September 2025 STAC Meeting
September 16, 2025 - September 16, 2025Annapolis, MD
The September 2025 STAC Meeting was held hybrid format on Tuesday, September 16th, from 10:00am to 3:00pm. The in-person meeting space was at the Chesapeake Bay Program Office, in the Blue Crab and Oyster Room.
This meeting was a Workshop Meeting (see STAC Meeting Restructure). During this meeting, STAC discussed important STAC business, received report-outs from the previous year workshops, and received planning updates from current-year workshops.
Meeting Agenda: FINAL_STAC September 2025 Meeting Agenda
Meeting Materials:
- STAC Business:
- Attendance Record: September 2024 – June 2025
- Current Membership Contacts (pre-meeting)
- Current Membership Contacts (post-meeting)
- STAC Membership Term List (pre-meeting)
- STAC Membership Term List (post-meeting)
- STAC Bylaws (pre-meeting)
- STAC Bylaws (post-meeting)
- STAC Operational Guidelines (pre-meeting)
- STAC Operational Guidelines (post-meeting)
- STAC Expense Reimbursement Voucher 2025
Presentations
STAC Workgroups Updates
- Social Science Workgroup — Ellen Kohl (UMBC), Christine Kirchhoff (PSU)
- Inform Governance and Accountability Workgroup — Erin Letavic (HRG)
- Phase 7 Model Review Workgroup — Larry Sanford (UMCES)
- Presentation slides (none)
- Workgroup page
- CESR Impact Assessment and Application Workgroup — Mark Monaco (NOAA)
Living Resources Assessment Update — Kaylyn Gootman (EPA)
FY24 Workshop Report-Outs
- Striped Bass Survey Assessment and Habitat Connections
- Leveraging Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning to Advance Chesapeake Bay Research and Management: A review of status, challenges, and opportunities — Qian Zhang (UMCES)
- Blueprint for Building Partnerships and Recommendations for Scaling Brook Trout Restoration in Stronghold and Persistent Patches — Dan Goetz (MD DNR)
- Presentation slides
- Workshop pages: PA, MD
- Advancing Market-Based Approaches in the Agricultural Sector to Support Chesapeake Bay Watershed Restoration — Leah Palm-Forster (UDel), Yusuke Kuwayama (UMBC)
FY25 Workshop Updates
- State of the Science of Salinity Risks in the Chesapeake Bay and Its Tributaries: Connecting Monitoring, Modeling and Management — Sujay Kaushal (UMD), Stanley Grant (VT)
- Challenges and Opportunities in Operationalizing Coupled Human and Natural Systems (CHANS) Research in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed — Patrick Bitterman (Kent State University)
- Healthy Forests: Proactive Strategies for Managing Threats and Promoting Conservation — Craig Highfield (Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay)
Final Meeting Minutes:
For any questions, please contact STAC Projects Manager Tou Matthews (matthewst@chesapeake.org).