NC CASC Research Associate Christy Miller-Hesed is co-author on a recent publication, Identifying and harmonizing the priorities of stakeholders in the Chesapeake Bay environmental monitoring community, in Current Research in Environmental Sustainability. This paper explores cultural knowledge and goals for environmental monitoring and compares them across different stakeholders in the Chesapeake Bay environmental monitoring community. The paper concludes that building trust and working to understand stakeholders' changing priorities is important for the continued success of the partnership among scientists, managers, volunteers, coordinators, and service providers.