Effective Monitoring to Evaluate Ecological Restoration in the Gulf of Mexico (2017) / Chapter Skim
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Notably, only the NRDA Trustee restoration and science programs, the GRP Council explicitly lists a provision that includes recognized a common need for restoration restoration monitoring and adaptive management monitoring and assessment guidance. Therefore, as high-level goals.
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RESTORATION MONITORING IS IMPERATIVE To provide assurance to funders and the FOR ENSURING RESTORATION public of the benefits derived from restoration EFFECTIVENESS AND DEMONSTRATING investments, monitoring should be viewed as an RESTORATION PROGRESS integral part of restoration projects, and detailed monitoring plans should be required by The need for restoration monitoring is widely restoration programs at the time of restoration acknowledged, but most restoration projects in proposal submission.
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As the management questions such as measuring number of local restoration activities increases, ecological, and where appropriate, social and there is the potential for reference sites to inform economic restoration outcomes multiple projects, as demonstrated by Louisiana's • Evaluation of available baseline data Coastwide Reference Monitoring System. appropriate to a given project objectives and/or Establishing networks of reference sites for plans to collect new baseline data if needed different habitat types would allow sharing of • Appropriate sampling and analysis baseline information and reference condition designs, including consideration of reference data, while also promoting the adoption of a set and/or control site(s)
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The committee views restoration monitoring • Jointly identify the most pressing research data as a valuable and lasting product of Gulf needs, objectives, and questions that would restoration funding and believes good data inform and improve restoration effectiveness. stewardship greatly enhances the value of restoration monitoring and enables assessment of Although it will require additional time and progress towards restoration goals.
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Because meta-analysis of projects Because data quality is improved through use, and synthesis of monitoring data is required for early data sharing and synthesis activities need to evaluating restoration progress beyond be strongly encouraged. Restoration programs individual projects and gulf-wide restoration should establish clear policies early on for outcomes, Gulf restoration programs should archiving and sharing of restoration monitoring consider creating a specific, dedicated enterprise data, and enforce these policies to ensure open for synthesis activities in support of Gulf access in the long-term.
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The enterprise would restoration, notably the NRDA Trustee Council. provide the necessary infrastructure for This provides an important opportunity to collaborative synthesis projects, notably facilities accelerate Gulf restoration practices and related for face-to-face and virtual meetings, technical science, but only if those programs provide strong and scientific staff to assist with data integration guidance and adequate funding to ensure that and analysis, training to build capacity for Gulf adaptive management is included in restoration synthesis, and funding to support synthesis and monitoring plans and activities.
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synthesis activities in support of Gulf restoration, 2. All restoration administered by the because synthesis of monitoring data is required NRDA Trustee Council, RESTORE Council, for evaluating restoration performance beyond NFWF, and the Gulf states should be individual projects and restoration program accompanied by a strategic, rigorous monitoring outcomes for wide-ranging species such as effort, described in a monitoring plan, that marine mammals, sea turtles, and birds; and enables an assessment of progress relative to the 6.
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