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The Chesapeake Research Consortium, Inc. (CRC) is a non-profit corporation chartered by the State of Maryland. It is an association of six institutions, each with a long-standing involvement in research on problems affecting the Chesapeake Bay and its watershed.


Please see the Potomac Monitoring Forum announcement and agenda on the Workshops Page!

Chesapeake Modeling Symposium 2008

CheMS: Communicating Models and Data

Annapolis, MD
May 12-14, 2008


Website: http://ccmp.likbez.com/CheMS2008/web/

The Chesapeake Community Modeling Program (CCMP) seeks to improve modeling tools and related resources specific to the Chesapeake Bay, its watershed, and connected environmental systems by fostering collaborative open source research. Toward this end the CCMP is convening a modeling symposium as a venue to identify and showcase existing modeling efforts as well as promote information exchange and open modeling.

The symposium is intended to facilitate the development of an inventory of models and data sets, and stimulate collaborative research on data processing and modeling. The resulting inventory of modeling tools and data will be made available through the CCMP web pages, in attempt to stimulate cross-pollination across modeling teams and paradigms and encourage future community modeling efforts. It is our hope that this will lead to the development of more comprehensive and integrated modeling tools for the Bay and its watershed, as well as for other watersheds around the country.


CRC
Member Institutions

The Johns Hopkins University

University System of Maryland

Smithsonian Institution

Virginia Institute of Marine Science

Old Dominion University

Pennsylvania State University

CRC Function

  • Assemble teams of scientists and engineers to work with public-policy specialists to design and undertake multidisciplinary projects.
  • Suggest individuals or institutions appropriate for special research tasks.
  • Provide access to scientists, excellent laboratories, experienced technicians, computer capabilities, and research vessels on a scale sufficiently large to address complex Bay or system-wide problems.
  • Work with state, federal, and private agencies and institutions in joint approaches to solving specific problems of both local and national concern.
  • Assist management agencies by producing new insights, assessing knowledge, conducting workshops and symposia, and contributing to educational programs.

Last Update: April 11, 2008