Enhance Partnering, Leadership and Management Goal Implementation Team (GIT 6)

The Enhancing Partnership, Leadership and Management Goal Implementation Team works to improve the leadership and management of the Bay Program and to assist partners and stakeholders in becoming environmental leaders in their communities.

Upcoming Meetings

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Scope and Purpose

Continually improve the leadership and management of the CBP and assist watershed partners and stakeholders in building their capacity to become environmental leaders in their community.

Projects and Resources

2024 GIT6 Workplan

This workplan that will guide GIT 6 activities and work. This work plan will be revised biannually and revisited quarterly.

2024 GIT 6 Workplan 2 6 2024 [PDF, 251.5 KB]

Strategy Review System (SRS)

The Chesapeake Bay Program’s Strategy Review System (SRS) helps the partnership consistently apply adaptive management to its work toward achieving the outcomes of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement. ChesapeakeDecisions is the tool that promotes transparency and guides the Goal Implementation Teams and Management Board members through the Strategy Review System.

SRS Meeting Support Materials

The following materials provide support for the development of agendas and meeting facilitation that lead to effectively guiding GITs and workgroups through the SRS process.

General Facilitation Support

The following materials and recorded trainings provide support for designing and facilitating effective meetings. Links to recordings of trainings held at Coordinator-Staffer Meetings can be found in the item titled "Facilitation Training Directory 2020-2021."

February 2022 Consensus Training [PDF, 908.5 KB]

CBP Organizational Structure and Leadership

This chart describes how our unique partnership is organized into committees, goal implementation teams, workgroups and action teams.

Organization Chart with Workgroups 11 30 23 [PPTX, 333.0 KB]

Publications

This document describes the organizational function and governance for the Chesapeake Bay Program partnership in advancing Bay protection and restoration through the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement signed in 2014.

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Watershed Agreement

Stewardship Goal

Local Leadership

Workgroups and Action Teams

Budget and Finance Workgroup Local Leadership Workgroup Strategy Review System Workgroup

Members

Lucinda Power (Chair), Branch Chief, Partnerships and Accountability, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Address:
1750 Forest Drive Suite 130
Annapolis, Maryland 21401

Email: power.lucinda@epa.gov
Phone: (410) 267-5722

James Martin (Chair), Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation

Address:
600 E. Main St
Suite 1104
Richmond, Virginia 23219

Email: james.e.martin@dcr.virginia.gov
Phone: (804) 786-2291

Greg Allen (Coordinator), Environmental Scientist, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Address:
1750 Forest Drive Suite 130
Annapolis, Maryland 21401

Email: allen.greg@epa.gov
Phone: (410) 267-5746

Erin Sonnenburg (Staffer), Environmental Management Staffer, Chesapeake Research Consortium

Address:
1750 Forest Drive Suite 130
Annapolis, Maryland 21401

Email: sonnenburge@chesapeake.org

Stephen Williams, Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control

Address:
89 Kings Highway
Dover, Delaware 19901

Email: stephen.williams@delaware.gov

Julia Wakeling, District of Columbia Department of Energy & Environment (DOEE)

Address:
1200 First St NE
Washington D.C., District of Columbia 20002

Email: julia.wakeling@dc.gov

Kristen Fleming, Maryland Department of Natural Resources

Address:
580 Taylor Avenue
Annapolis, Maryland 21401

Email: kristen.fleming@maryland.gov
Phone: (410) 260-8813

Cassandra Davis, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation

Address:
625 Broadway
Albany, New York 12233

Email: cassandra.davis@dec.ny.gov

Lauren Townley, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation

Address:
625 Broadway
Albany, New York 12233

Email: lauren.townley@dec.ny.gov
Phone: (518) 402-8283

Jill Whitcomb, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection

Address:
400 Market Street
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17101

Email: jiwhitcomb@pa.gov

Kristen Wolf, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection

Address:
400 Market Street
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17205

Email: kwolf@pa.gov

Jennifer Pauer, West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection

Address:
601 57th St. SE
Charleston, West Virginia 25304

Email: Jennifer.Pauer@wv.gov
Phone: (304) 926-0499 x1038

Mark Hoffman, Chesapeake Bay Commission

Address:
60 West Street
Suite 406
Annapolis, Maryland 21401

Email: mhoffman@chesbay.us
Phone: (410) 263-3420

Marel King, Chesapeake Bay Commission

Address:
c/o Senate of Pennsylvania
G-05 North Office Building
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17120

Email: mking@chesbay.us
Phone: (717) 772-3651

Greg Barranco, Government Affairs, Partnerships Team Lead, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Address:
1750 Forest Drive Suite 130
Annapolis, Maryland 21401

Email: barranco.greg@epa.gov
Phone: (410) 267-5778

Katheryn Barnhart, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Address:
1750 Forest Drive Suite 130
Annapolis, Maryland 21401

Email: barnhart.katheryn@epa.gov
Phone: (410) 267-9856

Sarah Brzezinski, Strategy Review System Coordinator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Address:
1750 Forest Drive Suite 130
Annapolis, Maryland 21401

Email: Brzezinski.Sarah@epa.gov
Phone: 410-267-5706

Keith Bollt, Environmental Protection Specialist, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency - Region 3

Address:
1750 Forest Drive Suite 130
Annapolis, Maryland 21401

Email: Bollt.Keith@epa.gov
Phone: 410-267-5717

Jessica Blackburn, Stakeholders' Advisory Committee Coordinator, Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay

Address:
612 Hull St Suite 101C
Richmond, Virginia 23224

Email: jblackburn@allianceforthebay.org
Phone: (804) 775-0951

Kayli Ottomanelli, Local Government Projects Associate, Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay

Address:
729 8th Street SE Suite 200
Washington, D.C. 20003

Email: kottomanelli@allianceforthebay.org
Phone: 571-357-8124

Evan Miles

Address:

Email: evan.miles@navy.mil

Jessica Rodriguez, U.S. Department of Defense (DOD)

Address:
1510 Gilbert Street, Building N26
Norfolk, Virginia 23511

Email: Jessica.m.rodriguez@navy.mil

Kevin Du Bois, U.S. Department of Defense (DOD)

Address:
1510 Gilbert Street
Norfolk, Virginia 23511

Email: kevin.r.dubois.civ@us.navy.mil
Phone: (757) 650-2720

Laura Cattell Noll, Local Government Advisory Committee Coordinator, Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay

Address:
841 Flory Mill Rd
Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17601

Email: lnoll@allianceforthebay.org
Phone: (443) 949-0575

Martha Narvaez, University of Delaware

Address:
University of Delaware
Newark, Delaware 19716

Email: mcorrozi@udel.edu

Dr. Elliott Campbell, Maryland Department of Natural Resources

Address:
580 Taylor Avenue
Annapolis, Maryland 21401

Email: elliott.campbell@maryland.gov
Phone: (410) 260-8073

Martha Shimkin, Director, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency - Region 3

Address:
1750 Forest Drive Suite 130
Annapolis, Maryland 21403

Email: Shimkin.Martha@epa.gov
Phone: (410) 267-9850

Rachel Felver, Director of Communications, Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay

Address:
1750 Forest Drive Suite 130
Annapolis, Maryland 21401

Email: rfelver@chesapeakebay.net
Phone: (410) 267-5740

Meg Cole, Coordinator, Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee, Chesapeake Research Consortium

Address:
645 Contees Wharf Rd.
Edgewater, Maryland 21037

Email: colem@chesapeake.org

Khesha Reed, Deputy Director, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Address:
1750 Forest Drive, Suite 130
Annapolis, Maryland 21401

Email: Reed.Khesha@epa.gov
Phone: 410-267-9874

Kristin Saunders, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science

Address:

Email: ksaunders@umces.edu

Keith Bollt, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Address:

Email: Bollt.Keith@epa.gov