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NOAA Restoration Day: Related Information

NOAA Restoration Day
Bay Grass Tanks
Monitoring Information
Media Reports
NOAA News Items
NOAA Fact Sheets
Chesapeake Bay SAV Web Sites
Partner Web Sites

This section includes links to supporting background documents (pdfs), and Web sites focusing on NOAA Restoration Day, bay grass news stories, NOAA press about the event, Chesapeake Bay problems and restoration projects, specifically relevant to bay grass and links to partner sites.

NOAA Restoration Day Information

General Information

• NOAA Restoration Day Summary Poster (pdf, 1.2 MB, July 2007, dimensions: 44" x 34")
• NOAA Restoration Day Summary Fact Sheet (pdf, 1.3 MB, July 2007)

Bay Grass Tanks

• Tank Set-up Instructions for Wild Celery (pdf, 4 pages, 68 KB)

• Growing and Planting Underwater Grasses Presentation. March 2007. Peter Bergstrom, NCBO (pdf, 36 pages, 1.9MB)

• NERRS & Jug Bay Presentation. March 2007. Patricia Delgado, NERRS (pdf, 17 pages, 1.7MB)
  
  
• NOAA Tank Poster (pdf, 1 page, 1.1MB)
  
  
• Chesapeake Bay Foundation's Guide to
  Underwater Grasses (pdf, 4 pages, 464KB)
  
  
• Instructions for Transporting Grasses to Event (pdf, 1 page, 88KB)
  
  
• Why Bay Grass: NOAA Restoration in Chesapeake Bay (2005, pdf, 1 page, 125KB)
  
  

Monitoring Information

• July 13, 2007: Bay Grass Status at Jug Bay -- Patuxent River just upriver of Western Branch (Quad 159, bed G3)
  Peter Bergstrom (NOAA), Candace Morrell (MD CB-NERRS), Alison Hammer (NOAA) and Kevin Arvai (NOAA intern) returned to survey the wild celery at the spot in Jug Bay where we planted wild celery on 6/12/07, as part of the the "NOAA Restoration Day." See map of our route.

  We found: lots of hydrilla (Hv) and a bit of coontail (Cd), plus a bit of the wild celery (Va) that we planted in June. We heard from Greg Kearns (Patuxent River Park) that he saw about 6 clumps of wild celery surviving there (one "substantial") on 7/3/07, and we were pleased to find that some of it was still there, probably the "substantial" patch.

  Hydrilla has a way of smothering other planted species, and hydrilla seems to be increasing in that part of the Patuxent. We found what appeared to be one or two cat litter size pans of wild celery that had survived (see photo with the plants marked). We suspect that this was from one of the batches with longer shoots at planting time; many of the pans had only short shoots when planted. Otherwise the shallows in the area were full of dense hydrilla (Hv) with bits of coontail (Cd). The wild rice that Greg and others have transplanted near Jug Bay was in bloom, see wild rice photo.

  • This summary can also be seen on-line at VIMS: http://www.vims.edu/bio/sav/2007obs.html#noaa071307
    
    
    
• September 2006 Status update: Trent Hall (pdf, 3 pages, 48KB)
  
  
• Monitoring Plantings at 2004 and 2005 Restoration Day Sites (pdf, 4 pages, 220KB)
  
  

Media Reports and Related Stories

• Decline in Grasses a Bad Sign. Washington Post. March 29, 2007. (pdf, 1 page, 72KB) or on-line: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-yn/content/article/2007/03/28/
  AR2007032802313.html
  
  
• Chesapeake Bay Grasses Declined by 25 Percent Last Year. WTOP News. March 29, 2007. (pdf, 1 page,140KB) or on-line: http://www.wtopnews.com/?nid=25&sid=
  1101178
  
  
  
• Significant Underwater Bay Grass Acreage Lost in 2006: http://www.chesapeakebay.net/newssav032807.htm
  
  
• Public needs wake-up call for Bay's grass beds. Bay Journal. September 2006 (pdf, 1 page, 28KB).
  
  
• Underwater grasses at the tipping point? Bay Journal. September 2006 (pdf, 6 pages, 36KB).
  
  
• About Bay Grasses? Bay Journal. September 2006 (pdf, 2 pages, 20KB).
  
  
• R.I. Shellfish Offer Clue to Health of Chesapeake. Washington Post. May 8, 2006 (pdf, 2 pages, 364KB).
  
  
• Green Government. WUSA Channel 9 News. June 14, 2005. http://www.wusatv9.com/news/
  news_article.aspx?storyid=40452 OR
  download story (pdf, 1 page, 20KB).
  
  
• NOAA Restoration Day at Webster Field. Enterprise Newspaper: St. Mary's County Gazette Newspaper. June 17, 2005. (pdf, 2 pages, 14KB).
  
  
• Window Boxes Grow Bay Grass for Restoration: Decline of Resource Draws Attention. AP Article: Delmarva Now Daily Times Newspaper. June 06, 2005. (pdf, 4 pages, 88KB).
  
  
• NOAA Project Grows Bay Grass. AP Article: WTOP News. June 06, 2005. (pdf, 3 pages, 64KB).
  
  
• Why Can't We Save the Bay? What's Flushing into the Chesapeake Bay? National Geographic Magazine. June 2005. (pdf, 2 pages, 104KB)
  Web Site, Summary of Article:
  http://www7.nationalgeograhphic.com/ngm/0506/feature2/
  Interactive Map:
  http://www7.nationalgeograhphic.com/ngm/0506/feature2/zoomify/
  
  
• Grasses for the Masses. WUSA Channel 9 News. April 15, 2005. http://www.wusatv9.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=38895 OR
  download story (pdf, 1 page, 16KB).
  
  
• Milkulski Gets First-hand Look at NOAA. Mongomery County Gazette Newspaper. April 15, 2005 (pdf, 2 pages, 179KB).

NOAA News Items

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  Access NOAA: NOAA Volunteers Restore Habitat on the Patuxent River. July 2007. Access NOAA Web Site: http://www.accessnoaa.noaa.gov/ or
  Download story (pdf, 2 pages, 932 KB)

• Access NOAA: Virginia Restoration Day Event. June 2006
  Access NOAA Web Site: http://www.accessnoaa.noaa.gov/ or
  Download story (pdf, 2 pages, 1.2 MB)

• July 2004. NOAA Report: Focus On… NOAA Volunteers Helping Restore
  Chesapeake Bay (pdf, 2 pages, 120 KB).

• April 19, 2004. Access NOAA: The Bay Grass is Greener
  -- NWS Tank:
  http://www.accessnoaa.noaa.gov/
  index041904.html

• NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office: Coastal Habitat -- Underwater Grasses/ Submerged Aquatic Vegetation
  http://noaa.chesapeakebay.net/
  HabitatSav.aspx

• July 2003. NOAA Report: Ocean Service Volunteers Plant Bay Grasses (pdf, 1 page, 52 KB).

• August 12, 2002. Access NOAA: Wading Into Maryland's Otter Point Creek:
  http://www.accessnoaa.noaa.gov/otter.html
  
  

Related NOAA Background Fact Sheets

• Native Oyster Restoration (1 page, 77KB)

• Submerged Aquatic Vegetation (1 page, 93KB)

• Blue Crabs (1 page, 77KB)

• Asian Oyster (C. ariakensis) (1 page, 77KB)

• Fisheries Ecosystem Plan (1 page, 77KB)

• Eelgrass and Soft Shoreline Restoration in the Chesapeake Bay, MD (1 page, 77KB)

Chesapeake Bay Underwater Grass Information

• Impacts of June 2006 Rains on River Flow and Pollutant Loads into the Chesapeake Bay. Prepared by USGS, July 5, 2006. (pdf, 3 pages, 52KB).
  
  
• May 2006. Bay Grass Acreage Sprouts in 2005: But unusual late-season losses concern scientists
  http://www.chesapeakebay.net/newssav052506.htm
  
  
• Vital Bay Grass Can't Take Heat. Baltimore Sun. May 5, 2006 (pdf, 2 pages, 144KB).
  
  
• Virginia Institue of Marine Science (VIMS) SAV Web Page:
  http://www.vims.edu/bio/sav/
  
  
• Chesapeake Bay Foundation - Protect and Restore Underwater Grasses:
  http://www.cbf.org/site/PageServer?pagename
  =action_outdoors_grasses
  &AddInterest=1022&autologin=true
  
  
• Chesapeake Bay Program - Bay Grasses:
  http://www.chesapeakebay.net/baygras.htm
  
  
• Maryland Department of Natural Resources -Bay Grass Restoration:
  http://www.dnr.state.md.us/bay/sav/index.html
  
  
• Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay - Bay Journal:
  http://www.bayjournal.com/
  
• Pollution Kills a Third Of Bay Grasses. Washington Post. May 19, 2004 (pdf, 2 pages, 16 KB).
  
  
• Study Says Bay Grasses Declined Steeply in '03. Baltimore Sun. May 19, 2004 (pdf, 2 pages, 60 KB).
  
  
• Pollution Kills Record Amount of Bay Grasses. WTOP. May 19, 2004 (pdf, 2 pages, 24 KB).
  

Previous Partner Web Sites

• Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay
  http://www.acb-online.org/

• Chesapeake Bay Environmental Center
  http://www.wildfowltrust.org/

• Jug Bay Web Site:
  http://www.dnr.state.md.us/bay/cbnerr/
  jugbay.asp
  
  
• Chespeake Bay NERR Web Site: http://nerrs.noaa.gov/ChesapeakeBayMD/
  welcome.html
  
  
• Maryland Department of Natural
  Resources
  http://www.dnr.state.md.us/
  
  
• Oyster Recovery Partnership
  http://www.oysterrecovery.org/
  
  
• St. Mary's College of Maryland
  http://www.smcm.edu/
  
  
• U.S. Navy: Webster Field Annex, PAX Naval Air Station
  http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/webster-field.htm

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