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#           USGS Chesapeake Bay Accomplishments for 2010      

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      By Chesapeake Bay Activities      June 26, 2020    

            -              Overview           

Accomplishments

**USGS leads development of science activities for Chesapeake Executive Order Strategy.**

President Obama issued an Executive Order (E.O.) in May, 2009 to have the federal government lead the effort to restore and protect the Chesapeake Bay, the Nation's largest estuary. The USGS, collaborating with NOAA, lead development of federal activities to strengthen science and respond to climate change for the Executive Order strategy, which was released in May, 2010. The activities will require an unprecedented level of DOI coordination between USGS, FWS, and NPS to meet goals in the Executive Order which will also fulfill goals in the DOI strategic plan for resource protection.

 

**USGS works with Maryland to develop tools to prioritize land conservation**

The Secretary of Interior and the Governor of Maryland are considering new approaches to conserve lands. The USGS will collaborate with MD, the NPS and FWS to test new concepts for land conservation in the Chesapeake watershed that build from Maryland's "Greenprint" land conservation tool. The USGS will work with partners in 2010 to begin development of a targeting tool that also uses forecasts of land-use change in the Bay watershed to help identify the most vulnerable habitats and areas that are being lost in the Bay watershed.

 

**USGS works with USDA to focus conservation practices in the Bay watershed**

The USGS, working with USEPA, is providing science to help NRCS implement conservation practices in "priority" watersheds in the Chesapeake Bay basin. The activities in 2010, build from a new approach developed in 2009 by NRCS, USGS, and EPA to identify priority watersheds in the Chesapeake to focus funding from the Farm Bill. In 2009, the USGS provided results on nutrients and in the Bay watershed to NRCS so they could choose priority watersheds using information from the new USGS Chesapeake Online Adaptive Support Toolkit (COAST). The USGS and EPA are now working with NRCS to implement monitoring in some of the priority watersheds and use an adaptive-management approach to assess effectiveness of the conservation practices.

 

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### Study Area

### Contacts

####             Scott Phillips (Former Employee)          

##### Chesapeake Bay Program Coordinator

Northeast Region

#### Ken Hyer, Ph.D.

##### Chesapeake Bay Coordinator

Chesapeake Bay Activities

kenhyer@usgs.gov

804-382-7111

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Accomplishments

**USGS leads development of science activities for Chesapeake Executive Order Strategy.**

President Obama issued an Executive Order (E.O.) in May, 2009 to have the federal government lead the effort to restore and protect the Chesapeake Bay, the Nation's largest estuary. The USGS, collaborating with NOAA, lead development of federal activities to strengthen science and respond to climate change for the Executive Order strategy, which was released in May, 2010. The activities will require an unprecedented level of DOI coordination between USGS, FWS, and NPS to meet goals in the Executive Order which will also fulfill goals in the DOI strategic plan for resource protection.

 

**USGS works with Maryland to develop tools to prioritize land conservation**

The Secretary of Interior and the Governor of Maryland are considering new approaches to conserve lands. The USGS will collaborate with MD, the NPS and FWS to test new concepts for land conservation in the Chesapeake watershed that build from Maryland's "Greenprint" land conservation tool. The USGS will work with partners in 2010 to begin development of a targeting tool that also uses forecasts of land-use change in the Bay watershed to help identify the most vulnerable habitats and areas that are being lost in the Bay watershed.

 

**USGS works with USDA to focus conservation practices in the Bay watershed**

The USGS, working with USEPA, is providing science to help NRCS implement conservation practices in "priority" watersheds in the Chesapeake Bay basin. The activities in 2010, build from a new approach developed in 2009 by NRCS, USGS, and EPA to identify priority watersheds in the Chesapeake to focus funding from the Farm Bill. In 2009, the USGS provided results on nutrients and in the Bay watershed to NRCS so they could choose priority watersheds using information from the new USGS Chesapeake Online Adaptive Support Toolkit (COAST). The USGS and EPA are now working with NRCS to implement monitoring in some of the priority watersheds and use an adaptive-management approach to assess effectiveness of the conservation practices.

 

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### Study Area

### Contacts

####             Scott Phillips (Former Employee)          

##### Chesapeake Bay Program Coordinator

Northeast Region

#### Ken Hyer, Ph.D.

##### Chesapeake Bay Coordinator

Chesapeake Bay Activities

kenhyer@usgs.gov

804-382-7111

### Explore Search

                      - Biology
                      - Ecosystems

View All **