CRC Publications

Welcome to the CRC Publications database. Here, you can search for and access over 150 documents published by the CRC since its founding in 1972, including numerous research project reports, conference proceedings, research synthesis reports, and other original documents produced  by the CRC.  These include, for example, searchable PDF copies of early NSF project reports authored by the CRC's "founding fathers" (L. Eugene Cronin, William J. Hargis, Jr., and Donald W. Pritchard) and their many professional colleagues during the important pre-CBP partnership years (1972-1983).
{Note:  Most publications for the Chesapeake Bay Program Partnership's Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee (STAC) have been published by the CRC since the CBP's creation in 1984.  These publications have been separately cataloged, however, and most are not available here. For a comprehensive searchable database of STAC publications, click here. }
 
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Chesapeake Bay Baseline Data Acquisition – Hydrologic Modifications

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Chesapeake Bay Baseline Data Acquisition – Wetlands Alteration

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Chesapeake Bay Baseline Data Acquisition – Effects of Boating and Shipping on Water Quality

Chesapeake Bay Baseline Data Acquisition – Shoreline Erosion

A Biologist Views Chesapeake Bay 68th Convention International Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies, Baltimore, MD

Non -Point source Studies on Chesapeake Bay: II. Nutrients in Land Runoff from Rhode River Watersheds in 1975 and 1976

In this publication, further pursue the analyses of nutrient discharge from Rhode River watersheds and  the detailed data gathered in 1975 and 1976. Extensive data from 1974 was published previously (1973-74)/.

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Non -Point Source Studies on Chesapeake Bay: III. Relationship between Bacterial Contamination and Land Use in the Rhode River Watershed, and Survival Studies of Streptococcus faecalis in the Estuary

The contribution of 983 hectare of rural watershed to the fecal coliform (FC) and fecal streptococci (FS) pollution in water runoff entering the Rhode River was examined. The survival of Streptococcus faecalis MC-5 of fecal origin in the Rhode River estuary as affected by time, water temperature, dissolved oxygen, salinity and montmorillonite in diffusion chambers was determined. As a result of this study the following conclusions were made: 1. The effect of basin characteristics was the same on FC and FS discharge and on water flow; 2. Fecal coliform pollution in runoff water varies with the seasons of the year; 3. The contribution of each land use component to FC and FS discharge in a multiple land use watershed can be calculated by the use of a statistical model; 4. Water temperature is the most important factor in predicting fecal streptococci survival from point and non-point sources in assessing water quality in an estuarine sy_stem. The following publication resulted from this investigation: Faust, M.A. and N. M. Goff, 1977. Basin size, water flow and land-use effects of fecal coliform pollution from a rural watershed. l!!.. Watershed Research in Eastern North America. Chesapeake Bay Center for Environmental Studies, Smithsonian Institution, Edgewater, Md. Feb. 28 - March 3, 1977. Smithsonian Institution publication.

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Non -Point Source Studies on Chesapeake Bay: IV. Weekly Surface Hydrology of Seven Subbasins within the Rhode River Watershed, Calendar years 1974, 1975 & 1976

Non -Point Source Studies on Chesapeake Bay: V. The Eastern Shore Watersheds at Horn Point

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Non -Point Source Studies on Chesapeake Bay: VI. Particulate Discharge from Rhode River Subwatersheds