Special Session Proposals for the Chesapeake Community Research Symposium 2020 are due on November 29th

 

We are excited to announce a call for special session proposals for the Chesapeake Community Research Symposium 2020! It is our sincere hope that you will consider putting together a proposal for a session. Sessions on any topic relevant to better understanding and managing the Chesapeake Bay and its watershed are being accepted, within themes relating to better understanding or modeling of all processes and policies relevant to the Chesapeake’s human impacted ecosystem.

You can download a proposal submission form here or from the Workshops page on the CCMP website.

The deadline for proposals is November 29, 2019. Proposals may be emailed to Shirley. Please keep proposal length to 1000 words or less.

The conference will take place at the Crowne Plaza in Annapolis, Maryland from June 8th to June 10th, 2020.

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.

 

Scope of ChesCRS20:

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.