In 1966 Congress passed the National Sea Grant College Program Act to promote marine research, education, and extension services in institutions along the nation's ocean and Great Lakes coasts. In Maryland a Sea Grant Program -- a partnership among federal and state governments, universities, and industries -- began in 1977, and in 1982 the University of Maryland was named the nation's seventeenth Sea Grant College.The Maryland Sea Grant College focuses its efforts on the Chesapeake Bay, with emphasis on the marine concerns of fisheries, seafood technology, and environmental quality.This critical analysis of the role of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in federal waterway projects examines the history of the Port of Baltimore, the politics of funding the Baltimore Harbor and Channels Project, the effects of changing environmental regulations on the Corps' permit process, and the legal controversy over the disposal of dredged spoil at Hart and Miller islands. The study concludes that the primary beneficiaries of deep-draft channels -- the small number of industries -- should pay user fees and thus bear some portion of the costs of dredging deeper channels.

The Real Beneficiaries of Federal Dredging: A Legal, Political and Economic Assessment of the Fifty-Foot Channel for the Port of Baltimore

Politics & Social Sciences

Power, Garrett

Edgecombe, Karen H.

Bellows, William J.

Sociology

Univ of Maryland Sea Grant College

Aquatic Microbial Ecology: Proceedings of the Asm Conference

Colwell, Rita R.

Microbial Hazards of Diving in Polluted Waters

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Among the topics addressed in this volume by fifteen experts are the history of striper culture, life history and biology of striped bass and its hybrids, culture requirements, culture methods, techniques and experiences at Marion Fish Hatchery and Osage Catfisheries, Inc., intensive culture methods, high density culture in power plant effluents, growth and feeding dynamics, nutrition, diseases and pests, cryopreservation of sperm, legal constraints, and marketing potential. This comprehensive collection of papers is of interest to -- among others -- prospective culturists, resource managers, legislators, fishery biologists, and marketers.

The Aquaculture of Striped Bass

Science & Math

Nature & Ecology

Concepts in Marine Pollution Measurements

White, Harris H.

Biological Sciences

In 1966 Congress passed the National Sea Grant College Program Act to promote marine research, education, and extension services in institutions along the nation's ocean and Great Lakes coasts. In Maryland a Sea Grant Program -- a partnership among federal and state governments, universities, and industries -- began in 1977, and in 1982 the University of Maryland was named the nation's seventeenth Sea Grant College.The Maryland Sea Grant College focuses its efforts on the Chesapeake Bay, with emphasis on the marine concerns of fisheries, seafood technology, and environmental quality.This graceful overview joins geological, biological, and political perspectives of the Bay. The Bay we see today, Schubel notes, is only one of a long succession of estuaries, each with its own character. Descriptions of the past, present, and future dwell not only on social and geological changes, but also on politics, which, as Schubel makes clear, have a definite effect on how man studies and manages a resource like the Chesapeake Bay.

The Life & Death of the Chesapeake Bay

Schubel, J. R.

Covering more than 4,400 square miles, the Chesapeake Bay is the nation's largest estuary, its most complex, and historically its most productive. Increasingly over this last half century, the Chesapeake has been subjected to the impacts of accelerated population growth, massive volumes of sediment eroding from the 64,000 square mile watershed, human and industrial wastes pumped into the Bay's rivers and streams, and thousands of tons of nutrients annually from agricultural lands, sewage treatment plants, acid rain and ground water. The consequences have been widespread - declines of sea grasses, diminished stocks of commercial fish and shellfish, and degraded water quality. A recurring condition in the Chesapeake Bay - and a measure of the estuary's environmental integrity - has been hypoxia, the depletion of oxygen in bottom waters, beginning in spring and lasting through summer. In 1985, the Maryland and Virginia Sea Grant programs undertook a long-tern program of integrated research aimed at detailing how biochemical and physical processes regulate dissolved oxygen in the Chesapeake Bay. A number of the scientific and management findings summarized in this book are already playing important roles in targeting research needs and assisting resource management agencies.

Oxygen Dynamics in Chesapeake Bay: A Synthesis of Recent Research

Research

In 1966 Congress passed the National Sea Grant College Program Act to promote marine research, education, and extension services in institutions along the nation's ocean and Great Lakes coasts. In Maryland a Sea Grant Program -- a partnership among federal and state governments, universities, and industries -- began in 1977, and in 1982 the University of Maryland was named the nation's seventeenth Sea Grant College.The Maryland Sea Grant College focuses its efforts on the Chesapeake Bay, with emphasis on the marine concerns of fisheries, seafood technology, and environmental quality.Increasingly divers -- especially military and commercial divers -- are required to enter waters that may pose a range of hazards, including heat, radioactivity, and chemicals. Both recreational and professional divers may also encounter microbial hazards because of the presence of poorly treated or untreated sewage, for example.This book pulls together presentations by experts in the field, including researchers, professional divers, and physicians, to shed light on the extent and nature of hazards confronted by divers as they enter uncertain waters.

The Hazards of Diving in Polluted Waters: Proceedings of an International Symposium

Maryland Sea Grant

Dispersal of Living Organisms into Aquatic Ecosystems

Mann, Roger

Aaron Rosenfield

This book was edited by Gordon W. Thayer and covers costal marine and estuarine habitats and how to restore and preserve them.

Restoring the Nation's Marine Environment

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