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1 Gulf of Mexico Alliance Habitat Conservation and Restoration Team Gulf of Mexico Alliance Data Management Council Meeting 4-5 February 2010 St. Petersburg, Florida

2 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

3 Federal Co-Facilitators and Grant Administrators Drew Puffer: EPA Heather Young: NOAA Gulf of Mexico Foundation – Quenton Dokken, Ph.D. – Ryan Fikes – Bobbi Reed

4 2009-2013 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

5 2009-2013 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

6 2009-2013 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

7 2009-2013 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

8 Initial Condition, Northern Portion of Study Area Grand Bay NERR

9 A1B-Max 2100, Northern Portion of Study Area, Grand Bay NERR SLR Plus Subsidence Predicted to Exceed Brackish Accretion

10 2009-2013 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

11 SLAMM Viewer

12 2009-2013 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

13 2009-2013 GAP 2 Work Plan Gulf Regional Sediment Management Master Plan – DATA NEEDS: Mapping data (EIA) Sediment transport data

14 Focus: Sediment Resources

15 Gulf of Mexico Processes

16 2009-2013 GAP 2 Work Plan Gulf Regional Sediment Management Master Plan – DATA NEEDS: Multiple – PRODUCTS:Report Other products possible (e.g. budgets)

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18 Focus: Sediment Resources

19 2009-2013 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

20 Mobile District RSM Program

21 Focus: Information Management

22 2009-2013 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

23 Map of LA Restoration Efforts

24 GoM Foundation Sites

25 2009-2013 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

26 2009-2013 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

27 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

28 Measures of Success over the Next Five Years Reduced redundancy of data collection and data management efforts (CARL)

29 2009-2010 Annual Work Plan Federal Standard Working Session, La Pavillon Hotel, New Orleans LA, 14-15 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


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