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Appendix A: September 20, 1994 letter from Dr. Edward Martinko, Director, EMAP
Appendix A: September 20, 1994 letter from Dr. Edward Martinko, Director, EMAP
Pages 105-118
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Appendix A September 20, ~ 994 letter from Dr. Edward Martinko, Director, EMAP
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20460 SEP 2 0 ~4 Dr. Richard Fisher c/o The Committee to Review the EPA's Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program Water Sciences and Technology Board National Research Council 2101 Constitution Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20418 Dear Dick: ~ppendi,< A OFF CE OF RESEARCH AND DEVELOPME~ I am pleased to provide you with an overview of important changes made in the operations and management of the Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program primarily as a result of deliberations by the National Research Council's review, and to a lesser extent other reviews of the Program or its various components.
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Indicator Development; Sampling Design; Trend Detection; · Landscapes; · Analysis of EMAP Data, particularly Estuaries, and Publication of Results; · Information Management; Assessment, Integration and Coordination; Cause and Effect Relationships; Program Management; Involvement of Scientific Community and Peer Reviews; and Inter- and Intra-Agency Cooperation.
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EMAP-Surface Waters is supporting research on both lake and stream indicators through eight cooperative agreements with universities and under trio agreements with Federal agencies. Specifically for EMAP-Estuaries, the following changes have been made or initiated: EMAP-Estuaries has developed, and will be publishing, an explicit conceptual model to enhance direction of its indicator research program; to improve capabilities to explain its approach; and, to provide integration across multiple estuarine Provinces.
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These activities involve EMAP personnel, university researchers representative of the areas of investigation, other EPA and NOAA personnel, and State resource agency researchers. All of these estuarine enhancements are expected to facilitate the design of a national estuarine monitoring program, the selection of indicators to meet the objectives of such a program and the data analysis capabilities needed to document with confidence estuarine condition, nationally.
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Sunpling Design EMAP has increased involvement of university statisticians and the monitoring research community in the further development, and evaluation, of the EMAP Statistical Design through ten nationally-competed Cooperative Research Agreements, totaling S0.80M in FY 1994; these will continue in 1995 and 1996. The EMAP Design Group has developed over the past three years improved implementation strategies and frameworks for sampling estuaries, lalces, streams, and the Great Lalces addressing statistical issues identified by external review committees.
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Forest Service's Forest Inventory and Analysis, the National Biological Survey, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Survey's National Wetlands Status and Trends Program.
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Few adjustments are expected at this time. The Landscape Characterization Coordination Group has spearheaded the establishment and continuing development of the new interagency Multi-Rcsolution Land Characteristics Consortium (pawners include EPA-EMAP, the GAP Analysis Program, the National Water Quality Assessment Program 1NAWQA1, the CoastWatch Change Analysis Program, the North American Landscape Characterization Project [includes the National Aeronautics and Space Administration among others)
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EMAP-Estuaries, Surface Waters and Forests are changing their approach to information management from a Non-Relational Data Structure to an Agency Standard Relational Database Management Structure using Oracle. Within the next six months, this modification will be complete 1 13
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A competitively-awarded University Partnership Research Agreement with a consortium of universities will be awarded within the next To months to provide additional intellectual leadership in this area. The Partnership Agreement is a novel funding mechanism by which we ant the consortium design together a Five-Year Research Plan with the option to renew the agreement for an additional five years, given positive peer reviews of worI; being done.
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Over the past six months, EMAP has actively participated in and provided leadership for the development of a new "Integrated Ecosystem Protection Research Program" in the EPA's Office of Research and Development (ORD)
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There were nine meritorious proposals related to ecological condition indicator research that have been funded. We have increased involvement of the academic statistics and monitoring research communities in the de, elopment of EMAP's statistical design through ten nationally-competed Cooperative Research Agreements, totaling S0.80M in FY 1994.
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The EPA component of EMAP has developed an interagency coordinating group for Statistical Design with NAWQA, the Natural Resources Inventory, the Forest Health Monitoring Program, the National Wetlands Inventors-', the Bureau of Land Management, and the National Biological Survev; and, it has increased its participation in the Interagency Task Force on Monitoring Water Quality. EMAP-Estuaries is aggressively pursuing the involvement of other Federal agencies (NOAA and NBS)
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