Scientific, Technical Assessment and Reporting (STAR) Projects
Better Targeting Chesapeake Bay Program Resources to Achieve Multiple Outcomes
In ProgressThis 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.
Improving Chesapeake Bay Program Monitoring Networks
CompleteThis project provides an overview of the Chesapeake Bay Program's monitoring network and identifies opportunities to address capacity shortfalls and implement enhancements.
Strategic Science and Research Framework
CompleteThis 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.
Chesapeake Bay Dissolved Oxygen Profiling
In ProgressThis project will pilot a cost-effective, real-time dissolved oxygen vertical monitoring system for characterizing mainstem Chesapeake Bay hypoxia.
Cross-Goal Team Mapping Project
CompleteThis project identified places where Goal Implementation Teams (GITs) can more effectively collaborate and make progress toward interrelated Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement outcomes.
Measure and Explain Water Quality Changes
CompleteThis project enhanced the analysis and explanation of water quality monitoring information.
American Shad Indicator Action Team
CompleteThis action team was assembled to determine how to most accurately track the recovery progress of American shad in the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries.
Evolving the STAR Team to Better Meet the Science Needs of the Chesapeake Bay Program
CompleteThis implementation plan guided the Scientific, Technical Assessment and Reporting (STAR) Team toward expanding its science capacity to better meet Goal Implementation Team (GIT) needs.