Presentation Abstracts are due March 15th!

 

This event is organized through the Steering Committee of the Chesapeake Community Modeling Program and is supported through a cooperative agreement between the Chesapeake Research Consortium (CRC) and the NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office (NCBO).  Additional co-sponsors are welcome! Interested parties are encouraged to contact the CRC Executive Director at CRC-Director@chesapeake.org.

CCMP is accepting abstracts for presentations and posters at the Chesapeake Community Research Symposium 2020! It is our sincere hope that you will consider submitting an abstract for one or more of the sessions listed below.

The deadline for submitting abstracts is March 15, 2020.

Please go here to submit an abstract to a session. Abstract authors will be notified of acceptance by March 30, 2020.

Where: Crown Plaza Hotel, Annapolis, MD
When: June 8-10, 2020
Cost: $200 / $100 student (early bird; $20 price increase after March 15)
Register: https://ccmp2020.chesapeake.org/events/register

STUDENTS – There are a limited number of opportunities for students to obtain free registration to the Symposium in exchange for assistance with facilitation and AV equipment support at the Symposium. Travel funds up to $200/student will be available based on criteria such as distance traveled and priority for those presenting. Please contact us if you are interested.

Please consider submitting an abstract to one of the following sessions:

  • Incorporating Environmental Remote Sensing in the Monitoring and Management of Chesapeake Bay
  • Connecting Science to Decision-Making Through Broader Impacts
  • Collaborative modeling: examples, successes, and future directions
  • Chesapeake Bay Submerged Aquatic Vegetation: Progress and Future Challenges
  • Saltwater intrusion inclusion: an important component of climate change to include in the Bay Model
  • Insights on BMP performance: why aren’t we seeing desired improvements at the watershed scale?
  • Understanding response, recovery, and restoration trajectories in the Chesapeake Bay’s estuarine ecosystem
  • Water-quality patterns and trends in the Chesapeake Bay and its watershed: Integrated monitoring and modeling approaches to advance science and inform management
  • Exploring marsh resiliency to improve the Chesapeake Bay watershed
  • Carbon cycling in Chesapeake Bay
  • The Next Generation of Hydrogeomorphic Data, Tools, and Applications
  • The Challenge and Promise of Scale: Hi-Res Data, Monitoring, Modeling, and Statistical Analyses for Next Generation Management Models
  • Ecosystem Effects of Oyster Aquaculture and Restoration
  • Got model, now what? Advances in modeling and analytics to inform Bay management
  • Chesapeake Bay Aquaculture, Challenges and Opportunities in a Changing Climate
  • Monitoring Design and Data Analysis: how to get more useful data and what to do with these numbers?
  • Developing a Strategic Science and Research Framework for the Chesapeake Bay Program
  • Increasing Effectiveness and Reducing the Cost of Non-Point Source Best Management Practice Implementation: Options to Incentivize BMP Targeting
  • Approaches for Maintaining and Improving Chesapeake Bay Stream and Watershed Health
  • Exploring the possibilities of AI and deep learning in environmental analysis
  • General Session: Estuarine and Watershed Processes
  • General session: Physical Transport and Depositional Process Studies in the Chesapeake Bay, Tributaries, and Marshes
  • Effects of habitat and water quality changes on higher trophic levels in the Chesapeake Bay and its watershed
  • Poster Session

Chesapeake Community Research Symposium 2020

The theme of the 2020 symposium is Chesapeake Bay Research and Management: Progress and Future Challenges. The Scope and Aims of the symposium are as follows:

With the completion of the Chesapeake Bay Program’s 2017 mid-point assessment of the EPA’s Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) regulatory process, it is timely to convene a symposium aimed at examining the observations and models that were used in that assessment and discuss future needs and challenges for the next one in 2025 and beyond. There is a need for higher temporal resolution measurements and higher spatial resolution models. Research should be focused on developing a better mechanistic understanding about and models of physical, biological and chemical processes in the airshed, watershed and estuary. Additionally, more flexible sampling and modeling approaches are also needed for resolving management impacts on water quality and living resources over a wide range of scales.

The TMDL faces several challenges as we enter the third decade of the 21stcentury:

  • What magnitude of additional nutrient reductions, beyond those specified in the 2017 mid-point assessment, will be needed to compensate for impacts of climate change and population growth in 2025 and beyond?
  • What is the current status of efforts to account for these impacts and what new observations and models are needed to improve future predictions?
  • How will we look beyond the TMDL to restoration of living resources?
  • What is the state of the art in our ability to predict how management of nutrient and sediment loads will impact higher trophic levels in the Bay and its watershed?
  • What additional observations and models are needed?

By bringing together managers, scientists, and stakeholders for a series of plenary talks, panel discussions, and special sessions, the 2020 Chesapeake Community Research Symposium will highlight recent progress, challenges and prospects for research, monitoring and modeling efforts that are used to guide management and restoration efforts in Chesapeake Bay.