Estuary

trip, standing in the dock allowed me to absorb the beautiful landscape and gives me a different experience then looking at maps. I can only imagine what was going through Harry Hudson’s and Giovanni da Verrazzano’s mind as they stumbled upon this estuary. The water completely fascinates people, including myself, and like our assigned class reading “Casting into the Unknown” by Marcelo Gleiser, the author alludes to the ocean as a representation of his collective identity, sense of freedom and mystery

ways to engineer for the Bay; “By using technologies such as cisterns, green roofs, and constructed wetlands, the built environment can be designed to decrease our need for expensive water purifying infrastructure and preserve the health of fragile estuary ecosystems such as the Chesapeake Bay.” Rain gardens are a viable alternative to storm drains to deal with runoff from impervious areas. A rain garden captures water that would usually run into a storm drain and eventually be discharged into a river

As humanity continues to prosper agriculturally, industrially, and in population, companies, as well as local communities, have obsessively used the Ocean to toss their waste without consequences. The formation of dead zones has been intensified by the increase runoff of fertilizers and the burning of fossil fuels. Enhanced primary production causes algae to bloom at a constant rate creating a layer near the surface. This layer acts as a roof to vegetation below resulting in a lack of oxygen which

The Chesapeake Bay if filled with many different species of plants and animals that benefit the ecosystem. Bay grasses and algae, zooplankton, oysters, and fish are all living amongst one another within the chesapeake bay and share some sort of relationship both directly and indirectly. Not one of these organisms could live without the other. Due to many different pollutants in the area, these organisms are at great risk. The organisms listed above are all related through a food chain. The partial

The Chesapeake Bay Watershed is considered of national high importance due to its 64,000 square miles and 17.4 million people inhabitants. However, this has not been sufficient to improve the health of the ecosystem over the last 25 years. The primary reasons for this lack of improvement are the lack of knowledge and information of the people living on the watershed, the multistate composition of the watershed and the broad range of activities that the watershed supports. The bay has a history of

Buddy cheek – people #1 The purpose of the buddy check is to ensure that both divers have assembled their equipment correctly, and for each diver to familiarize their selves with his buddy’s setup. It is extremely important to familiarize yourself with your buddies gear to ensure you know where everything is. This insures you don’t have to search for anything in case of an emergency. A buddy check is done before every dive and is a step that should not be overlooked. It is an essential part of getting

Chesapeake Bay population growth many different species of plants in the watershed that it come from freshwater flow (Magnien 1992). The one species plant found in Chesapeake is Cattails plant; often it found specie in northern North America a variety in wetlands habitats like lake or river. (Bo Zhang 2010). Soil is mineral and organic fragment with water. The plants need all of these to healthy growth. When the space of ground between soil and water if these are quantity low or high the concentration

Geography Maryland’s Eastern Shore region is comprised of the group of largely rural counties located on the eastern side of the Chesapeake bay. The Chesapeake is a vital resource for the Eastern Shore, as it provides many ecosystem and economic services. Indeed, Maryland’s Department of the Environment is tasked with maintaining the Chesapeake Bay, a project that many Eastern Shore counties take part in. Many parts of the coast in the Eastern Shore are designated as “Critical Areas” for Chesapeake

Our watershed, the chesapeake bay stretches more than 64,000 square miles and is home to about 18 million people.The bay provides us with a lot of things like fishes,salt and water for farming etc. But, the bay is starting to get polluted and many organisms in the bay are dying because of sediments, algae blooms etc. One of the major problems and also a problem in my neighborhood is sediments. Sediments forms when rocks and soil erode or weather. About 5.2 million tons of sediment enter the bay

Nowadays, people stay away from analyzing how their actions impact the environment producing long lasting consequences. The opportunity to act is right where anyone stands and the closest one to this area is known as the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Therefore, the amount of nutrients going into the Chesapeake Bay should be reduced since the use of fertilizers has increased dramatically over time causing water pollution and the death of many species. The Chesapeake Bay Watershed is the largest one in