At Masonville Cove, a bird banding program is helping researchers better understand migration along the Chesapeake Bay, while also revealing something exciting: the return of birds first banded in 2023. Since the program began, more than 3,000 birds representing about … Continued
In the fall of 2024, the Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin (ICPRB) and its partners at the USGS Eastern Ecological Science Center in West Virginia and the USGS Earth Resources Observation and Science (EROS) Center in South Dakota … Continued
A new study of 166 estuaries on all three U.S. continental coastlines, led by the U.S. Geological Survey, is the first to quantify and compare how rapid sea-level rise will drive landward migration of coastal wetlands on the Pacific, Atlantic, … Continued
The Conowingo Dam on the Susquehanna River is at about 92 percent capacity for sediment storage according to new U.S. Geological Survey research. Since the dam’s construction in 1929, sediment and nutrients have been building up behind it, being … Continued
Communities and coastal habitats in the southern Chesapeake Bay region could face increased flooding because, as seawater levels are rising in the bay, the land surface is also sinking, according to a new USGS report. The report cites intensive groundwater … Continued
A reservior of high-salinity groundwater found more than 1,000 meters (0.6 mi.) deep under the Chesapeake Bay is actually remnant water from the Early Cretaceous North Atlantic Sea and is probably 100-145 million years old, according to U.S. Geological Survey … Continued