Welcome to the Chesapeake Community Research Symposium 2024!
The Chesapeake Community Modeling Program convened the 2024 edition of our biennial symposium June 10-12, 2024 in Annapolis, Maryland, and online. The theme of the 2024 symposium was Chesapeake Bay Restoration: Managing Water Quality for Living Resources in a Changing Climate.
Scope and Aims
Significant progress has been made toward restoring Chesapeake Bay water quality and living resources. However, restoration efforts face significant challenges as we enter the third decade of the 21st century. Perhaps the biggest challenge is maintaining progress in the face of a changing natural and human environment. Global warming and sea level rise are affecting temperature, watershed dynamics, groundwater processes, estuarine hydrodynamics, biogeochemistry, and ecology. In addition, increasing human population in the watershed continues to add stressors that will interact with the effects of climate change and sea level rise. There is also a growing awareness that we need to consider the effects that changing environmental conditions and restoration efforts have on higher trophic levels and ecosystem services.
Background
By bringing together managers, scientists, and stakeholders for a series of plenary talks, panel discussions, and special sessions, the 2024 Chesapeake Community Research Symposium will not only highlight the progress that has been made toward restoring the Chesapeake Bay and enhancing coastal community resilience, but will also address future challenges to maintaining this progress in the face of our changing human and natural environment.
Symposium Schedule and Program
Schedule at a Glance
Detailed Schedule
Symposium Program
Special Sessions
There were 16 special sessions at the 2024 Chesapeake Community Research Symposium. Click on each session see the session description and presentation titles, authors, and abstracts.
GUARDIAN AWARD
2024 Sellner Chesapeake Guardian Recipients:
We are proud to announce the recipients of the 2024 Sellner Chesapeake Guardian Award! Denice Heller Wardrop and Kurt Stephenson were recognized for their hard work as the co-editors of the pivotal Comprehensive Evaluation of System Response (CESR) report. We commend them for their efforts to go above and beyond to share the findings widely and help others understand its conclusions. Congratulations, Denice and Kurt!
History:
The “Sellner Chesapeake Guardian Award” was first presented to Kevin Sellner at the 2014 Chesapeake Modeling Symposium for “Exceptional Service Dedicated to the Advancement of Community Modeling in the Chesapeake Bay Region”. The CCMP has established this award in Sellner’s honor in appreciation for his more than 30 years of research, guidance and service to the Chesapeake Bay research, management and policy maker communities. Subsequent awards have been given to Gary Shenk, Carl Cerco, Marjorie Friedrichs, and Karl Blankenship.
This is a standing award presented every 2 years. The sixth awardee was recognized at the Chesapeake Community Research Symposium in June, 2024.
Nominations:
In keeping with the evolution of the Chesapeake Community Research Symposium toward a broader scope, the award will be made based on contributions to management-relevant science generally.
Individuals nominated should have made significant and selfless contributions to the research, management and policy maker communities in Chesapeake Bay and/or its watershed. The nominee should have demonstrated sustained contributions. A worthy recipient might also be someone who has influenced Chesapeake research and / or management via teaching and training. Efforts in support of community and open source databases and models are also valued.
SPONSORS
Thank you to our sponsors for making this event possible!
Questions?
For questions about the 2024 Chesapeake Community Research Symposium, please contact Allison Burbach (allison@greenfinstudio.com).