Committees & Teams

The Albemarle-Pamlico National Estuary Partnership pursues its mission of understanding, protecting, and restoring the estuary's natural resources with guidance and support from its advisory bodies, regional partners, and its ecosystem-based Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan (CCMP). APNEP's initiatives are guided by input from a diverse group of regional partners and stakeholders. Together, we work to protect and enhance one of the nation's most valuable estuaries.

APNEP's advisory committees, including the Leadership Council, Citizen Advisory Committee, and Science and Technology Advisory Committee, provide direction and oversight for the partnership. Action Teams tackle the topics listed in APNEP's management plan, deciding how APNEP should spend its funds to address pressing issues related to each team's area of expertise. Monitoring and Assessment Teams, which are also topic-based, work to develop ecological indicators that will help APNEP to assess the ecosystem health of the Albemarle-Pamlico region, and then continue to monitor health on an ongoing basis.

The committees that make up APNEP's Management Conference are those that are listed in the N.C. Governor's Executive Order #250 (February 2022), and include the Leadership Council, Citizen Advisory Committee, and Science and Technology Advisory Committee. All three committee are comprised of representatives from the region in both North Carolina and Virginia. 

Management Conference

Science & Technology Advisory Committee

The Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee (STAC) provides scientific and technical guidance to the Partnership, including ecosystem assessment, monitoring, and implementation.

Leadership Council

The Leadership Council (LC) works with our staff, host agency, the STAC and the CAC to support, evaluate, update, advocate and guide the implementation of APNEP's mission and managementplan implementation.

Citizen Advisory Committee

The Citizen Advisory Committee (CAC) members represent the citizens, agencies, tribes, and relevant parties regarding environmental management, and guiding the partnership on engaging the diverse communities in its decisions and represent diverse perspectives.

 

 

Monitoring & Assessment Teams

Teams that work towards development of ecosystem indicators and metrics for monitoring the overall health of the region.

Action Teams

Teams that work toward implementation of several closely aligned management actions in various environmental disciplines.

Monitoring and Assessment Teams, and Actions Teams are ad-hoc groups, meaning that they have been convened to tackle specific issues and will be assembled and dissolved by the partnership as necessary to effectively implement the Comprehensive Conservation Management Plan (CCMP). Teams are either created and facilitated by APNEP staff and committee members, or led and facilitated by pre-existing committees initially assembled by external partners.