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R/DO-23
Workshop on national dissolved oxygen
Principal Investigator:
Gail B. MackiernanStart/End Year:
1990 - 1991Institution:
Maryland Sea Grant CollegeTopic(s):
- Ecosystems and Restoration
Description:
The purpose of this workshop is to provide input and evaluation to the Environmental Protection Agency's effort to derive national dissolved oxygen criteria salt water. An examination of current and proposed research approaches supported by EPA, NOAA and others, data synthesis and interpretation, and the usability of these criteria by managers and regulators will be examined. Incorporation of workshop recommendations into ongoing research efforts is planned.
Funding Start Year
1990
Funding End Year
1991
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Featured Fellow
Nina Santos
Nina Santos is a Ph.D. student at the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. For her dissertation, she is focused on small shrimp-like crustaceans called mysids – an understudied yet important part of many estuarine and coastal food webs.
Featured Research Project
Developing a habitat model for mysids, an important link in Chesapeake Bay food webs
Mysids are important mesozooplankton prey for many species of fish in Chesapeake Bay and are an important link in transferring energy from lower to upper trophic levels. Mysids also serve as biological vectors for benthic-pelagic coupling due to their diel vertical migration and omnivorous prey-switching behavior, which makes mysids important regulators of food web architecture. Despite their central role in coastal food webs, surprisingly little is known about mysid ecology and dynamics in Chesapeake Bay.
