{"id":16537,"date":"2017-08-14T08:00:43","date_gmt":"2017-08-14T12:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=16537"},"modified":"2017-08-18T12:17:53","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T16:17:53","slug":"late-july-hypoxia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2017\/08\/14\/late-july-hypoxia\/","title":{"rendered":"Late July 2017 Hypoxia Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_15954\" style=\"width: 778px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15954\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15954\" src=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/07\/bay-.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of: Orange sunset over Bay Bridge\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/07\/bay-.jpg 768w, https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/07\/bay--300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-15954\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">photo by by Krystle Chick<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Due to weather and other factors that influenced sampling, there will be\u00a0no official late-July Maryland Chesapeake Bay\u00a0<span class=\"il\">hypoxia<\/span>\u00a0volume estimation.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>For the late July sampling cruise, only center channel bay stations were sampled. Lateral stations closer to the eastern and western shores were not sampled, making an accurate\u00a0hypoxia\u00a0volume estimation incalculable.\u200b<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16538\" style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/08\/earlyvslateJuly.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16538\" class=\"wp-image-16538\" src=\"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/08\/earlyvslateJuly-300x185.jpg\" alt=\"Dissolved Oxygen Graphic\" width=\"350\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/08\/earlyvslateJuly-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/08\/earlyvslateJuly-768x474.jpg 768w, https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2017\/08\/earlyvslateJuly.jpg 933w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16538\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(click to enlarge chart)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A profile map of center dissolved oxygen conditions, however, shows that conditions may have worsened.<\/p>\n<p>Early July was much better than average, due in part to sustained windy conditions during sampling, which mixed oxygen deeper into the water column. That mixing appears to have dissipated with\u00a0hypoxia (areas with less than 2 mg\/l dissolved oxygen) drawing closer to the surface and stretching further south.\u200b<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due to weather and other factors that influenced sampling, there will be\u00a0no official late-July Maryland Chesapeake Bay\u00a0hypoxia\u00a0volume estimation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[957,33],"tags":[2982,3447],"class_list":["post-16537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-the-bay","tag-chesapeake-bay","tag-hypoxia-report"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/136"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16537"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16581,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16537\/revisions\/16581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}