Chesapeake Monitoring Cooperative Presentation Overview Project goals Project

Chesapeake Monitoring Cooperative

Presentation Overview • • Project goals Project partners Project building blocks How you can engage!

Goals of Project • Integrate non-traditional data into Chesapeake Bay watershed health assessments • Provide technical support and resources to volunteer and non-traditional monitoring groups • Build a database that is the central hub for non-traditional data in the Bay watershed that is user friendly and accessible to monitors and data users • Work with the CBP Partnership to augment their data collection efforts.

Project Partners

Chesapeake Monitoring Cooperative • Integrate data of known quality collected by diverse monitoring partners to better understand the health of Bay watershed, which will help inform watershed management decisions and restoration efforts. • 6 Year Initiative - EPA

CMC Building Blocks Mantras: • All data of known quality have use • Must match intended use with quality of data collected

Continuum of Vol. Mon Data Collection Education/ Awareness Assess Impairment Legal & Regulatory Increasing Time | Rigor | QA | Expense $$

CMC Building Blocks Learn about needs and current efforts: • Federal & state agencies • Data collection entities Agency • Community organizations Community Interests Bay Health

Chesapeake Monitoring Census Watershed Inventory (600+ entities): • General Information • Monitoring Program Overview (Where? Why? ) • Monitoring Program Design (How? ) • Data Use and Storage • Newsletter Sign-up • Share on Social Media http: //www. surveygizmo. com/s 3/2671540/Chesapeake-Monitoring. Census

CMC Census results (100 + groups) Why do you monitor?

Preliminary site coordinates of nontraditional monitoring Traditional Sites Nontraditional Sites

Prioritization Workshop • Met with State, Federal agencies and non-profit service providers from the watershed to listen to needs.

CMC Building Blocks Data Integrations tools: • Tiered Framework • Data classification rubric • Metadata, metadata

Tiered Framework – Guidance Document TIERS Intended Data Use TIER 1 Education, Environmental Health Screening Environmental Health Report Cards, Environmental Health Screening, Targeting of Management Actions TIER 2 TIER 3 Regulatory Assessments of Water Quality Standards Attainment Hidden Tier Zero – there are data requirements that must be met to be included in this project.

Tiered Framework – Guidance Document TIERS Intended Data Use TIER 1 Education, Environmental Health Screening Environmental Health Report Cards, Environmental Health Screening, Targeting of Management Actions TIER 2 TIER 3 Regulatory Assessments of Water Quality Standards Attainment Hidden Tier Zero – there are data requirements that must be met to be included in this project.

Rubric CMC Database CMC Monitor Tier 1 Non-CMC Monitor Tier 2 Conditional Tier 1 Conditional Tier 2

CMC Building Blocks Monitoring tools (TIER 1 & 2): • Study design • Method manuals – Equipment testing/data comparability • Quality Assurance Project Plans • Database

Tier 1 & 2: Types of data collected • Water quality/chemistry • Biological – macroinvertebrates and submerged aquatic vegetation

Data Collection Opportunities Water Quality • Alkalinity • Conductivity • Dissolved Oxygen • Nitrate • Orthophosphate • p. H • Total dissolved solids • Total N • Total P • Water Clarity • Water Temperature Biological • Macroinvertebrates

Comparability: consistent and comparable field and lab methodologies

Tier 1&2 QAPPs & Methods Manuals • • Tidal Non-tidal Macroinvertebrates 2017 we start training!

Database! • Data input • Data output

How can you engage? • Share your data! • Collect data • Connect CMC to community organizations that might be interested in monitoring. • Stay connected!

Data Collection Process Community Interest Communities use data to protect and restore streams Technical Support Study Design Data interpretation Monitoring trainings Data collection & quality verification

Questions? Julie Vastine Alliance for Aquatic Resource Monitoring 717. 245. 1565 vastine@dickinson. edu Chesapeake. Monitoring. Coop. org