If you have spent time on the Chesapeake Bay, you've probably seen at least one example of the region's observing systems at work: an instrumented buoy. Some of them measure winds, tides, and water temperature and salinity, which ship pilots use to navigate the Bay. Or you may have seen one of the research boats that stop at multiple spots along the mainstem of the Bay to measure dissolved oxygen, nutrient levels, and other key indicators of the estuary's ecological health. Chesapeake Quarterly, Maryland Sea Grant's quarterly magazine, reports on research, extension, education and other Chesapeake Bay issues and activities of interest to the marine community. It is produced and funded by this program, which receives support from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Maryland Sea Grant College staff: Director, Fredrika Moser; Assistant Director of Communications, Jeffrey Brainard; Magazine Editor, Michael W. Fincham, Science Writer, Daniel Pendick; Production Editor/Art Director, Nicole Lehming.
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Bill Boicourt's old buoy network was called the Chesapeake Bay Observing System (CBOS for short), and it measured and monitored weather and water conditions in Maryland's half of the Bay. Today, ten buoys in the newer Chesapeake Bay Interpretive Buoy System (CBIBS) probe the length of the estuary. Chesapeake Quarterly, Maryland Sea Grant's quarterly magazine, reports on research, extension, education and other Chesapeake Bay issues and activities of interest to the marine community. It is produced and funded by this program, which receives support from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Maryland Sea Grant College staff: Director, Fredrika Moser; Assistant Director of Communications, Jeffrey Brainard; Magazine Editor, Michael W. Fincham, Science Writer, Daniel Pendick; Production Editor/Art Director, Nicole Lehming.
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When David Secor goes fishing, he doesn't bring a pole or tackle box. He brings a laptop computer. He doesn't even look for fish in the water; he looks for them in black plastic cylinders about the size of a small kitchen fire extinguisher. These are underwater microphones that Secor and his research assistant Mike O'Brien hang in the water off buoys and bridge pilings in the Chesapeake Bay. These sensors listen for the telltale sounds of passing fish. Chesapeake Quarterly, Maryland Sea Grant's quarterly magazine, reports on research, extension, education and other Chesapeake Bay issues and activities of interest to the marine community. It is produced and funded by this program, which receives support from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Maryland Sea Grant College staff: Director, Fredrika Moser; Assistant Director of Communications, Jeffrey Brainard; Magazine Editor, Michael W. Fincham, Science Writer, Daniel Pendick; Production Editor/Art Director, Nicole Lehming.
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In the Mid-Atlantic region, SAROPS draws on 41 radars along the coast that measure ocean surface currents. The radar network is operated by the Mid-Atlantic Regional Association Coastal Ocean Observing System, or MARACOOS, based at Rutgers University. It's part of the nationwide Integrated Ocean Observing System managed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and its federal partners. Other U.S. coastal regions also have radars and ocean observing systems that feed data to SAROPS. Chesapeake Quarterly, Maryland Sea Grant's quarterly magazine, reports on research, extension, education and other Chesapeake Bay issues and activities of interest to the marine community. It is produced and funded by this program, which receives support from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Maryland Sea Grant College staff: Director, Fredrika Moser; Assistant Director of Communications, Jeffrey Brainard; Magazine Editor, Michael W. Fincham, Science Writer, Daniel Pendick; Production Editor/Art Director, Nicole Lehming.
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Every month, biologists in boats cruise along the rivers and mainstem of Chesapeake Bay, stopping at certain predetermined sites to collect water samples and take them back to a laboratory to measure nitrogen, phosphorus, and other nutrients. Later, researchers plug this boat-gathered data into the computer models they use to study excess levels of nutrients in the Bay. Chesapeake Quarterly, Maryland Sea Grant's quarterly magazine, reports on research, extension, education and other Chesapeake Bay issues and activities of interest to the marine community. It is produced and funded by this program, which receives support from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Maryland Sea Grant College staff: Director, Fredrika Moser; Assistant Director of Communications, Jeffrey Brainard; Magazine Editor, Michael W. Fincham, Science Writer, Daniel Pendick; Production Editor/Art Director, Nicole Lehming.
more . . . about Better Tools for Cleaner Water
The vision came from Bill Boicourt: a Chesapeake Bay observing system called CBOS could use moored buoys stationed along the mainstem and major rivers of the estuary to capture the kind of data scientists needed to expand their understanding of the estuary. His old buoy network was called the Chesapeake Bay Observing System (CBOS for short), and it measured and monitored weather and water conditions in Maryland's half of the Bay. Today, ten buoys in the newer Chesapeake Bay Interpretive Buoy System (CBIBS) probe the length of the estuary. Chesapeake Quarterly, Maryland Sea Grant's quarterly magazine, reports on research, extension, education and other Chesapeake Bay issues and activities of interest to the marine community. It is produced and funded by this program, which receives support from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Maryland Sea Grant College staff: Director, Fredrika Moser; Assistant Director of Communications, Jeffrey Brainard; Magazine Editor, Michael W. Fincham, Science Writer, Daniel Pendick; Production Editor/Art Director, Nicole Lehming.
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