The Bay Journal

The Bay Journal, produced by Bay Journal Media, a nonprofit organization recognized under 501(c)(3), aims to educate the public on topics and happenings related to the Chesapeake Bay. Each month, around 100,000 individuals engage with the Bay Journal through its printed edition, website, and weekly email updates. This publication is available at no cost. If you'd like to receive a copy, simply complete the online subscription form. Additionally, bundles of the Bay Journal can be requested for wider distribution.

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Chesapeake Conservancy selects new CEO

2 days ago | bayjournal.com | Jeremy Cox

The Chesapeake Conservancy, a watershed-wide land preservation group based in Annapolis, has named a former top executive as its new leader. Susan Shingledecker is set to take the reins Sept. 8. Shingledecker most recently served as executive director of Earth Science Information Partners, which promotes the use of data to tackle environmental issues. In that role, she collaborated with federal and state agencies, universities and private-sector technology firms to advance data-driven solutions.
Report urges more research on pesticides in Chesapeake Bay region

5 days ago | bayjournal.com | Jeremy Cox

Widespread pesticide use is polluting waters throughout the Chesapeake Bay watershed as well as imperiling the health of a host of organisms, ranging from oysters to humans. And scientists are “desperately” calling for further investigation into what happens to living things when they’re exposed to haphazard mixtures of these myriad chemicals at once.
Pennsylvania opens nature-like passage to help fish navigate the Susquehanna River

5 days ago | bayjournal.com | Karl Blankenship

Shad and river herring that make it past an obstacle course of hydroelectric dams on the lower Susquehanna River — a tall challenge — now have a clear path to get all the way to New York. State and federal officials dedicated a new naturalistic fish passage in June that allows fish to bypass an inflatable dam that stretches across the river at Shikellamy State Park in Pennsylvania, just below the confluence of its west and north branches.
Virginia’s Pay-for-Outcomes program invites innovation for reducing water pollution

1 week ago | bayjournal.com | Lauren Hines-Acosta

Grants for reducing water pollution in the Chesapeake Bay and its rivers typically fund projects that reduce nutrient-laden runoff from farms, wastewater treatment plants and developed areas. The money usually helps cover the costs of conducting a project — like restoring a stream, planting trees, managing manure or reducing discharges and sewer leaks. But as the region continues to struggle with reducing nutrient pollution in waterways, some government grant programs are switching up the format.
Fit for a queen: Monarchs visit the Chesapeake Bay on their journey

1 week ago | bayjournal.com | Lauren Hines-Acosta

Editor’s note: Parts of this article are featured in our Chesapeake Uncharted podcast, available from your podcast service or at bayjournal.com/podcasts. This podcast season is a companion to our new film, Chesapeake Rhythms, which explores wildlife migrations in the Bay region. In a forest in the Sierra Madre Mountains of Mexico in 2016, James Diffendorfer saw the bark of pine trees moving. Monarch butterflies rustled along the tree trunks, clustered on branches and filled the sky.
Fit for a queen: Monarchs visit the Bay on their journey

1 week ago | bayjournal.com | Lauren Hines-Acosta

Editor’s note: Parts of this article are featured in our Chesapeake Uncharted podcast, available from your podcast service or at bayjournal.com/podcasts. This podcast season is a companion to our new film, Chesapeake Rhythms, which explores wildlife migrations in the Bay region. In a forest in the Sierra Madre Mountains of Mexico in 2016, James Diffendorfer saw the bark of pine trees moving. Monarch butterflies rustled along the tree trunks, clustered on branches and filled the sky.
Chesapeake Bay’s latest health slump tied to climate change, scientists say

1 week ago | bayjournal.com | Jeremy Cox

The Chesapeake Bay’s ecological health declined in 2024 as extreme heat, rainfall and drought wreaked havoc across the estuary’s watershed, according to the latest annual report card from the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. Experts worry it may be a sign of things to come. The grade for the Bay’s aquatic health slipped from a C+ in 2023 to a C last year, dropping 5 percentage points to an overall score of 50%, UMCES reported.
As coastal woodlands as succumb to saltwater, scientists study the causes and the pace

2 weeks ago | bayjournal.com | Jeremy Cox

It’s safe to say that Tree No. 160 won’t be standing for much longer. When a scientist tagged the loblolly pine at some point within the last four years, it was alive. The silver medallion bearing its identification number remains tacked into the tree’s side about 6 feet up from the ground. But the evergreen has now turned forever brown. The pine’s needles and most of its branches are gone. Its trunk is riddled with insect holes. Chunks of bark are missing. And it has plenty of company.
As coastal woodlands succumb to saltwater, scientists study the causes and the pace

2 weeks ago | bayjournal.com | Jeremy Cox

It’s safe to say that Tree No. 160 won’t be standing for much longer. When a scientist tagged the loblolly pine at some point within the last four years, it was alive. The silver medallion bearing its identification number remains tacked into the tree’s side about 6 feet up from the ground. But the evergreen has now turned forever brown. The pine’s needles and most of its branches are gone. Its trunk is riddled with insect holes. Chunks of bark are missing. And it has plenty of company.
Patawomeck tribe member continues eel pot tradition

3 weeks ago | bayjournal.com | Lauren Hines-Acosta

Editor’s note: This interview will be featured in the new season of our Chesapeake Uncharted podcast, available on the Bay Journal website or wherever you listen to podcasts. The season is a companion to our film, Chesapeake Rhythms, which explores wildlife migrations in the Bay region: graceful tundra swans, beautiful monarch butterflies, elusive eels and flocking shorebirds.