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R/P-53
Regional Refinement of a Diagnostic Tool for Setting Water Quality Targets for the Protection and Restoration of Submersed Aquatic Vegetation
Principal Investigator:
Charles GallegosStart/End Year:
2002 - 2003Institution:
Smithsonian Environmental Research CenterTopic(s):
- Submerged Aquatic Vegetation
Description:
The objective of this work is to assist in the goal of restoring and protecting 114,000 acres of SAV by providing scientifically defensible procedures for translating light requirements of SAV into water quality criteria, in a manner able to accommodate regional differences in the optical properties of the suspended particulate matter.
Funding Start Year
2002
Funding End Year
2003
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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.
