Research Portfolios
Maryland Sea Grant uses the financial analogy of asset portfolio management to characterize how we manage our program. Our assets include administration and management, research dollars, and our extension and communications capabilities. These assets have been used in various combinations to make specific "investments" that address key issues and develop useful applications for the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Over the long-term, the sum total of our efforts in a given priority area constitutes a "portfolio."
Each portfolio is structured around a particular issue, the response the program has made and how we have managed our assets. We evaluate the performance of our investment portfolios as part of a regular in-depth performance assessment.
As our program grows and changes, we open new portfolios and close others, using new approaches and new assets as appropriate. With this in mind, each portfolio has a particular character dictated by the resources we can bring to bear on a given problem.
The links below provide information on our portfolios’ achievements and their impacts over the last decade.
