Enhance Partnering, Leadership and Management Goal Implementation Team (GIT 6)
Upcoming Meetings
Enhance Partnering, Leadership and Management (GIT 6) Meeting - December 2024
Wednesday, December 18, 2024 from 10:00am - 3:00pmScope 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.
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."
CBP Organizational Structure and Leadership
This chart describes how our unique partnership is organized into committees, goal implementation teams, workgroups and action teams.
Publications
Chesapeake Bay Program Governance Document
Published on December 1, 2022This 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.
View detailsWatershed Agreement
Stewardship Goal
Workgroups and Action Teams
Members
Lucinda Power (Chair), Branch Chief, Partnerships and Accountability, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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
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
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
Stephen Williams, Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control
Julia Wakeling, District of Columbia Department of Energy & Environment (DOEE)
Kristen Fleming, Maryland Department of Natural Resources
580 Taylor Avenue
Annapolis, Maryland 21401
Email: kristen.fleming@maryland.gov
Phone: (410) 260-8813
Cassandra Davis, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
Lauren Townley, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
Jill Whitcomb, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection
Kristen Wolf, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection
Jennifer Pauer, West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection
601 57th St. SE
Charleston, West Virginia 25304
Email: Jennifer.Pauer@wv.gov
Phone: (304) 926-0499 x1038
Mark Hoffman, Chesapeake Bay Commission
60 West Street
Suite 406
Annapolis, Maryland 21401
Email: mhoffman@chesbay.us
Phone: (410) 263-3420
Marel King, Chesapeake Bay Commission
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
1750 Forest Drive Suite 130
Annapolis, Maryland 21401
Email: barranco.greg@epa.gov
Phone: (410) 267-5778
Katheryn Barnhart, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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
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
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
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
729 8th Street SE Suite 200
Washington, D.C. 20003
Email: kottomanelli@allianceforthebay.org
Phone: 571-357-8124
Evan Miles
Jessica Rodriguez, U.S. Department of Defense (DOD)
1510 Gilbert Street, Building N26
Norfolk, Virginia 23511
Email: Jessica.m.rodriguez@navy.mil
Kevin Du Bois, U.S. Department of Defense (DOD)
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
841 Flory Mill Rd
Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17601
Email: lnoll@allianceforthebay.org
Phone: (443) 949-0575
Martha Narvaez, University of Delaware
Dr. Elliott Campbell, Maryland Department of Natural Resources
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
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
1750 Forest Drive Suite 130
Annapolis, Maryland 21401
Email: rfelver@chesapeakebay.net
Phone: (410) 267-5740
Kristin Saunders, Cross Program Coordinator, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
1750 Forest Drive Suite 130
Annapolis, Maryland 21401
Email: ksaunders@umces.edu
Phone: (410) 267-5711
Meg Cole, Coordinator, Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee, Chesapeake Research Consortium
Khesha Reed, Deputy Director, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
1750 Forest Drive, Suite 130
Annapolis, Maryland 21401
Email: Reed.Khesha@epa.gov
Phone: 410-267-9874