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Modeling provides a powerful tool for synthesizing data and research, and providing the capability to predict responses of ecosystems to changing drivers.

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Generalized Estuarine Metabolism Model This model couples an aggregated food web model with a 1D, tidally averaged, advection-dispersion transport model and is being used to examine different nutrient and organic matter loading scenarios on estuarine food web dynamics.
2D Hydrodynamic Model A 2D hydrodynamic model is being developed for the Plum Island Estuary. A diffusive wave approach is used to simplify the hyperbolic PDE and to couple in subsurface processes. The hydrodynamic model will drive a 2D advection-dispersion model that governs estuarine biogeochemistry. This work is on going.
	Sweeney Creek, one of the long-term experimental tidal creeks, at high tide. Point mouse over for a portrait of the man behind the models!
Data Assimilation Model Examines how data assimilation techniques coupled to mesocosm experiments can be used to improve aquatic food web models. This page is still being developed