A new NOAA “smart buoy” deployed near the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel will help boaters and fishermen in the Chesapeake to check conditions at the mouth of the Bay. The highly sophisticated buoy is the newest addition to NOAA’s Chesapeake Bay … Continued
Virginia and Maryland fishery managers have released results of the 2011 Blue Crab Winter Dredge Survey. The study found that the Chesapeake Bay’s blue crab population is at its second highest level since 1997 and well above the target for … Continued
The Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF) and its partners are calling on the federal government to conduct a comprehensive scientific analysis of the cumulative impacts of natural gas drilling in the Marcellus Shale formation in the six Bay states, New York, … Continued
On January 20, 2011, the Chesapeake Bay Trust announced its 2011 Annual Awards Program winners, including its Environmental Educator of the Year, Student of the Year and Honorable Arthur Dorman Scholarship recipient. At a ceremony held in the Miller Senate … Continued
NOAA has awarded a team of researchers, led by the Smithsonian Institution, $634,047 as part of a planned five-year grant, estimated at nearly $1.6 million, to predict the impact of hypoxia on commercially and ecologically important finfish and oysters living … Continued