Coastal Habitats and Waterbirds
Coastal Habitats and Waterbirds
USGS Part of New Federal Effort to Address Climate Change in the Chesapeake Watershed
The coastal areas of the Chesapeake provide habitats for fish and crabs, migratory waterfowl, and space where nearly 10 million people live, work, and recreate. The USGS efforts include assessing and forecasting risks to coastal areas from sea-level rise and development, and the associated threats to waterbirds. The findings are being used to inform restoration and climate-adaptation efforts.
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Estuarine Processes, Hazards, and Ecosystems
Estuarine processes, hazards, and ecosystems describes several interdisciplinary projects that aim to quantify and understand estuarine processes through observations and numerical modeling. Both the spatial and temporal scales of these mechanisms are important, and therefore require modern instrumentation and state-of-the-art hydrodynamic models. These projects are led from the U.S. Geological...
Videos Highlighting USGS Chesapeake Bay Activities
A list of Chesapeake Bay Program videos highlighting USGS Chesapeake Bay Activities.
Assessing Effects of Sea-level Rise on Upstream Ecosystem Conditions
A synthesis published in Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment addresses what is known about the ecosystem consequences of freshwater tides extending upstream into formerly nontidal rivers. The USGS and its partners, with support from the Climate and Land Use Change Mission Area, published an article that summarizes the known effects of sea-level rise pushing freshwater tides upstream into...
Enhance science on coastal ecosystem structure, function, and resiliency to manage waterbirds
The Chesapeake Bay lies in the Atlantic Flyway and is home to almost 1 million waterfowl each winter. The waterfowl depend on coastal wetlands and shallow waters for habitat and food. These habitats are being lost to sea-level rise and development.
USGS contributes to new STAC report on designing sustainable coastal habitats
The purpose of the Designing Sustainable Coastal Habitats workshop and the approach the workshop steering committee used to bring together scientists, habitat restoration partners, and policy makers to address three goals.
Black Ducks
How are coastal wetlands and their carrying capacity for waterbirds affected by changing sea level and land use?
USGS results used to help develop climate indicators
The USGS stream-water-temperature trends in the Chesapeake Bay region are used for the National Climate Change indicator report released by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) entitled Climate Change Indicators in the United States, 2016.
Learning More About Waterfowl to Inform Management
Today, perhaps as never before, waterfowl management faces significant challenges resulting from key scientific uncertainties about the effects of drivers of duck population change in fast-changing ecological and social arenas. Additionally waterfowl management has been on the cutting edge of considering integrated management of habitat, harvest, and humans to better meet the demands from a...
Pharmaceuticals and the Water-Fish-Osprey Food Web
Pharmaceuticals have found their way into the environment. The impact on wildlife is unknown. Ospreys occupy the top of the food web, often nest in highly industrialized or urban areas, and eat only fish, making them an ideal sentinel for monitoring localized contaminants.
Ospreys used as sentinel for pollution
Monitoring the buildup of chemical compounds in ospreys helps scientists track toxics in our waterways.
Patuxent Wildlife Refuge scientists study how wind farms affect sea ducks
The call for construction of wind farms presents a question scientists could not answer: Will the turbines affect the birds?