Symposium: The Chesapeake Modeling Symposium 2010, May 10-12, 2010, Annapolis, MD

主要调查者：Kevin SellnerProposal No：CBET-1036666切萨皮克社区建模计划(CCMP)寻求通过促进合作的开源研究来改进切萨皮克湾、其分水岭和相互关联的环境系统的建模工具和相关资源。为此，CCMP正在召开2010年切萨皮克建模研讨会，以此为场所确定和展示现有的建模工作，并交流不同的开发人员和用户群体如何将模型用作决策支持工具。ChesMS‘10是CCMP召开的第二次学术研讨会。ChesMS‘08重点强调和交流新的和创新的切萨皮克生态系统开源模型，并构建现有的可用模型和工具库。ChesMS‘10继续展示新的建模工作，同时也展示了如何将新的和现有的模型应用于帮助管理、研究和恢复决策支持，从而对此进行了扩展。通过将模型开发人员和用户社区聚集在研讨会上，他们希望促进组内更多的理解和沟通。这将导致更多以产品为重点的模型开发，并更智能地使用这些模型。所寻求的资金用于支付两名受邀全体演讲人的旅费和支付部分学生注册费的资金。全体演讲者是模型开发和访问方面的老牌领导者，而学生津贴确保了新建模人员负担得起的访问和网络，这对学生的持续接触和成熟、模型开发，以及更重要的是在整个流域的应用至关重要。

Principal Investigator: Kevin SellnerProposal No: CBET-1036666The 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 Chesapeake Modeling Symposium 2010 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. ChesMS'10 is the second symposium convened by CCMP. ChesMS'08 focused on highlighting and communicating new and innovative Chesapeake ecosystem open source models and building the existing library of available models and tools. ChesMS'10 expands on this by continuing to showcase new modeling efforts while also demonstrating how new and existing models can be applied to aid in Management, Research, and Restoration decision support. By bringing together the model developer and user communities at the symposium, they hope to foster greater intra group understanding and communication. This will lead to more product-focused model development and a more intelligent use of these models. Funding is sought to support travel costs for two invited plenary speakers and funds to defray a portion of registration costs for students. The plenary speakers are established leaders in model development and access while the student stipends ensure affordable access and networking for new modelers, critical for continued student exposure and maturation, model development, and more importantly, application throughout the basin.