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

USGS findings on increasing sediment and phosphorous from Susquehanna River due to filling of reservoirs ...read more 8/2012 — FAQs regarding USGS Scientific Investigations Report 2012-5185 ...read more 11/2012

River Flow into the Chesapeake Bay Following Sandy is Lower than Expected ...read more 10/31/2012

Science Summary—Skin Lesions and Mortality of Fishes in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed ...read more 10/2012

Estimated Monthly Streamflow entering the Bay

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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.