CHESAPEAKE BAY GRANTS

AWARDED IN 2003-2004

I. Informed Living Resource & Habitat Management ($944,000)

INNOVATIVE HABITAT RESTORATION

OYSTERS -

Assateague Coastal Trust - ($20,000 - '03/'04) For oyster restoration activities.

Oyster Recovery Partnership - ($100,000 - '03/'04) For restoration activities on permanent sanctuaries and actions to strengthen the ecological potential of the oyster.

West River Improvement Association - ($10,000 - '03) Match funding for innovative community partnership to restore oysters in targeted watershed.

SUBMERGED AQUATIC VEGETATION -

Department of Natural Resources - ($310,000 - '03/'04) To collaborate with VIMS in the implementation of innovative technology for collection of SAV seed on a large scale with associated improvements in settling and planting techniques.

FORESTRY -

CBF/NFWF/NRCS - ($24,000 - '03) For technical
support for NRCS staff (Robert Whitescarver)
engaged in pace setting work to enroll landowners in
the Shenandoah Valley in the CREP program.

STREAMS -

Center for Watershed Protection -
($100,000 - '03/'04) Support for the Watershed Protection and Restoration Training Institute to develop skills of citizen organizations, government employees and consulting firms related to watershed protection and restoration issues, including stromwater problems.

Stroud Water Research Center - ($10,000 - '04) Support for outreach to policy makers about the importance of healthy streams as tools for reducing nutrients in addition to habitat benefits.

WETLANDS -

Maryland Department of Natural Resources - ($75,000 - '04) To enhance technological approaches of the restoration of ecological functions of wetlands through prchase of an amphibious excavator.

MULTIPLE PRACTICES -

Chester River Association - ($9,950 - '03) For brochures and workshops targeted toward waterfront landowners to promote innovative actions on septic systems, bayscaping and shore erosion.

AQUATIC ECOSYSTEM HEALTH

ECOLOGICAL VALUE OF OYSTERS -

University of Maryland - ($100,000 - '03) In partnership with VIMS, develop a modeling system to provide site specific information to guide oyster restoration activity:

- Refine previous analysis of the water quality filtration and habitat potential of varying levels of oyster populations;

- Develop predictive tool to assist in targeting restoration activities for optimum ecological effect; and

- Determine the economic value of ecosystem services provided by oyster restoration under various scenarios.

Virginia Institute of Marine Science - ($25,000 - '03) To partner with UMCES in developing guidance to maximize the ecological potential of oyster restoration activities.

FISHERIES MANAGEMENT -

Virginia Institute of Marine Science - ($75,000 - '03/'04) Assistance for Dr. Mark Luckenbach to address priorities identified in the NAS Non-Native Oysters in the Chesapeake Bay report.

Virginia Institute of Marine Science - ($25,000 - '03) Investigation of the importance of menhaden to the ecological health of the Bay.

Center for Environmental Science, UMD - ($50,000 - '04) General operations.

Smithsonian Environmental Research Center - ($20,000 - '04) General operations.

II. Decreased Nutrients & Sediments ($816,890)

ENHANCEMENT ENFORCEMENT

WATERKEEPERS -

Waterkeeper Alliance - ($62,000 - '04) For employment of a fulltime position to assist in development and coordination of a Chesapeake and Coastal Waterkeeper network.

Waterkeeper Alliance - ($13,400 - '03) For facilitated strategic planning session to assist the existing Chesapeake and Coastal waterkeepers explore the potential of formalizing a collaborative approach to maximize legal, scientific and technical credibility of their individual efforts.

Assateague Coastal Trust - ($50,000 - '03/'04) For continuation of Coastkeeper general operational support.

Potomac Riverkeeper - ($35,000 - '03/'04) Matching support for development of the Potomac Riverkeeper program and authorization to announce 2004 and 2005 Challenge Grants of $20,000 and $25,000.

South Riverkeeper - ($78,950 - '03/'04) Matching support for the initiation of a South Riverkeeper and authorization to announce 2004 and 2005 Challenge Grants of $52,000 and $60,000.

Virginia Eastern Shorekeeper - ($57,000 - '03/'04) Matching support for the initiation of a Virginia Eastern Shorekeeper and authorization to announce a 2005 Challenge Grant of $40,000.

Patuxent Riverkeeper - ($12,500 - '04) Matching support for the initiation of a Patuxent Riverkeeper and authorization to announce a 2005 Challenge Grant of $50,000.

Chester Riverkeeper - (see Stormwater & Habitat Restoration)

INNOVATIVE BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES

AGRICULTURE -

AgroEcology Center - ($60,000 - '03/'04) For general operational support and funding to investigate possibilities for reducing nutrients from poultry litter.

American Farmland Trust - ($10,000 - '04) For general operational support.

STORMWATER -

Parks & People - ($20,000 - '03/'04) A partnership contribution for a pilot project to demonstrate the viability of using street parks for stormwater management.

Chester Riverkeeper ($13,800 - '04) Partnership funding to expand community awareness and lay the foundation for implementation of a stormwater management plan.

CBF - ($23,780 - '04) Partnership funding for expanding staff capacity to reduce nutrients/sediments from stormwater.

Alliance for Community Education- ($59,645 - '04) To design and implement a campaign to educate the public about the causes and their role in solutions to stormwater problems in Anne Arundel County.

LIVING SHORELINES -

Burke & Associates/CBF - ($99,100 - '03/'04)
Project manager develop and coordinate a coalition of partners to remove barriers to wide scale implementation of living shoreline technology by private and public property owners; to include focus on enhancing regulatory acceptability, landowner awareness and expansion of contractor capacity (see Living Shorelines in Related Links)

National Aquarium in Baltimore - ($5,000 - '03) For general operational support with notation of interest in collaboration on Living Shoreline restoration.

Virginia Institute of Marine Science - ($39,765 - '03/'04) For technical assistance on wave
climate and analysis of shoreline restoration treatment types and contractor training.

CBT/NFWF/NOAA - ($50,000 - '04) Co-sponsorship of "Living Shorelines Initiative" to encourage local governments, watershed associations and other groups to promote natural shoreline restoration techniques.

LAND PROTECTION -

The Conservation Fund - ($1,025,000 - '03/'04) For general operational support and funding for land preservation.

1000 Friends of Maryland - ($15,000 - '03/'04) For general operational support for promotion
of “smart growth” and for education of policy makers on sprawl related issues.

Izaak Walton League of America - ($20,000 - '03/'04) For general operational support.

Potomac Conservancy ($52,000 - '03/'04) For general operational support with interest noted in
future project to strengthen local regulations and enforcement in target areas.

1000 Friends of Maryland - ($40,000 - '04) To assist the Program Open Space Coalition campaign to restore funding for land conservation in Maryland.

The Nature Conservancy - ($10,000 - '04) For operational support for the Nanticoke River Watershed Project.

The Nature Conservancy - ($25,000 - '04) Donation from the Robert W. Wilson Foundation for land conservation in the Nanticoke River Watershed based on a $50,000 grant from The Campbell Foundation for forest acquisition in Hawaii.

SEPTICS -

The University of Maryland/College of Agriculture and Natural Resources - ($25,000 - '04) To advance the targeted implementation of innovative nitrogen reducing septic systems.

III. Engaged Public ($4,174,879)

REGIONAL ORGANIZATION SUPPORT -

Chesapeake Bay Foundation ($2,005,136 - '03/'04)   A challenge grant for general operational purposes.

Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay - ($10,000 - '03) For general operational support with expressed interest in Alliance activities in the areas of agricultural nutrient reduction and Chesapeake Bay financing mechanism.

Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay - ($22,000 - '03/'04) For staff support for the Bay Journal.

Maryland Saltwater Sportfishing Association - ($4,000 - '03/'04) For a scholarship fund.

Living Classroom Foundation - ($11,700 - '03/'04) For general operational support to
address gaps in the Chesapeake Bay Agreement commitment on “meaningful outdoor
experience”.

Coastal Conservation Association of Maryland - ($70,500 - '03/'04) For general operational
support to further efforts to protect estuarine and marine fisheries with special interest in menhaden.

Friends of Jefferson Patterson Park - ($3,000 - '04) Support for the 25th Anniversary celebration of the Patuxent restoration (Bernie Fowler Wade-In).

CAPACITY BUILDING -

River Network - ($10,000 - '04) Funding for use in supporting waterkeepers and watershed organizations in the Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic Coastal Bay watersheds.

Anacostia Watershed Society - ($10,000 - '03) - For general operational support with commendation for AWS targeted actions to address regulatory violations.

Nanticoke Watershed Alliance - ($10,000 - '04) For general operational support - year one of three year commitment.

Chesapeake Research Consortium - ($5,000 - '04) Funding for local government representatives from Virginia to attend Local Hurricane Response Seminar.

Leadership Anne Arundel - ($2,900 - '04) Sponsorship of local leader to attend capacity building and networking program.

Jones Falls Watershed Association - ($10,000 - '04) For general operational support for watershed organization to transition from previous organizational structure.

Herring Run Watershed Association - ($10,000 - '03) (Campbell & Company tax credit) Participation in a program created by the Maryland General Assembly to provide assistance from local businesses for community organizations.

YWCA - TWIN - ($600 - '04) Recognition for outstanding contributions of wormen working to restore the Bay: 2004 honoree - Ginger Ellis, AACO.

POLICY DEVELOPMENT -

Chesapeake Bay Environmental Center - ($100,000 - '03/'04) A challenge grant to further the Center’s mission of forging consensus on Chesapeake and Coastal policy issues and serving as a demonstration site of innovative restoration activities.

Bay Funders Network/CBT - ($2,750 - '03/'04) To broaden and coordinate Chesapeake restoration and protection activities by non-profit foundations.

Chesapeake Bay Commission - ($10,000 - '04) Analysis and report of the cost effectiveness of nutrient and sediment reduction practices in the Chesapeake Bay watershed.

League of Conservation Voters - ($10,000 - '03/'04) To promote citizen/legislative dialog on key environmental policy issues by co-sponsoring the Annual Legislative Environmental Summits.

League of Conservation Voters - ($25,000 - '04) Funding for voter education projects.

NOAA/CBT - ($20,000 - '04) Partnership support to evaluate the effectiveness of environmental education programs in the Chesapeake Bay watershed.