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USGS beach research Oceans Research Priority Plan (ORPP) in the Great Lakes

USGS beach research Oceans Research Priority Plan (ORPP) in the Great Lakes. Oceans Research Priority Plan (ORPP) in the Great Lakes. GOAL

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USGS beach research Oceans Research Priority Plan (ORPP) in the Great Lakes

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  1. USGS beach research Oceans Research Priority Plan(ORPP) in the Great Lakes

  2. Oceans Research Priority Plan(ORPP) in the Great Lakes • GOAL • Advance the science of monitoring and assessing recreational water quality to provide beach managers with reliable, science based information to make well-informed beach closure or advisory decisions. • Improve and apply rapid methods and predictive models • Identify processes that affect the occurrence of FIB and selected pathogens • Improve communication and information sharing on monitoring and scientific advances

  3. Oceans Research Priority Plan(ORPP) in the Great Lakes • 2008 Tasks • Communication and collaboration • Retrospective analysis • Improve existing models • Identity the potential for regional models • Investigate coastal processes for non-point source beaches • Test analytical methods

  4. Retrospective analysis • GOAL • Develop a GIS-based compilation to characterize Great Lakes beaches and compare from place to place • Start to compile data in 2008 • Physical and hydrogeological characteristics • Orientation to weather patterns • Sanitary survey data • Model variables

  5. Improve existing models GOAL Provide more accurate responses and operate in a real-time fashion, expand to other beaches • Ohio and Indiana beaches in 2008 • Install equipment and telemetry • Add afternoon sampling • Determine effects of sunlight • Monitor model performance • Develop new models for 2009 • Identify the potential for regional models

  6. Coastal processes for non-point source beaches GOAL Better understand the physical and biological processes that affect recreational water quality Ohio and Wisconsin beaches in 2008 • Install GW monitoring equipment • Collect lake and GW samples for microbial water quality • Measure physical parameters • Compile data on rainfall, wave height, lake level, current direction

  7. Test analytical methods GOALS Modify and test rapid methods to ensure consistency in obtaining and interpreting results at several beaches and enable transfer of technologies to local agencies Apply other methods to document the dynamics of E. coli and pathogen concentrations at beaches

  8. Test analytical methods In 2008, identify methods that address goals Weekly and rainfall event samples at 6 Lake Erie beaches and several beaches in Indiana • QPCR for enterococci, E. coli, and Bacteroides • IMS/ATP for enterococci and E. coli Other samples and methods—TBD • E. coli phylotyping and other methods for community profiling • Pathogen and microbial source tracking methods

  9. Primary Research Team Donna Francy, Ohio Water Science Center Richard Whitman, Great Lakes Science Center Sheridan Haack, Michigan Water Science Center Steve Corsi, Wisconsin Water Science Center

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