An ESSIC collaborative study led by Stephanie Schollaert Uz was published this month on the American Meteorological Society’s (AMS) on-line Journal of Climate. Titled “Interannual and Decadal Variability in Tropical Pacific Chlorophyll from a Statistical Reconstruction: 1958–2008,” the study reconstructs a retrospective 51-year time series of surface chlorophyll to quantify how multidecadal climate-scale patterns impact biological productivity. The study was first submitted for review in March 2016.
![Satellite seasonal temperature difference maps indicate how the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem and its organisms may respond to the temperature changes. Here, the maps show warmer than average water temperatures from January through March 2020, cooler than average from April through June, near average July through September, and slightly warmer than average October through December. The long-term baseline is from the years 2008-2019.]](https://essic.umd.edu/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/rv-chesapeake2-150x150.jpg)
