Great Lakes Regional Collaboration

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Great Lakes Regional Collaboration

• Indicators and Information Strategy Report

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Recommendations

• Develop a Great Lakes Information Coordination
  Council
• Monitoring
• Information Management
• Indicators
• Research
• Communications

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Recommendations

• Implement Global Earth Observing System of
  Systems (GEOSS) in Great Lakes
• Monitoring program coordination
• Indicator testing
• Increase Research Funding
• Great Lakes Research Office
• Facilitate Information Exchange
• Network of Networks

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Recommendations

• Establish Great Lakes Communication Workgroup

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Near Term Actions

• GLICC 2007
• Research Strategy 2007
• Communication Strategy 2008
• Implement GLOS Business Plan 2008
• Adopt Information Management Protocols 2010
• Develop and Implement Indicators - 2010

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I I Interface with LMMCC

• LMMCC is very similar to proposed GLICC for Lake
  Michigan
• Monitoring Coordination, Database Management,
  Indicators, Communication all within LMMCC
  Mission purview.
• - Should LMMCC add research strategy development
  for various workgroups to mission?
• - Make sure our resource based workgroups (Air,
  Fisheries, ANS, GW, Land Use, Tribs, Open Lake,
  Rec Water, Wetlands, Wildlife) align with GLRC
  issue strategy teams (Aquatic invasives, AOCs,
  Coastal Health, Habitat, Non Point, Sustainable
  Development, Toxix Pollution)

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I I interface with LMMCC

• Implement GEOSS
• Workgroups should consider GLOS business plan and
  provide input
• Workgroups should consider Lake Michigan
  real-time test sites
• Workgroups should develop coordinated networks

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I I Interface with LMMCC

• Increase research funding
• LMMCC workgroups develop research strategies?
• Facilitate Information Exchange
• Workgroups help develop and test indicators
• Workgroups help implement metadata standards
• Workgroups help develop coordinated databases
• Build on work already being done by National
  Water Quality Monitoring Council and Methods and
  Data Comparability Board (National Monitoring
  Network, National Environmental Methods Index,
  Water Quality Data Elements)

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I I Interface with LMMCC

• Establish Great Lakes Communications Workgroup
• LMMCC Outreach and Collaboration workgroup
  continue its effort and inform Great Lakes work
  group once formed

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Bottom Line

• LMMCC well poised to lead the way on this effort
• LMMCC should take initiative to follow up on all
  strategy team reports and integrate them into the
  various working groups
• Dont wait for funding that may never come move
  ahead