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EPA picks VIMS computer model in $1.6 million deal to guide Chesapeake Bay pollution decisions

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency awarded the institute under William & Mary $1.6 million for SCHISM. The Chesapeake Bay Program has been using a computer model first developed in the 1990s to forecast conditions in waterways and steer pollution targets. SCHISM aims to help that, by including more detail.

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The Virginian Pilot

EPA picks VIMS computer model in $1.6 million deal to guide Chesapeake Bay pollution decisions

“We’re going to understand the bay on a finer scale, in the shallower waters which is really where most of us interact,” said Lew Linker, modeling coordinator for the EPA’s Chesapeake Bay Program office. “It’s going to be represented and simulated better than ever before, and help everyone in the watershed understand what our shared responsibilities are.”

2 years ago·Norfolk, United States

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