Session Lead: Greg Silsbe and Dani Weissman Session Format: Oral presentations This session invites abstract submissions related to the general topic of estuarine and watershed processes, which includes a wide range of research disciplines (physical, chemical and biological) and trophic [...]

Lead: Denice Wardrop Abstract The Chesapeake Research Consortium (CRC) aspires to fully enable its member institutions and the broader scientific community in the region to contribute effectively toward better understanding and management of the Chesapeake Bay and its watershed. CRC aims [...]

Session Lead: Elizabeth North, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Horn Point Laboratory, Cambridge, MD Co-Leads: Gary Shenk USGS, Chesapeake Bay Program Office, Annapolis MD Mark J. Brush, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, College of William and Mary, [...]

Session Lead: Brooke Landry Session Co-lead: Becky Golden Session Format: Combo Presentation and Panel Discussion Abstract: Submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV) in the Chesapeake Bay serves a multitude of ecosystem services and is one of the Bay's most important habitats. It also serves as an [...]

Session Lead: Lauren McPhillips Session Co-lead: Jonathan Duncan  Session format: Oral presentation  Abstract: Major investments have been made in implementing agricultural and urban best management practices (BMPs) to manage nutrient pollution in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Traditionally, we represent expected [...]

Session Lead: Emily Trentacoste (US EPA CBPO/Chesapeake Bay Program); Taryn Sudol (Chesapeake Bay Sentinel Site Cooperative) Session Co-lead: Jeni Keisman (USGS/Chesapeake Bay Program); Claire Buchanan (ICPRB) Session Format: Oral presentations Abstract: The recovery, restoration and protection of the Chesapeake Bay’s [...]

Session Lead: Isabella Bertani, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science / USEPA Chesapeake Bay Program Session Co-lead: Qian Zhang, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science / USEPA Chesapeake Bay Program,  Jeni Keisman, U.S. Geological Survey / USEPA Chesapeake [...]

Session Lead: Raymond Najjar Co-Lead: Jeremy Testa, Marjy Friedrichs Session Format: Oral presentations Abstract:  Carbon is a common thread that links numerous important estuarine issues, such as hypoxia, acidification, marsh inundation, and declining water clarity. Estuarine carbon is also important [...]

 Session Lead: Labeeb Ahmed, Attain (EPA-CBPO)  Co-Lead(s): Marina Metes, USGS; Peter Claggett, USGS  Session Format: Oral presentations and panel discussion  Abstract:  Increasing availability of fine-resolution elevation data derived from LiDAR and Structure from Motion (SfM) techniques along with improvements in [...]

Session Lead: Lewis Linker Session Co-lead: Joseph Zhang, VIMS, Jesse Bash, EPA, Peter Claggett, USGS, Gopal Bhatt, Penn State, Gary Shenk, USGS, Carl Cerco, Attain Session Format: Oral presentations Abstract: The session examines the emergence of high-resolution data, monitoring, modeling, and statistical analyses of nested [...]

Session Lead: Larry Sanford (UMCES); Cecily Steppe (U.S. Naval Academy) Session Co-Leads: Jeff Cornwell, Bruce Vogt, Lisa Kellogg Session Format : Oral presentations, possible panel Abstract: Recent years have seen increased efforts to reverse continuing declines in Chesapeake Bay oyster populations, [...]

Session Lead: Jared D. Smith Session Co-lead: Daniel E. Kaufman Session format: Oral presentations Abstract: Management of the Chesapeake Bay is a multi-objective problem that relies on a wide variety of data types (biogeochemical, ecological, physical, socio-economic) and models that describe their interactions. [...]

Session Lead: Wencheng Katherine Slater Co-Leads: Dong Liang, Jeff White Session Format : Oral presentations and panel discussion Abstract: Monitoring design usually faces tradeoffs between multiple criteria such as assessment and trend detection. For example, high-frequency monitoring at the same location [...]

Session Lead: Scott Phillips, USGS Session Co-Leads: Emily Trentacoste, USEPA and Annabelle Harvey, CRC Session Format: Oral presentations followed by a panel discussion Abstract: The Chesapeake Bay Program (CBP) has developed the Strategic Science and Research Framework that will identify, [...]

Session Lead: Kurt Stephenson Co-Lead: Zach Easton Session Format: Panel discussion Abstract: As the CBP passes the mid-point assessment, point source discharges will have achieved (or nearly achieved) their final TMDL nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) wasteload allocations. Jurisdictions, however, [...]

Session Lean: Renee Thompson, USGS Session Co-lead: Nancy Roth, Tetra Tech, Neely Law, CWP Session Format: Oral presentations Abstract: The Maintain Healthy Watersheds Goal Implementation Team (GIT) and Stream Health Workgroup of the Vital Habitat GIT at the Chesapeake Bay [...]

Session Lead: Kim De Mutsert Session Format: Oral presentations Abstract: Explicit modeling of effects on higher trophic levels of habitat or water quality changes in the Chesapeake Bay has been lagging behind the physical models. Modeling projects as well as [...]

Session Lead: Courtney Harris (VIMS), Joe Jurisa (UMCES), and Cindy Palinkas (UMCES) Session Format: Oral presentations Abstract: The importance of water-column transport and depositional processes in Chesapeake Bay and its many subenvironments has become increasingly recognized.  Estuarine circulation, tides, and [...]

The Poster session will take place during the evenings of June 8th & 9th.  We welcome all poster abstracts that are related to the Symposium theme.