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2022 Toxic Contaminants Research Presentation
2022 Toxic Contaminants Research Presentation
View detailsChesapeake Bay's water quality condition has been recovering: Insights from a multimetric indicator assessment of thirty years of tidal monitoring data
Published on October 1, 2018Link to the document.
Citation: Zhang, Q., R.R. Murphy, R. Tian, M.K. Forsyth, E.M. Trentacoste, J. Keisman, and P.J. Tango, 2018. “Chesapeake Bay's water quality condition has been recovering: Insights from a multimetric indicator assessment of thirty years of tidal monitoring data”, Science of the Total Environment, 637-638: 1617-1625, doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.05.025.
View detailsChesapeake Bay dissolved oxygen criterion attainment deficit: Three decades of temporal and spatial
Published on November 21, 2018Link to the document.
Citation: Zhang, Q., P.J. Tango, R.R. Murphy, M.K. Forsyth, R. Tian, J. Keisman, and E.M. Trentacoste, 2018. “Chesapeake Bay dissolved oxygen criterion attainment deficit: Three decades of temporal and spatial patterns”, Frontiers in Marine Science, 5: 422, doi: 10.3389/fmars.2018.00422.
View detailsPatterns and trends in Secchi disk depth over three decades in the Chesapeake Bay estuarine complex
Published on April 15, 2019Link to the document.
Citation: Testa, J.M., Lyubchich V., and Q. Zhang, 2019. “Patterns and trends in Secchi disk depth over three decades in the Chesapeake Bay estuarine complex”, Estuaries and Coasts, 42(4): 927-943, doi: 10.1007/s12237-019-00547-9.
View detailsNutrient limitation of phytoplankton in Chesapeake Bay: Development of an empirical approach for water-quality management
Published on January 1, 2021Link to the document.
Citation: Zhang, Q., T. R. Fisher, E. M. Trentacoste, C. Buchanan, A. B. Gustafson, R. Karrh, R. R. Murphy, J. Keisman, C. Wu, R. Tian, J. M. Testa, and P. J. Tango, 2021. “Nutrient limitation of phytoplankton in Chesapeake Bay: Development of an empirical approach for water-quality management”, Water Research, 188C: 116407, doi: 10.1016/j.watres.2020.116407.
View detailsAn approach for decomposing river water-quality trends into different flow classes.
Published on February 10, 2021Link to the document.
Citation: Zhang, Q., J. S. Webber, D. L. Moyer, and J. G. Chanat, 2021. “An approach for decomposing river water-quality trends into different flow classes”, Science of the Total Environment, 755: 143562, doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.143562.
View detailsMajor point and nonpoint sources of nutrient pollution to surface water have declined throughout the Chesapeake Bay watershed
Published on January 10, 2022Link to the document.
Citation: Sabo, R. D., B. Sullivan, C. Wu, E. Trentacoste, Q. Zhang, G. Shenk, G. Bhatt and L.C. Linker, 2022. “Major point and nonpoint sources of nutrient pollution to surface water have declined throughout the Chesapeake Bay watershed”, Environmental Research Communications, 4:045012, doi: 10.1088/2515-7620/ac5db6.
View detailsRegional patterns and drivers of total nitrogen trends in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed.
Published on June 30, 2022Link to the document.
Full citation: Zhang, Q., J.T. Bostic and R.D. Sabo, 2022. “Regional patterns and drivers of total nitrogen trends in the Chesapeake Bay watershed: Insights from machine learning approaches and management implications”, Water Research, 218:118443, doi: 10.1016/j.watres.2022.118443.
View detailsEdited Watershed Agreement
Published in AgreementAs signed by the Chesapeake Executive Council on August 18, 2020, the Statement in Support of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice reaffirms the commitment of the Chesapeake Bay Program to the just and inclusive engagement of all communities living throughout the watershed. Recognizing that the word “citizen” if not inclusive of all who reside, work and recreate in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, the Chesapeake Executive Council approved the following modifications to address the use of the word “citizen” in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement.
View details2021 Maryland Oyster Monitoring Report
This report describes the results of monitoring done from October through December 2021 on three- and six-year-old restored oyster reefs in Harris Creek, the Little Choptank River, and the Tred Avon River.