Chris Brosch, has been working in various Chesapeake Bay water quality programs since 2007.  As a University of Maryland (UMD) Extension Associate and Faculty Researcher at Virginia Tech (VT) he developed and refined agricultural simulation in the Bay Models.  His efforts in this arena led to improved manure simulations, nitrogen fixation calculations and nutrient management planning credits in pahse 5 of the Watershed Model.  Chris has been and remains an active member of regional agricultural science and modeling communities.  Starting with FFA in high school, he served as the Maryland State President in 2003.  As an undergraduate at UMD and a graduate at VT, he conducted research on runoff from manure application rates with tillage under nutrient management schemes.  Through his experience, Chris brings more than 15 years of local, science based hands on expertise in agriculture, horticulture and olericulture to the Delaware Department of Agriculture’s Nutrient Management Program.