{"id":31017,"date":"2020-07-27T14:48:35","date_gmt":"2020-07-27T18:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=31017"},"modified":"2020-07-28T08:32:11","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T12:32:11","slug":"early-july-2020-hypoxia-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2020\/07\/27\/early-july-2020-hypoxia-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Early July 2020 Hypoxia Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a title=\"July Hypoxia\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/marylanddnr\/50159196342\/in\/dateposted\/\" data-flickr-embed=\"true\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50159196342_6fa8f7f0bb_c.jpg\" alt=\"July Hypoxia\" width=\"366\" height=\"274\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/Pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Maryland Department of Natural Resources<\/a> monitoring data show that dissolved oxygen conditions in the Maryland portion of the Chesapeake Bay mainstem were average in early July 2020. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The hypoxic water volume \u2014 waters with less than 2 mg\/l oxygen \u2014 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">was 1.35 cubic miles compared to a historical early July average (1985-2019) of 1.38 cubic miles. Low dissolved oxygen extended into the Virginia Chesapeake Bay mainstem for an additional 0.35 cubic miles of hypoxia, for a total baywide estimate of 1.7 cubic miles. Based on historical data, bay hypoxia volumes historically peak during the early portion of July.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> No anoxic zones \u2014 areas with less than 0.2 mg\/l oxygen \u2014 were observed in the Maryland or Virginia bay mainstem.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maryland\u2019s water quality data can be further explored with a variety of online tools at the Department\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/eyesonthebay.dnr.maryland.gov\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Eyes on the Bay website<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50159196912_f875c0a333_b.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50159196912_f875c0a333_b.jpg\" alt=\"Graph of dissolved oxygen in the Chesapeake Bay\" width=\"350\" height=\"263\" \/><\/a>In June, the Chesapeake Bay Program, U.S Geological Survey, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, and University of Michigan scientists released their prediction for <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chesapeakebay.net\/news\/blog\/smaller_than_normal_dead_zone_predicted_for_the_chesapeake_in_2020\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">slightly smaller-than-average 2020 hypoxic conditions<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> based on slightly less-than-average water and nitrogen flows into the bay from January to May 2020. Monitoring results thus far have matched that forecast.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50158408258_2f5fb0fe23_b.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50158408258_2f5fb0fe23_b.jpg\" alt=\"Graph of historic anoxic water volumes in Chesapeake Bay\" width=\"344\" height=\"258\" \/><\/a>Crabs, fish, oysters, and other creatures in the Chesapeake Bay require oxygen to survive. Scientists and natural resource managers study the volume and duration of bay hypoxia to determine possible impacts to bay life. Each year (June-September), the Maryland Department of Natural Resources computes these volumes from data collected by Maryland and Virginia monitoring teams during twice-monthly monitoring cruises. Data collection is funded by these states and the Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s Chesapeake Bay Program. Bay hypoxia monitoring and reporting will continue through the summer.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maryland Department of Natural Resources monitoring data show that dissolved oxygen conditions in the Maryland portion of the Chesapeake Bay mainstem were average in early July 2020. The hypoxic water volume \u2014 waters with less than 2 mg\/l oxygen \u2014 was 1.35 cubic miles compared to a historical early July average (1985-2019) of 1.38 cubic<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2020\/07\/27\/early-july-2020-hypoxia-report\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"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":[2982,2960,3520,5017,3452,3290],"class_list":["post-31017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-the-bay","tag-chesapeake-bay","tag-chesapeake-bay-program","tag-eyes-on-the-bay","tag-hypoxia","tag-u-s-geological-survey","tag-university-of-maryland-center-for-environmental-science"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31017","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\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31017"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31027,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31017\/revisions\/31027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}