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

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

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

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

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

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This report card, produced with Patapsco Heritage Greenway as part of the Chesapeake Monitoring Cooperative, assesses the condition of the Patapsco River using volunteer monitoring data for the third year in a row.

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The 2025 CCMP is the third in a series of original and revised CCMPs designed to guide the Maryland Coastal Bays Program.

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This report card, produced with Antietam-Conococheague Watershed Alliance as part of the Chesapeake Monitoring Cooperative, assesses the condition of the Antietam Creek and watershed using volunteer monitoring data.

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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.

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This report card provides a transparent, timely, and geographically detailed assessment of Chesapeake Bay and its Watershed. Since 2016, UMCES has engaged stakeholders throughout the watershed to transform the report card into an evaluation of the Chesapeake Watershed health. Watershed health includes traditional ecological indicators, but also economic and societal indicators.

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