Datasets & Reports: By the PDE

Science & Research

Education & Outreach

The table below lists all scientific and technical reports currently available from the Partnership for the Delaware Estuary, including those produced under the organization's former name, the Delaware Estuary Program. Most of these are available to the public; however, only some are currently available online.

Datasets & Reports by PDE

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2012 Technical Report for the Delaware Estuary & Basin. P. Cole and D. Kreeger (eds.), Partnership for the Delaware Estuary. Report No. 12.01. 1-255 pp. Go to TREB Webpage Scientific/Technical
2012 State of the Estuary 2012. Partnership for the Delaware Estuary. Estuary News Summer Edition, Vol. 22, Issue 4. Download PDF General
2012 Developement and Implementation of an Integrated Monitoring and Assessment Program for Tidal Wetlands. Partnership for the Delaware Estuary. Report No. 12-03. 1-77 pp. Download PDF Scientific/Technical
2012 Delaware Living Shoreline Possibilities- Final Report to Delaware Coastal Programs. Partnership for the Delaware Estuary. Report No. 12-04. 1-86 pp. Download PDF Scientific/Technical
2012

New Jersey Living Shoreline Possibilities- Final Report to the Dodge Foundation. Partnership for the Delaware Estuary. Report No. 12-05. 1-77 pp.

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2012 Freshwater Mussel Recovery Program in the Delaware Estuary. Partnership for the Delaware Estuary. Report No. 12-02. pp.42 Download PDF Scientific/Technical
2011 Condition of Tidal Freshwater Wetlands in Pennsylvania. 
Partnership for the Delaware Estuary. Report No. 11-05. pp. 33
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2011 Practitioner's Guide: Shellfish-based Living Shorelines for Salt Marsh Erosion Control and Environmental Enhancement in the Mid-Atlantic. Partnership for the Delaware Estuary and Rutgers' Haskin Shellfish Research Laboratory. Report No. 11-04. 1-47 pp. Download PDF Scientific/Technical
2011 Proceedings for the Fourth Delaware Estuary Science & Environmental Summit. P. Cole and D. Kreeger (eds.), Partnership for the Delaware Estuary. Report No. 11-01. 1-154 pp. Download PDF Scientific/Technical
2011 Marine Bivalve Shellfish Conservation Priorities for the Delaware Estuary. Partnership for the Delaware Estuary, Report No. 11-03. 1-54 pp. Download PDF Scientific/Technical
2010 Application of Ecological and Economic Models of the Impacts of Sea-Level Rise to the Delaware Estuary Download PDF Scientific/Technical
2010

Climate Change and the Delaware Estuary: Three Case Studies in Vulnerability Assessment and Adaptation Planning. Partnership for the Delaware Estuary, Report No. 10-01. 1 –117 pp.

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2009

Regional Restoration Blueprint Report. Partnership for the Delaware Estuary, Report No. 09-02. 1-30 pp.

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2009 Proceedings for the Thrid Delaware Estuary Science & Environmental Summit. Partnership for the Delaware Estuary. Report No. 09-01. 1-131 pp. Download PDF Scientific/Technical
2008 State of the Estuary Report. 2008. Partnership for the Delaware Estuary, Report No. 08-0. 36 pp.

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2008 Utilization of Spartina- and Phragmites-Derived Dissolved Organic Matter by Bacteria and Ribbed Mussels (Geukensia demissa) from Delaware Bay Salt Marshes. 2008. Bushaw-Newton, Karen L., Sarah Doaty, Danielle A. Kreeger, and David J. Velinsky. Coastal and Estuarine Research Federation, Port Republic, MD. 10 pp. Download PDF Scientific/Technical
2008 Proceedings for the Second Delaware Estuary Science & Environmental Summit. Partnership for the Delaware Estuary. Report No. 08-02. 1-113 pp. Download PDF Scientific/Technical
2006

The Delaware Estuary: A Watershed of Distinction. 2006. Partnership for the Delaware Estuary. Partnership for the Delaware Estuary, Report No. 06-04. 6 pp

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2006 Guide to the Natural Communities of the Delaware Estuary: Version 1. 2006. Westervelt, K., E. Largay, R. Coxe, W. McAvoy, S. Perles, G. Podniesinski, L. Sneddon, and K. Strakosch Walz. Copyright © 2006 NatureServe, Arlington, Virginia. Partnership for the Delaware Estuary, Report #06-02. 338 pp.

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2006 Key to the Delaware Estuary Ecological Systems and Natural Communities. Version 1. 2006. Sneddon, L., S. Gawler and E. Largay. Copyright © 2006 NatureServe, Arlington, Virginia. Partnership for the Delaware Estuary, Report No. 06-03. 77 pp. Download PDF Scientific/Technical
2006 White paper on the status and needs of science in the Delaware Estuary. 2006. Kreeger, D., R. Tudor, J. Sharp, S. Kilham, D. Soeder, M. Maxwell-Doyle, J. Kraeuter, D. Frizzera, J. Hameedi and C. Collier. Partnership for the Delaware Estuary, Report No. 06-01. 72 pp. Download PDF Scientific/Technical
2005 Testing the Waters: Toxicity Testing of Ambient Water in the Delaware Estuary. Partnership for the Delaware Estuary, Contributed Report No. 05-02. 110 pp. Download PDF Scientific/Technical
2005 Proceedings of the First Delaware Estuary Science Conference. D. A. Kreeger (ed.), Partnership for the Delaware Estuary, Report No. 05-01. 4 pp. Download PDF Scientific/Technical
2005 Signature Ecological Traits of the Delaware Estuary: Tidal Freshwater Wetlands. Partnership for the Delaware Estuary, Contributed Report No. 05-01. 3 pp. Download PDF Scientific/Technical
2002 2002 State of the Delaware Estuary Report. Joe Matassino, et al. (ed.). Partnership for the Delaware Estuary, Report No. 02-01. pp.20. Download PDF Outreach
1996 Delaware Estuary: Discover its Secrets: A Management Plan for the Delaware Estuary, Battelle Ocean Sciences.. Download PDF Scientific/Technical
1996 The Thousand Acre Marsh Wetland Rehabilitation Project: An Innovative Approach to Management of Private Lands. DELEP Report Number 96-03 (Limited Copies).   Scientific/Technical
1996 The Scientific Characterization of the Delaware Estuary by Clay C. Sutton, John C. O'Herron, II, and Robert T. Zappalorti, April 1996. DELEP Report Number 96-02. Please email Karl S. Heinicke for complete report on CD or print media. Download PDF (34.5 MB) Scientific/Technical
1995 A Cooperative Monitoring Plan for the Delaware Estuary by Jonathan H. Sharp and Rarria O'Malley Walsh, February 1995. Revised August 1995. DELEP Report No. 95-02.   Scientific/Technical
1995 Delaware Estuary Program Base Programs Inventory, Summary and Analysis, May 1995. DELEP Report No. 95-04.   Scientific/Technical
1995 Delaware Estuary Program Draft Management Plan Summary of Public Comments and Program Responses. November 1995. DELEP Report Number 95-08.   Scientific/Technical
1995 Estimates of Contaminant Inputs To The Delaware Estuary by Versar, Inc., May 5, 1995. DELEP Report Number 95-03.   Scientific/Technical
1995 Impact Assessment of DELEP CCMP versus Status Quo on Twelve Municipalities in the DELEP Region by Rutgers University Center for Urban Policy Research, August 1995. DELEP Report Number 95-06.   Scientific/Technical
1995 Living Resources of the Delaware Estuary, edited by L. E. Dove and R. M. Nyman, June 1995. DELEP Report Number 95-07.   Scientific/Technical
1995 Stormwater Management for Nonpoint Source Pollution Control in the Delaware Estuary Drainage: Tools for Local Environmental Decision Makers, compiled and edited by Stephen R. Hammell, May 1995. DELEP Report Number 95-05.   Scientific/Technical
1995 Tidal Wetlands Characterization - Then and Now by Wetlands Research Associates, Inc., January 1995. DELEP Report Number 95-01.

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1994 A Survey of Fish in the Delaware Estuary from the Area of the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal to Trenton, by John C. O'Herron, Thomas Lloyd and Kim Laidig, March 1, 1994. DELEP Report Number 94-01.   Scientific/Technical
1994 Biostratigraphy of the Delaware Estuary, by Grace S. Brush, November 1994. DELEP Report Number 94-10.   Scientific/Technical
1994 Delaware Estuary Program, Regional Monitoring Plan and Appendices, 2 Volumes by Tetra Tech, Inc., September 1994. DELEP Report Number 94-09.   Scientific/Technical
1994 Distributions of Chemical Contaminants and Acute Toxicity in Delaware Estuary Sediments, by Arthur D. Little, Inc., June 4, 1994. DELEP Report Number 94-08. Download PDF
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1994 Fish Consumption Patterns of Delaware Recreational Fishermen and Their Households, by David C. Cox and Associates, April 13, 1994. DELEP Report Number 94-07.   Scientific/Technical
1994 History of the Human Ecology of the Delaware Estuary, by Jonathan Berger, John Walter Sinton, John Radke, April 27, 1994. DELEP Report Number 94-03.

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1994 Land Use and Nonpoint Pollution Study of the Delaware River Basin, by Penn State Environmental Resources Research Institute, March 1994. DELEP Report Number 94-04.   Scientific/Technical
1994 Land Use Management and National Park Service Control for the Delaware Estuary: The Pennsylvania Project, by the Greeley-Polhemus Group, June 1994. DELEP Report Number 94-05.   Scientific/Technical
1994 Pennsylvania Demonstration Project: Guidance for Voluntary Local Government Orientation of NPs Control Protection Local Streams and the Delaware Estuary, by Greeley-Polhemus Group, Inc., June 1994. DELEP Report Number 94-05A.   Scientific/Technical
1994 Regional Information Management Service, (RIMS) Data Management Plan, by American Management Systems, Inc., May 1994. DELEP Report Number 94-02.   Scientific/Technical
1994 Status and Trends of the Delaware Estuary Watershed, by the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission, June 1994. DELEP Report Number 94-06.   Scientific/Technical
1993 Delaware Estuary Program Annual Report. 1993   Scientific/Technical

 

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