The "smart buoys," placed throughout the bay and on the Potomac River and other rivers, deliver real-time data on temperature, turbidity, water quality and more through the Web, a mobile ...

If you like to swim in the Chesapeake Bay, but don't like being stung by jellyfish, a new high-tech bay buoy system can help. Skip to content. NOWCAST 11 News Saturday Morning.

Anglers will soon have a new tool to help monitor sea conditions on the Chesapeake Bay. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Chesapeake Bay Interpretive Buoy System is getting a ...

Scientists, watermen and those interested in the estuarine ecosystem are among the many people who can benefit from a series of buoys recording a wealth of data in the Chesapeake Bay. The "smart ...

These buoy measurements can be publicly accessed at www.buoybay.org and by phone at 877-BUOY-BAY (877-286-9229). (Jerry Rogers serves with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Norfolk District Public ...

What a friendly fellow this new high-tech smart buoy is in the Chesapeake Bay.You can phone him or contact him on your computer 24 hours a day. He'll tell boaters about weather conditions such as ...

Newport, Rhode Island – Nv-Charts, a global supplier of charting products for mariners and cruising sailors, has now extended its coverage and produced new chart regions for Chesapeake Bay, just ...

At 10:30 on a recent morning, the water temperature at York Spit was 83.3 degrees Fahrenheit. Air temperature: 80.2 degrees. Maximum wave height was 1.1 feet, and wind speed 1.6 knots. The probabil… ...

But bringing it along on kayaking trips, it turns out, can serve more than my own personal safety: It’s also a useful tool to map the land-devouring effects of sea-level rise in the Chesapeake ...

If the Chesapeake Bay doesn’t reaching the boiling point by Tuesday, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will deploy its ninth “smart buoy,” and this one should be… ...

Second-year engineering students at James Madison University have been busy designing a buoy this year in hopes of providing some low-cost solutions for protecting the environment. When deployed ...