{"id":31194,"date":"2020-09-01T15:33:49","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T19:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=31194"},"modified":"2020-09-01T15:36:08","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T19:36:08","slug":"early-august-2020-hypoxia-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2020\/09\/01\/early-august-2020-hypoxia-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Early August 2020 Hypoxia Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Conditions Show Improvement Following Tropical Storm Isaias<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50279335452_666133ae07_b.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50279335452_666133ae07_b.jpg\" alt=\"Map showing Chesapeake Bay Dissolved Oxygen, Early August 2020\" width=\"351\" height=\"264\" \/><\/a>Maryland Department of Natural Resources monitoring data show that dissolved oxygen conditions in the Maryland portion of the Chesapeake Bay mainstem were better than average in early August 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 0.92 cubic miles compared to a historical early August average (1985-2019) of 1.2 cubic miles.\u00a0 Oxygen conditions improved from late July to early August, with the early August hypoxic volume being nearly half the volume observed in late July. Early August conditions ranked 10th best out of the 36-year monitoring record for the period. An additional 0.24 cubic miles of hypoxia was observed in Virginia Chesapeake Bay mainstem waters. No anoxic zones &#8212; areas with less than 0.2 mg\/l oxygen &#8212; were observed in the Maryland or Virginia mainstem.eyes<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50278495778_3726909eb9_h.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50278495778_3726909eb9_h.jpg\" alt=\"Graph showing percentage of water below 2 mg\/l oxygen in Maryland's portion of the Chesapeake Bay, Early August 2020\" width=\"351\" height=\"263\" \/><\/a>Better conditions can be partially attributed to oxygen mixing into deeper waters following the winds of Tropical Storm Isaias on Aug. 4. Lower bay sampling began Aug. 6, and upper bay sampling was completed Aug. 11.<\/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<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> website.<a href=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50279183316_ee786d5d76_b.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50279183316_ee786d5d76_b.jpg\" alt=\"Bar graph showing historic comparison of dissolved oxygen in Chesapeake Bay by volume\" width=\"351\" height=\"263\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">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. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">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>Conditions Show Improvement Following Tropical Storm Isaias Maryland Department of Natural Resources monitoring data show that dissolved oxygen conditions in the Maryland portion of the Chesapeake Bay mainstem were better than average in early August 2020. The hypoxic water volume \u2014 waters with less than 2 mg\/l oxygen \u2014 was 0.92 cubic miles compared to<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2020\/09\/01\/early-august-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":[2982,3520,3447],"class_list":["post-31194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-the-bay","tag-chesapeake-bay","tag-eyes-on-the-bay","tag-hypoxia-report"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31194","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=31194"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31210,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31194\/revisions\/31210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}