Science Summary—Sea-Level Rise and Chesapeake Bay ...read more 5/2013

USGS Economic Analysis of Anacostia River Shows Potential Value of Restoring Urban Streams Nationwide ...read more 5/2013

Study finds development and toxic contaminants leads to decline in yellow perch reproduction. Read more about the joint USGS, FWS, and MD DNR study.....

USGS and federal agencies highlight progress in restoring the Chesapeake Bay. Read an overview in the Bay Journal...
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Science Summary—Sediment Sources and Transport in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed ...read more 3/2013

Science Summary—Water-Quality Improvements Resulting from Suburban Stormwater Management Practices in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed ...read more 2/2013

EPA, USGS, with USFWS release new report on the extent and severity of toxic contaminants in the Chesapeake Bay and its watershed ...read more 1/2013

Science Summary—Determining Nutrient and Sediment Loads and Trends in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed by Using an Enhanced Statistical Technique ...read more 1/2013

USGS contributes to 2013 Chesapeake Executive Order Action Plan ...read more 1/2013

Estimated Monthly Streamflow entering the Bay

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Total Nutrient and Sediment Loads, Trends, Yields, and Nontidal Water-Quality Indicators for Selected Nontidal Stations, Chesapeake Bay Watershed, 1985–2011—OF 2013-1052

Residence Time, Chemical and Isotopic Analysis of Nitrate in the Groundwater and Surface Water of a Small Agricultural Watershed in the Coastal Plain, Bucks Branch, Sussex County, Delaware—SIR 2012-5235

Shale Gas Development and Brook Trout: Scaling Best Management Practices to Anticipate Cumulative Effects—Journal Article

Reproductive health of yellow perch Perca flavescens in selected tributaries of the Chesapeake Bay—Journal Article

Defining a Data Management Strategy for USGS Chesapeake Bay Studies—OF 2013-1005

A Regional Classification of the Effectiveness of Depressional Wetlands at Mitigating Nitrogen Transport to Surface Waters in the Northern Atlantic Coastal Plain—SIR 2012-5266

Comparison of Two Regression-Based Approaches for Determining Nutrient and Sediment Fluxes and Trends in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed—SIR 2012-5244

Summary and Interpretation of Discrete and Continuous Water-Quality Monitoring Data, Mattawoman Creek, Charles County, Maryland, 2000–11—SIR 2012-5265

Suspended sediment source apportionment in Chesapeake Bay watershed using Bayesian chemical mass balance receptor modeling—Journal Article

Prevalent Glucocorticoid and Androgen Activity in US Water Sources—Journal Article

Chemical contaminants in water and sediment near fish nesting sites in the Potomac River basin: Determining potential exposures to smallmouth bass (Micropterus dolomie)—Journal Article

Hydrogeomorphology influences soil nitrogen and phosphorus mineralization in floodplain wetlands—Journal Article

Recent and historic sediment dynamics along Difficult Run, a suburban Virginia Piedmont stream—Journal Article

Developing a new stream metric for comparing stream function using a bank-floodplain sediment budget: a case study of three Piedmont streams. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms—Journal Article

For more visit the Bibliography of USGS Chesapeake Bay Publications page.