Adaptation Workgroup

The Adaptation Workgroup seeks to increase capacity for planning and responding to changing environmental conditions.

Meetings

About

Changing climatic and sea level conditions may alter the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem, requiring us to adjust our policies, programs and projects to successfully achieve our restoration and protection goals. This challenge requires careful monitoring and assessment of these impacts, and application of this knowledge to our work. The Adaptation Workgroup coordinates the Chesapeake Bay Program's efforts to adapt to changing environmental conditions, as deemed a priority in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement.

Workgroup Values

  • Increase the resiliency of the Chesapeake Bay watershed, including its living resources, habitats, public infrastructure and communities, to withstand adverse impacts from changing environmental and climate conditions.
  • Continually monitor and assess the trends and likely impacts of changing climatic and sea level conditions on the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem, including the effectiveness of restoration and protection policies, programs and projects.
  • Continually pursue, design and construct restoration and protection projects to enhance the resiliency of Bay and aquatic ecosystems from the impacts of coastal erosion, coastal flooding, more intense and more frequent storms, and sea level rise.

Guiding Documents

In March 2023, the Climate Resiliency Workgroup's Management Strategy and Logic and Action Plan were updated as a part of the Strategy Review System (SRS) process. This strategy and logic and action plan currently serve as the guide for climate-related planning, research and programmatic efforts for the Chesapeake Bay Program partnership. 

Stay Informed

To subscribe to the Adaptation Workgroup's distribution list and receive information about workgroup meetings, funding and job opportunities, and climate-related efforts underway in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, plesae contact Julia Fucci at fuccij@chesapeake.org. Include your name, affiliation and area of interest.

Projects

Climate Change Indicator Framework

Complete

This framework informed the development of indicators used to track and analyze trends, impacts and progress toward the climate resiliency goal and outcomes in the 2014 Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement.

Publications

Related Resources

Our Watershed Agreement Goals & Outcomes

Healthy Landscapes Goal

Our Members