Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands John Starmer CNMI CRMO.

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Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands John Starmer CNMI CRMO

Pacific Marine Resources Institute 2007

Population- 60,000 Size- 600 km EEZ- 758,121 km 2 14 islands Ethnicity Economy US Commonwealth Background

Houk & Van Woesick 2008

Major Environmental Issues NPS Pollution Overfishing Lack of Awareness Development Data Gaps

Federal Data Collection EMO/NOAA NWS- Surf Observations NASA- Satellite Imaging Systems NOAA CRED- Biological, Oceanographic NOAA VENTS- Marine Volcanoes USGS?- Tide Station, Saipan USGS- Volcanoes NOAA CHAMP-ICON USGS- Stream gauges USACOE-Wave Height??

Local Data Collection CPA- Meteorological Stations at Airports CRM&NPS- Shoreline Erosion DEQESL- Physical & Bacterial WQ DLNR DFW- Forest & Protected Area Surveys CRM & EMO- Govt. GIS server (ARCIMS) CNMI MMT (DEQ&CRM) –SST, WQ trends, ecological –resilience, habitat mapping, –WQ mapping, watershed modeling

Programatic Goals Capacity Building- People, Training, Tools Radio-linked WQ monitoring network by 2010 Build Physical Environmental Data- Meteorology, Oceanography Systems Level View- Watershed, Island, Archipelago, Region Genetic Connectivity Predictive GIS Models Houk et al, 2007