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• Potential Roles of MASC Monitoring Workgroups
  in the New CBP Structure
• Scott Phillips, USGS and
• Bill Dennison, UMCES

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New CBP Organization

• GAO and Congress
• Target limited resources
• Enhance accountability
• Implementation strategy
• Chesapeake Action Plan
• Align resources and CBP priorities
• Enhance implementation
• Adaptive management
• New Structure

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Streams
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CBP Re-Organization
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Technical Services

• Provide on-going technical and policy assessment,
  using an adaptive-management approach, to support
  Goal Teams and other technical needs of CBP.
• Key functions
• Assessment, data management, modeling,
  monitoring, analysis, and WWW site
• Decision-support and Web-based tools
• Indicators and HR assessment
• Integrated assessments
• Management actions and ecological response

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Adaptive Management

• Ecosystem response to management actions and
  environmental conditions
• Adapt actions as we learn

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Monitoring Workgroups

• Evolve monitoring networks
• Integrated assessments linking tidal/nontidal
  systems
• Develop stories
• Management actions and ecological response
• Newsletters
• Benthic index
• Tidal/nontidal nutrient conditions
• Decision-support and Web-based tools
• Material for COAST
• Targeting approaches

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Monitoring Networks

• Priorities
• Delisting
• Implement
• Indicators
• CBP Monitoring Networks
• Evolve

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Integrated Assessments
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COAST Adaptive-Management Components
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Next Steps

• New Technical Services/Support Team
• Workgroups and roles
• Joint efforts of TMAW and NT WGs
• Monitoring networks
• Integrated assessments linking tidal/nontidal
  systems
• Newsletters (this year)
• Decision-support and Web-based tools