The Maryland History and Culture Bibliography
Bennion, V.R., D.F. Dougherty, and Robert M. Overbeck. The Water Resources of Calvert County. Bulletin 8. Baltimore: Department of Geology, Mines and Water Resources, 1951.
Categories: Environment, Science and Technology, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Calvert County
Bernstein, L. R. Minerals of the Washington, D.C. area. Baltimore: Maryland Geological Survey, 1980.
Categories: Environment, Science and Technology, Before 1600 AD, Twentieth Century
Environmental Monitoring. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1990.
Notes: A leading example in this work is environmental Monitoring of the Chesapeake.
Categories: Environment, Science and Technology, Twentieth Century
Bonzek, Christopher F., and Philip W. Jones. Assembly of the Population Dynamics of Important Commercial or Recreational Fish of Chesapeake Bay, an Atlas of Commercial Fishery Statistics in Chesapeake Bay 1929-1980. Technical memorandum No. 5. Tidewater Administration: Maryland Department of Natural Resources, 1984.
Notes: This is just one example of the wide commercial fishery literature, and graphically shows the state of decline in many Chesapeake resources.
Categories: Environment, Science and Technology, Twentieth Century
Boward, Daniel, et. al. From the Mountains to the Sea: The State of Maryland's Fresh Water Streams. Washington, DC: United States Environmental Protection Agency, 1999.
Notes: This report summarized the state of Maryland streams, after many years of monitoring, and points to where improvements and declines were found. Technical but well explained and readable.
Categories: Environment, Science and Technology, Twentieth Century
Brooks, William K. The Oyster. 1891; reprint, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1966.
Categories: Environment, Science and Technology, Nineteenth Century
Brown, Russell, and Melvin Brown. Herbaceous Plants of Maryland. College Park: University of Maryland Bookstore, 1984.
Categories: Environment, Science and Technology
Carter, Virginia, Patricia T. Gammon, and Nancy C. Bartow. Submersed Aquatic Plants of the Tidal Potomac River. [Reston, VA?]: United States Department of the Interior, Geological Survey, 1983.
Categories: Environment, Science and Technology, Twentieth Century
Chesapeake Research Consortium. The Effects of Tropical Storm Agnes on the Chesapeake Bay Estuarine System. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1977.
Categories: Environment, Science and Technology, Twentieth Century
Clayton, John Edmund, and Dorothy Berkeley, eds. "Another Account of Virginia." The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 76 (1687): 415-436.
Notes: This is a convenient abstract of Clayton's Virginia descriptions, equally applicable to Maryland, discussing a wide variety of animals and plants, their uses and special characters. The Reverend Clayton wrote considerably more.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Science and Technology, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Seventeenth Century
Cowles, R.P. "A Biological Study of the Offshore Waters of Chesapeake Bay." Bulletin of the United States Bureau of Fisheries 46 (1930): 277-381.
Notes: Cowles and his predecessor Lewis Radcliffe were the first to do coordinated studies of the hydrography and biology of the Bay, from 1915 to 1922. The kinds of organisms they found suggest the Bay was not yet experiencing the chronic summer loss of deep water dissolved oxygen encountered in today's polluted estuary.
Categories: Environment, Science and Technology, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century
Cronin, William B. Volumetric, Areal and Tidal Statistics of the Chesapeake Bay Estuary and its Tributaries. Special Report 20, Ref.71-2.Chesapeake Bay Institute, 1971.
Categories: Environment, Science and Technology, Twentieth Century
Cronon, William B. Changes in the Land, Indians, Colonists and the Ecology of New England. New York: Hill and Wang, 1983.
Notes: Cronon's work is about New England, but his ecological insights are invaluable to learning about the Chesapeake.
Categories: Archaeology, Environment, Native American, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture
Eble, Albert F., Victor S. Kennedy, and Roger E.I. Newell, eds. The Eastern Oyster: Crassostrea virginica. College Park, MD: Maryland Sea Grant College, 1996.
Notes: A comprehensive update on oyster biology, and an impressive work.
Categories: Environment, Science and Technology, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century
Funderburk, Steven, Joseph Mihursky, Stephen Jordan, and David Riley. Habitat Requirements for Chesapeake Bay Living Resources. Annapolis, MD: The Workgroup, 1991.
Notes: With 47 maps.
Categories: Environment, Science and Technology, Twentieth Century
Glaser, John D. Collecting Fossils in Maryland. Baltimore: State of Maryland, Dept. of Natural Resources, Maryland Geological Survey, 1995.
Categories: Environment, Science and Technology, Before 1600 AD, Twentieth Century
Gottfried, Michael D. "Fossil Pioneers: The Chesapeake Region and the Early History of Paleontology in North America." Bugeye Times 16 (Fall 1991): 1, 6-7.
Categories: Archaeology, County and Local History, Environment, Native American, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Chesapeake Region
Heckscher, Christopher M. "Distribution and Habitat Associations of the Eastern Mud Salamander, Pseudotriton montanus, on the Delmarva Peninsula." Maryland Naturalist 39 (January-June 1995): 11-14.
Categories: Environment, Science and Technology, Caroline County, Cecil County, Dorchester County, Kent County, Queen Anne's County, Somerset County, Wicomico County, Worcester County, Eastern Shore
Hench, John E., Rob Gibbs, and Jayne S. Hench. "Some Observations on Hydrilla and Wintering Waterfowl in Montgomery County, Maryland." Maryland Naturalist 38 (January/June 1994): 3-9.
Hurley, Linda M. Field Guide to the Submerged Aquatic Vegetation of Chesapeake Bay. Annapolis, MD: United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Chesapeake Estuary Program, [1989 or 1990].
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Science and Technology, Twentieth Century, Chesapeake Region
Jacoby, Mark. Bayside Guide to Weather on the Chesapeake. College Park, MD: Sea Grant College, University of Maryland, 1984.
Categories: County and Local History, Environment, Science and Technology, Twentieth Century, Chesapeake Region
Johnson, Paula J. Working the Water: The Commercial Fisheries of Maryland's Patuxent River. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 1988.
Notes: Johnson's book covers many of the fishing techniques and inventions which have so strongly impacted Chesapeake Bay's natural resources.
Categories: County and Local History, Economic, Business, and Labor History, Environment, Science and Technology, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century, Anne Arundel County, Charles County
Keiner, Christine. "W. K. Brooks and the Oyster Question: Science, Politics, and Resource Management in Maryland, 1880-1930." Journal of the History of Biology [Netherlands] 31 (Fall 1998): 383-424.
Categories: Environment, Politics and Law, Science and Technology, Nineteenth Century, Twentieth Century
Kent, Bretton W. Fossil Sharks of the Chesapeake Bay Region. Columbia, MD: Egan, Rees and Boyer, Inc., 1994.
Notes: An excellent manual and discussion about Maryland's most popular fossil, the shark's tooth.
Categories: Environment, Science and Technology, Before 1600 AD
Kent, Bretton W. Making Dead Oysters Talk. 1988; rev. ed. Crownsville, MD: Maryland Historical Trust, Historic St. Mary's City Commission and Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum, 1992.
Notes: Kent's analyses of oysters from archaeological sites, tell a cautionary tale of overharvest which went unheeded for three centuries.
Categories: Archaeology, Environment, Science and Technology, Society, Social Change, Folklife, and Popular Culture, Before 1600 AD, Seventeenth Century