Structures (SHORES) is part of an effort to fill key knowledge gaps in support of Maryland’s … oyster resource and oyster industries. Chesapeake Bay is home to thriving commercial fishing and … aquaculture industries and one of the largest oyster restoration efforts in North America. The lack of … fresh shell substrate has become a major impediment to all of these activities and alternatives are … being considered for large-scale use in restoration and industry efforts.

In previous water quality modeling studies in Chesapeake Bay, the severity of summer hypoxia tended to be underestimated in the mid-lower Bay area. The underlying reason has not been well understood. In this study, we test a new hypothesis with respect to the estuary–ocean exchange.

Parachute science is the problematic and extractive practice of non-local researchers taking data, knowledge and information from communities of which they are not members, failing to engage the local community and local scientists, marginalizing them in most aspects of the research, and using the results to their own benefit.

Biodiversity can confer temporal stability to ecosystem processes through asynchrony in species' abundances and may promote asynchrony and stability of commercial fishing harvests derived from exploited species. However, the linkages between asynchrony in the population dynamics of commercially harvested species and asynchrony of associated harvests have been difficult to resolve due to ecological, social, and economic dynamics that mediate resource extraction.

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

This fact sheet provides monitoring information about benthic macroinvertebrates, including why they're important and how they're monitored.

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

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

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

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