(Photo by Will Parson/Chesapeake Bay Program)

The seven member institutions of the CRC collectively represent an astounding engine of discovery and innovation; the partnership represents an organization that provides unmatched ability to scale up solutions, provide accountability, and efficiently improve. The perfect marriage of innovation and implementation can happen if we effectively link both of these networks; often termed dual operating systems (John Kotter in his book XLR8). The CRC endeavors to do just that, by providing a two-way portal for communication and translation between both. We can articulate the science needs of the partnership so that discovery can be focussed on the most important ones; we can identify policy-ready science and communicate it to the partnership for implementation and piloting. When both the partnership and the CRC member institutions operate in concert, we can collectively seize new windows of opportunity and still meet the formal targets of the partnership.

Science Needs Database

Science Needs Database

Scientific & Technical Advisory Committee

The Chesapeake Research Consortium works through the Chesapeake Bay Program (CBP) Partnership’s Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee (STAC) and alongside government institutions through our cooperative agreements to put on workshops, seminars, and conferences that further our mission of bringing together scientists and management.

Facilitation of Collaborative Research

By building on the professional and academic contacts and organizational networks of its members, the CRC works collaboratively with various stakeholders in the Chesapeake Bay Program partnership to populate and coordinate scientific reviews of technical reports, policy statements, and activities. CBED allows scientists, managers, research funders, and other interested parties to identify experts at CRC member institutions and other CBP partner institutions through searches by scientific discipline, management area, research interests, or institution.

Chesapeake Community Modeling Program (CCMP)

The Chesapeake Community Modeling Program (CCMP) is an association of researchers throughout the Chesapeake Bay Basin who work together to further the development of watershed and estuarine modeling.

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