Ecoforecasting paper published in Bioscience
"Ecological forecasting and the science of hypoxia in Chesapeake Bay" was published in Bioscience in June. Twelve graduate students, faculty and staff contributed to this effort, led by
Jeremy Testa of
Chesapeake Biological Laboratory. The paper is an outcome of a graduate course in the
Marine Estuarine Environmental Sciences program. The paper analyzes the results of ten years of annual ecological forecasts for the size of the summertime oxygen deficient waters (also known as "dead zones"). The increasing scientific and public attention to these hypoxia events makes this a timely paper.