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Buoy updates: The Upper Potomac and Potomac/Point Lookout buoys are back on station and reporting data. The Annapolis buoy's computer received an update and should be reporting extreme (high and low) wind speeds more accurately.

Early spring is usually when the CBIBS buoys that have been pulled for the winter (to avoid ice damage) are redeployed. But this year, for now, NOAA has put these redeployments—and the planned deployment of a new tenth buoy at the mouth of the Bay—on hold.

Near Washington, D.C., and want to talk buoys and other observing systems? Join CBIBS project manager Doug Wilson in the "Scientist Is In" program at the Smithsonian's Sant Ocean Hall this Wednesday, April 20, 1-3 p.m.

NCBO’s educational “Build-a-Buoy” project was featured on FOX 5 DC the morning of Monday, February 7, as part of their coverage of 

Roughly 2 million fish have turned up dead in the middle part of the Bay, and state of Maryland scientists are investigating. Their working theory is that the fish died due to cold water stress.

CBIBS buoys are built to withstand high winds and big waves—but some forces of nature are too much for the sensors attached to the buoys. Ice can damage these sensors, and large ice floes can even "relocate" buoys.

The Dominion Gooses Reef CBIBS buoy is the first location in the system to also include the capability to monitor water quality at the Bay bottom.