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Chesapeake Bay atmospheric deposition program 1997 chemical contaminant field program
Principal Investigator:
Joel E. BakerStart/End Year:
1997 - 1999Institution:
Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental ScienceCo-Principal Investigator:
Robert P. Mason, Chesapeake Biological Laboratory, University of Maryland Center for Environmental ScienceTopic(s):
- Ecosystems and Restoration
Description:
To continue quantification of the impact of the Baltimore/Washington urban area on atmospheric depositional fluxes to the northern Chesapeake Bay through a consistent long-term sampling program at urban and down-wind sites; To, through the release of purposeful tracers of diesel soot exhaust, track the urban plume and characterize size distributions and deposition of combustion-derived aerosol particles; To determine, through intensive sampling programs under winter and summer conditions, the magnitude and variability of atmospheric and surface water concentrations, and of estimated gas exchange rates, or semivolatile organic contaminants and mercury species.
Funding Start Year
1997
Funding End Year
1999
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Featured Fellow
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.
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