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Scope and Purpose

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Chesapeake Bay Program Office (CBPO) is working with principal investigators (PIs) to provide the Chesapeake Bay Program (CBP) partners with proposals for the application of shallow-water models to improve Chesapeake Bay shallow-water simulations of dissolved oxygen, chlorophyll a, suspended solids, and water clarity in order to better understand the impacts of alternative management strategies on water quality and living resources in the tidal Chesapeake Bay. The RFPs cover the evaluation of the multiple, developed shallow-water models. Over the course of the two-year project, multiple modeling teams will be funded to apply different shallow-water models using common forcing conditions over a three– to five–year-base-case run at specified shallow-water sites. EPA will also fund an independent model evaluation team that will use state-of-the-art metrics to assess the relative skill of these shallow-water models based on available CBP water quality and submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV) monitoring data. The independent model evaluation team will also compare the results from a series of nutrient and sediment change scenarios and analyze causes and impacts of differences among the shallow-water models.

The CBP partners include federal agencies, the seven Chesapeake Bay watershed jurisdictions, and many non-federal organizations; however, work funded under this RFP will support the seven watershed jurisdictions and other non-federal partners. The seven watershed jurisdictions are Delaware, the District of Columbia, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia.

Projects and Resources

RFP and Proposals: Evaluation of Multiple Shallow-water Systems Analysis

The request for proposal (RFP) and accepted proposals can be downloaded by clicking the links below.

Members

Lewis Linker (Coordinator), Modeling Coordinator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Address:
1750 Forest Drive Suite 130
Annapolis, Maryland 21401

Email:  linker.lewis@epa.gov
Phone:  (410) 267-5741
Gary Shenk, Hydrologist, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
Address:
1750 Forest Drive Suite 130
Annapolis, Maryland 21401

Email:  gshenk@chesapeakebay.net
Phone:  (410) 507-2681
Richard Tian, Research Scientist, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
Address:
1750 Forest Drive Suite 130
Annapolis, Maryland 21401

Email:  rtian@chesapeakebay.net
Phone:  (410) 295-1328
Gopal Bhatt, Research Scientist, Watershed Modeling and Analysis, Pennsylvania State University (Penn State)
Address:
1750 Forest Drive Suite 130
Annapolis, Maryland 21401

Email:  gbhatt@chesapeakebay.net
Phone:  (410) 267-9871
Charles Gallegos, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC)
Address:
PO Box 28
Edgewater, Maryland 21037

Email:  gallegosc@si.edu
Phone:  (717) 428-2819
Kevin Sellner, Chesapeake Research Consortium
Address:
645 Contees Wharf Rd.
Edgewater, Maryland 21037

Email:  sellnerk@si.edu
Marjy Friedrichs, Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS)
Address:
Rt. 1208 Greate Road
Gloucester Point, Virginia 23062-1346

Email:  marjy@VIMS.edu
Phone:  (804) 684-7695
Raleigh Hood, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
Address:
P.O. Box 775
Cambridge, Maryland 21613

Email:  rhood@hpl.umces.edu
Phone:  (410) 221-8434
Richard Zimmerman, Old Dominion University (ODU)
Address:
5115 Hampton Boulevard
Norfolk, Virginia 23062

Email:  rzimmerman@odu.edu
Phone:  (757) 683-5991
Ping Wang, Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS)
Address:
410 Severn Avenue
Suite 112
Annapolis, Maryland 21403

Email:  pwang@chesapeakebay.net
Phone:  (410) 267-5744
Harry Wang, Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS)
Address:
P.O. Box 1346
Gloucester Point, Virginia 23062

Email:  hvwang@vims.edu
Phone:  (804) 684-7215
Carl Cerco, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE)
Address:
3909 Halls Ferry Road
Vicksburg, Mississippi 39180

Email:  carlcerco@outlook.com
Damian Brady, University of Maine
Address:
University of Maine
Walpole, Maine 04573

Email:  damian.brady@maine.edu
Jeremy Testa, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
Address:
P.O. Box 38
Solomons, Maryland 20688

Email:  jtesta@umces.edu
Joseph Zhang, Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS)
Address:
Post Office Box 1346
1375 Greate Road
Gloucester Point, Virginia 23062

Email:  yjzhang@vims.edu
Larry Sanford, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
Address:
P.O. Box 775
Cambridge, Maryland 21613

Email:  lsanford@umces.edu
Ming Li, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
Address:
P.O. Box 775
Cambridge, Maryland 21613

Email:  mingli@umces.edu
John Klinck, Old Dominion University (ODU)
Address:
Old Dominion University
Norfolk, Virginia 23529

Email:  klinck@ccpo.odu.edu