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Identifying green infrastruture BMPs in intensively managed watersheds: A multi-model framework for quantifying environmental and economic tradeoffs
Citation:
Mckane, Bob. Identifying green infrastruture BMPs in intensively managed watersheds: A multi-model framework for quantifying environmental and economic tradeoffs. Presented at Office of Water; Smithsonian Enironmental Research Center, Washington, DC, July 16 - 17, 2013.
Impact/Purpose:
This is a seminar to (1) Office of Water (OW), Washington, DC on July 16, 2013 and (2) Smithsonian Environmental Research Center (SERC), Edgewater, MD, on July 17, 2013. The purpose of the OW presentation is to discuss and obtain feedback from clients as to how this modeling research can best be designed to assist them in formulating water quality policy. The purpose of the SERC presentation is to provide a modeling update for my scientific collaborators at the SERC research site, and discuss verification datasets and next steps for scaling up the modeling research for larger basins within the Chesapeake Bay.
Description:
Quantifying how alternative land use and policy decisions will affect the capacity of the nation’s watersheds to provide clean water and other ecosystem services is a major goal of EPA-ORD’s Safe and Sustainable Waters Research Program (SSWR). This seminar will describe the use of an integrated, multi-model framework for quantifying how alternative land use scenarios affect tradeoffs among multiple ecosystem services, and associated economic impacts. Emphasis will be on how VELMA, a spatially-distributed ecohydrological model, is being used for two SSWR projects to identify green infrastructure best management practices (BMPs) for protecting water quality in intensively managed watersheds in the Chesapeake Bay, Pacific Northwest, and other regions.