Strategy Review System Workgroup

The Strategy Review System Workgroup helps the Chesapeake Bay Program consistently apply adaptive management to its work toward achieving the outcomes of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement.

Upcoming Meetings

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Scope and Purpose

The Strategy Review System (SRS) was created and adopted by the Management Board in November 2016 to help the Chesapeake Bay Program consistently apply adaptive management to its work toward achieving the outcomes of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement. Adaptive management is the decision-making framework adopted by the Principals’ Staff Committee that allows us to make decisions in the face of uncertainty and to reduce this uncertainty over time.

Established as a Planning Team in 2016 and formalized as a Workgroup in 2024, the SRS Workgroup guides the Chesapeake Bay Program through the Strategy Review System. The team includes volunteer experts in adaptive management, scientific communications and public policy. It serves under the Enhance Partnering, Leadership and Management Goal Implementation Team. Partners interested in contributing to the advancement of adaptive management in the Program can contact SRS@chesapeakebay.net to join the team.

Projects and Resources

SRS Biennial Meetings

While each SRS Biennial Meeting has its own elements, the meeting purpose is generally threefold:

  1. Provide a high-level retrospective program-wide review to celebrate our accomplishments and identify important stories.
  2. Identify topics that should be taken into consideration in the review and possible modification of key documents (pre-Quarterly Progress Meeting reports, Management Strategies and Work Plans) for individual outcomes over the coming two year period, to include:
    1. Big picture, State of the Program overview.
    2. Broad themes. What's working? What's not working?
    3. Scientific, fiscal, and policy developments that may impact our work.
  3. Synthesize information for the Management Board and/or the PSC report to the EC.

Archived meeting materials for past SRS Biennial Meetings are available via the following links:

The following documents summarize discussions, actions and decisions resulting from the Biennial Meetings.

Members
Sarah Brzezinski (Coordinator), 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
Greg Allen, 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
Doug Austin, Program Assistant, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency - Region 3
Address:
1750 Forest Drive Suite 130
Annapolis, Maryland 21401

Email:  austin.douglas@epa.gov
Phone:  (410) 267-5772
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
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
Meg Cole, Coordinator, Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee, Chesapeake Research Consortium
Address:
645 Contees Wharf Rd.
Edgewater, Maryland 21037

Email:  colem@chesapeake.org
Kirk Havens, Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS)
Address:
PO Box 1346
Gloucester Point, Virginia 23062

Email:  kirk@vims.edu
Phone:  (804) 684-7386
Lucinda Power, 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
Tou Matthews, Projects Manager, Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee (STAC), Chesapeake Research Consortium
Address:
645 Contees Wharf Road
Edgewater, Maryland 21037

Email:  matthewst@chesapeake.org
Phone:  (443) 823-1752
Breck Sullivan, Scientific, Technical Assessment & Reporting Coordinator, U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
Address:
1750 Forest Drive Suite 130
Annapolis, Maryland 21401

Email:  bsullivan@chesapeakebay.net
Phone:  (410) 267-5788
Denice Wardrop, Chesapeake Research Consortium
Address:
645 Contees Wharf Rd
Edgewater, Maryland 21037

Email:  CRC-Director@Chesapeake.org