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Modeling Lab Action Team

Scope and Purpose

The Modeling Lab Action Team is committed to proceeding forward with more in-depth evaluation of the recommendation for establishing a Chesapeake Bay Modeling Laboratory and other alternatives to achieve the recommendations of the NRC committee. The action team will report back to the Management Board on its findings, options, and recommendations. In turn, the Management Board would then decide on what specific recommendations to put forward for deliberation and final decisions by the Principals’ Staff Committee.

Responsibilties

  • Evaluation of other existing modeling laboratories and adaptive management programs that encompass modeling, addressing how they function and how applicable their structure, and mandate is to the Chesapeake Bay Program Partnership.
  • Consideration of the range of options for what would constitute a Chesapeake Bay modeling laboratory, a virtual laboratory, or responsive program reorganization that is capable of carrying out the functions outlined by the NRC committee and addressing the series of existing STAC and the jurisdictions’ recommendations on modeling.
  • Development of options and recommendations for actual institutional sponsorship and how the laboratory would function for carrying out mandates.
  • Assessment of the possible range of financial investments and funding mechanisms required.

Why a Modeling Lab?

  • Evaluating uncertainty in model simulations and assessing monitoring data needs
  • Improve the predictive skill of the models
  • Improve model credibility
  • Incorporating multiple modeling approaches
  • Emphasize open-source models exercised cooperatively with the scientific community

  • Mark Bennett (Chair), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
  • Amanda Pruzinsky (Staff), Chesapeake Research Consortium

  • Larry Band, University of North Carolina
  • Heather Cisar, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers - Baltimore District
  • Lee Currey, Maryland Department of the Environment
  • Dominic Di Toro, University of Delaware
  • Theo Dillaha, Virginia Tech
  • Marjy Friedrichs, Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS)
  • Amy Guise, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers - Baltimore District
  • Raleigh Hood, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science (UMCES)
  • Bill Keeling, Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation
  • Lewis Linker, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
  • Rick Luettich, University of North Carolina
  • Dave Montali, West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection
  • Kevin Sellner, Chesapeake Research Consortium Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC)
  • Gary Shenk, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
  • Ted Tesler, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection
  • Howard Townsend, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Marine Fisheries Service
  • Don Weller, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC)
  • Claire Welty, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers University of Maryland Baltimore County

Upcoming Events

    June 2013 Modeling Laboratory Action Team Meeting

    Location

    Conference Call

    Date / Time:

    June 24, 2013
    10:00am - 12:00pm

    Details:

    June 2013 Modeling Laboratory Action Team Meeting.

    Conference Line: 1-866-299-3188 code 2675715
    Adobe Connect: https://epa.connectsolutions.com/modeling (enter as a guest)

Past Meetings & Events

  • May 6, 2013 - May 2013 Modeling Laboratory Action Team Meeting
  • March 26, 2013 - March 2013 Modeling Lab Action Team Conference Call
  • February 21, 2013 - February 2013 Modeling Laboratory Action Team Meeting
  • January 23, 2013 - January 2013 Modeling Lab Action Team Meeting
  • December 10, 2012 - December 2012 Modeling Lab Action Team Face-to-Face
  • October 25, 2012 - October Modeling Lab Action Team Meeting
  • August 28, 2012 - August Modeling Lab Action Team Meeting
  • July 23, 2012 - July Modeling Lab Action Team Conference Call
  • June 21, 2012 - June Modeling Lab Action Team Meeting


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