INTRODUCTIONS

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INTRODUCTIONS
Tricia Ryan
Victoria Pebbles Roger Gauthier David Knight
Diane Desotelle
Sarah Beaster
Rudy Schoolderman
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MEETING OBJECTIVES
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Twelve Step Needs Assessment Approach
NEEDS ASSESSMENT

• Confirm issues and audience
• Coastal Community Development
• Data Information Integration and Distribution
• Ports and Navigation
• Establish Planning Teams
• Establish Goals and Objectives
• Characterize Audience
• Perform information and literature search

• Select Data Collection Methods
• Determine Audience Sampling Scheme
• Design Pilot and Data Collection Instrument
• Gather and Record Data
• Perform Data Analysis
• Manage Data
• Synthesize Data and Create Report

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Data Information Integration and Distribution

NEEDS

• CONSISTENCY
• COORDINATION COMMUNICATION
• TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE
• OBSERVING MONITORING

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COASTAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

NEEDS

• SUSTAINABLE PLANNING
• DATA AND MODELS FOR BETTER DECISION-MAKING
• WATERSHED (ECOSYSTEM) PLANNING- REGIONAL VISION
• OTHER NEEDS

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Data Information Integration and Distribution

NEEDS

• CONSISTENCY
• COORDINATION COMMUNICATION
• TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE
• OBSERVING MONITORING

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Data Information Integration and Distribution


NEEDS
WHY

• CONSISTENCY
• Data Standards
• Compatibility
• Regional Coordination
• Indicator Development and Implementation

• Local, state, regional organizations use unique
  methods for data collection, management and
  exchange
• Lack of funding poor data management and
  therefore reduced access to data

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Overarching Need CONSISTENCY
Who could address the needs?
What are the specific needs?

How could the needs be addressed?

• Core team of data analysts established (similar
  to Ontarios Land Info Office model).
• All organizations need to cooperate
• GLC - recommend and promote the use of standards,
  communicate and engage stakeholders
• NOAA-CSC provide regional training

• Develop adopt internationally-approved data
  standards for data collection, management, and
  metadata production
• Adopt cross jurisdictional and consistent
  geo-referencing standards
• Develop a geodatabase template for all for data
  collection and management using key attributes.
  Allow for additional data pertinent to specific
  programs/projects

Data Standards

• Ensure data standards are adhered to through
  contracts and funding now and in the future
  Adopt Z39.50 protocols for all metadata tools and
  applications used in the public sector
• Create a regional clearing house of metadata to
  promote its use. Make available on the internet.
• Provide training to organizations on how to use
  the standards.

Regional Coordination

• GLC - establish metadata production requirements
  in US (collection, contracts, grants, etc.)

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Overarching Need CONSISTENCY
Who could address the needs?
What are the specific needs?

How could the needs be addressed?

• Conduct inventory of existing data, how and
  where it is stored, managed, used and accessed
• Conduct a compatibility analysis to determine
  which programs have common monitoring methods,
  data analysis, and reporting efforts.

• NOAA CSC?

Compatibility

• Continue to develop a set of high priority,
  management relevant, scientifically sound
  indicators to assess current conditions, monitor
  progress, and predict future conditions
• Use SOLEC indicators and overlay with the state
  indicators (i.e. required performance measures)
  and find consistencies/discrepancies. Address
  inconsistencies on a regional scale regarding
  monitoring efforts and protocols for each
  indicator.

Indicator Development and Implementation

• NOAA CSC?

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Data Information Integration and Distribution


NEEDS
WHY

• Data is isolated in various organizations
• Restrictions on data sharing within organizations
  (local, state, regional)
• Reduce the re-creating the wheel syndrome
• Share stories of both successes and failures
• Address the lack of communication between data
  collectors and data users

• COORDINATION COMMUNICATION
• Data Sharing Through Regional Coordination
• Partnerships
• Information Management Policies and Guidelines
• Address Gaps between User Groups

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Overarching Need COORDINATION COMMUNICATION
Who could address the needs?
What are the specific needs?

How could the needs be addressed?

• Develop MOUs or other agreements (e.g., Ontario
  Geospatial Data Exchange) between regional,
  state, and local agencies for ease of data
  exchange between groups work to resolve issues
  related to legal data sharing for effective
  partnerships
• Coordinate a centralized clearing house with web
  services for regional data access
• Continue to use GeoSpatial 1-Stop website as data
  clearinghouse, rather than duplicating efforts
• Develop and coordinate a binational working group
  to implement and promote data analysis, modeling,
  visualization tools, and data sharing agreements

Data Sharing Through Regional Coordination

• GLC?
• NOAA or GLC?
• GLC and NOAA-CSC
• GLC and/or IJC

• GLC?
• NOAA-CSC or IJC?

Information Management Policies and Guidelines

• Attract funding specifically for the Great Lakes
  Region with a unified voice.
• Develop and coordinate a committee that works to
  develop relationships and networks to help
  organizations develop consistent principles and
  practices for geospatial data management across
  the region.

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Overarching Need COORDINATION COMMUNICATION
Who could address the needs?
What are the specific needs?

How could the needs be addressed?

• Engage key organizations (federal, state,
  provincial, tribal, local) who are responsible
  for managing data to develop a Great Lakes
  Regional partnership.
• Provide funding and coordination for these
  partnerships to help reduce duplication of
  funding and data collection.
• Develop web-based meetings, conferences,
  workshops to share work, show case successes, and
  strengthen partnerships

• IJC or GLC

Partnerships

• Utilize conferences to bridge the gap between
  data collectors and resource managers, especially
  in regards to product development
• Develop and coordinate a communications work
  group to deliver scientific and technical
  information to the other user groups.

Address Gaps Between User Groups

• NOAA-CSC
• State CZMs

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Data Information Integration and Distribution


NEEDS
WHY

• TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE
• Training and Education
• Product Development

• Local staff expertise varies across the region

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Overarching Need TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE
Who could address the needs?
What are the specific needs?

How could the needs be addressed?

• Provide regional training at Great Lakes
  resource conferences, workshops, etc. on data and
  information management topics for partnerships.
• Develop a Great Lakes Ecosystem Education Program
  to focus on Great Lakes resource management and
  data collection and analysis

• Coordination by GLC and NOAA-CSC
• Other funding mechanisms

Training and Education

• Create and make available detailed bathymetric
  map of Great Lakes including habitat, lake
  bottom, and unique features.
• Provide funding and mapping assistance for
  hi-resolution aerial photography with updates
  every five years.
• Create LIDAR coverage of the Great Lakes in order
  to monitor erosion and shoreline recession
• Develop a suite of easily available mapping
  layers to aid local governments in planning
  decisions (i.e. landviewer)
• Develop databases and provide technical
  assistance to help states track performance
  measures mandated by NOAA-CSC

• NOAA-CSC

Product Development
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Data Information Integration and Distribution


NEEDS
WHY

• OBSERVING MONITORING
• Enhance Observing Systems
• Regional Monitoring Coordination

• Need for better coordination, integration and
  enhancement of observing systems on a lake-wide
  and regional scale
• Incomplete inventories of monitoring programs
• Inconsistencies among various jurisdictions of
  comprehensive basin-wide programs.
• State mandates for monitoring differ

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Overarching Need OBSERVING AND MONITORING
Who could address the needs?
What are the specific needs?

How could the needs be addressed?

• Increase data collection efforts for gauging
  stations and off-shore buoys, as well as
  terrestrial and atmospheric observations.
• Implement and fully fund the Great Lakes
  Observing System (GLOS) to provide integrated
  observations and monitoring.
• Make adequate funds available to support a Great
  Lakes Research Office

Enhance Observing Systems

• Add information to the Great Lakes Monitoring
  Inventory for Canadian programs, site specific
  monitoring, funding sources, and descriptive
  program information and circulate the Inventory
  throughout the monitoring community to ensure
  accuracy.
• Encourage both local and regional participation
  at planned monitoring coordination meetings
• Utilize Lake Committees and LaMPs to organize and
  support binational Great Lakes monitoring
  coordination
• Utilize the duluthstreams.org website as a
  template for sharing monitoring data

Regional Monitoring Coordination
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COASTAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT

NEEDS

• SUSTAINABLE PLANNING
• DATA AND MODELS FOR BETTER DECISION-MAKING
• WATERSHED (ECOSYSTEM) PLANNING - REGIONAL VISION
• OTHER NEEDS

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COASTAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT


NEEDS
WHY

• SUSTAINABLE PLANNING
• Incorporate sustainable planning practices on the
  local level
• Land use education
• Plan Implementation
• Coastal Access

• Local level is where planning happens
• Planning is often more reactive rather than
  proactive in its approach
• Regulation is not the only tool to provide
  awareness and promote sustainable actions
• Fragmentation of planning efforts addressing
  environmental problems with the same underlying
  root causes
• Citizens need to feel a sense of ownership to
  their plans and efforts

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Overarching Need SUSTAINABLE PLANNING
Who could address the needs?
What are the specific needs?

How could the needs be addressed?

• States - CZMs, nonprofits, etc. can link
  communities together
• Regional Transfer knowledge/experiences between
  states
• Regional Provide regional data and technology
  to local level
• Develop incentive programs that promote
  sustainability across all sectors

• GLC could play role in regional transfer of
  knowledge of successful implementation
• SeaGrant
• Regional planning entities

Plan Implementation

• Seagrant
• NOAA-CSC could function as clearing house for
  information
• State natural resource management departments

• Inventory lake access points
• Provide education (physical and visual) on loss
  to public (visual and physical) if lake access
  lost to public access.

Coastal Access
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Overarching Need SUSTAINABLE PLANNING
Who could address the needs?
What are the specific needs?

How could the needs be addressed?

• Coordination at the Regional Level Leadership at
  the Local Level
• Demonstrate societal benefits of sustainable
  planning
• Transfer knowledge/experiences between states

Incorporate sustainable planning practices on the
local level

• Great Lakes Commission transfer of knowledge
  between states
• CSC has MOA with EPA Smart Growth
• NEMO-SeaGrant programs work with leadership on
  the local level

• Education of local boards, commissions, task
  forces to promote sustainable development in
  coastal communities through land use planning and
  implementation of such plans

• NEMO-SeaGrant programs in place
• CSC would need to define niche that is consistent
  with wishes of state partners and coastal
  communities

Land use education
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COASTAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT


NEEDS
WHY

• DATA AND MODELS FOR BETTER DECISION MAKING
• LGUs need ease of access to data and tools
• LGUs need education on use of data and tools
• Simplified models adapted from science-based
  research
• Economic analysis of sustainable development to
  help quantify public benefits from sustainable
  action

• Land use decision-making is at the local level
• LGUs vary widely in technical capacity
• Need information to account for cumulative and
  secondary impacts of actions
• Low sense of urgency and lack of public awareness
  of problems (i.e., nonpoint source pollution)
• Cost/benefit analysis will help measure public
  benefit from sustainable actions

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Overarching Need DATA AND MODELS FOR BETTER
DECISION-MAKING
Who could address the needs?
What are the specific needs?

How could the needs be addressed?
LGUs need ease of access and education on data
and tools

• Organize a network of planning and zoning
  officials to compare/contrast commonalities in
  Coastal Community Planning
• Overcome perception that LGUs are so unique that
  they need to re-create the wheel
• Offering of technical assistance to LGUs
• Training in use of available data and tools

• Academia level research and science is there it
  now needs to be produced as a practical tool that
  can be used on the local level.
• Implement NOAA models and capabilities to assist
  decision-making and policy development to the
  local level with tools they can use

Simplified models from science-based research

• NOAA-CSC relate NOAA capabilities to local
  setting
• Sea Grant translate academic research to
  practical applied setting

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Overarching Need DATA AND MODELS FOR BETTER
DECISION-MAKING
Who could address the needs?
What are the specific needs?

How could the needs be addressed?

• Fund research on economic benefits of
  sustainable development (maintaining eco-system
  services such as clean water, recreation
  opportunities etc.) and provide results to the
  public

Economic analysis of sustainable development to
help quantify public benefits from sustainable
action

• GLC-CSC could spearhead research and create
  clearing house of research done by other
  institutions

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COASTAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT


NEEDS
WHY

• WATERSHED (ECOSYSTEM) PLANNING
• REGIONAL VISION
• Unified planning and land use management
  coordination on an regionally (ecosystem) level
• Leadership on the local level
• Foster inter-jurisdictional communication and
  data collection
• Monitoring/assessment of land use planning and
  preservation efforts

• Coordinate regionally lead locally
• Integrating watershed planning with community
  land use planning efforts is a benefit to the
  Great Lakes system as a whole
• Regional data collected locally is incompatible
  and incomplete
• Monitoring is primary need to quantify successes
  and impacts of planning efforts

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Overarching Need WATERSHED (ECOSYSTEM) PLANNING
REGIONAL VISION
Who could address the needs?
What are the specific needs?

How could the needs be addressed?

• Clearly identify watershed needs on a basin and
  regional level. Establish goals and
  authority/leadership or chain of responsibility
  to address this.
• Establishment of Great Lakes vision what the
  management goals are. ID the societal goals
• Address multiple sources of stresses through an
  eco-system based approach rather than managing
  individual sources of stress of specific species.
  
• Engage divers array of groups to maintain
  interest, provide education and gain a regional
  sense of ownership

Unified planning and land use management
coordination on a regional (ecosystem) level

• Great Lakes Collaboration
• IJC bi-national research coordination plan
• Executive Order Task Force

• Marshall the 26 GL Basin MPOs and RPOs to
  implement basin-wide sustainable land development
  programs.
• Train tomorrows leaders and professionals.
• Provide technical, planning and process
  assistance to communities.

Leadership on the local level
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Overarching Need WATERSHED (ECOSYSTEM) PLANNING
REGIONAL VISION
Who could address the needs?
What are the specific needs?

How could the needs be addressed?

• Provide for bi-national support for funding and
  implementation of efforts to set standards and
  coordination of data collection (see data
  integration and information distribution issue
  area)
• Develop indicators to evaluate protection and
  restoration efforts to stressors
• Coordinate a monitoring program to determine
  basin-wide progress toward sustainable goals

• GLOS
• Canada-Ontario Agreement
• IOS
• IJC Bi-national research coordination plan

Monitoring/assessment of land use planning and
preservation efforts

• Co-host regional land use education workshops
  and conferences within the regional ecosystems to
  bring LGUs together.
• Share success stories
• Provide a web-based link for communication and
  information from a Great Lakes Regional
  perspective (i.e. duluthstreams.org)

Foster inter-jurisdictional communication and
data collection
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COASTAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT


NEEDS
WHY

• OTHER NEEDS
• Local assistance in grant writing and grant
  management
• Connect research community with grants community
  to promote more focused research
• Assistance in identifying coastal natural
  resources among local jurisdictions and habitat
  restoration priorities

• LGUs not effective in grants writing and
  management
• Lack of awareness of existing research leads to
  funding of projects that have already taken place
  elsewhere
• Focus has been on water quality and quantity and
  less on habitat
• Lack of resources (people and funding)

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Overarching Need OTHER NEEDS
Who could address the needs?
What are the specific needs?

How could the needs be addressed?

• Provide training and guidance in writing grants
  for land use planning and implementation (i.e.,
  development of ordinances, education tools,
  incentive programs, etc.)

Local assistance in grant writing and grant
management

• Provide for regional scale of natural resource
  inventories
• Provide functional value analysis of the natural
  resource inventories to help LGUs prioritize land
  use tools for the resource (i.e., land
  acquisition, transfer development rights, best
  management practices, etc.)
• Restore coastal habitats in cooperation with LGUs

Assistance in identifying coastal natural
resources among local jurisdictions and habitat
restoration priorities
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Overarching Need OTHER NEEDS
Who could address the needs?
What are the specific needs?

How could the needs be addressed?
Connect research community with grants community
to promote more focused research

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TARGET AUDIENCES FOR CONSIDERATION

• State and regional level
• State Agencies, CZM Managers, Regional
  Organizations/Associations
• State/Local Assistance
• Universities
• Regional Development Commissions/MPOs
• Local end users
• LGU Staff
• Elected officials
• Citizen groups
• Non-Profits

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DATA COLLECTION METHODS

• Surveys - Individuals respond to printed
  questions
• Internet based
• Mail
• Focus Groups - Interactive exchange between a
  interviewer/facilitator and a group of people.
  Typically the discussion is guided by the
  facilitator according to a preplanned set of
  questions.
• Face to face
• Conference call
• Internet based

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COMPARISON OF DATA COLLECTION METHODS