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The Chesapeake Community Modeling Program (CCMP) is accepting presentation abstracts for the 2018 Chesapeake Community Research & Modeling Symposium (ChesRMS ’18)  through March 1, 2018. Advancing observational and modeling research to support Chesapeake Bay management and restoration is the theme for this year’s symposium which will be held at the Crown Plaza Hotel in Annapolis, MD on June 12-14. 

The list of sessions includes:

  • Biogeochemical and Ecological Forecasting: Challenges and Successes
  • Understanding oyster trajectories: wild population dynamics, restoration and the role of aquaculture
  • Water Clarity in Chesapeake Bay: trends, drivers and research priorities
  • Mechanisms and drivers affecting phosphorus fluxes and trends across the Chesapeake Bay watershed
  • Using environmental biomarkers to study Chesapeake Bay’s ecosystems
  • Building useful decision support tools with monitoring and modeling data
  • Evaluating current and future influences on James River Water Quality Condition
  • Current State of Stormwater, Modeling and Research
  • Practical Advances in Regional Land Change Modeling: What’s achievable now?
  • Zooming In: Solutions in Watershed Modeling at Fine Scales
  • Advances in Microbial Ecology and Genomics in the Chesapeake Bay
  • Explaining conditions and trends: Integrated monitoring and modeling approaches to describe water-quality change in the watershed and estuary
  • Sediment-Process Studies in the Chesapeake Bay, Tributaries, and Marshes
  • Observations and Modeling of Chesapeake Bay Wetlands and Coupled Sub-estuaries: Advancing Understanding through Comparative Analyses
  • Results from Recent Studies of Conowingo Pond
  • Understanding pollution legacies, lag times, and their influence on Chesapeake Bay Restoration.
  • Change in the Chesapeake: Moving Toward Finer Scales In Estuarine and Watershed Modeling
  • Modeling Climate Change Consequences for  Phase III Watershed Implementation Plans

You can read the abstracts for each session, register for the symposium, submit a presentation abstract to one or more of these sessions here. Please note that you will first need to create an account with Chesapeake Meetings, if you do not already have one. Stay tuned as we will be announcing the Key Note speaker and plenary talks soon!