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Gulf of Mexico Alliance Habitat Conservation and Restoration Team

Gulf of Mexico Alliance Habitat Conservation and Restoration Team. Gulf of Mexico Alliance Data Management Council Meeting 4-5 February 2010 St. Petersburg, Florida. State Leads. Shelley Alexander: Florida DEP Mary Austill Lott: Dauphin Island Sea Lab Tom Calnan: Texas GLO

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Gulf of Mexico Alliance Habitat Conservation and Restoration Team

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  1. Gulf of Mexico Alliance Habitat Conservation and Restoration Team Gulf of Mexico Alliance Data Management Council Meeting 4-5 February 2010 St. Petersburg, Florida

  2. State Leads • Shelley Alexander: Florida DEP • Mary Austill Lott: Dauphin Island Sea Lab • Tom Calnan: Texas GLO • Gregory DuCote: Louisiana DNR (co-chair) • Carl Ferraro: Alabama DCNR • Cherie O’Brien: Texas PWD • George Ramseur: Mississippi DMR • James Pahl, Ph.D.: Louisiana OCPR (co-chair) • Randy Runnels, Ph.D.: Florida DEP • Barbara Viskup: Mississippi DEQ

  3. Federal Co-Facilitators and Grant Administrators • Drew Puffer: EPA • Heather Young: NOAA • Gulf of Mexico Foundation • Quenton Dokken, Ph.D. • Ryan Fikes • Bobbi Reed

  4. 2009-2013 GAP 2 Work Plan • Policy Issues Regarding Habitat Conservation and Restoration • Examination of the Federal Standard • DATA NEEDS: Improved Valuation of Environmental Benefits (EIA et al.) • PRODUCTS: Reports w/recommendations • DECISION: Best venue for posting to ensure widespread dissemination given target audience

  5. 2009-2013 GAP 2 Work Plan • Policy Issues Regarding Habitat Conservation and Restoration • Coordination of Federal Funding to Gulf Programs • DATA NEEDS: Details on agency funding programs, schedules and budgets • PRODUCTS: Reports w/recommendations • DECISION: Best venue for posting to ensure widespread dissemination given target audience

  6. 2009-2013 GAP 2 Work Plan • Technical Issues Regarding Habitat Conservation and Restoration • Sea-level Rise Impacts • DATA NEEDS: Monitoring data, updated bathymetry/topography, spatially explicit geologic uplift/subsidence, abiotic/biotic accretion data, management actions, Gulf-wide inventory of modeling efforts, inventory of model technologies

  7. 2009-2013 GAP 2 Work Plan • Technical Issues Regarding Habitat Conservation and Restoration • Sea-level Rise Impacts • DATA NEEDS: Multiple • PRODUCTS: Sea-level rise modeling products • Two locations to date • Jefferson County, TX • Grand Bay NERR, MS • Geospatial data (incl. metadata) • Reports

  8. Initial Condition, Northern Portion of Study AreaGrand Bay NERR

  9. A1B-Max 2100, Northern Portion of Study Area, Grand Bay NERR SLR Plus Subsidence Predicted to Exceed Brackish Accretion

  10. 2009-2013 GAP 2 Work Plan • Technical Issues Regarding Habitat Conservation and Restoration • Sea-level Rise Impacts • DATA NEEDS: Multiple • PRODUCTS: Sea-level rise modeling products • DECISION: Best venue for posting products to ensure widespread dissemination given target audience

  11. SLAMM Viewer

  12. 2009-2013 GAP 2 Work Plan • Technical Issues Regarding Habitat Conservation and Restoration • Valuation of Ecosystem Benefits • DATA NEEDS: Multiple • PRODUCTS: On hold • DECISION: Pending engagement strategy with EIA Best venue for posting products to ensure widespread dissemination given target audience

  13. 2009-2013 GAP 2 Work Plan • Gulf Regional Sediment Management Master Plan • DATA NEEDS: Mapping data (EIA) Sediment transport data

  14. Focus: Sediment Resources

  15. Gulf of Mexico Processes

  16. 2009-2013 GAP 2 Work Plan • Gulf Regional Sediment Management Master Plan • DATA NEEDS: Multiple • PRODUCTS: Report Other products possible (e.g. budgets)

  17. Focus: Sediment Resources

  18. 2009-2013 GAP 2 Work Plan • Gulf Regional Sediment Management Master Plan • DATA NEEDS: Multiple • PRODUCTS: Report Other products possible (e.g. budgets) • DECISION: Best venue for posting products to ensure widespread dissemination given target audience

  19. Mobile District RSM Program

  20. Focus: Information Management

  21. 2009-2013 GAP 2 Work Plan • Demonstrating the Reversal of Trends in Ecosystem Distribution and Services • DATA NEEDS: Geospatial layers of conservation/restoration activities from the states

  22. Map of LA Restoration Efforts

  23. GoM Foundation Sites

  24. 2009-2013 GAP 2 Work Plan • Demonstrating the Reversal of Trends in Ecosystem Distribution and Services • DATA NEEDS: Geospatial data • PRODUCTS: Coordinated analysis of spatial distribution of habitat and extrapolated ecosystem services • Geospatial data • Reports w/recommendations

  25. 2009-2013 GAP 2 Work Plan • Demonstrating the Reversal of Trends in Ecosystem Distribution and Services • DATA NEEDS: Geospatial data • PRODUCTS: Coordinated analysis • DECISION: Who is this work coordinated with? Best venue for posting to ensure widespread dissemination given target audience

  26. Potential for Annual Work Plans • Fund Gulf Ecological Management Sites Community-based Restoration Program (GEMS-CRP) efforts Gulf-wide • More vigorously pursue existing Tier 2 policy and technical goals • Improved communication of efforts and results • Provide dedicated source of funding directly to States for conservation and restoration efforts

  27. Measures of Success over the Next Five Years • Reduced redundancy of data collection and data management efforts (CARL)

  28. 2009-2010 Annual Work Plan • Federal Standard Working Session, La Pavillon Hotel, New Orleans LA, 14-15 October 2009 • Freshwater Inflows Workshop, 8-10 February 2010, Corpus Christi TX • Additional Sea Level Rise Modeling Efforts with Community Resilience PIT • TNC Locations tba • NWF Locations in Louisiana • NOAA and USFWS Locations Gulf-wide • Coordinate SLR Technical Issues w/EIA PIT • Financial Support of GEMS • Completion of draft GRSMMP

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