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Chesapeake Stream Team Field Sites, 2021-2024

Published by U.S. Geological Survey | Department of the Interior | Metadata Last Checked: January 27, 2026 | Last Modified: 2024-11-18T00:00:00Z
Each year from 2021 to 2024, teams from the U.S. Geological Survey and the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) studied 30 streams with a targeted gradient of land use and conservation practices across the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. The four years of the study cover the following geographic areas and land use characteristics (generally referred to as typologies in associated data sets): Shenandoah Valley and Ridge pasture Delmarva row crop Pennsylvania and Maryland Piedmont mixed agriculture Maryland-Washington, DC-Virginia developed Piedmont The data here provide site names and basic identifiers that are commonly used in the many data releases associated with the larger study and serve as a key to match site ID with locations and data. Specific site location is limited to a HUC12 scale due to requests of privacy from landowners who granted access and permission.

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