tributary report cards: collaborating with watershed organizations
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Tributary report cards: Collaborating with watershed organizations. EcoCheck (NOAA CBO-UMCES Partnership). Overview. History of our interactions Chesapeake Bay report card promoted local interest Motivation: engage community, policy makers, influence change - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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www.eco-check.org
Tributary report cards: Tributary report cards: Collaborating with Collaborating with
watershed organizationswatershed organizations
EcoCheck (NOAA CBO-UMCES Partnership)
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OverviewOverview• History of our interactions
– Chesapeake Bay report card promoted local interest– Motivation: engage community, policy makers, influence
change– Timeline: theory, practice, expansion– Current and future groups
• Data collection efforts– Non-uniform: spatial, temporal, parameters
• Future directions– Uniformity and validity– Training– New information
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Watershed organizationsWatershed organizations
• Waterkeepers Alliance– International– Fishable, drinkable, and swimmable water– Advocacy, science, legal rights– 16 Chesapeake Bay Riverkeepers
www.waterkeeper.org
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Watershed organizationsWatershed organizations
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Tributary report cardsTributary report cards
• Promote synergies and uniformity among efforts– Indicators– Monitoring protocol
• Aim to make report cards widely used and comparable
• Collaborative effort between citizens and government agencies– Promotes adaptive management– Connects with citizens in unique way– Leverages funding, data, and knowledge
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Collaborating with organizations Collaborating with organizations in the areain the area
• Chesapeake Bay Trust– Interested in river report cards– Funds small - medium projects– Funded by Chesapeake Bay license plates
• EcoCheck– Interested in regionally specific report cards
• Expansion of systems involved– Annual expansion of groups involved
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Strategy for producing Strategy for producing tributary report cardstributary report cards
• First year– Initial planning meetings– Determine citizen monitoring capabilities, data,
analysis, etc.– EcoCheck fully involved in all analysis, layout and
design, production of report card– Watershed organization members take Science
Communication Course• Second year
– Watershed organization members perform analysis, layout and design, and produce report card
– EcoCheck oversees and advises project
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Examples of tributary report cardsExamples of tributary report cards
• Patuxent River– Riverkeeper, Fred
Tutman– Tidal monitoring data
from CBP/DNR,etc.– Some citizen
monitoring data
• Chester River– Chester River
Association/Chester Riverkeeper
– Some tidal monitoring data from CBP/DNR, etc.
– Good citizen monitoring data, both tidal and non-tidal
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Moving beyond report card production: Moving beyond report card production: Data collectionData collection
• After first year, expanded into new areas• To collaborate and facilitate report cards, started
meeting once a month -Tributary report card group– Approx. 15 people– Meeting once a month– First year was about producing tributary report card– Providing science communication course once a year
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Indicators used for tributary report cardsIndicators used for tributary report cards
• Variety of agencies/groups collect data using different protocols• Tidal and non-tidal• Collect additional indicators that aren’t in report cards
Type Indicators Chester Patuxent Severn Magothy South West/Rhode
Water Quality Ammonium
Nitrate
Phosphorus
Turbidity
Dissolved oxygen
Water clarity
Chlorophyll a
Total nitrogen
Total phosphorus
Biotic SAV
PIBI
BIBI
Oysters
Invasive species
Stream health (benthic macro)
Yellow Perch
Stream health ?
Other Enforcement
Human health Bacteria
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Current directions and goalsCurrent directions and goals
• Establish core indicators – DO, SAV, Clarity, ChlA, TN, TP– Flows into monitoring protocol workgroup
• Establish consistent monitoring techniques– For core indicators– Sampling regime
• Training sessions– Monitoring and data analysis
(two days)– Science Communication
Course (two days)