Project Information

Title: LTM Program - Science Coordination and Synthesis for the Long Term Monitoring Program 13120114-H

Project Year and Number: 2013: 13120114-H

Other Fiscal Years and Numbers for this Project: 2016: 16120114-H, 2015: 15120114-H, 2014: 14120114-H, 2012: 12120114-H

Principal Investigator (PI): Kris Holderied

Managing Agency: NOAA

Assisting Personnel: None

Project Website: https://gulfwatchalaska.org/monitoring/science-synthesis/

Research Location: Prince William Sound, Gulf of Alaska

Restoration Category: Public Info. Science Mgmt. and Administration, Research

Injured Resources Addressed: Not Specified

Abstract:

This project is a component of the integrated Long-term Monitoring of Marine Conditions and Injured Resources and Services submitted by McCammon et al. Long-term monitoring has been implemented within the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill (EVOS)-affected region, with support from the EVOS Trustee Council (TC), agencies, North Pacific Research Board, Alaska Ocean Observing System, other research grant organizations, and citizen science programs. However, many of these efforts have been conducted independently, with emphasis on monitoring of single species or within individual disciplines. By explicitly providing for science coordination and syntheses of data from our proposed long-term monitoring program, as well as incorporating an interdisciplinary framework into program development and implementation, we seek to improve open access to multi-disciplinary data and promote use of integrated information from the entire program for both research and resource management in the EVOS-affected region. The science coordination and synthesis component of our integrated program will improve linkages between monitoring in different regions (Prince William Sound, Gulf of Alaska shelf, lower Cook Inlet) as well as between disciplines in a given region, as a way to better discern the impacts of environmental change on restoration and continued recovery of injured resources. Science coordination will include facilitating program planning and sharing of information between principal investigators, developing annual reports on the science program, and coordinating ongoing evaluation of the overall program. Science synthesis efforts will help integrate information across the entire program and will be closely coordinated with the conceptual ecological modeling and data management teams in our integrated program.


Proposal: View (716 KB)

Reports:
Annual Report FY13: View (9,357 KB)
Final Report: See Project 16120114-H

Publications from this Project: None Available