A Coastal Anthology

Coastal Science

 

ENVIRONMENT AND ECOLOGY

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• Estuary Defined 

• Chesapeake Bay Geology    DETAILED VERSION

• Chesapeake bolide impact on the Bay

• Impact of Susquehanna on the Bay

• Bay wildlife field guide

• Dissolved Oxygen backgrounder

• Estuaries.NOAA.gov - website on estuaries

• Bay sediment distribution

• Introduction to Bay Ecosystem

• Chesapeake Bay Interpretive Buoy System

• NOAA Climate Monitoring

• NASA Climate Change

• Maps of Chesapeake Bay watershed

• Salinity maps of the Bay (VIMS)

• Chesapeake Quarterly

• Extreme Ice Survey

• Mission Blue

• National Estuarine Research Reserve System

• Ocean and Coastal Resource Management

• Sea level rise and climate change

• SAV on the Flats Described 

    

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SEAMANSHIP and NAVIGATION

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• U.S. Coast Guard Navigation Center

• National Buoy Data Center

• River stage gauges including Conowingo

• The American Practical Navigator - Bowditch​

• Coast Pilot 3 - Chesapeake Bay (large PDF)

• Light List for our region (very large PDF)

• Chart 1 - Guide to reading charts (large PDF)​

• National Ocean Service

• NOAA Navigation Charts

• U. S. Naval Observatory time​

• American Sailing Association

• U S Power Squadron

• Basic On-line Boating Course

• Maryland Boating Guide

• Coast Guard Auxiliary​

• Animated Knots by Grog

• Parts of a sail

• Eye splicing

• Anatomy of a block

• Depth sounding

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