NFHP Science and Data Committee Report

1. NFHP Science and Data Committee Report Gary E. Whelan and Andrea C. Ostroff NFHP Science and Data Committee Co-Chairs March 2014

2. State of the Nation’s Fisheries HabitatAmount Impaired (USEPA 303 and 305)

3. State of the Nation’s Fisheries Habitat Inland Connectivity Cost • Protecting existing locations • 25,500 locations * $100,000 = $2.25 billion • Installing fish passage or removing dams • 52,285 NDI Dams * $976,000 = $51 billion • 100,000 locations * $350,000 = $35 billion • Installing downstream protection • 52,285 locations * $1,000,000 = $52 billion • Stream crossings • 1,002,399 culverts * $200,000 = $201 billion • Total Costs Needed - $341 billion

4. State of the Nation’s Fisheries Habitat Subtotal of Inland Costs • Partial sum of 4 of 6 processes • Not including estuaries, shorelines or large waters • Annual Cost for 20 years • $130.5 billion • Partial Habitat Cost • $2.62 trillion

5. 2014 Science and Data Committee Priorities and Progress • Refine committee membership • Completed in January 2014 • Catalog and review FHP assessments • Completed in June 2013 • Science and Data Committee Meeting– 2014 • Develop data transfer methods and begin to embed detailed FHP data • USGS currently working with FHPs • (EBTJV, SARP underway)

6. 2014 Science and Data Committee Priorities and Progress • Data management SOPs for FHP information • Completed – USGS Funded • Improve and upgrade the NFHP Data System • New version is now available and new data documentation continues – USGS Funded • Continue refining inland assessment following core plan • In progress – USFWS and USGS Funded • Continue refining marine assessment following core plan • In progress – NOAA funded

7. Revival of Science & Data Committee Membership • Aligns with Committee Terms of Reference • Regional representation • Expertise to meet assessment team needs • 1stconference call of new Committee – February 2014 • Establishing monthly calls to achieve 2015 Assessment goals

8. Inland Assessment Strategy – Core Plan

9. 2010 Assessment

10. Assessment Progress – Spatial Framework

11. Assessment Progress - Fragmentation

12. Assessment Progress – Mining Data

13. Assessment Progress – New Variables

14. Assessment Progress – New Analyzes

15. Assessment Progress – Size Analysis

16. Assessment Progress – Additional Metrics

17. Assessment Progress – New Analyzes

18. Assessment Progress - Deliverables

19. 2015 Marine Assessment Strategy

20. Assessment Progress – Gulf Demo

21. Assessment Progress – New Spatial Framework

22. Assessment Progress – New Datasets

23. Assessment Progress – Species and Community Stressor Modeling

24. Assessment Progress – New Stressor Maps

25. Assessment Progress – Species Stress Maps

26. Assessment Progress

27. Assessment Plan

28. Assessment Progress • Marine • Great Lakes Assessment – UM/MI DNR • Moving independently forward with funding from the Great Lakes Fishery Trust and GLBFHP • Geospatial system nearly complete • Rectified US and Canada watershed systems • Developing habitat classification system at this time

29. NFHP Data System Update • Work continues to document and disseminate data from the FHPs and collaborators via the NFHP Data System • Team currently working with EBTJV and SARP • Aligning data processes of the Multistate Aquatic Resources Information System (state fisheries data systems) to NFHP

30. NFHP Data System Update Unique ID that FHPs can share with partners for their websites – Appalachian LCC

31. NFHP Data System Update Further development has automated processes to disseminate data in different formats for multiple users Download Data GIS Service Links

32. NFHP Data System Update NFHP Standard Operating Procedures align with requirements of Open Government Initiatives On May 9, 2013, the White House released the Executive Order, “Making Open and Machine Readable the New Default for Government.” This Order, built upon an earlier interagency memorandum released by the OSTP, was accompanied by an OMB “Open Data Policy – Managing Information as an Asset” NFHP Data System Data.gov DataONE DOI Catalog

33. Project Effectiveness Measures Workgroup • Small working group meeting weekly with Foundations of Success – since January • Selected 4 conservation actions that represent commonly funded NFHP projects

34. Project Effectiveness Measures Workgroup • Group is going to build a number of results chains • Seek feedback from a broader review group of FHPs • Effort will extend through June, provide Board with update at next meeting

35. Thank You! Visitwww.fishhabitat.orgfor more information Gary E. Whelan Michigan DNR whelang@michigan.gov 517-373-6948 Andrea C. Ostroff USGS aostroff@usgs.gov 703-648-4070

36. 2015 Inland Assessment Strategy • Core Plan • Refine and update 2010 Assessment • Add new national connectivity analysis • Demonstration projects to bring in process data • Add lakes and reservoirs to Assessment

37. 2014 Science and Data Priorities • Examine, review and incorporate Assessment activities underway by FHPs, LCCs, and the National Assessment Teams. • Requesting $20,000 for a Science and Data Committee Meeting • Requesting $70,000 for GIS support and new FHP data products • Board Science and Data outreach efforts • Requesting $12,000 for Science Co-chair travel support

38. 2014 Science and Data Priorities • Continue development of attributed socioeconomic datasets along with a limited set of analytical tools. • Requesting $35,000 for contracted services • Continued development of a standardized set of project effectiveness tools • Needed resources being determined at this time

39. 2014 Science and Data Priorities • Continued development of the 2015 inland assessment • $151,000 for MSU staff – USFWS • $120,000 for system development and data support - USGS, Core Science Analytics & Synthesis for FY2014 • Continued development of the 2015 marine assessment • $220,000 NOAA in-kind services

40. 2014 Science and Data Priorities – Without Resources • Full incorporation of process level data (connectivity and hydrology) and biological data into the Inland Assessment for whole US • Need $300,000 for 2 FTEs and multiple workshops to craft work • Full incorporation of process level data (connectivity and hydrology) and biological data along with new analytical approaches into the Marine Assessment for whole US • Need $150,000 for 2.0 FTEs • Development of a coastal AK and HI geospatial framework • Need $180,000 for 1.5 FTEs GIS support

41. 2014 Science and Data Priorities – Without Resources • Development of standardized effectiveness measures for FHP connectivity projects including incorporating fine-scale FHP data • Need $206,000 for 2 FTEs • Development and attribution of socioeconomics data and tools into the Assessment • Need $100,000 for contracted staff time