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Showing 1 to 20 of 280 for “"Chesapeake"”.
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Tidal Circulation in Chesapeake Bay
… examination of the tidal circulation of Chesapeake Bay and its major tributaries. Tide and current data, which were observed in Chesapeake Bay by the National Ocean Service during the period from 1972 to 1983, are analyzed and used to construct charts that describe the tide and tidal …
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Investigations of Phytoplankton Diversity in Chesapeake Bay
… and their relation to the algal community of Chesapeake Bay were analyzed using data collected over a 25 year period (1985-2009).</p> <p>The phytoplankton community of Chesapeake Bay, containing 1480 taxa was characterized as one of high richness and low evenness, with a single species …
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Living museum of the bay : Chesapeake Bay Aquarium
… grandeur of a precious yet fragile estuary, the Chesapeake Bay. The thesis proposes by in creasing public awareness of the fragile tenure with nature, modern industrial society is the context, an industrial land scape is transformed into a Living/interpretive aquarium .
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Thermal History of the Chesapeake Bay Impact Crater
… exist within the syn-impact sediment of the Chesapeake Bay impact crater, including an unexplained brine. This brine may be the result of phase-separation of seawater that occurred within the syn-impact sediments as underlying deformed and possibly melted basement rock cooled following …
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Regenerative Aquaculture: Designing for Resilience of the Chesapeake Tidewater
The Chesapeake Bay is out of balance. As the effects of decades of overharvesting, overdevelopment, and pollution have taken their toll, tidewater communities are confronted with a loss of culture, livelihood, and the environment in which they live. This thesis seeks to reframe the problem of …
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Urban Tree Canopy Assessments in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
… been conducted for numerous localities in the Chesapeake Bay watershed (CBW) as part of a strategy to enhance urban tree canopy (UTC) and reduce stormwater runoff that pollutes the Chesapeake Bay. Our research examined how local governments employ these UTCAs and identified barriers to and …
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Neoliberalism, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Chesapeake Bay
… many of the nation's waterways, including the Chesapeake Bay. Through a case study, this project demonstrates how the neoliberal influences impacting the Environmental Protection Agency has resonated in its policies, like in the abilities of the Clean Water Act to sufficiently clean-up the …
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Feeding Ecology of Invasive Catfishes in Chesapeake Bay Subestuaries
… drainages. This includes subestuaries of the Chesapeake Bay, where their feeding ecology and potential impact on native species was largely unknown. We collected stomach contents from 16,110 Blue Catfish at 698 sites in three large subestuaries of the Chesapeake Bay (James, York, Rappahannock …
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An Evaluation of the Chesapeake Public Schools Employment Program
… to evaluate the Employment Plus Program in the Chesapeake(VA)Public Schools by determining the extent to which the program was effective in achieving its goals. Six questions were addressed: (1) What proportion of the students completed in each year between 1991 and 1997 all five parts of the …
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Environmental ethics and the oyster of the Chesapeake Bay
… of a foreign species of oyster to the Chesapeake Bay, show that the Green perspective can, if adopted, be a valuable aid to solving current environmental problems.
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Microzooplankton Dynamics in Lower Chesapeake Bay and Its Major Tributaries
… and biomass at 14 stations located within Chesapeake Bay and four rivers. Microzooplankton are defined as those heterotrophic organisms which range from 20 to 200 $\mu$m in size, and in this study were mainly composed of copepod nauplii, rotifers, and ciliates. Ciliates were the most …
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The Mirror of Nature: Chesapeake Perceptions of Wilderness, 1650-1787
… examines attitudes toward wilderness in the Chesapeake from 1650 to 1787. Traditionally scholars have argued that responses to wilderness during this time period were more ideological than pragmatic, but this paper argues the opposite, using as case studies four accounts by Chesapeake …
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The Mirror of Nature: Chesapeake Perceptions of Wilderness, 1650-1787
… examines attitudes toward wilderness in the Chesapeake from 1650 to 1787. Traditionally scholars have argued that responses to wilderness during this time period were more ideological than pragmatic, but this paper argues the opposite, using as case studies four accounts by Chesapeake …
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SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL DYNAMICS OF THE CHESAPEAKE BAY SEA NETTLE
The jellyfish Chrysaora chesapeakei forms large summer blooms in Chesapeake Bay, and has substantial ecological and economic impacts on local ecosystems. Limited information on this species is mostly due to difficulties collecting spatial information on jellyfish in dynamic coastal ecosystems. …
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A History of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, 1760-1960
Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-03T21:21:14Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 6303257.pdf: 22962283 bytes, checksum: 35faff7de5a3a6b01b9504cf453c8b25 (MD5) Previous issue date: 1962
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Essays on Water Quality Management for the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
Water quality management for agricultural production is a complicated and interesting problem. Hydrological and economic factors must be considered when designing strategies to reduce nutrient runoff from agricultural activities. This dissertation is composed of three chapters that investigate …
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Evaluating agricultural pesticide use and risk for the Chesapeake Bay
… to the risk of toxic contamination of the Chesapeake Bay, little information concerning the nature and extent of that risk is available. Such information is essential, however, for setting pesticide risk management priorities and for designing policies to reduce the risk of toxic pollution …
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Processes Affecting the Behavior of Redox-Sensitive Elements in Chesapeake Bay
… and long-term studies were conducted in Chesapeake Bay. Redox species involved in redox cycling include oxygen, iron, manganese, hydrogen sulfide, nitrogen species, arsenic and antimony species, while phosphate is indirectly involved in redox cycles. Silicate was used as a non-redox …
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