Climate Resiliency Workgroup

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Changing climatic and sea level conditions may alter the Bay ecosystem and human activities, requiring adjustment to policies, programs and projects to successfully achieve our restoration and protection goals for the Chesapeake Bay and its watershed. This challenge requires careful monitoring and assessment of these impacts and application of this knowledge to policies, programs and projects. The Climate Resiliency Workgroup coordinates climate-related efforts to address climate resiliency for the Chesapeake Bay Program as deemed a priority of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Jurisdictions noted in the 2014 Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement.

Core 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.

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. 

To subscribe to the Chesapeake Resiliency Workgroup's distribution list and receive information about workgroup meetings, funding and job opportunities, and workgroup and partner climate-related efforts underway in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, contact Julia Fucci (julia.fucci@noaa.gov). Please include your name, affiliation, and area of interest if you have any. 

Review past issues of the Climate Resiliency Newsletter.

Projects

Publications

Related Resources

• COME HIGH WATER: Sea Level Rise and Chesapeake Bay

  A special report by Chesapeake Quarterly and Bay Journal

• NWF's Climate Change Adaptation Reports

  To help people across the country develop climate-smart conservation plans

• USGS Report Released in the Journal of Climate Change

  Stream temperature rising throughout the Chesapeake Bay region

• NOAA: Regional Climate Trends and Scenarios for the U.S. National Climate Assessment

  Reports designed to provide input that can be used in the development of the National Climate Assessment

• NOAA: Chesapeake Atlantis Model

  An approach for conducting formal management strategy evaluation—a simulation that accounts for tradeoffs in performance across a range of management objectives

• NOAA: Chesapeake Bay Fisheries Ecosystem Model

  An exploratory tool that helps scientists and others understand the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem

• NOAA: Ecosystem Modeling

  Develops and hones tools to support ecosystem-based management of the Chesapeake Bay’s natural resources, including fisheries