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The Center for the Inland Bays will hold a meeting of its Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee at 9 a.m., Friday, June 6, in Room 104 of the Cannon Lab at the University of Delaware College of Marine & Earth Studies campus in Lewes.
The agenda will include recommendations for water quality buffers, and presentations on the migration of young fish and the development of water quality models for use in policy decisions. The public is invited.
Chris Bason, Center for the Inland Bays (CIB) science coordinator, will review the science behind water quality buffers. Buffers are a highly effective and cost-efficient way to reduce pollution to the bays and protect their wetland ecosystems.
Recommendations for alternative buffer systems will be presented and means for their implementation will be discussed.
Also of interest to the public will be two presentations by University of Delaware graduate students Aditya Sood and Mike Rhode.
The bays are nursery grounds for millions of young fish. Rhode will discuss his research on the numbers and timing of young fish entering Indian River and Roosevelt Inlet.
Sood, a fellow with the Institute of Soil and Environmental Quality, will discuss a framework for integrating water quality and water use data to develop recommendations for sustainable development in the Millsboro Pond watershed.
For more information, contact Sally Boswell, CIB education and outreach coordinator, at 302-226-8105.
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