Summarizing Scientific Findings for Common Stakeholder Questions to Inform Nutrient and Sediment Management Activities in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Completed
Issue: The Chesapeake Bay Program (CBP) partnership is striving to improve water-quality conditions in the Bay by using a variety of management strategies to reduce nutrient and sediment loads. The partnership uses monitoring results and modeling tools to implement management strategies, relying on the scientific community to synthesize existing information and direct new research to address priority questions about water-quality loads and trends.
USGS Product
The United States Geological Survey (USGS) worked with Chesapeake Bay partners to identify nine common themes, representing topics where scientific insights about water-quality loads and trends can inform management activities. The USGS synthesized management-relevant scientific findings that address priority stakeholder questions in these nine common themes:
- Strengthening decision making with modeling and monitoring.
- Nutrient and sediment responses in nontidal streams
- Drivers of nutrient responses in nontidal streams
- Practices to reduce nutrients and sediment: placement changes and implications for targeting
- Legacy nutrients and lag times
- Nontidal influences on estuarine response and standards attainment
- Water-quality benefits to biological conditions and human health
- Sediment dynamics and reservoir infilling
- Climatic influences on water quality
Management Implications
- The Chesapeake Bay Program’s modeling tools are used to plan implementation of nutrient and sediment reduction activities and forecast responses.
- However, monitoring data offer the most accurate representation of how water-quality conditions are responding in the watershed and Bay.
- Therefore, monitoring data can help inform future implementation by assessing the effectiveness of practices and the primary drivers of changing water-quality condition.
- This use of monitoring data will be critical to inform the Chesapeake Bay Program of progress towards attaining water-quality standards in coming years, as all nutrient and sediment reducing practices are scheduled to be implemented by 2025.
For more information
The product “Summarizing Scientific Findings for Common Stakeholder Questions to Inform Nutrient and Sediment Management Activities in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed” can be accessed here https://www.chesapeakebay.net/channel_files/23468/summarizing-scientific_findings-for-common-_stakeholder-questions.pdf
Posted December 5, 2021
Issue: The Chesapeake Bay Program (CBP) partnership is striving to improve water-quality conditions in the Bay by using a variety of management strategies to reduce nutrient and sediment loads. The partnership uses monitoring results and modeling tools to implement management strategies, relying on the scientific community to synthesize existing information and direct new research to address priority questions about water-quality loads and trends.
USGS Product
The United States Geological Survey (USGS) worked with Chesapeake Bay partners to identify nine common themes, representing topics where scientific insights about water-quality loads and trends can inform management activities. The USGS synthesized management-relevant scientific findings that address priority stakeholder questions in these nine common themes:
- Strengthening decision making with modeling and monitoring.
- Nutrient and sediment responses in nontidal streams
- Drivers of nutrient responses in nontidal streams
- Practices to reduce nutrients and sediment: placement changes and implications for targeting
- Legacy nutrients and lag times
- Nontidal influences on estuarine response and standards attainment
- Water-quality benefits to biological conditions and human health
- Sediment dynamics and reservoir infilling
- Climatic influences on water quality
Management Implications
- The Chesapeake Bay Program’s modeling tools are used to plan implementation of nutrient and sediment reduction activities and forecast responses.
- However, monitoring data offer the most accurate representation of how water-quality conditions are responding in the watershed and Bay.
- Therefore, monitoring data can help inform future implementation by assessing the effectiveness of practices and the primary drivers of changing water-quality condition.
- This use of monitoring data will be critical to inform the Chesapeake Bay Program of progress towards attaining water-quality standards in coming years, as all nutrient and sediment reducing practices are scheduled to be implemented by 2025.
For more information
The product “Summarizing Scientific Findings for Common Stakeholder Questions to Inform Nutrient and Sediment Management Activities in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed” can be accessed here https://www.chesapeakebay.net/channel_files/23468/summarizing-scientific_findings-for-common-_stakeholder-questions.pdf
Posted December 5, 2021