Restoring Positivity: Chesapeake Bay Watershed Success Stories The restoration of the Chesapeake Bay has been and will continue to be a herculean effort by many, and the work ahead of us often overshadows the successes to date. Pausing to celebrate our successes reminds us all how far we have come and is a learning [...]
Leveraging Artificial Intelligence to Advance Chesapeake Bay Research and Management The Chesapeake Bay is globally recognized for its long-term, science-based restoration effort, but informed decision making across the seven jurisdictions of the watershed requires a lot of data and modeling. Artificial intelligence (AI) and associated machine learning (ML) applications have emerged as powerful tools [...]
Shared Learning and Informed Decisions: CRC’s Convening Capacity How can the Chesapeake Bay community learn together to support more informed decision-making? For CRC, the answer is convening. This September, we celebrated five years since the first CRC Roundtable. Launched during pandemic lockdowns to provide space for conversation, the platform has only grown in reach [...]
Chesapeake Community Research Symposium The Chesapeake Community Research Symposium 2022 will take place both in-person at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Annapolis, Maryland and virtually through Zoom from June 6-8. The title of this year’s symposium is Chesapeake Bay Restoration, Resilience, and Reflection: Progress and Future Challenges. In person attendees will be required to [...]
Call for Special Session Proposals Deadline - December 8, 2021 We are excited to announce a call for special session proposals for the Chesapeake Community Research Symposium 2022! It is our sincere hope that you will consider putting together a proposal for a session OR workshop activity. All topics that fall within the [...]
ChesCRS20 will be held as a Virtual Symposium This event is organized through the Steering Committee of the Chesapeake Community Modeling Program and is supported through a cooperative agreement between the Chesapeake Research Consortium (CRC) and the NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office (NCBO). Additional co-sponsors are welcome! Interested parties are encouraged to contact the CRC Executive Director at CRC-Director@chesapeake.org. The bi-annual Chesapeake [...]
Presentation Abstracts are due March 15th! This event is organized through the Steering Committee of the Chesapeake Community Modeling Program and is supported through a cooperative agreement between the Chesapeake Research Consortium (CRC) and the NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office (NCBO). Additional co-sponsors are welcome! Interested parties are encouraged to contact the CRC Executive Director at CRC-Director@chesapeake.org. CCMP is accepting abstracts for presentations [...]
Special Session Proposals for the Chesapeake Community Research Symposium 2020 are due on November 29th We are excited to announce a call for special session proposals for the Chesapeake Community Research Symposium 2020! It is our sincere hope that you will consider putting together a proposal for a session. Sessions on any topic relevant to better understanding and [...]
The Chesapeake Bay Program (CBP) has used its modeling system as a planning tool to inform strategic management decisions and adaptation toward Bay restoration since the 1980s. This modeling system has been continually updated with improvements and advancements intended to keep pace with emerging science. However, it had been more than a decade since STAC convened [...]
In June, we hosted the 2018 Chesapeake Community Research and Modeling Symposium (ChesRMS18). It was a huge success, hosting over 200 Bay scientists from across the watershed and beyond. Videos of our plenary and panel speakers are now on Youtube: Rich Batuik - Three Decades of Using Science as the Foundation for Collaborative Bay and Watershed [...]
