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Chesapeake Bay Field Lab

Apr 6, 2007 - 11:39:07 AM

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The Chesapeake Bay Field Lab's sign, greeting visitors as they enter the St. George Island facility.
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The Bay Lab's famous skipjack Dee of St. Mary's, one of the last operating skipjacks in the region.
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The Bay Lab's peat marsh along St. George Creek. This tidal marsh habitat is an important environmental education resource.


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Peat marsh being lost to the water. The dark areas are pieces of peat marsh that have already broken off and fallen into the water.
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The wave action against the peat marsh is causing severe undercutting. Here, a large section of peat marsh has been undercut and is slumping into the water.
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These arial photos show substantial loss of sandy beach from 1938 (left) to 2007 (right).



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