GC53E:
Assessment of Climate Change Influence on Water Quality in the Chesapeake and Other Coastal Systems Posters


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Session ID#: 51930

Session Description:
The session examines the ongoing development of modeling, research, and monitoring findings of climate change influences on the Chesapeake watershed, airshed, and estuary.  Included in the assessment are expected changes in future (2050) land use, water resource demands because of increasing temperature and populations, changes in atmospheric deposition of nitrogen, changes in hypoxia because of sea level rise and temperature increases, loss of tidal wetlands and associated nutrient attenuation due to sea level rise, changes in storm intensity, and changes in estimated watershed nutrient and sediment loads.  The estimated influence of all of the above elements on Chesapeake hypoxia will be quantified separately and together.  The comparison of climate change effects in other coastal and estuarine systems is a key feature of this session and a survey of the synthesis of research and modeling in the assessment of climate change in other coastal and estuarine systems will be examined.
Primary Convener:  Lewis Linker, US EPA Chesapeake Bay Program Office, 410 Severn Avenue, Annapolis, MD, United States
Convener:  Gary Shenk, USGS, Chesapeake Bay Program, Annapolis, MD, United States
Primary Liaison:  Lewis Linker, US EPA Chesapeake Bay Program Office, 410 Severn Avenue, Annapolis, MD, United States
Chairs:  Gopal Bhatt, Penn State University, University Park, PA, United States and Dr. Jesse O Bash, Ph.D., United States Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development, Research Triangle Park, NC, 27711 13 USA, Durham, United States
OSPA Liaison:  Lewis Linker, US EPA Chesapeake Bay Program Office, 410 Severn Avenue, Annapolis, MD, United States
Index Terms:

1627 Coupled models of the climate system [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1630 Impacts of global change [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1631 Land/atmosphere interactions [GLOBAL CHANGE]
1807 Climate impacts [HYDROLOGY]

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

Modeling assessment of climate change impacts on water quality in Chesapeake Bay (418477)
Richard Tian, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science / U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Chesapeake Bay Program, Annapolis, United States, Lewis Linker, US EPA Chesapeake Bay Program Office, 410 Severn Avenue, Annapolis, MD, United States, Gary Shenk, USGS, Chesapeake Bay Program, Annapolis, MD, United States, Gopal Bhatt, Penn State University, University Park, PA, United States, Andrew Sommerlot, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA, United States and Daniel Edward Kaufman, Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point, VA, United States

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