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 [...]
STAC Continues to Address Climate Resiliency Science Needs The Chesapeake Bay Program’s Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee (STAC) is administered by the CRC and funded through a cooperative agreement with the Chesapeake Bay Program (CBP) Partnership – currently spanning the period 2016-2022. The CRC has had a long-standing role of administering all activities of STAC, [...]
Emily Vazir (pictured here with Doc) is CRC’s Environmental Management Staffer working with the Chesapeake Bay Program’s Enhance Partnering, Leadership and Management Goal Implementation Team. CRC’s Environmental Management Career Development Program works with the Chesapeake Bay Program partnership to offer three-year staff opportunities for science, management, and policy graduates as the partnership works to [...]
We are excited to announce the Chesapeake Student Research, Early Advisement, and Mentoring (C-StREAM) program interns of summer 2019! C-StREAM is a program focused on recruiting, advising, and mentoring college students from typically under-represented groups to prepare them for careers in environmental protection and restoration. We will work with successful applicants to identify internships and mentors [...]
The Chesapeake Bay's coastline in Virginia and Maryland stretches 11,885 miles long. Researchers from the Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) have spent almost 50 years mapping huge swaths of the coastline of the Bay, and they recently published the latest version online. The maps are capable of displaying features such as boat houses and marinas, [...]
