REGIONAL COORDINATION

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PACIFIC NORTHWEST AQUATIC MONITORING PARTNERSHIP
Coordination Team Jen Bayer, jbayer_at_usgs.gov Jacq
ue Schei, jschei_at_usgs.gov
INTRODUCTION The purpose of the Pacific Northwest
Aquatic Monitoring Partnership (PNAMP) is to
provide a forum for coordinating state, federal,
and tribal aquatic habitat and salmonid
monitoring programs in the Pacific Northwest.
Improved communication, shared resources and
data, and compatible monitoring efforts provide
increased scientific credibility, cost-effective
use of limited funds and greater accountability
to stakeholders. PNAMP provides leadership
through the development and the advancement of
recommendations and agency level agreements that
are considered for adoption by the participating
agencies. Below are short overviews of current
tasks. PNAMP work is the result of almost
entirely voluntary in-kind contributions from
experts around the region - please consider
joining us.

• MONITORING DESIGN
• PNAMP Watershed Monitoring Workgroup
• Demonstrate regional aquatic status trends
  monitoring design (using the EPAs EMAP
  probabilistic GRTS design) via Integrated Status
  Trend Demonstration Project, using Lower
  Columbia River ESU.
• Intensively Monitored Watersheds (IMWs)
• Recommend a strategy
• to implement IMWs
• Serve as clearinghouse
• for results of ongoing and
• planning of new IMWs
• Determine what current
• IMWs address and
• identify any gaps
• PNAMP Invasive Species Workgroup
• Coordinate existing aquatic and riparian
  monitoring with invasive/nonnative species
  surveys
• DATA MANAGEMENT
• PNAMP Data Management/ Metadata Workgroup

Lower Columbia River demonstration area

• REGIONAL COORDINATION
• High Level Indicators
• Draft white paper to recommend a core set
  indicators that can be shared among all types of
  monitoring
• Protocol Manager Data Dictionary
• Develop a regional data dictionary for monitoring
  template and content development underway
• Develop a protocol catalogue tool (Protocol
  Manager) currently conducting beta version
  evaluation
• PNAMP Formal Recommendations
• NED Best Practices for Reporting Locational and
  Time Related Data
• Salmonid Field Protocols Handbook
• Data Management Needs for Regional Project
  Tracking to Support Implementation and
  Effectiveness Monitoring (Katz et al, NOAA
  Fisheries)
• Methods for the collection and analysis of
  benthic macroinvertebrate assemblages in wadeable
  streams of the Pacific Northwest

• METHODS
• PNAMP Estuary Monitoring Workgroup
• Compile and collaborate on protocols currently
  in use in estuaries review various protocols,
  including Columbia River and Estuary Protocols,
  Puget Sound Protocols and Guidelines, and Oregon
  Watershed Enhancement Boards Estuary Assessment
• Review results of pilot inventory effort and
  update and expand information for estuary
  monitoring programs
• PNAMP Watershed Monitoring Workgroup
• Recommend habitat protocols (watershed assessment
  methods) - first manuscript from Protocol
  Comparison Project recently published.
• PNAMP Fish Population Monitoring Workgroup
• Review and catalog tagging, telemetry, and
  marking protocols in the region publish a
  technical guide
• Conduct gap analysis and protocol comparison
  tests
• PNAMP Project Effectiveness Monitoring Workgroup
• Identify protocols shared by state agencies and
  facilitate discussion about formal
  recommendations
• Determine how to categorize current projects and
  measure the quality of the programs