Resources and Publications

Research and Monitoring Resources

Field Guides

• CCVATCH Guidance Documentation. - The CCVATCH uses a facilitated expert knowledge process to assess potential impacts of climate change, extreme events and other stressors on critical coastal habitats along with possible habitat adaptive capacity to evaluate overall vulnerability. 

• Guidelines - Water Quality Monitoring
  • Miles, E.J. 2012. Guidelines - Water Quality Monitoring - Guidelines on the Application of Environmental Impact Assessment Methodology as a Decision-Making Methodology as a Decision-Making Tool to Improve Data Quality.  Special Report 430 in Applied Marine Science and Ocean Engineering. Virgina Institute of Marine Science, College of William and Mary. Gloucester Point, VA.
• Guidelines for Shallow Water Monitoring
  • Miles, E.J. 2009. Guidelines for Shallow Water Quality Monitoring. Continuous Monitoring Station: Selection, Assembly and Construction. Special Report 412 in Applied Marine Science and Ocean Engineering. Virgina Institute of Marine Science, College of William and Mary. Gloucester Point, VA.

Selected Project Reports

• CBNERR Research Bibliography  Parker, F.M. and W.G. Reay. 2006. Annotated Bibliography of Research Conducted in the Chesapeake Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve - Virginia. Virginia Institute of Marine Science, College of William and Mary. Gloucester Point, Virgnina. 23062
• CBNERR Site Profile (see chapters below) 
  • Moore, K.A. and W.G. Reay.  2009.  A Site Profile of the Chesapeake Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve in Virginia.  Virginia Institute of Marine Science, College of William and Mary.  Gloucester Point, VA.
  • Site Profile Introduction
  • Introduction to CBNERRVA
  • York River Geology by Carl Hobbs
  • York River Physical Oceanography and Sediment Transport by Carl T. Friedrichs
  • Water Quality within the York River Estuary by William G. Reay
  • Tidal Marshes of the York River Part 1 by James E. Perry and Robert B. Atkinson
  • Tidal Marshes of the York River Part 2 by James E. Perry and Robert B. Atkinson
  • Submerged Aquatic Vegetation of the York River by Kenneth A. Moore
  • Phytoplankton of the York River by Harold G. Marshall
  • Zooplankton of the York River by Deborah K. Steinberg and Robert H. Condon
  • Benthos of the York River by David J. Gillett and Linda C. Schaffner
  • Fishes of the York River System by Amanda Hewitt, Julia Ellis, and Mary C. Fabrizio
  • Amphibian, Reptiles, Birds and Mammals of the York River by Joseph Brown and Sandra Erdle
• CBNERRVA Research and Monitoring Program by Kenneth A. Moore and William G. Reay

Habitat Mapping

• Chesapeake Bay NERR FY2017 Habitat Mapping Data Sharing Plan
• SOP Mapping Land Use and Habitate Change NOAA/NERRS (2015). Standard Operating Procedures Mapping Land Use and Habitat Change in the National Estuarine Research Reserve System. 56 pp.

Biomonitoring

• System-Wide Monitoring Program Plan (2011) NOAA/NERRS (2011). National Estuarine Research Reserve System System-wide Monitoring Program Plan. pp. 60 pps.
• Vegation Monitoring SOP (2020) NOAA/NERRS (2020). Vegetation Monitoring Standard Operating Protocol, v1.1. National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERRS) Biomonitoring Workgroup. Centralized Data Management Office: www.nerrsdata.org. 41pp.

Sentinel Site Program

• Chesapeake Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve in Virginia Sentinel Site Plan (2020).   47 pgs plus attachments (Appendix A - Sentinel Site Maintenance; Table 3 - Vegetation Transects; Table 4 - SET Metadata; Table 5 - Vertical Control Metadata; Table 6 - WQ WL and MET Metadata). 
• Sentinel Sites Program Guidance for Climate Change Impacts (2012)  NOAA/NERRS. (2012). National Estuarine Research Reserve System Sentinel Sites Program Guidance for Climate Change Impacts. 23pp. 

• Coastal Habitat Response to Changing Water Levels NERR Sentinel Site Application Module 1 (2016) NOAA/NERRS (2016). Coastal Habitat Response to Changing Water Levels NERR Sentinel Site Application Module 1. 12pp. https://coast.noaa.gov/data/docs/nerrs/Research_SentinelSitesGuidanceDoc.pdf.