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Landowner Gap Analysis for Tidal Wetland Conservation
In 2025, the Chesapeake Bay Trust commissioned a gap analysis report to support and inform a landowner engagement effort aimed at accelerating coastal wetland conservation. This report identifies barriers to conservation on private lands, effective strategies for communicating with landowners, and areas where increased support can have the greatest impact.
Findings and recommendations are organized around understanding landowner audiences, improving outreach, and addressing regulatory challenges to meet wetland goals. Insights from this report may be useful for conservation organizations, government agencies, and others working to engage private landowners in wetland restoration and stewardship.
The Chesapeake Bay Sentinel Site Collaborative is a group of scientists, coastal managers, decision makers, and community liaisons across Maryland and Virginia focused on applying sea level rise science to stakeholder decision making.
For more information, please contact:
Taryn Sudol
Coordinator for the Chesapeake Bay Sentinel Site Cooperative
Phone: (301) 405-6378
Email: sudol@mdsg.umd.edu
Coordinator for the Chesapeake Bay Sentinel Site Cooperative
Phone: (301) 405-6378
Email: sudol@mdsg.umd.edu
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Featured Fellow
Nina Santos is a Ph.D. student at the Chesapeake Biological Laboratory at the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. For her dissertation, she is focused on small shrimp-like crustaceans called mysids – an understudied yet important part of many estuarine and coastal food webs.
Featured Research Project
Developing a habitat model for mysids, an important link in Chesapeake Bay food webs
Mysids are important mesozooplankton prey for many species of fish in Chesapeake Bay and are an important link in transferring energy from lower to upper trophic levels. Mysids also serve as biological vectors for benthic-pelagic coupling due to their diel vertical migration and omnivorous prey-switching behavior, which makes mysids important regulators of food web architecture. Despite their central role in coastal food webs, surprisingly little is known about mysid ecology and dynamics in Chesapeake Bay.
Chesapeake Quarterly Magazine
Restoration Takes Root: Living Shorelines for Changing Coasts
