Satellite maps show Chesapeake Bay urban development

Interactive Chesapeake Bay Simulation

Scientists use sophisticated numerical models to study ocean circulation and other physical systems, but the complex nature of such simulation software generally make them inaccessible to non-expert users. In principle, however, numerical models represent an ideal teaching tool, allowing users to model the response of a complex system to changing conditions. We have designed an interactive simu...

Managing Marine Ecosystems and Development: the Chesapeake Bay Experience

The Chesapeake Bay has been an important test bed for large-scale coastal ecosystem restoration and management. Science has played a key role but faces major new challenges as there is a need to make more reliable predictions of future conditions in the face of continued human development in the region. Reconstruction of a modern environmental history of the bay provides a useful prologue for p...

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Chesapeake bay: a second look.

Incidence of Vibrio parahaemolyticus in Chesapeake Bay.

A Bay-wide survey of the distribution of Vibrio parahaemolyticus was carried out in Chesapeake Bay during May 1972, to determine whether the annual cycle of V. parahaemolyticus which was observed to occur in the Rhode River subestuary of Chesapeake Bay took place in other parts of Chesapeake Bay. In an earlier study, April to early June, when the water temperature rises from 14 to 19 C, was fou...