Webinar Rescheduled: Forecasting the Bay: Advancing the Chesapeake Bay Environmental Forecast System
Join us and our partners at Anchor QEA, Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) and TetraTech for a webinar on the Chesapeake Bay Environmental Forecast System (CBEFS)—a powerful resource providing forecasts of environmental conditions throughout the Bay.
Date: Feb. 12, 2026
Time: 1-2 p.m. Eastern Time
CBEFS supports monitoring and planning by delivering forecasts of oxygen, salinity, temperature, acidification, harmful algal blooms, pathogens, sea nettles, water clarity, and more. With user-driven graphics, detailed visualizations, and access to raw model output, the system serves researchers, managers, and anyone interested in Bay health and on-the-water decision making.
The session will also feature an OceansMap Insights demo, highlighting Chesapeake Bay–specific data tools that make it easier to explore, visualize, and apply forecast information in practical ways.
Who Should Attend:
- Researchers and scientists studying the Chesapeake Bay
- Resource managers and decision-makers in fisheries, water quality, and habitat management
- Boaters, anglers, and others who plan on-the-water activities
- Anyone interested in exploring environmental forecasts and data visualization tools for the Bay
About the Speaker:
Dr. Aaron Bever is a Senior Managing Scientist at Anchor QEA. He earned a BS from the University of Washington and graduate degrees from the Virginia Institute of Marine Science. He has more than 15 years of experience combining field observations and state of the art three-dimensional (3D) hydrodynamic, water quality, sediment transport, and wave models to better understand water quality, habitat for fishes or benthic organisms, and sediment transport in coastal and estuarine systems. He currently leads the development of model applications from start to finish, including detailed model-data comparisons to show model reliability and evaluation of model results in combination with observational data to develop holistic understandings. Dr Bever is an author on more than 20 peer-reviewed journal articles and more than 100 scientific conference abstracts. His work in multiple estuarine systems combining long-term field-collected data sets with numerical model results has demonstrated that numerical models can give valuable insight for supporting management decisions and for improving observational sampling strategies and strategic instrument deployments.
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