20-24 September 2004 Adam’s Mark Hotel Denver, Colorado USA

1. CAMESA and The Monitoring Science and Technology Symposium:Unifying Knowledge for Sustainability in the Western Hemisphere 20-24 September 2004 Adam’s Mark Hotel Denver, Colorado USA Sidney Draggan, Ph.D. Senior Science and Science Policy Advisor U.S. EPA / Office of Research and Development

2. EPA-Based Sources • Ecological Research Strategy • provide scientific understanding needed to measure, model, maintain, or restore, at multiple scales, the integrity and sustainability of ecosystems now and in the future; • Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (EMAP) Research Strategy • pursue all monitoring framework tiers (that is, Index Sites, Geographic Surveys and Landscape Monitoring); • focus on research/demonstration that provides the scientific credibility of the monitoring network; • based on knowledge necessary for success, build a national monitoring network;

3. EPA-Based Sources • The Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (EMAP) • research program to develop the tools to monitor and assess status and trends of ecological resources; • EMAP's goals: • advance the science of ecological monitoring and ecological risk assessment; • guide national monitoring with improved scientific understanding of ecosystem integrity and dynamics; • develop and demonstrate indicators to monitor the condition of ecological resources: and, investigate multi-tier designs that address the acquisition and analysis of multi-scale data including aggregation across tiers and natural resources.

4. Basis for Cooperation • Commission for Environmental Cooperation • Council Resolution 95-05; • ". . .facilitate cooperation on the conservation, protection and enhancement of the environment in their territories."; • North American Regional Action Plans (NARAPs); • Council of the CEC Council Resolution 99-02; • directed development of a North American Regional Action Plan on Environmental Monitoring and Assessment; • access to, dissemination of relevant, reliable and comparable monitoring information, and sound interpretive assessments crucial to the confirmation and quantification of progress made under other North American Regional Action Plans; and • Government Performance and Results Act.

6. CAMESA • Knowledge-based, non-legally binding forum • Established formally in 2001; • Mission: further development and transfer of monitoring science and technology in the Western Hemisphere; and • Action Area: Facilitate the integration of science-based monitoring and inventory research, approaches, and tools across national and continental scales. • Members • Government, non-governmental, academic and scientific community, private sector, foundations; and • U.S., Mexico, Canada, Brasil, Chile, NAFTA-CEC.

7. U.S.Forest Service; Mexican College of Postgraduate Studies; Brazil's Nature Conservancy Center; Colorado State University; U.S. Geological Survey; Environment Canada's Ecological Monitoring and Assessment Network; Mexican Secretariat of Environment and Natural Resources; U.S. Environmental Protection Agency / Office of Research and Development; Brazil's Agricultural and Forestry Research Organization; Mexico's Ejido El Largo y Anexos; FIPRODEFO-Jalisco State Gov's Trust Fund Partnership for Foresrty Development; Jalisco State Government; Natural Resources Canada-Forests; NAFTA-Commission on Environmental Cooperation; CAMESA Partners

8. Argentina's Secretariat of Natural Resources and Sustainable Development, National Forest Inventory; Brazil's Society for Forestry Research; Instituto Forestal de Chile; Autonomous University of Chih., Mexico; University of Colima, Mexico; University of Guadalajara, Mexico; Mexican National Institute for Forestry and Agriculture Research; State Government of Chih., Mexico; Mexican SEMARNAT's National Forest Inventory Program; Chile Foundation; University of Las Vegas; National Autonomous University, Mexico; University of Washington. CAMESA Partners

9. Symposium Sponsors Rocky Mountain Research Station, USDA-Forest Service Southern Research Station, USDA-Forest Service CONAFOR – Comision Nacional Forestal Research and Development (Science Policy, Planning, Inventory, and Information Branch), USDA-Forest Service Canadian Forest Service Environmental Protection Agency (Office of Research and Development) National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science FIPODEFO – Fideicomiso para la Administracion del Programa de Desarrollo Forestal de Jalisco CONABIO – Comision Nacional para el Conocimiento y Uso de la Biodiversidad Colorado State University INIFAP – Instituto Nacional de Investigaciones Forestales, Agricolas y Pecuarias Received Pending

10. Symposium Philosophy • Paradigms about natural resource management are maturing: • Interactions among environmental assets and economic and social activities are complex; • Usefulness of monitoring approaches to evaluate environmental conditions and monitor change over time at the pixel level; • Diversity of human expertise to rationally manage environmental, economic and social resources.

11. Symposium Motivation Sustainability is affected by the interactions of natural and anthropogenic processes. Anthropogenic Processes: Science and Technology Urbanization Commerce Immigration Industrialization Economic Development Transportation Research and Education Multi-national Agreements Population Growth Civil unrest and War Natural Processes: Climate Change Nutrient Cycling Fire Insects/Disease Hydrologic Cycling Biodiversity Desertification Glaciation Invasive Species Animal Migration

12. Symposium Rationale • Promote unification of data, information, knowledge, and applications about environmental and human sustainability at multiple spatial and temporal scales. • Create knowledge partnerships and networks to advance and support the design and implementa-tion of ecologically-, economically- and socially-sustainable undertakings.

13. Symposium Goals • Create environment where people can exchange ideas (network) to promote hemispheric sustainability through monitoring science and technology. • Present a view on the current condition of, and trends related to, natural resources in the Western Hemisphere. • Illustrate sustainability activities, successes, and failures. • Present advanced approaches and tools used to monitor for and assess sustainability. • Create a positive attitude and high level of awareness of, and confidence in, the possibilities of human and environmental sustainability through monitoring science and technology.

14. Unifying Information and Knowledge • Environmentally-related research in the 20th century has lacked a connection to human values. • Fragmentation of science in the 20th century has caused thinkers to focus on the discipline, rather than the social and ethical impacts of their work. Basic Premise – the greatest enterprise of the human mind has always been and always will be the attempted linkage of the sciences and the humanities.

15. Plenary session with world leaders Invited papers Unsolicited papers Technical poster displays Short courses Technical workshops Technical and trade exposition Interest group meetings Organizational meetings Symposium Features

16. Symposium Products and Outcomes • Web-based system for the unification of knowledge for sustainability. • Proceedings (paper and electronic). • Input to state of environment report on the WH. • Input to global assessment reports on sustainability. • Input to local and site-specific assessment reports on sustainability. • Series of technical monographs on specialized topics. • Refereed state-of-the-art papers in technical journals.

17. Outcomes