Four Decades of Collaboration and Shared Decision-making—
The Chesapeake Bay Program Partnership Experience

Webinar Summary

With over 40 years of history, the multi-jurisdictional effort to restore the health of the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem has yielded some positive outcomes with water quality and natural resources showing measurable signs of improvement. The lessons learned from this multi-year, multi-jurisdictional restoration effort can provide understanding and guidance for ecosystem restoration efforts elsewhere. The 10 “lessons learned” from this effort, identified by a group of scientists and policy and program leaders whose experience in the Chesapeake Bay restoration spanned its entire history, will be shared with specific examples illustrating the applicability of each lesson learned.

Speaker Profile

Rich Batiuk was the Associate Director for Science, Analysis, and Implementation at the United States Environmental Protection Agency's Chesapeake Bay Program Office located in Annapolis, Maryland, retiring in July 2018. In his 33 years with EPA and the Chesapeake Bay Program partnership, he led the integration of science into multi-partner policy-making and collaborative decision-making working with hundreds of local, regional, state, federal, academic, business, agricultural, and advocacy partners.

Then for seven years from 2018-2024, Rich teamed up with Holly Greening, former Director of the Tampa Bay Estuary Program, as co-founders of CoastWise Partners to apply their combined 70+ years of experience to provide help with development and implementation of collaborative watershed management strategies. They worked with over 80 different partnerships, agencies, organizations and institutions across the country and around the world, all for only good food!

Rich also keeps busy fly fishing, kayaking, hiking, backpacking and doing anything else to go play outdoors in addition to working as a member of the Board of Directors for both the Chesapeake Conservancy and the Appalachian Mountain Club.

He received his B.S. in Environmental Science from the University of New Hampshire in 1984 and his M.S. in Environmental Toxicology from American University in Washington D.C. in 1985.

Webinar Format

This webinar will include a moderated Q and A session following the speaker’s presentation. The session is open to environmental engineering and science professionals across all sectors and career stages. Our objective is to offer special insights on leading edge solutions for graduate and undergraduate students as well as early to mid-career environmental professionals who are considering specialty certification.

AAEES Board Certified Individuals: Attend this event and earn 1.5 PDHs towards your PDH requirements for maintaining your specialty certification.

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