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Methodology of socio-environmental report cards for the Clinton, Detroit, Huron, River Raisin, and Rouge Rivers (Page 1)

Methodology of socio-environmental report cards for the Clinton, Detroit, Huron, River Raisin, and Rouge Rivers

Methods report on data sources, calculations, and additional discussion

Alexandra Fries, Conor Keitzer, Annie Carew, Joe Edgerton, Ann Foo ·
13 September 2024

This document describes the methods and development process for the Southeast Michigan Report Card, and the five associated watershed report cards: the Clinton River Report Card, Detroit River Report Card, Huron River Report Card, River Raisin Report Card, and Rouge River Report Card.

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Invasive blue catfish in the Chesapeake Bay: A risk to realizing Bay restoration investments (Page 1)

Invasive blue catfish in the Chesapeake Bay: A risk to realizing Bay restoration investments

Robertson E, Malpass J, Ottinger C, Griffin J, Densmore C, and Hyer K ·
22 August 2024

The partners of the Chesapeake Bay are investing billions of dollars in the restoration of critical habitats to improve conditions for people and living resources throughout the Bay and its watershed. However, the recent proliferation of invasive Ictalurus furcatus (blue catfish) in the Chesapeake Bay’s major rivers has the potential to disrupt these restoration efforts and limit the full potential improvement of the ecosystem.

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Connecting Conservation Practices to Local Stream Health in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed (Page 1)

Connecting Conservation Practices to Local Stream Health in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed

Noe G, Angermeier PL, Barber LB, Buckwalter J, Cashman MJ, Devereux O, Doody TR, Entrekin S, Fanelli RM, Hitt N, Huber ME, Jasmann JR, Maloney KO, Mohs TG, Sabat-Bonilla S, Smalling K, Wagner T, Wolf JC, Hyer KE ·
22 July 2024

The Chesapeake Bay Partnership is implementing conservation practices (CPs) throughout the Chesapeake Bay watershed to reduce nutrient and sediment delivery to the Bay. This study intends to provide an integrated and detailed understanding of how local streams respond to these CP-driven management efforts. The publication can also be found on the USGS website here.

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Your Land, Your Water: Using Research to Guide Conservation Practices on Local Farms in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed (Page 1)

Your Land, Your Water: Using Research to Guide Conservation Practices on Local Farms in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed

Webber JS, Clune JW, Soroka AM, and Hyer KE ·
19 December 2023

Agricultural lands are an important part of the economy and heritage of the Chesapeake Bay watershed and are a focus of conservation activities. Streams and rivers around farms provide communities with drinking water and recreational opportunities, but these local benefits can be impaired by elevated nutrient and sediment concentrations.

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James Tributary Summary: A summary of trends in tidal water quality and associated factors, 1985-2021 (Page 1)

James Tributary Summary: A summary of trends in tidal water quality and associated factors, 1985-2021

Sullivan B, Gootman K, Gunnerson A, Johnson C, Mason C, Perry E, Bhatt G, Keisman J, Webber J, Harcum J, Lane M, Devereux O, Zhang Q, Murphy R, Karrh R, Butler T, Van Note V, Wei Z ·
3 November 2023

The James Tributary Summary outlines change over time for a suite of monitored tidal water quality parameters and associated potential drivers of those trends for the period 1985 – 2021 and provides a brief description of the current state of knowledge explaining these observed changes.

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STAC Rising Water Temperatures Report Summary (Page 1)

STAC Rising Water Temperatures Report Summary

Batiuk R ·
24 March 2023

The Chesapeake Bay Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee (STAC) and IAN have partnered to synthesize the contents of their latest publication on Rising Watershed and Bay Water Temperatures— Ecological Implications and Management Responses into a report summary outlining key management and research recommendations, the causes and effects of rising water temperatures, and actions for moving forward. This document also builds on the previous STAC Rising Water Temperatures Workshop newsletter.

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Agricultural best management practices can improve water quality and conditions for fisheries in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed (Page 1)

Agricultural best management practices can improve water quality and conditions for fisheries in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed

Vanessa Vargas-Nguyen, Bill Dennison, Lili Badri ·
3 January 2023

This publication serves as a summary of Gordon et al. (2022) and was prepared in collaboration between the USGS and the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Integration and Application Network. The summary touches on key findings of the study along with management implications and applications. Please feel free to download the summary here or check it out on the USGS website:

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Middle Potomac Listening Session (Page 1)

Middle Potomac Listening Session

Advancing the Coastal Ocean Assessment for Sustainability and Transformation Project in the Chesapeake Bay

Vanessa Vargas-Nguyen, Sidney Anderson, Lili Badri, and Bill Dennison ·
15 December 2022

IAN Staff and the visiting Global Sustainability Scholars hosted a Middle Potomac Listening Session in July 2022 to begin developing the upcoming Potomac Watershed COAST Card.

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