ecosystem delineation workshop briefing
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Ecosystem Delineation Workshop Briefing. Challenges in Urban Meteorology: A Forum for Users and Providers 21 Sept 2004 Douglas P. DeMaster NOAA Ecosystem Goal Team Lead. Purpose of Workshop. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Ecosystem Delineation Ecosystem Delineation Workshop BriefingWorkshop Briefing
Challenges in Urban Meteorology: A Forum for Users and Providers
21 Sept 2004
Douglas P. DeMasterNOAA Ecosystem Goal Team Lead
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Purpose of WorkshopPurpose of Workshop
• Discuss the delineation of large ecosystems on the basis of natural science (not political boundaries).
• Discuss how those large ecosystems might be broken down into sub-areas, again, based on natural science criteria.
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NOAA Delineationof Regional Ecosystems
• Workshop was August 31- Sept 1 in Charleston, SC
• Co-chaired by Paul Sandifer (USCOP) and Doug DeMaster (Ecosystem Goal)
• Key Federal Agencies (e.g. EPA, FWS, USGS, FS, NRCS, COE,
Navy, MMS, etc.) • Academics and NGOs, (e.g., Heinz, USCOP, South Atlantic/
Caribbean and Western Pacific FMCs, Atlantic Inter. Comm., TNC, etc.)
• States (SC, MS, MN, AK, HI)
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Marine Side of Marine Side of Regional EcosystemsRegional Ecosystems
Generally, the participants believed that large regional ecosystems -
• Should be based on the Large Marine Ecosystem (LME) Delineations;
• Need to be further delineated into nested ecoregions based on coastal biogeographic characteristics (e.g TNC,NACEC);
• This further delineation should be accomplished by regional stakeholders;
• Need to conduct additional work on Pacific Island LMEs;• Need to reinforce that observation and assessment must
include key marine geographic areas influencing LMEs.
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Example of Regional Ecosystem: Large Marine Ecosystems
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Potential Alternatives Potential Alternatives for Sub-ecoregionsfor Sub-ecoregions
NERRS TNC
NACEC
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Mapped LMEs and EEZMapped LMEs and EEZ
Red line = EEZ
Colored Polygons = LMEs
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Regional Ecosystem Regional Ecosystem ComplexComplex
Pacific Islands and Alaska may be treated as “regional complex” of several Pacific Islands and Alaska may be treated as “regional complex” of several LMEsLMEs
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Alaska’s LMEs and EEZAlaska’s LMEs and EEZ
Dark blue = Beaufort SeaViolet = Chukchi SeaMedium Blue = E. Bering SeaGreen = Gulf of AlaskaRed line = EEZ
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Inland BoundaryInland BoundaryOptions Options
1. Entire Coastal Assessment Framework
2. Estuarine and Coastal Drainage Areas
3. Inland extent of diadromous fish habitat
4. Head of tide/dam
5. The coastal portion of the Coastal Assessment Framework and watersheds containing diadromous fish habitat (Options #2 + #3)
A number of Workshop Participants supported: Option # 2 + #3
Others supported Option #1
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Coastal Assessment Framework(CAF)
438 Estuarine Drainage Areas [EDAs] (150 major, 288 minor)
67 Fluvial Drainage Areas [FDAs]
11 Interior watershed areas*
Area in km2
EDAs 942,792 (12%)FDAs 5,373,130 (69%)Interior 1,463,348 (19%)
* self-contained, groundwater-contributing only, or watersheds draining to outside the U.S.
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Oregon
Washington
Idaho
Montana
Interior Drainage Area
FDA
EDA
State Boundary
Inland Extent of Inland Extent of Diadromous FishDiadromous Fish
Anadromous Fish Range
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Inclusion of Humans Inclusion of Humans as Part of Ecosystemas Part of Ecosystem
Area of the NationPopulation in 2000
Gulf of Mexico 16621632
Great Lakes 18723701
Mid Atlantic 41772090
North Atlantic 5576712
Pacific 32405675
South Atlantic 12175118
Total 127274928
Pacific
Gulf of Mexico
Great Lakes
South Atlantic
North Atlantic
MidAtlantic
Gulf of Mexico13%
Great Lakes15%
Mid Atlantic33%
North Atlantic4%
Pacific25%
South Atlantic10%
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NOAA Delineation and the NOAA Delineation and the Administration’s Response Administration’s Response
to USCOPto USCOP USCOP Findings:• US ocean and coastal resources should be managed to
reflect the relationships among all ecosystem components, including human and nonhuman species and the environments in which they live.
• Applying this principle will require defining relevant geographic management areas based on ecosystem, rather than political, boundaries.
• Because of the connection between land-based activities and ocean conditions, an appropriate geographic boundary for ecosystem-based management of ocean areas would combine large marine ecosystems with the watersheds that drain into them.
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Next Steps
• Submit regional ecosystem delineation recommendation through NEP and NEC by Oct. 1
• Submit NOAA recommendations through collaborative interagency response process to the final USCOP Report – October/November 2004
• Identify potential near term ecosystem pilots/case studies
• Convene Regional stakeholder workshops to further delineate regional ecosystems, identify key ecological, social and economic regional ecosystem indicators and joint efforts to observe and monitor them, & development of regional pilots - April 2005
• Develop in each region, necessary steps and plans to advance ecosystem approaches to managing coastal and marine resources efforts - October 2005 & beyond