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Great Lakes Cooperative Science and Monitoring Initiative (CSMI)

Great Lakes Cooperative Science and Monitoring Initiative (CSMI). Laurie Wood, Environment Canada. – and –. Judy Beck, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. 1. CSMI. Earlier presentations: GLWQA & CSMI 101 LAMPs Examples (Lake Sturgeon, Integrated lakewide ecological assessment )

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Great Lakes Cooperative Science and Monitoring Initiative (CSMI)

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  1. Great Lakes Cooperative Science and Monitoring Initiative (CSMI) Laurie Wood, Environment Canada • – and – Judy Beck, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 1

  2. CSMI • Earlier presentations: • GLWQA & CSMI 101 • LAMPs • Examples (Lake Sturgeon, Integrated lakewide ecological assessment) • Some more history • Summary of last CSMI cycle • Challenges – Lessons Learned

  3. Summary • Year of last intensive field work • LAMP Science Priority development • Key research and monitoring priorities • Bi-national Coordination • Reporting out • Lessons Learned

  4. Lake Ontario

  5. Lake Ontario • Last CSMI Field Work Year: 2013 • Priority Development: Series of Workshops – Approval by Management Committee • Key Research Priorities: • Status of lower food web • Nearshore to offshore movement (nutrients & pollutants) • Lake trout assessment • Benthic surveys • Ecosystem models • Binational Coordination- cooperative efforts of USEPA (Region 2), EC (Water Science & Technology), NYDEC, MOE,MNR w/ assistance of IJC’s Council of Great Lakes Research Managers • Reporting: 23 papers were published in supplement issue of Journal of Great Lakes Research (2012) • Lessons Learned: timing of reporting, challenge of compiling synthesized information for decision making

  6. Lake Erie

  7. Lake Erie • Last CSMI Field Work Year: 2009 (2014 ) • Priority Development: LAMP developed science needs, priorities developed at Lake Erie Millennium Network workshop, LAMP finalized list of priorities, approval by Management Committee • Key Research Priorities: Nutrients! • Binational Coordination: Via the Lake Erie Millennium Network and the LAMP Working Group • Reporting: Ad hoc presentations, papers (no synthesis report) • Lessons Learned: importance of communication/coordination/collaboration and compilation of key results

  8. Lake Huron

  9. Lake Huron • Last CSMI Field Work Year: 2012 • Priority Development: One binational workshop and Canadian and US domestic workshops – approval by Four Party Managers • Key Research Priorities: Nearshore ecosystems (food-web changes, nutrient loading/shunt, baseline conditions, open water benthic and pelagic ecosystems (nutrient cycling and movement, AIS, contaminants) • Binational Coordination: One binational meeting. EC not involved, no follow-up, no coordinator (US or Canadian) in place. • Reporting: Contractor for science synthesis used for planning, no coordinated reporting to-date. • Lessons Learned: Planning process worked well, but coordination of activities and reporting/synthesis more difficult

  10. Lake Michigan

  11. Lake Michigan • CSMI Field Work Years: 2005, 2010, next 2015- based on 1994/95 Lake Michigan Mass Balance field year base line • Priority Development: since 1999, Lake Michigan Monitoring Coordination Council, first ecosystem based council to coordinate and support consistent, scientifically defensible monitoring methods and strategies and plan for CSMI year • Key Research Priorities: Understanding Watershed to Near Shore to Off Shore linkages, food web changes • Binational Coordination: Canada vessel and samples taken • Reporting: Annual Reports “mention” and State of Lake Michigan Conference, Lake Michigan Wiki site • Lessons Learned: 1) Funding and field year work ,often not aligned,2)  lack of clear cause and effect data 3) more leveraging needed for each CSMI year 4) more, quicker reporting needed- on line as well as LAMP reports

  12. Lake Superior

  13. Lake Superior • Last CSMI Field Work Year: 2011 • Priority Development: 1) 2009 Lake Superior Coordinating Monitoring Workshop 2) LSWG Issue committee for priorities 3) finalized by LAMP co-chairs then to Task Force • Key Research Priorities: Food web/ fisheries, chemicals, AIS, tributaries, climate change • Binational Coordination: cooperative efforts (USEPA (Region 5), EC (Water Science & Technology), State and Provincial agencies and organizations) • Reporting: Preliminary high-level results reported to LAMP early 2012 – Fall 2013 Workshop (Duluth). 2010 International Conference – Special Issue of Aquatic Ecosystem Health & Management (results of 2005/2006 & 2010) • Lessons Learned: • Herculean Task! • Integration of WQ and Fisheries – it can be done! • Coalition of the willing • Timing of reporting remains a challenge

  14. DISCUSSION

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