White-Paper report of the Park Service Vital Signs Workgroup for Monitoring Marine and Estuarine Environments
Roman C, Irwin R, Curry R, Kolipinski M, Portnoy J, Cameron L. 2003. White-Paper report of the Park Service Vital Signs Workgroup for Monitoring Marine and Estuarine Environments. North Atlantic Coast CESU, University of Rhode Island. Narragansett, RI
At the NPS-WRD sponsored workshop on water quality monitoring (November 2001), it was determined that workgroups should be convened to recommend a set of core water quality monitoring parameters for implementation at park units with freshwater and marine/estuarine resources. This report summarizes the deliberations of the marine/estuarine workgroup which met on April 3-4, 2002. In addition to NPS scientists and managers from broad geographic regions and with varying water quality backgrounds, the marine/estuarine workgroup was fortunate to have representation from the USGS-BRD, US EPA, and state government. The EPA scientists were affiliated with EPA's National Coastal Assessment, a program that is implementing a suite of core indicators, in conjunction with states, throughout the coastal zone. This summary report includes the following: Identification of core water quality monitoring parameters that could be collected, with identical methods, at all parks with marine/estuarine resources. A brief rationale is included for each selected parameter. Identification of and rationale for companion environmental parameters that are essential to collect in conjunction with the core water quality parameters. Identification of some optional water quality parameters that merit strong consideration for inclusion as core parameters at a subset of coastal/marine parks References Cited (all are available on the Internet, see references at end of this document). It is noted that the workshop deliberations and this summary report merely focus on the identification of core parameters. Topics such as spatial and temporal sampling frequency, field methods, instrumentation needs, data analysis techniques, data management, and others, are all fundamental to implementation of a core water quality monitoring program, but were beyond the scope of this workgroup. However, on occasion we did discuss some of these topics and those discussions are reported here.
- Type
- Unpublished Report
- Authors
- Roman, Charles; Irwin, Roy; Curry, Richard; Kolipinski, Mietek; Portnoy, John; Cameron, Lane
- Date of Issue
- 2003
- Publisher
- North Atlantic Coast CESU, University of Rhode Island
- Units
- AKRO , AKSO , PACN , SWAN , WRD
- Keywords
- Coastal-Marine Systems, Estuarine, Marine, Monitoring, Vital Signs, Water, Water Quality