Anglers in the Annapolis area will soon have another NOAA buoy to consult for near-real-time wave height & direction, wind speed & direction, current speed & direction, water temperature, salinity, dissolved oxygen, turbidity, and other measures, as well as information about its place on the Captain John Smith National Historic Trail, the ecology of the area around the buoy, and what is going on in the water around it in each season of the year.

Access to the information the Annapolis buoy puts out comes the same way as from the NOAA buoy off the mouth of the Patapsco and the other five up & down the Bay–1-877-BUOYBAY and www.buoybay.org.

NOAA plans to launch the buoy this Wednesday afternoon (11/11–Veterans Day), just outside Greenbury Point in the mouth of the Severn, after a reception at the Annapolis City Dock (2:00-2:45 PM). Sen. Ben Cardin, Rep. John Sarbanes, and some other folks will speak briefly before going out to watch a USCG tender deploy the buoy. The public–anglers especially–are encouraged to attend.

BTW, look for two more NOAA buoys in the spring, one on the Upper Potomac, just below the Wilson Bridge and another on the Gooses/Dominion Reef.