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Ecosystem Delineation Workshop Briefing

Ecosystem Delineation Workshop Briefing. Challenges in Urban Meteorology: A Forum for Users and Providers 21 Sept 2004 Douglas P. DeMaster NOAA Ecosystem Goal Team Lead. Purpose of Workshop.

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Ecosystem Delineation Workshop Briefing

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  1. Ecosystem Delineation Workshop Briefing Challenges in Urban Meteorology: A Forum for Users and Providers 21 Sept 2004 Douglas P. DeMaster NOAA Ecosystem Goal Team Lead

  2. Purpose of Workshop • Discuss the delineation of large ecosystems on the basis of natural science (not political boundaries). • Discuss how those large ecosystems might be broken down into sub-areas, again, based on natural science criteria.

  3. NOAA Delineationof Regional Ecosystems • Workshop was August 31- Sept 1 in Charleston, SC • Co-chaired by Paul Sandifer (USCOP) and Doug DeMaster (Ecosystem Goal) • Key Federal Agencies (e.g. EPA, FWS, USGS, FS, NRCS, COE, Navy, MMS, etc.) • Academics and NGOs, (e.g., Heinz, USCOP, South Atlantic/ Caribbean and Western Pacific FMCs, Atlantic Inter. Comm., TNC, etc.) • States (SC, MS, MN, AK, HI)

  4. Marine Side of Regional Ecosystems Generally, the participants believed that large regional ecosystems - • Should be based on the Large Marine Ecosystem (LME) Delineations; • Need to be further delineated into nested ecoregions based on coastal biogeographic characteristics (e.g TNC,NACEC); • This further delineation should be accomplished by regional stakeholders; • Need to conduct additional work on Pacific Island LMEs; • Need to reinforce that observation and assessment must include key marine geographic areas influencing LMEs.

  5. Example of Regional Ecosystem: Large Marine Ecosystems

  6. Potential Alternatives for Sub-ecoregions TNC NERRS NACEC

  7. Mapped LMEs and EEZ Red line = EEZ Colored Polygons = LMEs

  8. Regional Ecosystem Complex Pacific Islands and Alaska may be treated as “regional complex” of several LMEs

  9. Alaska’s LMEs and EEZ Dark blue = Beaufort Sea Violet = Chukchi Sea Medium Blue = E. Bering Sea Green = Gulf of Alaska Red line = EEZ

  10. Inland BoundaryOptions 1. Entire Coastal Assessment Framework 2. Estuarine and Coastal Drainage Areas 3. Inland extent of diadromous fish habitat 4. Head of tide/dam 5. The coastal portion of the Coastal Assessment Framework and watersheds containing diadromous fish habitat (Options #2 + #3) A number of Workshop Participants supported: Option # 2 + #3 Others supported Option #1

  11. 438 Estuarine Drainage Areas [EDAs] (150 major, 288 minor) 67 Fluvial Drainage Areas [FDAs] 11 Interior watershed areas* Coastal Assessment Framework(CAF) Area in km2 EDAs 942,792 (12%) FDAs 5,373,130 (69%) Interior 1,463,348 (19%) * self-contained, groundwater-contributing only, or watersheds draining to outside the U.S.

  12. Montana Washington Interior Drainage Area FDA Oregon EDA Anadromous Fish Range State Boundary Idaho Inland Extent of Diadromous Fish

  13. Great Lakes Pacific North Atlantic Mid Atlantic Gulf of Mexico South Atlantic Inclusion of Humans as Part of Ecosystem

  14. NOAA Delineation and the Administration’s Response to USCOP USCOP Findings: • US ocean and coastal resources should be managed to reflect the relationships among all ecosystem components, including human and nonhuman species and the environments in which they live. • Applying this principle will require defining relevant geographic management areas based on ecosystem, rather than political, boundaries. • Because of the connection between land-based activities and ocean conditions, an appropriate geographic boundary for ecosystem-based management of ocean areas would combine large marine ecosystems with the watersheds that drain into them.

  15. Next Steps • Submit regional ecosystem delineation recommendation through NEP and NEC by Oct. 1 • Submit NOAA recommendations through collaborative interagency response process to the final USCOP Report – October/November 2004 • Identify potential near term ecosystem pilots/case studies • Convene Regional stakeholder workshops to further delineate regional ecosystems, identify key ecological, social and economic regional ecosystem indicators and joint efforts to observe and monitor them, & development of regional pilots - April 2005 • Develop in each region, necessary steps and plans to advance ecosystem approaches to managing coastal and marine resources efforts - October 2005 & beyond

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