Renewal Background
Agreements for Cooperative Ecosystem Studies Units (CESU) are executed for five-year terms. The CHWA CESU's agreement was most recently renewed in August 2021. The CESU renewal requires a three-part application:
- The host institution submits an internal review that includes project data, details of partnership-building activities, and other data related to the unit’s performance, growth, and sustainability over the past five years, as well as its plans for the future. As part of the process, the CHWA conducted a survey of partners in late 2020 to verify our existing project and partner data and to collect new data.
- Federal partners in the CHWA CESU draft an assessment report related to the performance of the CESU over the previous five-year term.
- A team of external reviewers also submits a similar assessment.
Please see below for the application, reviewers' comments and other materials from our most recent renewal. Contact Dan Filer at danny_filer@nps.gov or Rhonda Schwinabart at rschwinabart@umces.edu with any questions related to this renewal.
Full CHWA CESU Renewal Application
The full application, including the CHWA CESU Host Self-Assessment, Federal Managers Report, and external reviews, is available in PDF format by clicking the following link:
Strategic Planning
Following are links to the Strategic Plans for the past two renewal periods:
Technical and Administrative Contacts
CHWA CESU 5-Year Project Report
Report period: January 1, 2020 to December 31, 2020