Management Board
The Management Board provides strategic planning and operational guidance, and manages the implementation of the partnership's goals, outcomes, strategies and supporting policies.
Meetings
Management Board Meeting - December 2025
Canceled: Joint MB & PSC Meeting - November 2025
Management Board Meeting - October 2025
Management Board Retreat - Fall 2025
About
The Management Board, chaired by the Director of the Chesapeake Bay Program, works to provide strategic planning, set priorities and offer operational guidance to the Bay Program, including overseeing the goal implementation teams and implementation of the management strategies.
Projects
Priority Project Submissions
In ProgressThe Management Board has asked Goal Implementation Teams and Workgroups to translate the Beyond 2025 Steering Committee's recommendations into projects that will advance their focus areas.
Strategy Review System (SRS) and Support Materials
In ProgressThis process helps the Chesapeake Bay Program consistently apply adaptive management to its work toward the 2014 Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement.
Guidance for Management Strategies
CompleteThese guiding documents are designed to help the Chesapeake Bay Program partnership develop and update the Management Strategies that articulate the actions necessary to achieve the goals and outcomes of the 2014 Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement.
Publications
Chesapeake Bay Program Governance Document
Publication date:This document describes the Chesapeake Bay Program partnership's organizational function and governance in advancing the 2014 Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement.
View document [PDF, 1.0 MB] Chesapeake Bay Program Governance Document
A Critical Path Forward for the Chesapeake Bay Program Beyond 2025
Publication date:This report provides a scope of work, or next steps, for the Chesapeake Bay Program as it prepares for the next chapter in its partnership beyond 2025.
View document [PDF, 523.1 KB] A Critical Path Forward for the Chesapeake Bay Program Beyond 2025
Charting a Course to 2025
Publication date:This report provides recommendations for the Chesapeake Executive Council on how to best address and integrate new science and restoration strategies leading up to 2025.
Indicators Framework
Publication date:The Indicators Framework is a conceptual model that demonstrates the relationships between the Chesapeake Bay Program's indicators of environmental science, restoration and stewardship, and describes how these indicators will be used.
Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement
Publication date:This plan for collaboration clarifies the Chesapeake Bay Program's vision, mission and values and establishes a set of goals and outcomes for the restoration of the Bay, its tributaries and the lands that surround them.
View document [PDF, 1.6 MB] Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement
Our Workgroups & Action Teams
Our Members
- Daniel Coogan (Chair)
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) coogan.daniel@epa.gov - Amy Handen (Coordinator)
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) handen.amy@epa.gov - Erin Sonnenburg (Staffer)
Chesapeake Research Consortium Sonnenburg.Erin@epa.gov - Abel Olivo
Defensores De La Cuenca abel@defensoresdelacuenca.org - Amy Guise
Amy.m.guise@usace.army.mil - Anna Killius
Chesapeake Bay Commission AKillius@chesbay.us - Bill Fink
wfink@cvff.com - Breck Sullivan
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) bsullivan@chesapeakebay.net - Bruce Vogt
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Bruce.Vogt@noaa.gov - Carus Peet
U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) carus.peet@hq.dhs.gov - Cassandra Davis
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation cassandra.davis@dec.ny.gov - Christi Hicks
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) christi.hicks@usda.gov - Genevieve LaRouche
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) Genevieve_LaRouche@fws.gov - Gina Hunt
Maryland Department of Natural Resources gina.hunt@maryland.gov - Holly Walker
Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control Holly.Walker@delaware.gov - James Martin
Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation james.e.martin@dcr.virginia.gov - Jeff Lerner
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) lerner.jeffrey@epa.gov - Jill Whitcomb
Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection jiwhitcomb@pa.gov - Julia Wakeling
District of Columbia Department of Energy & Environment julia.wakeling@dc.gov - Julie Lawson
District of Columbia Department of Energy & Environment julie.lawson@dc.gov - Katie Brownson
U.S. Forest Service (USFS) Katherine.Brownson@usda.gov - Ken Hyer
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) kenhyer@usgs.gov - Kevin DuBois
U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) kevin.r.dubois.civ@us.navy.mil - Kevin McLean
Virginia Department of Environmental Quality Kevin.McLean@deq.virginia.gov - Kevin Schabow
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Kevin.Schabow@noaa.gov - Khesha Reed
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Reed.Khesha@epa.gov - Larry Sanford
University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science lsanford@umces.edu - Leila Duman
Maryland Department of Natural Resources leila.duman@maryland.gov - Lucinda Power
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) power.lucinda@epa.gov - Marty Qually
Adams County (PA) mqually@adamscountypa.gov - Scott Settle
West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection dallas.s.settle@wv.gov - Steve Saari
District of Columbia steve.saari@dc.gov - Suzanne Trevena
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) trevena.suzanne@epa.gov - Wendy O'Sullivan
National Park Service (NPS) wendy_o'sullivan@nps.gov