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PNAMP Mission Statement
PNAMP provides a forum to enhance the capacity of multiple entities to collaborate
to produce an effective and comprehensive network of aquatic monitoring programs in the Pacific Northwest based on sound science
designed to inform public policy and resource management decisions.
Pacific NorthwestPacific NorthwestAquatic Monitoring Aquatic Monitoring
PartnershipPartnership(PNAMP)(PNAMP)
Jennifer M. Bayer, Coordinator (USGS)
PNAMP ObjectivesPNAMP Objectives
Provide a technical forum to develop, Provide a technical forum to develop, coordinate and inform monitoring and coordinate and inform monitoring and evaluation (M&E) programsevaluation (M&E) programs
Provide a forum for communication with Provide a forum for communication with decision makersdecision makers
Be a clearing house for sample design, Be a clearing house for sample design, protocol development, and data protocol development, and data management activitiesmanagement activities
Provide process to establish Provide process to establish landscape/ecosystem metricslandscape/ecosystem metrics
PNAMP PartnersPNAMP Partners
WA GSRO
Charter signed by 20 state, tribal, federal, and regional entities:
Coordination StructureCoordination StructureExecutive Network
Steering Committee
Technical Workgroups/SubcommitteesWatershed
Condition WG
Project Effectivene
ss WG
Fish Population Monitoring WG
DataMgmt WG
Coordination Team
Lead
Lead Lead
Lead
Estuary WG
High Level Indicators Subcom.
Protocol Manager/Data Dictionary
Subcom.
AccomplishmentsAccomplishments
Successful Successful forum for dialogueforum for dialogue Specific projects Specific projects Validation of “in-kind contribution” Validation of “in-kind contribution”
approachapproach Recommendations (formal)Recommendations (formal) Programmatic coordinationProgrammatic coordination Policy interface (formal & informal)Policy interface (formal & informal)
Current EmphasisCurrent Emphasis Protocols/methodsProtocols/methods Monitoring Design – “master sample” Monitoring Design – “master sample”
approachapproach Policy/programmatic coordinationPolicy/programmatic coordination Provide forum/resources to facilitate Provide forum/resources to facilitate
interactioninteraction
PNAMP Current TasksPNAMP Current Tasks
Work with PNW RGIC to identify and implement a process for developing/refining common GIS layers.
Coordinate existing aquatic/riparian monitoring with invasive/nonnative species surveys
Assist with the advancement of a regional environmental information management strategyMonitoring Survey Design: develop regional aquatic status & trends “master sample design” (using the EPA’s EMAP probabilistic GRTS design) Facilitate application of remote sensing tools for aquatic monitoring.
PNAMP Protocol Tasks PNAMP Protocol Tasks
Protocol catalogue & data dictionary tool (Protocol Protocol ManagerManager)
Data dictionaryData dictionary content development and agreement on definitions
PNAMP Protocol Tasks PNAMP Protocol Tasks
Fish population monitoring techniques
Watershed assessment (habitat) techniques
Estuary monitoring Effectiveness monitoring
Protocols under development
Tagging Telemetry & Marking Techniques Compendium
Broad Outreach Peer-Review Gap/Fill Exercise Possible e-
publication New Information
Updates (via e-pub) Regional Access August 2009
Case Studies, Published and Unpublished information etc. (150 contributors)
Analysis of Applicability
Match to Population Management Questions
Needs include: working towards data management standards, definitions, data sharing agreements & protocols, etc.
PNAMP partners with regional data management entities:
NW Environmental Data Network (NED) PNW Regional Geographic Information
Council (PNW RGIC)
Regional Information Management Regional Information Management Executive Summit - October 2, 2007Executive Summit - October 2, 2007
Data Management is fundamental to Data Management is fundamental to Monitoring CoordinationMonitoring Coordination
More InformationMore Information
www.PNAMP.org
Supplemental slides
One Example of Coordination One Example of Coordination Between/ Among Major M&E Between/ Among Major M&E
Efforts in the CRBEfforts in the CRB
PNAMPPartnership
CSMEP Pilot Projects
Common goal and an emerging hierarchy of roles and responsibilities• PNAMP—Develop protocols and standards, Pacific NW coordination,
communications pathway • CSMEP—technical products, agencies peer review and coordination in
Columbia Basin • BPA Pilot Studies–logistical and practical implementation on the
ground—testing and training
Information Management Issue: Information Management Issue: Managing ComplexityManaging Complexity
FEDERALFRAMEWORK
NORTHWESTCONTENTGROUPS
STATE/PROVINCIALFRAMEWORK
NED FISH,
WILDLIFE & WATER
DATANETWORK
SUBBASINPLANNING
WATERQUALITY/QUANTITY
PNAMP
BIOLOGICALOPINIONS/RECOVERY
FGDC metadata.standards
NSDIgeospatial portal
National MapBase Mapping
Themes
Trans/Boundary
WAGIC
OGIC
IDAHO GIS
PNW-RGIC
Montana
AGENCY andTRIBAL data
Information Management Issue: Information Management Issue: Understand All NeedsUnderstand All Needs
data submission
data collection
Regional Informationframework data storage
data sharingdata access
feedback
data analysis