an estimation based on informed opinions and broad historical generalizations.