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Potomac Monitoring Forum 2008: "Better Monitoring for Better
Water Resources Management"March 10 & 11, 2008
Cacapon Resort State Park
Berkeley Springs, WVThis two day forum offers those involved in water monitoring and water quality management an opportunity to see presentations on current issues, talk about issues, network with colleagues, share successes, and go back to their own programs with new ideas.
To view the announcement or agenda, please click the desired link below:
A Regional Event Response Program
May 25,2005
SERC Schmidt CenterThe Chesapeake basin has experienced aperiodic natural and anthropogenic events that have altered the landscape, waters, and biota, often with devastating consequences. Some events, e.g., hurricanes, cyclones, major storms, have resulted in serious basin-wide damage to citizen health and property and importantly, to the Bay’s water quality and living resources. Other events, e.g., oil or contaminant spills, have impacted waters and biota of individual tributaries or river reaches. Responses from the scientific and management communities to these events have largely been ad hoc after the relatively coordinated tidal Bay response to Hurricane Agnes in 1972, leading to fractionated and poorly coordinated monitoring prior to, during, and following the events. Developing integrated summaries following these response efforts, therefore, has been difficult and often delayed. With the large and active on-going monitoring and research activity in place throughout the Chesapeake watershed, representatives of agencies, academic, and non-profit organizations from throughout the tidal and non-tidal areas were assembled to discuss whether a formal event response program might be considered for the basin for future implementation. Open discussion would ideally identify interest and potential options for deriving a regional response capability for future coordinated responses to assessing major event impacts in the system. Additional meetings would likely follow as a result of the initial discussions indicating a response plan/network should be pursued.
To retrieve documents and presentations from this meeting, please click the desired link below:
- Background Information
- Fact Sheet
- Description and Participant Requirements
- Agenda
- Powerpoint Presentation
Living Shoreline Summit Bringing together diverse perspectives to address shoreline protection alternatives
December 6-7, 2006
Williamsburg, VALiving shoreline treatments employ natural habitat elements to protect shorelines from erosion while also providing water quality benefits and critical habitat for wildlife. Goals of the Living Shorelines Summit are to: 1) bring together those groups who work with or are interested in this technique for erosion protection in Virginia and Maryland, including marine contractors, shoreline engineers, policy-makers, scientists, and property owners and 2) identify research, management, decision-making, design methods, and site suitability priorities which need to be addressed to expand this practice in the basin. Summit topics to be discussed are:
The sponsors of the Summit have limited funds for travel and registration assistance for marine contractors, shoreline engineers, policy-makers, citizen group representatives, planners, and permitting staffs to encourage attendance. Details on ‘Early Bird’ registration (by 11/05/06) and abstract submittal information are available on the website above.
- Current status of research – engineering and ecological
- Site suitability and design methods
- Decision-making tools
- State-specific management & policy
- Education and outreach
Chesapeake Fish Stock Monitoring Workshop The NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office and the Chesapeake Research Consortium are convening a workshop to improve fishery independent monitoring in Chesapeake Bay for use in fishery management in the region.
March 7-9, 2006
Radisson Annapolis
NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office & Chesapeake Research Consortium
Steering Committee
C. Bonzek (chair), A.C. Carpenter, S. Giordano, E. Houde, P. Jones, H. King, R. Latour, T. Miller, D. Orner, K. Sellner, J. Travelstead, R. Wood
Monitoring in Chesapeake Bay is largely state-specific and a multi-million dollar per year activity. Many current programs are the results of mandates by interstate fishery management bodies. Some programs are species-specific, some are multi-species oriented. Some programs were implemented to answer specific assessment or management needs, some are more general and descriptive in nature. However, with all of the monitoring that is done, large gaps in assessment and management-related knowledge remain. Additionally, funding is being curtailed for some surveys so that a comprehensive, Bay-wide coordinated effort is preferred within the limited fiscal support available, rather than the current jurisdiction-specific approach. It is anticipated that workshop attendees will identify improvements, expansions, continuations, consolidations/terminations, and efficiencies for existing surveys and identify needs and possible designs for new survey types. Following two and a half days of open discussion, the workshop report produced is intended to provide advice on a fishery-independent monitoring plan which, if implemented, will provide scientists and managers with Bay-wide data required (now and into the future) to assess and manage fish stocks in the Chesapeake region, initially through current single species, then as multi-species, and ideally via ecosystem-based fisheries plans.
The agenda and background reading materials are available in the following link, workshop materials. Attendees are encouraged to review these materials prior to arriving.
The .pdf copy of the final report can be found here (http://www.chesapeake.org/fishstock/FishStockMonitoringReport.pdf).
National Environmental Observatory Program Data Management Workshop
A CRC-sponsored Workshop, March 24, 2005
OceanUS Office
Arlington, VAThe Consortium hosted a multi-observatory workshop at the OceanUS office on March 24, 2005 to begin exploring developing common data management plans and formats across the national observatory programs NEON, CUAHSI, CLEANER, IOOS, and ORION. A prime driver for the meeting was to consider CyberInfrastructure within and across the environmental observatories, with a focus on developing as near compatible metadata as feasible for efficient cross-observatory data exchange. Several existing metadata projects were discussed as possible models including those in MMI, NEPTUNE, and LOOKING. Workshop discussions led to a cross-observatory initiative for a pilot project to use MMI as the basis for developing cross-observatory metadata synonyms among the observatory programs, a foundation for effective and integrated data communication across the diverse disciplines represented in the observatories. Details of the presentations and discussion are available here
Contact Michael Piasecki (mp29@drexel.edu), Drexel University, for meeting details and future developments.
Zooplankton/Food Web Monitoring for Adaptive Multi-Species Management This small workshop supplied the forum for discussion of the planned 2005 zooplankton/food web monitoring project recently selected by EPA's Chesapeake Bay Program. Invited participants were informed of the project's planned station locations and sampling frequencies and metrics and indicators in use or being developed from data collected in the 2005 field program. Recommendations from the workshop are being derived to assist in field collection approaches for the coming season as well as potential expansion of metrics and indicators to be considered for managing the Bay's living resources.
A CRC-sponsored Workshop, January 12-13, 2005
Smithsonian Environmental Research Center
Edgewater, MD 21037The recommendations from this workshop can be found on our Publications page.
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