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Samuel Cimino
US Geological Survey Pacific Northwest Aquatic Monitoring Partnership
Pacific Northwest Aquatic Monitoring Partnership
Presentation Abstract: Since 2004, the Pacific Northwest Aquatic Monitoring Partnership (PNAMP) has facilitated collaboration to promote best practices for monitoring; encourage coordination and integration of monitoring activities; and support documentation and data publishing. These activities are directed at improving quality of information as well as access to information for decision making. These are big challenges for sure but with many colleagues from state, tribal, federal, academic, private sector and NGOs working together, a lot has been accomplished. Currently, PNAMP facilitates a network of Intensively Monitored Watersheds (IMWs) across the Northwest; co-leads the Coordinated Assessments Partnership (CAP) with StreamNet to support publishing of fish data and metadata; supports multiple tasks via the Fish Monitoring Work Group (FMWG) to support methods and data sharing; helps practitioners stay abreast of the rapidly evolving field of remote sensing via the Remote Sensing Forum; facilitates development of data standards to share stream habitat metric-level data; and hosts MonitoringResources.org, a free tool to document protocols, methods and sampling designs for monitoring and research projects. We invite everyone interested in collaboration to join us!
https://MonitoringResources.org
