April 5, 2024 – April 6, 2024

Location:

Steidel Building
Penn State University
University Park, PA 16802

— April 5, 2024 —

2024 Workshop

Effective Science Communication

— April 6, 2024 —

Keynote speaker (Morning)

Progress in reducing nutrient loads to Chesapeake Bay: A synthesis of three decades of monitoring data and research

Presented By: Dr. Qian Zhang
Associate Research Scientist / Monitoring Data Analyst
University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science / USEPA Chesapeake Bay Program Office

Dr. Qian Zhang is an Associate Research Scientist with University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science at the USEPA Chesapeake Bay Program (CBP). His main responsibility is to collaborate with scientists and managers in the CBP Partnership to analyze monitoring data and explore the temporal and spatial patterns and trends of water quality in Chesapeake Bay and its watershed, which are critical to defining the success of the Bay restoration effort toward meeting the goals of the 2014 Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement and to making science-based management decisions. Dr. Zhang is interested in applying scientific principles and statistical approaches to examine nutrient and sediment loads from watersheds and better understand their drivers and impacts along the land-river-estuary continuum. Dr. Zhang obtained his Ph.D. degree in Environmental Engineering from Johns Hopkins University. He also holds two Master of Science degrees from Johns Hopkins University, one in environmental engineering and the other in statistics.

— April 6, 2024 —

Keynote speaker (Afternoon)

Anthropogenic Impacts in Large-Lake Carbon Cycling

Presented By: Dr. Elizabeth Minor
Professor of Chemistry & Biochemistry
Professor for the Large Lakes Observatory
University of Minnesota – Duluth

Liz Minor is a professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and at the Large Lakes Observatory at the University of Minnesota Duluth. She received her B.S. in Chemistry from The College of William and Mary in Virginia and her Ph.D. in Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology/Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program in Oceanography and Ocean Engineering. Her research group studies carbon cycling in lake, river, and ocean water columns across daily to decadal scales. This includes work on lake acidification and alkalinity rends and studies of organic matter in aquatic systems, including that new anthropogenic organic matter, plastics. Support for her work has come from the US National Science Foundation, the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, the State of Minnesota Environmental and Natural Resources Trust Fund, Minnesota Sea Grant, the ACS Petroleum Research Fund, and the US National Park System.

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