Woman in an enclosed section on a boat holds a beaker.
Kerry Maguire of the Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) prepares a water quality sample aboard the R/V Rachel Carson in Maryland's portion of the upper Chesapeake Bay. (Photo by Ethan Weston/Chesapeake Bay Program)

This interface provides access to several types of data related to the Chesapeake Bay. Bay Program databases can be queried based on user-defined inputs such as geographic region and date range. Each query results in a downloadable tab- or comma-delimited text file that can be imported to program such as SAS, Excel and Access for further analysis. Comments regarding the interface are encouraged. Questions in reference to the data should be addressed to the contact provided on subsequent pages.