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Sediment Characterization Of Coastal Lagoons And Bays, Mid-Atlantic Region, Maynard N. Nichols, C. M. Brouwer-Riel

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Sediment characterizations for the following lagoons and bays:

• Great South Bay
• Barnegat Bay
• New Jersey Inland Bays, Great Sound
• Delaware Inland Bays
• Chincoteague Bay

Sediment Characterization Of Chesaapeake Bay And Its Tributaries, Maynard M. Nichols, S. C. Kim, C. M. Brouwer

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Sediment characterizations for the following estuaries and rivers:

• Chesapeake Bay
• Potomac River
• Rappahannock River
• York River
• James River
• Chester River
• Choptank River

Water Quality In Chesapeake Bay : Virginia Portion, Water Year 1990 : A Report To The Virginia Water Control Board, Kevin Curling, Bruce Neilson

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The purpose of this report is to characterize water quality conditions during the 1990 water year, October 1989 through September 1990. For the most part, the information is provided in graphical format. Only data for the Virginia portion of Chesapeake Bay is included. No data analysis or interpretation is included, since this is the stated purpose of a number of other reports. This report will be useful to both scientists and managers who need ready access to some portion of the data on a regular basis. With this report it is possible to quickly examine seasonal patterns, compare conditions at …

Public Beach Assessment Report Aqua-Po Stafford County, Virginia, Deborah Linden, Donna Radcliffe, C. Scott Hardaway Jr., Suzette Kimball

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The Aqua-Po Public Beach report is the first in a series of reports on the public beaches in the Commonwealth of Virginia. There are 14 localities with public beaches totaling about 23 miles of shoreline. The public beach reports are an assessment of the history of each public beach and their current status in terms of loss of beach fill and maintenance needed. This is measured by the beach monitoring program sponsored by the Virginia Board on the Conservation and Development of Public Beaches.

Water Quality In Chesapeake Bay : Virginia Portion, Water Year 1985 : A Report To The Virginia Water Control Board, Kevin Curling, Bruce Neilson

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The purpose of this report is to characterize water quality conditions during the 1985 water year, October 1984 through September 1985. For the most part, the information is provided in graphical format. Only data for the Virginia portion of Chesapeake Bay is included. No data analysis or interpretation is included, since this is the stated purpose of a number of other reports. We believe that the report will be useful to both scientists and managers who need ready access to some portion of the data on a regular basis. With this report one could, for example, quickly examine seasonal patterns, …

Water Quality In Chesapeake Bay : Virginia Portion, Water Year 1989 : A Report To The Virginia Water Control Board, Kevin Curling, Bruce Neilson

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The purpose of this report is to characterize water quality conditions during the 1909 water year, October 1988 through September 1989. For the most part, the information is provided in graphical format. Only data for the Virginia portion of Chesapeake Bay is included. No data analysis or interpretation i:s included, since this is the stated purpose of a number of other reports a. We believe that the report will be useful to both scientists and managers who need ready access to some portion of the data on a regular basis. With this report one could, for example, quickly examine seasonal …

Status Of The Major Oyster Diseases In Virginia 1990 A Summary Of The Annual Monitoring Program, Eugene M. Burreson

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No abstract provided.

Data Report : Hypoxia In The York River, 1988-1989, G. M. Sisson, A. Y. Kuo, J. M. Brubaker

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As part of the hypoxia program of the Virginia Chesapeake Bay Initiatives, the Division of Physical Oceanography of the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) conducted a series of measurements in the York River estuary. The measurements were made in summer, 1988 and 1989. Two types of measurements were conducted in each year: measurements at moored stations and measurements by slackwater surveys. The former collected data for investigation of dissolved oxygen (DO) variation, and associated physical parameters, in an intratidal time scale, as well as for studying the vertical distributions of the measured parameters. The latter collected data for spatial …

Tidal Wetlands Of The Mattaponi River : Potential Responses Of The Vegetative Community To Increased Salinity As A Result Of Freshwater Withdrawal, Carl Hershner, Paul M. Booth, Laura R. Mitchell

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The potential responses of wetland vegetation on the Mattaponi River to the proposed withdrawal of freshwater and the resulting alteration in salinity patterns were studied by comparing existing plant community distributions (which were surveyed in the summer of 1990) and historical vegetation distributions (which were evaluated through the use of aerial photography from 1953, 1971, and 1987) with estimated salinity patterns (developed from historical and adjusted freshwater inflows using a simulation model developed previously at the Virginia Institute of Marine Science). (...)

Distribution Of Submerged Aquatic Vegetation In The Chesapeake Bay And Tributaries And Chincoteague Bay - 1990, Robert J. Orth, Judith F. Nowak, Adam F. Frish, Kevin P. Kiley, Jennifer Whiting

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No abstract provided.

Investigation Of Isolated Sand Shoals On The Inner Shelf Of Southern Virginia : Final Report, Suzette M. Kimball, James K. Dame, Carl H. Hobbs Iii

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Offshore of Sandbridge Beach, Virginia, the surface of the inner continental shelf is a generally featureless, gently sloping plain, broken by several isolated sand shoals. The westernmost shoal, commonly called the Sandbridge Shoal, is located approximately 5.5 km from the shoreline in 1 O - 12 m of water. An analogous feature is located approximately 15 km northeast of the Sandbridge Shoal at depths greater than 15 m. During a pretiminary study conducted in 1987, 534 km of trackline were surveyed with acoustic subbottom and side-scan sonar systems. Geophysical data were recorded for an additional 318 km of trackline between …

Man Versus Mollusc: Studies Of Water Quality Problems, How They Affect Shellfish And Shellfish Harvesting, And How The Commonwealth Should Address These Problems. A Report To The Shellfish Enhancement Task Force, Bruce Neilson, Nancy C. Wilson, Carl Hershner

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No abstract provided.

Management Plan : Chesapeake Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve System : Virginia, United States. Department Of Commerce, United States. National Ocean Service, Virginia Institute Of Marine Science

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No abstract provided.

Procedure For Creating Digital Baylor Coverages In Arc/Info, Gary F. Anderson, J. Berchman Smithson, Anna K. Kenne

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Baylor Grounds were defined by a survey of the natural oyster beds in Virginia conducted by Lt. J.B. Baylor, USN, and completed in 1894. The original purpose of the survey was to set aside naturally productive oyster beds for protection from private leasing, which was a controversial concept at the time. Hence the commonly used term 'Baylor Grounds' is synonymous with Virginia's public oystering grounds in the present day. Other surveys, conducted later, have added to the original Baylor acreage, resulting in an estimated 243, 000 acres of public oyster grounds in Virginia. For further information on the oyster industry …

Analysis Of Mixing And Dilution Of Process Water Discharged Into The Pamunkey River, John M. Hamrick

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This report describes and documents an analysis of the m1xmg and dilution· of the Chesapeake Corporation's process water discharge into the Pamunkey River at West Point, Virginia. The analysis involves the application of the Virginia Institute of Marine Science's three dimensional environmental fluid dynamics computer code, EFDC, to model the combined York, Pamunkey and Mattaponi Rivers. Following a large scale tidal calibration, the model's ability to predict the mixing of discharges into the river system is verified by the simulation of a field dye release study. The model is then used to predict mixing and dilution of the Chesapeake Corporation's …