Science & Analytical Support Team

The Science & Analytical Support Team helps goal teams, workgroups and action teams use physical and social science to advance their work, and aids the partnership in making science-informed management decisions.

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About

The Science & Analytical Support Team, previously known as Scientific, Technical Assessment & Reporting (STAR), helps goal teams, workgroups and action teams use science to advance the goals and outcomes of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement. Its roles and responsibilities include:

  • Facilitate coordination and collaboration among physical and social science providers.
  • Synthesize and communicate scientific results and ecosystem conditions to aid in science-informed management decisions.   
  • Engage with the Scientific & Technical Advisory Committee and its recommendations for enhancing Chesapeake Bay Program science and implementation.
  • Provide support for other scientific, technical and analytical issues that are outside the responsibility of a single goal team or workgroup but that benefit the partnership at large.

Projects

Targeting Resources to Achieve Multiple Outcomes

In Progress

This project is designed to develop a strategic, science-based approach to better target federal and state resources to the places, and towards the types of activities, that accelerate progress for multiple outcomes.

Dissolved Oxygen Profiling

In Progress

This project will pilot a cost-effective, real-time dissolved oxygen vertical monitoring system for characterizing mainstem Chesapeake Bay hypoxia.

Strategic Science and Research Framework

Complete

This framework was developed to help focus existing science resources, leverage the research enterprise and more effectively provide science to advance Chesapeake Bay Program efforts and decision-making.

Cross-Goal Team Mapping Project

Complete

This project identified places where Goal Implementation Teams (GITs) can more effectively collaborate and make progress toward interrelated Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement outcomes.

Publications

2017 Technical Addendum: Ambient Water Quality Criteria for Dissolved Oxygen, Water Clarity and Chlorophyll a for the Chesapeake Bay and Its Tidal Tributaries

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This 2017 addendum provides previously undocumented features of the procedures for assessing attainment of the Chesapeake Bay water quality criteria as well as refinements and clarifications to the previously published Chesapeake Bay water quality criteria assessment procedures.

View document [PDF, 4.2 MB] 2017 Technical Addendum: Ambient Water Quality Criteria for Dissolved Oxygen, Water Clarity and Chlorophyll a for the Chesapeake Bay and Its Tidal Tributaries

Related Resources

  • Newsletter Archive

    Newsletters published by the Science & Analytical Support Team from 2018 to the present.

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