The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Chesapeake Bay Office is a division of the National Marine Fisheries’ Office of Habitat Conservation, which works to protect and restore coastal and marine habitat at the national level. The Office is also a key collaborator with NOAA’s North Atlantic Regional Team, which integrates NOAA’s program activities to address priorities at both the national and regional scale.

NOAA has been a partner in Chesapeake Bay Program restoration and protection efforts since the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in 1984.