Presentations & Papers

Here you will find a master collection of talks, posters, and papers submitted and/or presented for CheMS 2008. You can search the following talks by title or author if you have an idea of what you are looking for. All talks are grouped by workshop.

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Opening Plenaries | Closing Plenaries
W1 | W2 | W3 | W4 | W5 | W6 | W7 | W8 | W9

Opening Plenary Talks

  • Intro: Current and future community assets & opportunities for the Chesapeake region
    by Kevin Sellner
    [Download]
  • P1: SVP-CADRE-IWR-USACE
    by Hal Cardwell
  • P2: The Pathway from Research to Operations: The Community Approach
    by Frank Aikman
    [Download]
  • P3: CSDMS: Community Surface Dynamic Modeling System
    by James Syvitski
    [Download]
  • P4: CHRP: Modeling Hypoxia & Ecological Responses to Climate & Nutrients
    by Michael Kemp
    [Download]
  • P5: The WATERS Network: Transforming Environmental Research and Education through an Integrated Environmental Observatory Network
    by Nicholas Clesceri
    [Download]
  • P6: CBEO: Conceptual Design and Development of a Prototypical Chesapeake Bay Environmental Observatory
    by Bill Ball
    [Download]
  • P7: The "How" and "Why" of Community Modeling
    by Alexey Voinov
    [Download]

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Closing Plenary Talks

  • W2 Summary: Spatial Interpolation
    [Download]
  • W4 Summary: Ecological Modeling
    not available
  • W5 Summary:Models & Data
    not available
  • W6 Summary: Land Change & Water Quality Models
    [Download]
  • W7 Summary: Model Comparison
    [Download]
  • W8 Summary: Interoperability
    [Download]
  • W9 Summary: Operational Modeling
    [Download]

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W1: Chesapeake Bay and Climate Change

  • Is there a signal of sea-level rise in Chesapeake Bay salinity?
    by T. W. Hilton, R. G. Najjar, L. Zhong, and M. Li
    [Download]
  • Climate simulations of major estuarine watersheds in the Mid-Atlantic Region of the United States
    by R. Najjar, L. Patterson, and S. Graham
    [Download]
  • Is there a signal of sea-level rise in the salinity of mid-Atlantic estuaries?
    by R. Najjar, T. Hilton, B. Katz, M. Mann, M. Li and L. Zhong
    [Download]
  • Climate Change and the Chesapeake Bay: State-of-the-Science Review and Recommendations
    by Christopher R. Pyke and Raymond Najjar, et al
    [Download]
  • Climate change and Chesapeake Bay: Research overview
    by C. Pyke, R. Najjar, M. Adams, D. Breitburg, C. Hershner, M. Kemp, R. Howarth, M. Mulholland, M. Paolisso, D. Secor, K. Sellner, D. Wardrop, and R. Wood
    [Download]

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W2: Comparing, Contrasting, and Integrating Statistical and Mechanistic Approaches Towards Spatial Interpolation

  • Comparing, Contrasting, and Integrating Statistical and Mechanistic Approaches Towards Spatial Interpolation
    by Frank Curriero and Bill Ball
    [Download]
  • Methodology for Determining Water Clarity Attainment in Virginia
    by Kenneth Moore and David Parrish
    [Download]
  • Spatial Interpolation Comparisons in the Chesapeake Bay
    by Rebecca Murphy, Frank Curriero, and Bill Ball
    [Download]
  • Using GIS analysis of continuous underway water quality monitoring data to assess water clarity standards attainment
    by David Parrish and Ken Moore
    [Download]
  • On the Importance of Uncertainty Assessment in Methods of Spatial Interpolation
    by Elgin Perry and Frank Curriero
    [Download]
  • Cost-Effective Spatial Data Interpolation
    by Lisa A. Wainger and Walter Boynton
    [Download]

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W3: TMDL-related Watershed Modeling

  • GISHydro: An Interface to the EPA Chesapeake Bay Program Model for Small Scale Nutrient/Sediment Loading Estimates
    by Sarah Ahmed and Glenn E. Moglen
    [Download]
  • Center for TMDL and Watershed Studies at Virginia Tech
    by Brian Benham
    [Download]
  • Transport and Fate Model for PCB TMDLs in the Potomac River Estuary
    by Vic Bierman et al
    [Download]
  • Understanding and Estimating HSPF's IQUAL and PQUAL Parameters
    by Kaye Brubaker, Ross Mandel, and Andrea Nagel
    [Download]
  • Comparison of Hydrologic Calibration of HSPF Using Automatic and Manual Methods
    by Sang Min Kim, Brian L. Benham, Kevin M. Brannan, and Rebecca W. Zeckoski
    [Download]
  • HSPF Calibration Criteria for Bacteria TMDL Development
    by Sang Min Kim, Brian L. Benham, Kevin M. Brannan, Rebecca W. Zeckoski, Gene Yagow, and Sara M. Morris
    [Download]
  • Mining Data Analysis System (MDAS) Application to pH TMDL Development in Western Maryland
    by Andrew Parker
    [Download]
  • Protecting Natural Resources with Land Use Decision Support Tools: Anne Arundel County�s Watershed Management Tool
    by Mary L. Searing
    [Download]
  • Chesapeake Bay Program Watershed Model as a Tool for TMDLs
    by Gary Shenk
    [Download]

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W4: Ecological and Ecosystem Models for Ecosystem-based Management in the Chesapeake Bay

  • Schedule: Ecological and Ecosystem Models for Ecosystem-based Management in the Chesapeake Bay
    by Howard Townsend
    [Download]
  • Intro: Ecological and Ecosystem Models for Ecosystem-based Management in the Chesapeake Bay
    by Howard Townsend and Rich Fulford
    [Download]
  • Single Species Stock Assessment Models in Ecosystem-Based Management
    by Michael Wilberg and Thomas Miller
    [Download]
  • Consumption by demersal fish on the Northeastern U.S. Continental shelf: The effects of diet, habitat and location
    by Elizabeth T. Methratta and Jason S. Link
    [Download]
  • An ecosystem approach for oyster restoration and management
    by E. W. North, D. M. King, J. Xu, R. R. Hood, R. I. E. Newell, K. T. Paynter, M. L. Kellogg, M. K. Liddel, D. F. Boesch
    [Download PPT] [Download MPG]
  • Analysis of ecosystem response to management using a multi-species bioenergetics model
    by Richard Fulford, Denise Breitburg, Roger Newell, Mike Kemp, and Mark Luckenbach
    [Download]
  • An Exploratory Head-of-Chesapeake Bay yellow perch stock assessment that includes ecosystem effects
    by Jim Uphoff
    [Download]
  • Habitat suitability modeling for bay anchovy in Chesapeake Bay
    by Xinsheng Zhang et al
    [Download]
  • Perspective analyses and projections of major fisheries under different water quality and fisheries management actions in Chesapeake Bay
    by Hongguang Ma and Howard Townsend
    [Download]
  • From Physics to Fish: Allometric Scaling Laws and The mid-trophic ladder
    by Raghu Murtugudde, Patrick Lehodey, Inna Senina, and John Sibert et al
    [Download]
  • Developing a Harmful Algal Bloom Prediction System for Chesapeake Bay
    by Christopher Brown et al
    [Download]
  • Human Pathogen Prediction System in the Chesapeake Bay
    by Guillaume Constantin de Magny, Raghu Murtugudde, Christopher W. Brown, Wen Long, Raleigh Hood and Rita R. Colwell
    [Download PPT] [Download Poster]
  • Modeling hypoxia effects on Chesapeake Bay fish
    by Kenneth A. Rose et al
    [Download]

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W5: Models and Data: what do modelers need from the monitoring community and what they can offer in return

  • Surface Current Mapping with High Frequency RADAR
    by Teresa Garner
    [Download]

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W6: Coupling Land Change with Water Quality Models

  • Coupling Land Change with Water Quality Models
    by Peter Claggett, Claire Jantz, Jim Reilly, David Donato
    [Download]
  • Effects of Urban and Non-Urban Land Cover on Nitrogen and Phosphorus Runoff to Chesapeake Bay
    by Allen D. Roberts, Stephen D. Prince
    [Download]
  • Outlier detection analysis for wetland change mapping in the mid-Atlantic United States
    by Eric M. Nielsen, Stephen D. Prince, and Gregory T. Koeln
    [Download]

W7: Comparing Models of Chesapeake Bay and its Watershed

  • Comparison of Patuxent River Watershed Discharge Models
    by Kathy Boomer,Don Weller, and Tom Jordan
    [Download]
  • History of the Chesapeake Bay Environmental Modeling Package
    by Carl Cerco
    [Download]
  • Estimating Nitrogen Fluxes from 16 Northeastern US Watersheds with the Regional Nutrient Management Model (ReNuMa)
    by Bongghi Hong, Dennis P. Swaney and Robert W. Howarth
    [Download]
  • GWLF model automatic calibration and prediction of water and nutrient discharges from Coastal Plain Subwatersheds of Chesapeake Bay
    by Xuyong Li, Donald E. Weller, Thomas E. Jordan and Hae-Cheol Kim
    [Download]
  • Normal Mode Analysis of the Chesapeake Bay using FEMLAB
    by Kevin McIlhany, Grant Gillary, and Reza Malek-Madani
    [Download]
  • Time Series Analysis of the Chesapeake Bay using COMSOL
    by Kevin McIlhany and Reza Malek-Madani
    [Download]
  • Chesapeake Bay Analysis using Time and Spatial Generalized Eigenfunctions
    by Kevin McIlhany and Reza Malek-Madani
    [Download]
  • Chesapeake Bay Analysis using Time and Spatial Generalized Eigenfunctions
    by Kevin McIlhany and Reza Malek-Madani
    [Download]
  • An overview of sediment transport model applications in the Chesapeake Bay system
    by Larry Sanford
    [Download]
  • Chesapeake Bay Program Watershed Modeling
    by Gary Shenk
    [Download]
  • ROMS Community Model Sediment Transport
    by Chris Sherwood, B�n� Ferr�, J. Paul Rinehimer, Larry Sanford, and John Warner
    [Download]
  • Modeling Nutrients and Sediment in the Upper Susquehanna Basin Using Multiple Models
    by Peter B. Woodbury, Jeffrey J. Melkonian, Robert W. Howarth, Dennis P. Swaney, Bongghi Hong
    [Download]
  • A 15-year Validation of ChesROMS
    by Jiangtao Xu1, Wen Long, Lyon W.J. Lanerolle, Raleigh R. Hood, Thomas F. Gross, Jerry D. Wiggert, Raghu G. Murtugudde and Christopher W. Brown
    [Download]
  • Tidally-Induced Lagrangian Residual Flows in the Chesapeake Bay
    by Zhizhang Yang, Edward Myers, Frank Aikman, and Richard Patchen
    [Download]

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W8: Community modeling and data & model interoperability

No talks or presentations available

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W9: The Next Step: Operational Modeling

  • The Next Step: Operational Modeling
    by Frank Aikman
    [Download]
  • The Chesapeake Bay Operational Forecast System (CBOFS2) Upgrade: A ROMS-based Modeling System
    by Lyon W. J. Lanerolle, Zhizhang Yang, Richard C. Patchen and Frank Aikman III
    [Download]
  • Internal Variability in the Oceans and Air-Sea interactions
    by Raghu Murtugudde and Markus Jochum
    [Download]
  • Establishment of a Delaware Bay Model Evaluation Environment (DRBMEE)
    by Richard Patchen
    [Download]
  • Implementation of the Weather Research & Forecast (WRF) model in the Chesapeake Bay Forecast System (CBFS)
    by John E. Strack, Raghu Murtugudde and V. Mohan Karyampudi
    [Download]

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