Project Information

Title: Database Development and Implementation of Long-Term Monitoring for Evaluation of Recovery of Nearshore Resources 070750

Project Year and Number: 2007: 070750

Other Fiscal Years and Numbers for this Project: 2010: 10100750, 2010: 10100750-A, 2005: 050750, 2004: 040687, 2003: 030687

Principal Investigator (PI): Jim Bodkin (US Geological Survey)

Managing Agency: USGS

Assisting Personnel: Tom Dean

Research Location: Prince William Sound

Restoration Category: Monitoring

Injured Resources Addressed: Black Oystercatchers, Clams, Common Loons, Common Murres, Cormorants, Harlequin Ducks, Intertidal Organisms, Kittlitz's Murrelets, Marbled Murrelets, Mussels, Pigeon Guillemot, Sea Otters

Abstract: The proposed project is designed to assist in the evaluation of recovery and restoration of injured nearshore resources in Prince William Sound. The project has two tasks. The first is to develop a database management system for nearshore data. The database management system will be developed using a web-based user interface and an underlying relational geodatabase. This database management system will ensure the preservation of existing nearshore monitoring data, allow for more integrated assessments of recovery and restoration of nearshore resources, and provide a structure for data gathered as part of future restoration monitoring. The second task is to initiate long-term recovery and restoration monitoring in the nearshore in Prince William Sound. Many of the data sets used to asses recovery of injured resources in Prince William Sound (e.g. population abundance and survival of sea otters, population abundance of harlequin ducks and other nearshore birds, abundance estimates for mussels, clams, and other intertidal organisms) are also a critical part of a comprehensive nearshore monitoring plan developed by Dean and Bodkin (2006) that is currently being implemented by the National Park Service along the Katmai coast. Funds for conducting most of these studies in Prince William Sound (e.g. aerial surveys of sea otter abundance, bird and mammal surveys, and shore-zone mapping) are being sought by several other proposals submitted to the Trustee Council and are not addressed herein. Our purpose is to fill in missing gaps in the long-term monitoring program in Prince William Sound and to make it comparable to the program being carried out at Katmai. This proposed nearshore sampling in PWS, the similar sampling being conducted on the Katmai coast, and the proposed development of a comprehensive nearshore database management system will provide the backbone of a long-term restoration monitoring program. The goal of this program is to detect and identify sources of change in the nearshore and to foster recovery of nearshore resources by ameliorating adverse effects of human-induced impacts.


Proposal: View (37,245 KB)

Reports:
Annual Report FY07: View (40 KB)
Final Report: View (613 KB)

Publications from this Project: None Available