Maryland Sea Grant solicited nominations for members to serve on the Habitat Suitability Quantitative Ecosystem Team from managers, academics, and stakeholders in the Chesapeake Bay region.  The team is complete and the members, in addition to the two co-chairs, are listed below.  The Team will hold its first meeting in conjunction with the CRC Regional Conference, Ecosystem Based Management (EBM): the Chesapeake Basin and Other Systems March 22-25, 2009  in Baltimore, Maryland and begin to analyze a series of key ecosystem issue briefs pertinent to Striped Bass produced by the Striped Bass Species Team.  As the Blue Crab and Menhaden Species Teams complete their ecosystem issue briefs these will also be evaluated by the Quantitative Ecosystem Teams.  The goal for the Habitat Suitability Team is to produce a set of reference points required to address the ecosystem issues brought forth by each of the Species Teams pertaining to Habitat Suitability.

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Mark Breyer (Jay Odell), The Nature Conservancy
Robert Humston, Washington and Lee
Ed Martino, NOAA Oxford
Margaret McGinty, Maryland DNR
Teresa McTigue, NOAA 
Tom Parham, Maryland DNR
Linda Schaffner, VIMS
Jian Shen, VIMS
Jessie Thomas, ASMFC
Bob Wood, NOAA Oxford
QSS: Gina Ralph, VIMS