CHESAPEAKE MONITORING COOPERATIVE

The Chesapeake Monitoring Cooperative team is working with new and existing water quality and benthic macroinvertebrate monitoring programs across the Bay watershed to integrate community science data into the Chesapeake Data Explorer... The CMC was formed in 2015 through a six-year cooperative agreement between the Chesapeake Bay Program and the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay, to integrate community and volunteer monitoring data into the Chesapeake Bay Program partnership. The CMC team was awarded a second cooperative agreement in 2021 to continue the partnership for another six years... The Chesapeake Monitoring Cooperative connects Community Science initiatives across groups and regions in order to amplify voices and enhance our understanding of the health of the Chesapeake Bay watershed. To accomplish this, we provide technical, programmatic, and outreach support in order to integrate volunteer-based water quality and macroinvertebrate monitoring data into a centralized data..

Primary location: Richmond United States