overview 1.types of monitoring 2.partnership monitoring needs 3.current monitoring coordination...
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Overview
1. Types of monitoring
2. Partnership monitoring needs
3. Current monitoring coordinationefforts
Monitoring Overview
Status and Trends
• What is the current condition and has it
changed over time?
• Indicators data
Monitoring Overview
Effectiveness
• Did management action result in an expected, measurable change in the environment?
• Adaptive Management
Monitoring Overview
Validation
• Are our assumptions and hypothesis correct?
• Science/management feedback
Monitoring Overview
Implementation
• Were programs initiated as planned?
• Policy feedback
Monitoring Overview
Compliance
• Are rules/policies being met properly?
• Policy feedback
Puget Sound Partnership and Monitoring
In statute: Strategic Science Program*may include:
1. Continuation of PSAMP
2. Development of a monitoring program (in addition to PSAMP)
*with advice from the Science Panel
• Collaborative network
• Long-term status and trends (since 1989)
• Some effectiveness monitoring
• Puget Sound Indicators
• Regional and local scale
What is PSAMP con’t
Drayton Harbor. / Linda Farmer
• Regional IndicatorsState of the Sound Reports Transboundary Indicators Reports
• Other Products Puget Sound Update ReportsConceptual Model PS/GB Research Conference
What is PSAMP con’t
Drayton Harbor. / Linda Farmer
Source: Ecology (EAP), Partnership
AtmosphericExchange
Human Uses,Impacts (healthimpacts, well being)
A B
WaterQuality
F
FreshwaterFlows/Quality
FE
Aquatic/TerrestrialFood Webs
C
Marine/Estuarine Speciesand Food Webs
C
OceanExchange
Habitat Quality and Quantity, Processes
D
Salmon,bald eagles
Vegetative cover inriparian zone, aquatic insect
abundance and diversity
Salmon spawning capacity,
amphibian abundance
Beach nourishment from stream sediments, stream flows balance salinity and
sustain marsh plants
Contaminant loadings,
freshwater impacts on
marine circulation
Nutrient inputs, toxic impacts on food webs
Contaminants in Orcas, pathogen
transfer
Suspended sediments reduce light for eelgrass,
kelp beds filterparticulates
Eelgrass shelter for Dungeness crab, herring
spawn on kelp fronds
Harmful algal blooms, changing ocean properties
Pollutant deposition, carbon dioxide absorption, warming temperatures Harvest, aquaculture, consuming seafood, recreation, etc.
Monitoring Coordinationand Forums
Pacific Northwest Aquatic
Monitoring Partnership (PNAMP)
• Coordinate state, federal, and tribal freshwater and estuarine monitoring programs in the Pacific NW
• WA, OR, Northern CA
English Sole survey. / WDFW
Monitoring Coordinationand Forums
Washington Forum on Monitoring
• Coordinate technical and policy issues and activities related to monitoring salmon recovery and watershed health.
• State-wide, legislative mandate
Puget Sound Coordinated Monitoring Program (‘Monitoring Consortium’)
• Establish a new coordinated multi-party structure
• Built on existing programs and efforts
• Initiated by local governments
Monitoring Coordinationand Forums
• Link to regulatory community
• Broader representation
• Secure funding
• Political independence
• Prioritize monitoring - strategic science program
•Transparent and trustworthy
What’s needed to strengthen current monitoring programs?
Monitoring and the Action Agenda
• Linkage between PSAMP, PNAMP, Forum, Consortium, other programs, and Action Agenda is important
• Science panel can help with linkage
• Science plan will define activities based on Action Agenda
• Monitoring is the accountability tool Bat star. / Jennifer Vanderhoof