Advancing Market-Based Approaches in the Agricultural Sector to Support Chesapeake Bay Watershed Restoration
March 10, 2025 - March 11, 2025Annapolis, MD
This workshop will convene in-person on Monday-Tuesday, March 10-11, 2025 at the Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s Philip Merrill Environmental Center in Annapolis, MD.
The Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee (STAC) will host a 2-day workshop to identify key knowledge gaps and provide actionable guidance for implementing market-based approaches to achieve Chesapeake Bay goals. This workshop will focus on corporate sustainability programs and pay-for-outcomes programs to accelerate the speed and scale of implementation of agricultural conservation practices to address water quality, climate, and biodiversity goals.
Workshop Steering Committee:
* STAC Member
- Leah Palm-Forster*, UD, Co-Chair
- Yusuke Kuwayama*, UMBC, Co-Chair
- Lisa Wainger, UMCES, Co-Chair
- Greg Allen, EPA
- Doug Austin, EPA
- Jenna Beckett, Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay
- Katie Brownson, US Forest Service
- Elliott Campbell, MD DNR
- Scott Knoche*, Morgan State PEARL
- Tim Male, Environmental Policy Innovation Center
- Kelly Shenk, EPA
- Kurt Stephenson, VT
This page will be updated with workshop details.
If you have any questions, please contact Meg Cole, STAC Coordinator, at colem@chesapeake.org.