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Enhancing Water Quality Monitoring: Great Lakes Coverage and Coastal Waters Network Design

This presentation highlights the importance of including the Great Lakes in the National Water Quality Monitoring Network for U.S. coastal waters and their tributaries. The U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy recommended creating a national monitoring network with specific goals and core variables to ensure comprehensive coverage of coastal and upland areas. The design addresses various questions related to the condition of the Great Lakes region and emphasizes the need for monitoring embayments and nearshore waters. The Great Lakes Monitoring plan includes 50 sites per lake, focusing on lake resolution and integration into the overall IOOS region.

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Enhancing Water Quality Monitoring: Great Lakes Coverage and Coastal Waters Network Design

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  1. Coverage of the Great Lakes in theNational Water Quality Monitoring Network forU.S. Coastal Watersand their TributariesNational Water Quality Monitoring ConferenceMay 10, 2006

  2. U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy Recommended Creating a National Monitoring Network • 15-1: Develop a national monitoring network that • coordinates • expands existing efforts • 15-2: Covers • coastal areas and the • upland areas that affect them • Linked to the IOOS • 15-3: Ensure that the monitoring network has • clear goals • specific core variables • appropriate sampling framework

  3. NineResource compartments A Continuum of Observations Estuaries Nearshore Offshore and EEZ Great Lakes Coastal Beaches Wetlands With Flow and Flux from: Rivers Atmosphere Groundwater Structure of the Design

  4. The Design • The design for the Great Lakes will address questions such as: • What is the condition of each of the Great Lakes and the Great Lakes as an IOOS region? • Are conditions changing over time? How do conditions differ spatially within the lakes? • What is the condition of embayments and nearshore waters, which are the areas of the Great Lakes most immediately vulnerable to landscape stressors?

  5. The approach for the Great Lakes has: Some elements similar to those for estuaries, near shore and off shore marine coastal waters, Individual lakes and lake zones as reporting units, Great Lakes are an entire IOOS region. Great Lakes Observing system [GLOS] Structure of the Design

  6. Great Lakes Monitoring • 50 Sites per lake • Lake resolution • Resolution to the IOOS Region • Existing fixed station sites • Embayments • Riverine flux from the watershed

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