Coastal Monitoring Through Partnerships

by Symposium on the Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program 2001; Engle, Virginia; McAlister, Malissa

• ISBN13: 9781402010897
• ISBN10: 1402010893
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-03-01
• Publisher: Kluwer Academic Pub

Summary

As the coastal human population increases in the United States, there will likely be increasing environmental and socioeconomic pressures on our coastal and estuarine environments. Monitoring the condition of all our nation's coastal and estuarine ecosystems over the long term is more than any one program can accomplish on its own. Therefore, it is crucial that monitoring programs at all levels (local, state, and federal) cooperate in the collection, sharing, and use of environmental data. This volume is the proceedings of the Coastal Monitoring Through Partnerships symposium that was held in Pensacola, Florida in April of 2001, and was organized by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (EMAP), and the Council of State Governments (CSG). It contains papers that describe various multi-disciplinary coastal and estuarine environmental monitoring programs, designed and implemented by using regional and national partnerships with federal and state agencies, academia, Native American tribes, and nongovernmental organizations. In addition, it includes papers on modeling and data management; monitoring and assessment of benthic communities; development of biological indicators and interlaboratory sediment comparisons; microbiological modeling and indicators; and monitoring and assessment of phytoplankton and submerged aquatic vegetation. There are many components involved in determining the overall impacts of anthropogenic stressors on coastal and estuarine waters. It will take strong partnerships like those described in this volume to ensure that we have healthy and sustainable coastal and estuarine environments, now and in the future.

Table of Contents

A. Preface
Preface	1	(2)
Michael E. McDonald
B. Regional and National Coastal Monitoring Partnership Programs
Southern California's Marine Monitoring System Ten Years After the National Research Council Evaluation	3	(12)
Brock B. Bernstein
Stephen B. Weisberg
Effective Application of Monitoring Information: The Case of San Francisco Bay	15	(12)
Rainer Hoenicke
Jay A. Davis
Andrew Gunther
Thomas E. Mumley
Khalil Abusaba
Karen Taberski
Bi-National Assessment of the Great Lakes: SOLEC Partnerships	27	(8)
Paul Bertram
Nancy Stadler-Salt
Paul Horvatin
Harvey Shear
The MYSound Project: Building an Estuary-Wide Monitoring Network for Long Island Sound, U.S.A.	35	(8)
Mark Tedesco
W. Frank Bohlen
Mary M. Howard-Strobel
David R. Cohen
Peter A. Tebeau
Conservation and Management Applications of the REEF Volunteer Fish Monitoring Program	43	(8)
Christy V. Patiengill-Semmens
Brice X. Semmens
The Coastal Component of the U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System	51	(12)
Thomas C. Malone
C. Monitoring Approaches, Modeling, and Data Management
Great Lakes Monitoring Results---Comparison of Probability Based and Deterministic Sampling Grids	63	(10)
Glenn J. Warren
Paul J. Horvatin
A Hydrologic Network Supporting Spatially Referenced Regression Modeling in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed	73	(12)
John W. Brakebill
Stephen D. Preston
The Importance of Considering Spatial Attributes in Evaluating Estuarine Habitat Condition: The South Carolina Experience	85	(12)
Robert F. Van Dolah
David E. Chestnut
John D. Jones
Pamela C. Jutte
George Riekerk
Martin Levisen
William McDermott
Living with a Large Reduction in Permitted Loading by Using a Hydrograph-Controlled Release Scheme	97	(10)
Paul A. Conrads
William P. Martello
Nancy R. Sullins
A Proposed Coast-Wide Reference Monitoring System for Evaluating Wetland Restoration Trajectories in Louisiana	107	(12)
Gregory D. Steyer
Charles E. Sasser
Jenneke M. Visser
Erick M. Swenson
John A. Nyman
Richard C. Raynie
Stormwater Toxicity in Chollas Creek and San Diego Bay, California	119	(14)
Kenneth Schiff
Steven Bay
Dario Diehl
Managing Troubled Data: Coastal Data Partnerships Smooth Data Integration	133	(16)
Stephen S. Hale
Anne Hale Miglarese
M. Patricia Bradley
Thomas J. Belton
Larry C. Cooper
Michael T. Frame
Christopher A. Friel
Linda M. Harwell
Robert E. King
William K. Michener
David T. Nicolson
Bruce G. Peterjohn
D. Benthic Communities Monitoring and Assessment
Incidence of Stress in Benthic Communities Along the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico Coasts Within Different Ranges of Sediment Contamination From Chemical Mixtures	149	(14)
Jeffrey L. Hyland
W. Leonard Balthis
Virginia D. Engle
Edward R. Long
John F. Paul
J. Kevin Summers
Robert F. Van Dolah
Application of the Benthic Index of Biotic Integrity to Environmental Monitoring in Chesapeake Bay	163	(12)
Roberto J. Llanso
Daniel M. Dauer
Jon H. Volstad
Lis a C. Scott
Spatial Scales and Probability Based Sampling in Determining Levels of Benthic Community Degradation in the Chesapeake Bay	175	(12)
Daniel M. Dauer
Roberto J. Llanso
An Approach for Identifying the Causes of Benthic Degradation in Chesapeake Bay	187	(12)
Cory S. Christman
Daniel M. Dauer
Variability in the Identification and Enumeration of Marine Benthic Invertebrate Samples and its Effect on Benthic Assessment Measures	199	(8)
J. Ananda Ranasinghe
David E. Montagne
Stephen B. Weisberg
Mary Bergen
Ronald G. Velarde
E. Biological Indicators & Interlaboratory Sediment Comparisons
Production, Respiration and Net Ecosystem Metabolism in U.S. Estuaries	207	(14)
Jane M. Caffrey
Foraminifera as Bioindicators in Coral Reef Assessment and Monitoring: The FORAM Index	221	(18)
Pamela Hallock
Barbara H. Lidz
Elizabeth M. Cockey-Burkhard
Kelly B. Donnelly
Monitoring Nekton as a Bioindicator in Shallow Estuarine Habitats	239	(18)
Kenneth B. Raposa
Charles T. Roman
James F. Heltshe
Interlaboratory Variability of Amphipod Sediment Toxicity Tests in a Cooperative Regional Monitoring Program	257	(12)
Steven M. Bay
Andrew Jirik
Stanford Asato
Making Performance-Based Chemistry Work: How We Created Comparable Data Among Laboratories as Part of a Southern California Marine Regional Assessment	269	(20)
Richard Gossett
Rodger Baird
Kimberly Christensen
Stephen B. Weisberg
F. Microbiological Modeling, Indicators, and Monitoring
Characterization and Statistical Modeling of Bacterial (Escherichia coli) Outflows From Watersheds That Discharge Into Southern Lake Michigan	289	(12)
Greg A. Olyphant
Judith Thomas
Richard L. Whitman
Denver Harper
Comparison of Beach Bacterial Water Quality Indicator Measurement Methods	301	(12)
Rachel T. Noble
Stephen B. Weisberg
Molly K. Leecaster
Charles D. McGee
Kerry Ritter
Kathy O. Walker
Patricia M. Vainik
Molecular Approaches to Microbiological Monitoring: Fecal Source Detection	313	(14)
Katherine G. Field
Anne E. Bernard
Timothy J. Brodeur
Characterization of Microbial Communities from Coastal Waters Using Microarrays	327	(10)
O. Colin Stine
Amy Carnahan
Ruby Singh
Jan Powell
Jon P. Furuno
Alicia Dorsey
Ellen Silbergeld
Henry N. Williams
J. Glenn Morris
Using Multiple Antibiotic Resistance and Land Use Characteristics to Determine Sources of Fecal Coliform Bacterial Pollution	337	(12)
R. Heath Kelsey
Geoffrey I. Scott
Dwayne E. Porter
Brian Thompson
Laura Webster
G. Monitoring and Assessment of Phytoplankton and Submerged Aquatic Vegetation Communities
Long-Term Phytoplankton Trends and Related Water Quality Trends in the Lower Chesapeake Bay, Virginia, U.S.A.	349	(12)
Harold G. Marshall
Michael F. Lane
Kneel
K. Nesius
Initial Results From a Multi-Institutional Collaboration to Monitor Harmful Algal Blooms in South Carolina	361	(12)
Alan J. Lewitus
A. Fred Holland
A Pilot Project to Detect and Forecast Harmful Algal Blooms in the Northern Gulf of Mexico	373	(10)
William S. Fisher
Thomas C. Malone
James D. Giattina
Preliminary Investigation of Submerged Aquatic Vegetation Mapping Using Hyperspectral Remote Sensing	383	(10)
David J. Williams
Nancy B. Rybicki
Alfonso V. Lombana
Tim M. O'Brien
Richard B. Gomez
Effect of El Nino on Demographic, Morphological, and Chemical Parameters in Turtle-Grass, Thalassia testudinum: an Unexpected Test of Indicators	393
Paul R. Carlson, Jr.
Laura A. Yarbro
Kevin Madley
Herman Arnold
Manuel Merello
Lisa Vanderbloemen
Gill McRae
Michael J. Durako