Lewis Linker

Lewis Linker is the Chesapeake Bay Program's Modeling Coordinator and Team Leader for Science and Analysis in the partnership's Science, Analysis, and Implementation Branch. Lew works with federal and state colleagues in the six CBP states of the Chesapeake watershed to develop world class linked models of the airshed, watershed, estuary and living resources of the Chesapeake. The linked models of the Chesapeake have provided the basis for the historic 2010 Chesapeake Bay Total Maximum Daily Load. Lew Linker is a national and international expert on watershed science and modeling, atmospheric deposition of nitrogen, and is the Science Advisor to the CBPO Director. Lew and his team have received more than nineteen major awards including two Smithsonian Awards in information technology excellence, the Horner Award from the American Society of Civil Engineers, and the American Water Resources Association’s Boggess Award. Lew received his Masters from the Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering and has authored more than 300 reports, book chapters, and peer reviewed papers.