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Environmental
Indicators in the
Estuarine Environment
Project
Overview
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With
support from the EPA-STAR
Estuarine and Great Lakes Environmental Indicators Program (EaGLe),
we are developing and testing broadly-applicable, integrative
indicators of ecological condition, integrity, and sustainability
across four distinct and representative estuarine systems on
the Atlantic Coast of the United States. These include the Nation's
two largest estuarine complexes, Chesapeake Bay, MD/VA and Albemarle-Pamlico
Sound, NC, a small estuary, the Parker River, situated in the
Plum Island NSF Long-Term Ecosystem Research (LTER) site in
Massachusetts, and a tide dominated estuary in the southeast
Atlantic Bight, the North Inlet, SC. These sites are representative
of three primary producer bases (intertidal marsh-Plum Island
and North Inlet; plankton dominated-Chesapeake Bay and Pamlico
Sound; seagrass dominated-portions of Chesapeake Bay and Pamlico
Sound). They also have ongoing, long-term water quality/habitat
monitoring programs in place, serving as the data bases for
indicator development and testing. These systems contain both
pristine and anthropogenically-impacted waters.
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