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R/PO-03
Non-point source pollution and land use in the Patuxent watershed
Principal Investigator:
Nancy E. BockstaelStart/End Year:
1996 - 1999Institution:
University of Maryland, College ParkTopic(s):
- Ecosystems and Restoration
Description:
To use the estimated model to assess changes in behavior, conditioned on land use, as well as actual changes in land use patterns under an array of alternative policy scenarios that are likely ultimately to have significant effects on water quality. 2. The consequences for non-point source pollution of the predicted land use changes can be assessed by feeding the results of the spatially articulated economics (human activity) model into any similarly conceived spatial model of the ecosystem.
Funding Start Year
1996
Funding End Year
1999
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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.
