Publications for Chesapeake Bay Tidal Water Quality Trends

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Nutrient Improvements in Chesapeake Bay: Direct Effect of Load Reductions and Implications for Coastal Management (Page 1)

Nutrient improvements in Chesapeake Bay: Direct effect of load reductions and implications for coastal management

Murphy RR, Keisman J, Harcum J, Karrh RR, Lane M, Perry ES, Zhang Q ·
2022

In Chesapeake Bay in the United States, decades of management efforts have resulted in modest reductions of nutrient loads from the watershed, but the corresponding improvements in estuarine water quality have not consistently followed. Generalize additive models were used to directly link river flows and nutrient loads from the watershed to nutrient trends in the estuary on a station-by-station basis, which allowed for identification of exactly when and where responses are happening.

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