Science Serving Maryland's Coasts

R/PT-03

Multiscale modeling of coastal landscape dynamics

Principal Investigator:

J. Court Stevenson

Start/End Year:

1993 to 1995

Institution:

Horn Point Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science

Co-Principal investigator:

Robert Costanza, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science

Topic(s):

Economics

Description:

This project will: assess historical changes in the Blackwater River watershed on Maryland's Eastern shore for the period from 1850 to the present by creating a GIS data base of these changes; create a process based, spatially explicit ecological economic simulation model to help explain these historical changes; and project future changes under various management and climate scenarios using the model.

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