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R/PO-01
The Chesapeake Bay in an international perspective: An analytical comparison of the role of scientific communities in the formation and stability of regimes for the governance of coastal and inland seas
Principal Investigator:
Mark SagoffStart/End Year:
1992 - 1994Institution:
University of Maryland, College ParkCo-Principal Investigator:
Wayne Bell, Horn Point Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental ScienceTopic(s):
- Bay Literature
Description:
This project undertakes an interdisciplinary comparative analysis of the formation and stability of major environmental management programs for four coastal or regional seas, including the Chesapeake Bay. The project inquires how the activities of scientific communities contribute to the success or failure of attempts at environmental governance. It will draw lessons from recent history concerning the prospects of cooperation among groups sharing a regional biological commons. The project would produce publishable papers preparatory to the planned Maryland International Conference on the Environmental Management of Coastal Seas.
Funding Start Year
1992
Funding End Year
1994
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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.
