Opportunities for the Gulf Research Program : monitoring ecosystem restoration and deep water environments - summary of a workshop / Kim Waddell and Steve Olson, rapporteurs.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Waddell, Kim, minute taker.

Olsen, Steven, minute taker.

Gulf Research Program, issuing body.

National Academy of Sciences (U.S.), issuing body.

National Academy of Engineering, issuing body.

Institute of Medicine (U.S.), issuing body.

National Research Council (U.S.), issuing body.

Conference Name:

Opportunity Analysis Workshop for Environmental Monitoring (2014 : New Orleans, Louisiana), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental monitoring--Mexico, Gulf of.

Environmental monitoring.

Marine ecology--Research--Mexico, Gulf of.

Marine ecology.

Gulf of America.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (52 pages)

Place of Publication:

Washington, District of Columbia : The National Academies Press, 2015.

Summary:

"Environmental monitoring in the Gulf of Mexico poses extensive challenges and significant opportunities. Multiple jurisdictions manage this biogeographically and culturally diverse region, whose monitoring programs tend to be project-specific by design and funding. As a result, these programs form more of a monitoring patchwork then a network. At the same time, the Gulf monitoring community faces a unique opportunity to organize and think differently about monitoring - including how best to allocate and manage the resources for this large marine ecosystem and its communities - as a result of the infusion of resources for environmental restoration and related activities after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill.Opportunities for the Gulf Research Program: Monitoring Ecosystem Restoration and Deep Water Environments summarizes a Gulf Research Program workshop held on September 3-4, 2014 in New Orleans, Louisiana. The workshop gathered about 40 participants from the energy industry, state and federal government, academia, and nongovernmental organizations to examine two broad issues that were seen as time-sensitive opportunities in light of significant investments in the Gulf for restoration and accelerating development of energy resources in the deep Gulf: monitoring ecosystem restoration and deep water environments. As participants explored potential opportunities for the Program to consider, they noted the essential role that communication and outreach play in successful monitoring, and the importance of applying an ecosystem service approach to monitoring, forging partnerships among stakeholders, and supporting efforts to organize and manage monitoring data." -- Source other than Library of Congress.

Contents:

Environmental Monitoring Lessons Learned, Needs and Opportunities in the Gulf of Mexico

Monitoring to Support Environmental Restoration

Monitoring Needs in the Deep Gulf of Mexico

Workshop Synopsis

References

Appendix A Workshop Agenda

Appendix B Speaker Biographies

Appendix C Attendees' Roster

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF cover (ebrary, viewed March 19, 2015).

ISBN:

9780309368117

0309368111

9780309368094

030936809X