U.S. Department of the Interior U.S. Geological Survey MACOORA 4 th Annual Meeting Understanding the Coastal Ocean: Partnerships for a Changing World-- USGS perspective Portsmouth, VA November 17, 2009 Eric F. Vowinkel, Ph.D. United States Geological Survey New Jersey Water Science Center

= Perfect together

USGS Science Strategy:  Understanding ecosystems and predicting ecosystem change  Climate variability and change  Energy and minerals for America’s future  National Hazards risk and resilience assessment program  The role of environment and wildlife in human health  A water census for the United States

How can USGS help MACOORA? Partnerships  Member of MACOORA  Co-PI on MARCOOS 2010  National Water Quality Monitoring Council  National Monitoring Network for Coastal Waters and Their Tributaries  Chesapeake Bay  CBOS/CIPS  East Coast IOOS Regional Associations Water Quality Workshop 1/25-26/2010 Keys to success  Connecting data from watersheds, estuaries, and coastal areas  Sharing of data streams  Integrating data from different agencies and sampling strategies (discrete, probabilistic, continuous, satellite)  Creating and sharing tools to synthesize and interpret data  Envisioning and using new technologies to collect da ta

Successful Partnerships CBOS-CIPS  CIPS forecasts require near-real time, and eventually verified, data for validation and subsequent evaluation, respectively.  The USGS is to provide river flow and tidal water-level data for selected major tributaries in the CB for these purposes.  Recently DM staff from USGS, MACOORA, and CBOS (NOAA NCBO) developed a prototype approach to obtain these data from USGS NWIS Instadata and IDA database services.  This prototype approach helps resolve a long-standing challenge—t o merge?, incorporate? near-real time and verified data from the USEPA-USGS National Water- Quality Monitoring Network stations into? with? data from the emerging IOOS tidal and ocean monitoring networks.

Delaware Basin Demonstration Project

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