Review of EPA's Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program : overall evaluation

Review of EPA's Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program overall evaluation

Reviewing EPA's Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (EMAP), this volume retains its belief that EMAP's goals are laudable. Achieving the goals of this ambitious program requires that EMAP successfully meet the difficult scientific, practical, and management challenges. It quest...

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Corporate Author: National Research Council (U.S.). Committee to Review the EPA's Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (-)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Washington, D.C. : National Research Council : [Distributed by the National Academy Press 1995.
Edition:1st ed
Subjects:
United States. > Environmental Protection Agency. > Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program.
Environmental monitoring > United States.
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Table of Contents:
  • Review of EPA's Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program: Overall Evaluation
  • Copyright
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • Executive Summary
  • RECOMMENDATIONS
  • Statistics, Sampling, and Design
  • Indicators
  • Integration
  • Appropriate Scale and Boundaries of Regions
  • Coordination And Management
  • External Scientific Review
  • Information Management
  • 1 Introduction
  • BACKGROUND
  • EMAP - Vision and Realities
  • THE PRESENT STUDY
  • Committee Charge
  • This Report: the Final Review
  • 2 Overall Assessment
  • INTRODUCTION
  • THE EMAP ASSESSMENT FRAMEWORK
  • Implications for EMAP Design
  • Hybrid Assessment Models
  • INDICATORS
  • EMAP SAMPLING DENSITY AND SAMPLING FREQUENCY
  • STATISTICS
  • Trends
  • PROBLEMS OF SUMMARIZING EMAP DATA TO STANDARD FEDERAL REGIONS
  • INTEGRATION
  • Need for Integration
  • Demonstrations of Integration
  • Concerns
  • Recommendations
  • Coordinated Sampling Between Terrestrial, Aquatic, and Atmospheric Resources1
  • Designate Resources for Integration
  • PROGRAM COORDINATION WITHIN EMAP
  • Coordination between EMAP and other parts of EPA
  • EXTERNAL SCIENTIFIC REVIEW
  • EMAP'S PLACE IN THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
  • The Administrative Setting for EMAP
  • 3 Program-Wide Components
  • LANDSCAPE CHARACTERIZATION AND ECOLOGY
  • Overview
  • The Place of Landscape Programs Within EMAP
  • Evaluation
  • EMAP INDICATOR DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY
  • Introduction
  • The EMAP Strategy
  • Evaluation of the Indicator Development Strategy
  • Summary
  • INFORMATION SYSTEM
  • Concerns About EMAP-Information System
  • Summary
  • 4 Resource Components
  • AGROECOSYSTEMS
  • Conclusion
  • ESTUARIES (MODIFIED FROM NRC, 1994A, EXECUTIVE SUMMARY)
  • Indicators
  • Advice, Consultation, and Scientific Review
  • Update
  • Indicators
  • Detecting Trends
  • FORESTS (EXECUTIVE SUMMARY, FROM NRC 1994A)
  • Lack of a Theoretical Basis.
  • Select a Set of Indicators
  • Revise Sampling Design
  • Information-Management System
  • Publish Study Results
  • Delay Full Implementation Until Results of Demonstration Projects are Evaluated
  • GREAT LAKES
  • Conclusions
  • SURFACE WATERS
  • Background and Objectives
  • Assessment End Points
  • Indicators
  • Sampling Design
  • Lake Pilot Project
  • Streams
  • Intra-Agency Cooperation
  • Oversight And Coordination Among EMAP Resource Groups
  • EMAP-Center Organization
  • References
  • Appendix A September 20, 1994 letter from Dr. Edward Martinko, Director, EMAP
  • SELECTED EMAP CHANGES OCCURRING FROM 1992 TO THE PRESENT
  • Indicator Development
  • Sampling Design
  • Detection of Trends
  • Landscapes
  • Analysis of EMAP Data, Particularly Estuaries, and Publication of Results
  • Information Management
  • Assessment, Integration and Coordination
  • Cause-and-Effect Relationships Need More Focused Planning
  • Program Management
  • Involvement of the Scientific Community and Peer Review
  • Inter-Agency and Intra-Agency Cooperation
  • Appendix B May 4, 1994 letter from Gary J. Foley, EPA Acting Assistant Administrator for Research a ...
  • Appendix C EMAP Documents Reviewed by NRC Committee
  • Appendix D Biographical Sketches of Committee Members.

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