Description: Objectives and Data Usage. Studies were undertaken at several stations in the
southern Chesapeake Bay in support of the Sediment Data Monitoring Plan for the Time Variable Model. This work followed the consensus plan initially produced by the EPA sediment modelling workshop held on January 4, 1987, and subsequently modified based
on discussions held on February 5, 1988 meeting at the Baltimore District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and discussions with officials from the EPN Chesapeake Bay
Program, HydroQual, Inc. and other scientists involved in the Chesapeake Bay sediment data collection program. These studies in Southern Chesapeake Bay were undertaken in conjunction with
parallel studies in the Northern Chesapeake Bay by W.R. Boyton, W.M. Kemp and coworkers
at the University of Maryland, and studies of sediment accumulation rates at all
sites by G. Brush (The Johns Hopkins University). Together these data sets will provide
information on the sediments of the entire Chesapeake Bay, to be used in the development
of the sediment component of the three-dimensional, time-variable model of Chesapeake Bay.
