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'Bar Cleaning' in Oyster Restoration

Kennedy VS, Meritt DW, Newell RIE, North EW, Paynter KT, Boesch DF ·
21 July 2005

Scientists with expertise in oyster biology, restoration, and management within the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science met to discuss their diverse perspectives on bar cleaning and power dredging. They developed this consensus statement to offer the Center's best scientific advice to decision makers, managers, stakeholders and partners in oyster restoration.

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Redesign of Chesapeake Bay Program indicator structure and communication strategy: Goals, rationale and products (Page 1)

Redesign of Chesapeake Bay Program indicator structure and communication strategy: Goals, rationale and products

Ben Longstaff ·
1 April 2005

The Indicator Redesign Taskforce was assembled to provide a vision for the Chesapeake Bay Program indicators and the manner in which they are communicated. In doing so, the Indicator Redesign Taskforce is initiating and steering the necessary changes through the Monitoring and Analysis Subcommittee. This document describes the goals, approach and methods used to redesign the ecological indicators and outlines the communication strategy used to convey these changes to the public.

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A water quality assessment of the Maryland Coastal Bays including nitrogen source identification using stable isotopes (Page 1)

A water quality assessment of the Maryland Coastal Bays including nitrogen source identification using stable isotopes

Jones AB, Carruthers TJ, Pantus F, Thomas JE, Saxby TA and Dennison, WC ·
2 November 2004

This data report details the results of an intensive sampling effort by the Integration and Application Network in the Maryland Coastal Bays. A spatially explicit Water Quality Index was developed from standard water quality analyses and a relatively new stable isotope technique.

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State of the Maryland Coastal Bays 2004 (Page 1)

State of the Maryland Coastal Bays 2004

Wazniak C, Hall M, Cain C, Wilson D, Jesien R, Thomas JE, Carruthers TJB and Dennison WC ·
16 August 2004

This report summarizes monitoring data collected over the past several years for water quality, aquatic living resources, and habitat categories. It utilizes conceptual diagrams for each reporting region to highlight the key ecosystem processes, biota and estuarine health problems.

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NFCC Consensus Statement on Integrating Marine Reserve Science and Fisheries Management (Page 1)

NFCC Consensus Statement on Integrating Marine Reserve Science and Fisheries Management

Boesch, D ·
7 June 2004

The National Fisheries Conservation Center convened the meeting (chaired by Dr. Don Boesch, president of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science) to bring together modelers, ecologists, fishermen, stock assessment scientists and other analysts to try to produce a more integrated theoretical basis for designing, managing and monitoring marine reserves as part of the fishery management system.

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Assessment of sewage and septic derived nitrogen in the Choptank and Patuxent Rivers (Page 1)

Assessment of sewage and septic derived nitrogen in the Choptank and Patuxent Rivers

Jones AB, Dennison WC and Pantus F ·
1 December 2003

An assessment of nitrogen sources to the Choptank and Patuxent River (including Island Creek), was conducted during the summer of 2003. Results demonstrated that both rivers were compromised with sewage derived nutrients. An Ecosystem Health Index for defined reporting regions was calculated from a variety of ecosystem heath parameters and then converted to a report card grade from A+ to D- and F for fail (Table 1).

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Coastal and marine ecosystems: Potential Effects on U.S. Resources & Global climate change (Page 1)

Coastal and marine ecosystems: Potential Effects on U.S. Resources & Global climate change

Kennedy VS, Twilley RR, Kleypas JA, Cowan JH Jr. and Hare SR ·
1 August 2002

This is the eighth in a series of Pew Center reports examining the potential impacts of climate change on the U.S. environment. It details the likely impacts of climate change over the next century on U.S. coastal and marine ecosystems, including estuaries, coral reefs, and the open ocean. Coordinator: Dr Victor Kennedy … • Temperature changes in coastal and marine ecosystems will influence organism metabolism and alter ecological processes such as productivity and species interactions.

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Marine Pollution in the United States: Significant Accomplishments, Future Challenges (Page 1)

Marine Pollution in the United States: Significant Accomplishments, Future Challenges

Boesch DF, Burroughs RH, Baker JE, Mason RP, Rowe CL and Siefert RL ·
1 February 2001

Marine Pollution in the United States: Significant Accomplishments, Future Challenges has been prepared by UMCES' faculty experts for use by the Pew Oceans Commission in evaluating national oceans policy regarding environmental quality and marine resources. The Pew Oceans Commission is an independent group of distinguished Americans conducting a national dialogue on the policies needed to restore and protect living marine resources in U.S. waters.

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Ecosystems and Global Climate Change: A review of potential impacts on U.S. terrestrial ecosystems and biodiversity (Page 1)

Ecosystems and Global Climate Change: A review of potential impacts on U.S. terrestrial ecosystems and biodiversity

Malcolm JR and Pitelka LF ·
1 December 2000

This report was prepared for the Pew Center on Global Climate Change to provide an overview of the potential effects of climate change on natural terrestrial ecosystems and their component species. Published in December 2000, it is the fifth in a series of reports examining the potential impacts of climate change on the U.S. environment. Coordinator:

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