Abstract
Geographic Science and Technology for Chesapeake Bay Adaptive Management
Track: Environmental Management
Author(s): John Wolf
The Chesapeake Bay Program developed the Chesapeake Action Plan (CAP) to enhance coordination and accountability of restoration and protection activities for the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem. A major focus of CAP is to provide a science-based framework for decision making using adaptive management. This framework requires an integrated, comprehensive approach to information management across multiple resource management topic areas and throughout multiple stages of the adaptive management cycle of strategy development, planning, implementation, monitoring, and evaluation. Geographic science and geospatial technologies are being used to address these requirements via a suite of landscape watershed models, on-line accounting tools, resource monitoring results, environmental indicators, and summaries of information onto dashboards.
This presentation will explain how geospatial tools and science are being used to address adaptive management in Chesapeake Bay restoration. Examples will highlight how U.S. Geological Survey and other partner science is better informing management policies, strategies and practices.
John Wolf
U.S. Geological Survey
Chesapeake Bay Program
410 Severn Ave., Suite 109
Annapolis , Maryland 21403
United States
Phone: 410-267-5739
E-mail: jwolf@chesapeakebay.net