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Topics include the physical, chemical, and biological components of the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem from the time it started to form some 10,000 to 12,000 years ago, when sea level began to rise as the continental glaciers receded; the geology, geomorphology, and biology of the watershed drained by the estuary; relationships between the watershed and the estuary through the millennia and the effect of climate, geomorphology, and humans on the ecology of the ecosystem and its economic productivity.