2023/2024 Chesapeake Bay & Watershed Report Card

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dc.contributor.authorV, Vargas-Nguyen
dc.contributor.authorJ, Edgerton
dc.contributor.authorR, Nair-Gonzalez
dc.contributor.authorS, Anderson
dc.contributor.authorL, Badri
dc.contributor.authorV, Lucchese
dc.contributor.authorA, Fife
dc.contributor.authorH, Kelsey
dc.contributor.authorB, Dennison
dc.contributor.authorC, Knauss
dc.contributor.authorN, Trenholm
dc.date.accessioned2025-11-18T17:40:08Z
dc.date.issued2024-07-09
dc.description.abstractThis report card provides a transparent, timely, and geographically detailed assessment of Chesapeake Bay and its Watershed. Since 2016, UMCES has engaged stakeholders throughout the watershed to transform the report card into an evaluation of the Chesapeake Watershed health. Watershed health includes traditional ecological indicators, but also economic and societal indicators. This is the fifth year the watershed has been scored, and while no new indicators were included this year there were multiple updates to existing indicators. Linkages and relationships between the ecological, economic, and societal indicators will be evaluated in future report cards. Overall, the Chesapeake Watershed scored 52%, a C. There were four ecological indicators, four economic indicators, and four societal indicators. Overall, Chesapeake Bay scored 55%, a C+, in 2023, showing a significantly improving trend. This is the highest overall grade for the bay since 2002.
dc.description.urihttps://ian.umces.edu/site/assets/files/31530/2023-2024-chesapeake-bay-watershed-report-card.pdf
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/y2p5-huzn
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/34856
dc.subjectChesapeake Bay
dc.subjectChesapeake Bay Watershed
dc.subjectBay Health
dc.subjectWatershed Health
dc.subjectAquatic
dc.subjectTerrestrial
dc.subjectSocietal
dc.subjectReport Card
dc.subjectenvironment
dc.subjectecosystem
dc.subjectwalkability
dc.subjectheat vulnerability index
dc.subjectsocial index
dc.subjectprotected lands
dc.subjectstewardship
dc.subjectbenthic community
dc.subjectwater quality
dc.subjectfish community
dc.subjecteconomics
dc.subjectmedian household income
dc.subjecthousing affordability
dc.subjectincome inequality
dc.subjectjobs growth
dc.subjectecological
dc.subjectsocietal
dc.subjecteconomic
dc.subjectenvironmental justice
dc.subjectplastics
dc.subjectdebris
dc.subjectland use
dc.subjectlistening session
dc.title2023/2024 Chesapeake Bay & Watershed Report Card
dc.typeReport

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