Strategic Science and Research Framework

Description

The Strategic Science and Research Framework (SSRF) was developed by the Chesapeake Bay Program to help focus existing science resources, leverage the research enterprise, and more effectively provide science to advance Bay Program efforts and decision-making. It arose from a need to track and assess the abundance and breadth of science needs across the partnership more consistently. The SSRF was developed in coordination between the Scientific, Technical Assessment and Reporting (STAR) Team, the Goal Implementation Teams and the Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee (STAC). It was specifically designed to consider both short-term operational and long-term fundamental science needs, to integrate STAC report recommendations, and to be repeatable and consistent by connecting to the Strategy Review System process. Through the SSRF, the Bay Program can better look at science needs across the program, assess whether those needs are being met, and recommend approaches to address them. All science needs are available on the Science Needs Database.