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The USGS publishes peer-reviewed reports and journal articles which are used by Chesapeake Bay Program resource managers and policy makers to make science-based decisions for ecosystem conservation and restoration. Use the Search box below to find publications on selected topics.

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Decline of submerged aquatic plants in Chesapeake Bay Decline of submerged aquatic plants in Chesapeake Bay

No abstract available.
Authors
J. Court Stevenson, Nedra Confer, Catherine B. Pieper

Seminar on water quality in the tidal Potomac River Seminar on water quality in the tidal Potomac River

In the interest of maintaining communication between researchers and managers concerned with the tidal Potomac River, the U.S. Geological Survey sponsored a Seminar on the Water Quality of the Tidal Potomac River. The Seminar was held on December 6 and 7, 1978, at the U.S. Geological Survey National Headquarters in Reston, Virginia. The Seminar was attended by 135 individuals...
Authors
(compiler) J. P. Bennett

A pollution history of Chesapeake Bay A pollution history of Chesapeake Bay

Present day anthropogenic fluxes of some heavy metals to central Chesapeake Bay appear to be intermediate to those of the southern California coastal region and those of Narragansett Bay. The natural fluxes, however, are in general higher. On the bases of Pb-210 and Pu-239 + 240 geochronologies and of the time changes in interstitial water compositions, there is a mixing of the upper 30...
Authors
E.D. Goldberg, V. Hodge, M. Koide, J. Griffin, E. Gamble, O.P. Bricker, G. Matisoff, G.R. Holdren, R. Braun
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