Chesapeake Water Watch

In 2022, AHB joined teams of other citizen scientists to help the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC) “ground truth” the water quality data collected by NASA satellites on the Chesapeake Bay. Volunteers use a phone-based app to measure the turbidity and reflectance of bay waters over 100 feet from the shore. Water samples taken from those sites are tested for chlorophyll, turbidity, and dissolved organic matter. It would be great to have more volunteers, so please contact us or SERC if you are interested.