Gulf of Mexico Alliance Habitat Conservation and Restoration Team Gulf of Mexico Alliance Data Management Council Meeting 4-5 February 2010 St. Petersburg, Florida
State Leads Shelley Alexander: Florida DEP Mary Austill Lott: Dauphin Island Sea Lab Tom Calnan: Texas GLO Gregory DuCote: Louisiana DNR (co-chair) Carl Ferraro: Alabama DCNR Cherie O’Brien: Texas PWD George Ramseur: Mississippi DMR James Pahl, Ph.D.: Louisiana OCPR (co-chair) Randy Runnels, Ph.D.: Florida DEP Barbara Viskup: Mississippi DEQ
Federal Co-Facilitators and Grant Administrators Drew Puffer: EPA Heather Young: NOAA Gulf of Mexico Foundation – Quenton Dokken, Ph.D. – Ryan Fikes – Bobbi Reed
GAP 2 Work Plan Policy Issues Regarding Habitat Conservation and Restoration – Examination of the Federal Standard DATA NEEDS: Improved Valuation of Environmental Benefits (EIA et al.) PRODUCTS:Reports w/recommendations DECISION:Best venue for posting to ensure widespread dissemination given target audience
GAP 2 Work Plan Policy Issues Regarding Habitat Conservation and Restoration – Coordination of Federal Funding to Gulf Programs DATA NEEDS: Details on agency funding programs, schedules and budgets PRODUCTS:Reports w/recommendations DECISION:Best venue for posting to ensure widespread dissemination given target audience
GAP 2 Work Plan Technical Issues Regarding Habitat Conservation and Restoration – Sea-level Rise Impacts DATA NEEDS: Monitoring data, updated bathymetry/topography, spatially explicit geologic uplift/subsidence, abiotic/biotic accretion data, management actions, Gulf-wide inventory of modeling efforts, inventory of model technologies
GAP 2 Work Plan Technical Issues Regarding Habitat Conservation and Restoration – Sea-level Rise Impacts DATA NEEDS: Multiple PRODUCTS:Sea-level rise modeling products – Two locations to date Jefferson County, TX Grand Bay NERR, MS – Geospatial data (incl. metadata) – Reports
Initial Condition, Northern Portion of Study Area Grand Bay NERR
A1B-Max 2100, Northern Portion of Study Area, Grand Bay NERR SLR Plus Subsidence Predicted to Exceed Brackish Accretion
GAP 2 Work Plan Technical Issues Regarding Habitat Conservation and Restoration – Sea-level Rise Impacts DATA NEEDS: Multiple PRODUCTS:Sea-level rise modeling products DECISION:Best venue for posting products to ensurewidespread dissemination given target audience
SLAMM Viewer
GAP 2 Work Plan Technical Issues Regarding Habitat Conservation and Restoration – Valuation of Ecosystem Benefits DATA NEEDS: Multiple PRODUCTS:On hold DECISION:Pending engagement strategy with EIA Best venue for posting products to ensurewidespread dissemination given target audience
GAP 2 Work Plan Gulf Regional Sediment Management Master Plan – DATA NEEDS: Mapping data (EIA) Sediment transport data
Focus: Sediment Resources
Gulf of Mexico Processes
GAP 2 Work Plan Gulf Regional Sediment Management Master Plan – DATA NEEDS: Multiple – PRODUCTS:Report Other products possible (e.g. budgets)
Focus: Sediment Resources
GAP 2 Work Plan Gulf Regional Sediment Management Master Plan – DATA NEEDS: Multiple – PRODUCTS:Report Other products possible (e.g. budgets) – DECISION:Best venue for posting products to ensure widespread dissemination given target audience
Mobile District RSM Program
Focus: Information Management
GAP 2 Work Plan Demonstrating the Reversal of Trends in Ecosystem Distribution and Services – DATA NEEDS: Geospatial layers of conservation/restoration activities from the states
Map of LA Restoration Efforts
GoM Foundation Sites
GAP 2 Work Plan Demonstrating the Reversal of Trends in Ecosystem Distribution and Services – DATA NEEDS: Geospatial data – PRODUCTS:Coordinated analysis of spatial distribution of habitat and extrapolated ecosystem services Geospatial data Reports w/recommendations
GAP 2 Work Plan Demonstrating the Reversal of Trends in Ecosystem Distribution and Services – DATA NEEDS: Geospatial data – PRODUCTS:Coordinated analysis – DECISION:Who is this work coordinated with? Best venue for posting to ensure widespread dissemination given target audience
Potential for Annual Work Plans Fund Gulf Ecological Management Sites Community-based Restoration Program (GEMS- CRP) efforts Gulf-wide More vigorously pursue existing Tier 2 policy and technical goals Improved communication of efforts and results Provide dedicated source of funding directly to States for conservation and restoration efforts
Measures of Success over the Next Five Years Reduced redundancy of data collection and data management efforts (CARL)
Annual Work Plan Federal Standard Working Session, La Pavillon Hotel, New Orleans LA, October 2009 Freshwater Inflows Workshop, 8-10 February 2010, Corpus Christi TX Additional Sea Level Rise Modeling Efforts with Community Resilience PIT – TNC Locations tba – NWF Locations in Louisiana – NOAA and USFWS Locations Gulf-wide Coordinate SLR Technical Issues w/EIA PIT Financial Support of GEMS Completion of draft GRSMMP