The Chesapeake Modeling Symposium 2012, May 21 - 22, 20, Annapolis, MD

CBET-1239610切萨皮克社区建模计划（CCMP）旨在通过促进协作开源研究来改善切萨皮克湾、其流域和相关环境系统的建模工具和相关资源。为此，CCMP正在召开第三届两年一度的切萨皮克建模研讨会，以确定和展示现有的建模工作，并交流模型如何被不同的开发人员和用户群体用作决策支持工具。环境模型在管理过程中越来越多地发挥更重要的作用。 2012年切萨皮克建模研讨会将试图阐明新出现的问题和冲突，因为它们涉及到监管门槛和用于设置它们的环境模型，重点是理解，沟通和信誉等主题。通过将建模者、管理者、科学家和利益相关者聚集在一起，举行一系列全体会议、小组讨论和特别会议，他们希望突出每个群体的独特问题和关注点，并提供一个公开对话的场所，希望能加深对这些和其他模型的理解和采用。

CBET-1239610The 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 the third bi-annual Chesapeake Modeling Symposium as a venue to identify and showcase existing modeling efforts as well as communicate how models are used as decision support tools by different developer and user groups. Environmental models are increasingly taking on higher profile roles in the management process. The 2012 Chesapeake Modeling Symposium will attempt to shed light on emerging concerns and conflicts as they relate to regulatory thresholds and the environmental models that are used to set them, focusing on topics such as understanding, communication, and credibility. By bringing together modelers, managers, scientists, and stakeholders for a series of plenary talks, panel discussions, and special sessions, they hope to highlight the unique issues and concerns of each of these groups and provide a venue for open dialogue that will hopefully lead to greater understanding and adoption of these and other models.