Session Lead: Stephanie Schollaert Uz (NASA GSFC)

Co-Lead(s): Shelly Tomlinson (NOAA)

Session Format: Oral Presentations

Session Description: 

We invite submissions that apply Earth observations for monitoring water quality around the Chesapeake Bay. Derived products may include data fusion with integrated observing systems, ecosystem models, and machine learning to assess and predict coastal water quality. Specific interest includes the discussion of challenges and opportunities for one or more remote sensing capabilities: optical– including hyperspectral, thermal, synthetic aperture radar, altimetry, and scatterometry. We welcome novel techniques for the application of these methods around the Bay for monitoring and early warning activities to safeguard living resources.

Presentations (abstracts):

  1. Samantha Smith, Stephanie Schollaert Uz, Dirk Aurin: Assessing Satellite Ocean Color Datasets in the Chesapeake Bay: A Comparative Study with AERONET-OC
  2. Michelle C. Tomlinson, Elizabeth A. Staugler, Jennifer Maucher Fuquay, Nia Rene, Catherine E. Wazniak, Richard P. Stumpf and Kaytee L. Pokrzywinski: Monitoring Harmful Algal Blooms, improving resolution through remote sensing and community scientists
  3. Xin Yu, Michelle C. Tomlinson, Jian Shen, Yizhen Li, Alexandria G. Hounshell,  Kimberly S. Reece: Combining satellite imagery and numerical modeling to simulate Margalefidinum polykrikoides blooms in the York River estuary
  4. Morgaine McKibben, Stephanie Schollaert Uz, Sherry Palacios: Testing a hyperspectral, bio-optical approach for identification of phytoplankton groups in estuarine waters
  5. Nima Pahlevan, William Wainwright, Akash Ashapure, Navid Golpayegani, Akash Ashapure, Brandon Smith, Ryan O’Shea, Sakib Kabir, Arun Saranathan: STREAM – A satellite-based water-quality monitoring system for effective assessment of water quality
  6. David Parrish, Cassia Pianca, Carl Friedrichs, William Reay: Exploring the Use of Dataflow Water Quality Monitoring Platform to Calibrate Multispectral Satellite Imagery to Estimate Surface Water Clarity and Turbidity
  7. Suzanne Bricker, Varis Ransibrahmanakul, Katherine Okada, Erik Davenport, Renee Karrh, Ronald L. Vogel, Travis Briggs, and Michelle Tomlinson: Can satellite data products or state monitoring program data be substituted for on-farm in situ data for Oyster Aquaculture Modeling?
  8. Peter Tango: Options and Opportunities with Advanced Water Quality Monitoring Using Remote Sensing: A Summary of a 2022 Chesapeake Bay Program Scientific Technical Advisory Committee Workshop