101 Coastal Management, 33:101–117, 2005 Copyright  Taylor & Francis Inc. ISSN: 0892-0753 print / 1521-0421 online DOI: 10.1080/08920750590883015 A Tidal Prism Water Quality Model for Small Coastal Basins ALBERT Y. KUO Virginia Institute of Marine Science/School of Marine Science College of William and Mary Gloucester Point, Virginia, USA KYEONG PARK Department of Marine Sciences University of South Alabama Dauphin Island Sea Lab Dauphin Island, Alabama, USA SUNG-CHAN KIM U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Engineer Research and Development Center Environmental Laboratory Vicksburg, Mississippi, USA JING LIN Department of Marine, Earth, and Atmospheric Sciences North Carolina State University Raleigh, North Carolina, USA Received 29 October 2003; accepted 28 July 2004. We would like to thank Drs. Robert Byrne and Arthur Butt for their administrative and technical support throughout the period of model development and applications. Many individu- als contributed to the field surveys and sample analyses for the data used in the model calibra- tion/validation, particularly, Sam Wilson and Steve Snyder of Virginia Institute of Marine Sci- ence, and Wick Harlan, Randy Gun, and Mark Bushing of Virginia Department of Environmental Quality. We also thank Kevin Curling, Shawn Smith, and Julie Glover for assistance in assem- bling data for nonpoint source model simulation. This study was funded in part by the Virginia Coastal Resources Management Program of the Department of Environmental Quality through Grants #NA37OZ0360-01, #NA57OZ0561-01, and #NA67OZ0360-01 of NOAA. Address correspondence to Kyeong Park, Department of Marine Sciences, University of South Alabama, Dauphin Island Sea Lab, 101 Bienville Blvd., Dauphin Island, AL 36528, USA. E- mail: kpark@jaguar1.usouthal.edu