Overview

1. Types of monitoring

2. Partnership monitoring needs

3. Current monitoring coordinationefforts

Monitoring Overview

Status and Trends

• What is the current condition and has it changed over time?

• Indicators data

Monitoring Overview

Effectiveness

• Did management action result in an expected, measurable change in the environment?

• Adaptive Management

Monitoring Overview

Validation

• Are our assumptions and hypothesis correct?

• Science/management feedback

Monitoring Overview

Implementation

• Were programs initiated as planned?

• Policy feedback

Monitoring Overview

Compliance

• Are rules/policies being met properly?

• Policy feedback

Puget Sound Partnership and Monitoring

In statute: Strategic Science Program*may include:

1. Continuation of PSAMP

2. Development of a monitoring program (in addition to PSAMP)

*with advice from the Science Panel

• Collaborative network

• Long-term status and trends (since 1989)

• Some effectiveness monitoring

• Puget Sound Indicators

• Regional and local scale

What is PSAMP con’t

Drayton Harbor. / Linda Farmer

• Regional IndicatorsState of the Sound Reports Transboundary Indicators Reports

• Other Products Puget Sound Update ReportsConceptual Model PS/GB Research Conference

What is PSAMP con’t

Drayton Harbor. / Linda Farmer

Source: Ecology (EAP), Partnership

AtmosphericExchange

Human Uses,Impacts (healthimpacts, well being)

A B

WaterQuality

F

FreshwaterFlows/Quality

FE

Aquatic/TerrestrialFood Webs

C

Marine/Estuarine Speciesand Food Webs

C

OceanExchange

Habitat Quality and Quantity, Processes

D

Salmon,bald eagles

Vegetative cover inriparian zone, aquatic insect

abundance and diversity

Salmon spawning capacity,

amphibian abundance

Beach nourishment from stream sediments, stream flows balance salinity and

sustain marsh plants

Contaminant loadings,

freshwater impacts on

marine circulation

Nutrient inputs, toxic impacts on food webs

Contaminants in Orcas, pathogen

transfer

Suspended sediments reduce light for eelgrass,

kelp beds filterparticulates

Eelgrass shelter for Dungeness crab, herring

spawn on kelp fronds

Harmful algal blooms, changing ocean properties

Pollutant deposition, carbon dioxide absorption, warming temperatures Harvest, aquaculture, consuming seafood, recreation, etc.

Monitoring Coordinationand Forums

Pacific Northwest Aquatic Monitoring Partnership (PNAMP)

• Coordinate state, federal, and tribal freshwater and estuarine monitoring programs in the Pacific NW

• WA, OR, Northern CA

English Sole survey. / WDFW

Monitoring Coordinationand Forums

Washington Forum on Monitoring

• Coordinate technical and policy issues and activities related to monitoring salmon recovery and watershed health.

• State-wide, legislative mandate

Puget Sound Coordinated Monitoring Program (‘Monitoring Consortium’)

• Establish a new coordinated multi-party structure

• Built on existing programs and efforts

• Initiated by local governments

Monitoring Coordinationand Forums

• Link to regulatory community

• Broader representation

• Secure funding

• Political independence

• Prioritize monitoring - strategic science program

•Transparent and trustworthy

What’s needed to strengthen current monitoring programs?

Monitoring and the Action Agenda

• Linkage between PSAMP, PNAMP, Forum, Consortium, other programs, and Action Agenda is important

• Science panel can help with linkage

• Science plan will define activities based on Action Agenda

• Monitoring is the accountability tool Bat star. / Jennifer Vanderhoof