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Category : Estuaries
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Condition of the Mid-Atlantic Estuaries
Author: Condition Of The Mid-atlantic Estuaries
Author: W. Michael McCabePublisher:
ISBN: 9780756705060
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 50
Book Description
Chesapeake Bay, Delaware Estuary, and Delmarva coastal estuaries are vital Mid-Atlantic resources. For many years, the EPA has led efforts to protect and restore these estuaries by implementing such laws as the Clean Water Act and by participating in projects like the Chesapeake Bay Program. This peer-reviewed report addresses the questions: Are these protective measures having an impact? What is the current condition of our natural resources? How widespread are ecological problems and what are their probable causes? It breaks new ground in employing the latest scientific tools and by drawing upon carefully designed sampling plans.
Mid-Atlantic Integrated Assessment (MAIA) Estuaries, 1997-98
Author: Mid-Atlantic Integrated Assessment (MAIA) Estuaries, 1997-98
Author: NOAA's Estuarine Eutrophication Survey: Mid-Atlantic region
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Category : Estuarine eutrophication
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
What is the State of the Environment in the Mid-Atlantic Region?
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
Monitoring Ecological Condition at Regional Scales
Author: Shabeg S. SandhuPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401149763
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 593
Book Description
The Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program was created by EPA to develop the capability for tracking the changing conditions of our natural resources and to give environmental policy the advantages ofa sound scientific understanding of trends. Former EPA Administrators recognized early that contemporary monitoring programs could not even quantify simple unknowns like the number of lakes suffering from acid rain, let along determine if national control policies were benefiting these lakes. Today, adding to acidification impacts are truly complex problems such as determining the effects of climate change, of increases in ultraviolet light, toxic chemicals, eutrophication and critical habitat loss. Also today, the Government Performance and Results Act seeks to have agencies develop performance standards based on results rather than simply on levels of programmatic activities. The charge to EMAP of ecosystems is, therefore, the same today as it was a with respect to measuring the condition decade ago. We welcome the increasing urgency for sound scientific monitoring methods and data by efforts to protect and improve the environment. Systematic nationwide monitoring of natural resources is more than anyone program can accomplish, however. In an era of declining budgets, it is crucial that monitoring programs at all levels of government coordinate and share environmental data. EMAP resources are dwarfed by the more than $500 million spent on federal monitoring activities each year.
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