Recent & On-going Projects

The VIMS ecosystem modeling group is involved

in several projects, including:

Brush Lab:

• Hybrid Empirical-Mechanistic Modeling of Estuarine Biogeochemistry, Metabolism, and Water Quality.  Current focus:  Modeling Tools to Predict Hypoxia/Anoxia in Upper Narragansett Bay.  (Rhode Island)

• Modeling Atlantic Menhaden in Support of Nutrient and Multispecies Management. (Chesapeake Bay)

• Defense Coastal/Estuarine Research Program (DCERP):  Development of Watershed and Estuarine Simulation Models for the New River Estuary, North Carolina (Wiseman thesis)

• Modeling Hypoxia/Anoxia in the York River, VA.  Part of the VIMS Chesapeake Bay Initiative:  Deep Water Component. (Lake thesis)     

• Modeling Nitrogen Loading to Virginia’s Eastern Shore Lagoons – a collaboration between VIMS, the University of Virginia, and the Virginia Coast Reserve LTER program. (Poleto thesis)

              An initial report can be found here

• Development of a Model of Positive and Negative Feedbacks Within Beds of Submerged Aquatic Vegetation (York River, Chesapeake Bay) (Gardner dissertation)

Friedrichs Lab:

• Regional Ecosystem Modeling Testbed Project

• U.S. Eastern Continental Shelf Carbon Budget: Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Analysis

• NASA Primary Productivity Algorithm Round-Robin (PPARR): A Comparison of Models that Estimate Primary Productivity Using Ocean Color Data

• Primary Productivity Analysis and Predictions from an Assimilative Biogeochemical Ocean General Circulation Model

Selected Past Projects (Wetzel Lab):

• Sediment and Nutrient Load Modeling for Virginia Watersheds

• Size-Fractionated Plankton Model of the York River

• Predicting Benthic Nutrient Fluxes
• Modeling the Response of Seagrass Ecosystems to Multiple Stressors