Enhance Partnering, Leadership and Management Goal Implementation Team (GIT 6)
Meetings
Enhance Partnering, Leadership and Management (GIT 6) Quarterly Meeting - September 2025
Enhance Partnering, Leadership and Management (GIT 6) Quarterly Meeting - December 2025
Enhance Partnering, Leadership and Management (GIT 6) Quarterly Meeting - June 2025
GIT6 Meeting: Beyond 2025 Phase II
GIT6 At Large Meeting - March 24 2025
About

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
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
Publication date: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.
View document [PDF, 1.0 MB] Chesapeake Bay Program Governance Document
Our Watershed Agreement Goals & Outcomes
Stewardship Goal
Our Workgroups & Action Teams
Our Members
- Lucinda Power (Chair)
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency power.lucinda@epa.gov - James Martin (Chair)
Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation james.e.martin@dcr.virginia.gov - Erin Sonnenburg (Staffer)
Chesapeake Research Consortium Sonnenburg.Erin@epa.gov - Stephen Williams
Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control stephen.williams@delaware.gov - Julia Wakeling
District of Columbia Department of Energy & Environment (DOEE) julia.wakeling@dc.gov - Natalie Snider
Maryland Department of Natural Resources natalie.snider@maryland.gov - Cassandra Davis
New York State Department of Environmental Conservation cassandra.davis@dec.ny.gov - Jill Whitcomb
Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection jiwhitcomb@pa.gov - Kristen Wolf
Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection kwolf@pa.gov - Sarah Brzezinski
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Brzezinski.Sarah@epa.gov - Keith Bollt
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency - Region 3 Bollt.Keith@epa.gov - Jessica Blackburn
Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay jblackburn@allianceforthebay.org - Laura Cattell Noll
Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay lnoll@allianceforthebay.org - Kayli Ottomanelli
Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay kottomanelli@allianceforthebay.org - Kevin Du Bois
U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) kevin.r.dubois.civ@us.navy.mil - Khesha Reed
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Reed.Khesha@epa.gov - Dr. Elliott Campbell
Maryland Department of Natural Resources elliott.campbell@maryland.gov - Kirk Havens
Virginia Institute of Marine Science (VIMS) kirk@vims.edu - Les Knapp
Maryland Department of the Environment lknapp@mdcounties.org - Maura Christian
Virginia Department of Environmental Quality Maura.Christian@deq.virginia.gov - Amy Handen
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency handen.amy@epa.gov - Rachel Felver
Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay rfelver@chesapeakebay.net - Kristin Saunders
University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science ksaunders@umces.edu - Meg Cole
Chesapeake Research Consortium colem@chesapeake.org - Caitlin Bolton
Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments cbolton@mwcog.org