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, an active committee with 38 members from academic and scientific institutions around the watershed.
Since our last (May) Newsletter, STAC has held its first quarterly meeting of the STAC program’s 2019 Fiscal Year (FY19; June, 2019-May, 2020). The meeting was held June 11 to June 12 on the campus of Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, VA, and involved a field trip to sites of on-going research as well as a full agenda focused heavily on new STAC initiatives toward science synthesis and knowledge gap analysis. Details can be found on the June meeting webpage.
Also since our last newsletter, the last of our FY18 workshops happened on May 22-23, 2019. The title of the workshop was “Integrating Science and Developing Approaches to Inform Management for Contaminants of Concern in Agricultural and Urban Settings” and it was led by a Steering Committee chaired by Scott Phillips (USGS) and STAC member Lee Blaney (UMBC). Details can be found at the meeting website on the STAC website.
STAC will hold its second quarterly meeting of FY19 on September 10-11, 2019, at a location to be determined. More information will be made available on the September meeting webpage.
STAC will be hosting four workshops in FY2019, listed here in order of anticipated date. Planning is underway for several of these activities. Information regarding recent workshops- including agendas, presentations, and reports (as they become available) can be found on the workshop homepage.
- Targeting Non-Point Source BMP Implementation
- Satellite Image Integration for the Chesapeake Bay SAV Monitoring Program
- Linking In-Field and Edge-of-Field Management to Soil and Watershed Health
- Incorporating Freshwater Mussels in the Chesapeake Bay Partnership
Several workshop steering committees are in the process of drafting activity reports and other workshop outcomes that will be distributed to the Partnership over the next few months. More information on recent workshop reports can be found on the STAC past workshop webpage.
STAC members and others should note that a new and revised STAC webpage is currently under development. We hope that the transition will be seamless. Future developments will be broadcast to STAC members and interested parties by email and will be further described in our next newsletter.