Ken Hyer, Ph.D.
Serves as the USGS Chesapeake Bay Coordinator.
Responsible for ensuring USGS science activities are well aligned with agency and stakeholder priorities. Assists in the translation and communication of science results to ensure that science products are used by managers to inform restoration and conservation activities throughout the Chesapeake Bay watershed. USGS science provides economic and ecological value to the over 18 million people who live in the area.
Science and Products
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USGS provides plenary and other talks at the Chesapeake Research Symposium
The Chesapeake Community Research Symposium is held every two years with a goal to “By bringing together managers, scientists, and stakeholders for a series of plenary talks, panel discussions, and special sessions, the 2020 Chesapeake Community Research Symposium will highlight recent progress, challenges and prospects for research, monitoring and modeling efforts that are used to guide...
New Findings on Toxic Contaminants in the Chesapeake Watershed
Issue: The Chesapeake Bay Program has a goal to reduce the impacts of toxic contaminants on living resources in the Bay and its watershed. USGS leads the toxic contaminant outcome on research to increase our understanding of the impacts and mitigation options for toxic contaminants.
USGS Chesapeake Bay Highlights for 2019
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) works with Federal, State, and academic science partners to conduct monitoring and research in the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem, the Nation’s largest estuary, and other critical ecosystems across the country. The USGS interacts thorough the Chesapeake Bay Program (CBP) to apply science-based decision making for restoration and conservation efforts.
Freshwater Flow into Chesapeake Bay
Explore resources here describing estimates of freshwater flow entering Chesapeake Bay. The health of the Chesapeake Bay is greatly affected by freshwater flow from rivers draining its watershed. The amount of freshwater flow (also called streamflow) will: • Change salinity levels in the Bay, which affect oysters, crabs, and finfish. • Influence the amounts of nutrients, sediment, and contaminants...
Chesapeake Bay Estimated Streamflow: WEBSITE HISTORY
by Brad Garner, Hydrologist USGS This website originated as a dynamic web application (hereafter, simply webapp). That is, content such as data and graphs, were generated "on-the-fly" as requests were made by web-browser clients. This was made possible by automating the methods of Bue (1968), and by using dynamic web-content software technology. Beginning in 2019 the original dynamic web...
Chesapeake Bay Estimated Streamflow: METHODS
Methods for Estimating Streamflow to Chesapeake Bay The following is a description of how data presented on the website "Chesapeake Bay Estimated Streamflow" are computed. Essentially, the methodology was published more than 51 years ago, and has been adapted for use in modern automated computing systems. Approaches for summarizing data and describing it using statistics follow standard practices...
USGS Chesapeake Bay Activities Highlighted in the News
USGS and various partner's findings are highlighted in articles and video reports.
Chesapeake Bay Activities and Accomplishments
The U.S. Geological Survey provides integrated science that helps formulate, implement, and assess the effectiveness of conservation and restoration actions in the Chesapeake Bay and its watershed. The success of the USGS Chesapeake Bay science studies depends on the coordination of multiple USGS programs, science centers, scientists, and partners.
Continuous Water-Quality Monitoring in Indian Creek
The primary objective of this USGS monitoring effort was to identify whether the construction of the Indian Creek pipeline crossings adversely impacted the sediment water quality in Indian Creek. To accomplish this goal, continuous real-time water-quality monitoring was installed. Results of this monitoring effort indicate that values of turbidity in Indian Creek increased a small but significant...
Science and Products
Filter Total Items: 24
USGS provides plenary and other talks at the Chesapeake Research Symposium
The Chesapeake Community Research Symposium is held every two years with a goal to “By bringing together managers, scientists, and stakeholders for a series of plenary talks, panel discussions, and special sessions, the 2020 Chesapeake Community Research Symposium will highlight recent progress, challenges and prospects for research, monitoring and modeling efforts that are used to guide...
New Findings on Toxic Contaminants in the Chesapeake Watershed
Issue: The Chesapeake Bay Program has a goal to reduce the impacts of toxic contaminants on living resources in the Bay and its watershed. USGS leads the toxic contaminant outcome on research to increase our understanding of the impacts and mitigation options for toxic contaminants.
USGS Chesapeake Bay Highlights for 2019
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) works with Federal, State, and academic science partners to conduct monitoring and research in the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem, the Nation’s largest estuary, and other critical ecosystems across the country. The USGS interacts thorough the Chesapeake Bay Program (CBP) to apply science-based decision making for restoration and conservation efforts.
Freshwater Flow into Chesapeake Bay
Explore resources here describing estimates of freshwater flow entering Chesapeake Bay. The health of the Chesapeake Bay is greatly affected by freshwater flow from rivers draining its watershed. The amount of freshwater flow (also called streamflow) will: • Change salinity levels in the Bay, which affect oysters, crabs, and finfish. • Influence the amounts of nutrients, sediment, and contaminants...
Chesapeake Bay Estimated Streamflow: WEBSITE HISTORY
by Brad Garner, Hydrologist USGS This website originated as a dynamic web application (hereafter, simply webapp). That is, content such as data and graphs, were generated "on-the-fly" as requests were made by web-browser clients. This was made possible by automating the methods of Bue (1968), and by using dynamic web-content software technology. Beginning in 2019 the original dynamic web...
Chesapeake Bay Estimated Streamflow: METHODS
Methods for Estimating Streamflow to Chesapeake Bay The following is a description of how data presented on the website "Chesapeake Bay Estimated Streamflow" are computed. Essentially, the methodology was published more than 51 years ago, and has been adapted for use in modern automated computing systems. Approaches for summarizing data and describing it using statistics follow standard practices...
USGS Chesapeake Bay Activities Highlighted in the News
USGS and various partner's findings are highlighted in articles and video reports.
Chesapeake Bay Activities and Accomplishments
The U.S. Geological Survey provides integrated science that helps formulate, implement, and assess the effectiveness of conservation and restoration actions in the Chesapeake Bay and its watershed. The success of the USGS Chesapeake Bay science studies depends on the coordination of multiple USGS programs, science centers, scientists, and partners.
Continuous Water-Quality Monitoring in Indian Creek
The primary objective of this USGS monitoring effort was to identify whether the construction of the Indian Creek pipeline crossings adversely impacted the sediment water quality in Indian Creek. To accomplish this goal, continuous real-time water-quality monitoring was installed. Results of this monitoring effort indicate that values of turbidity in Indian Creek increased a small but significant...