A.
Necessary support data available to make informed
decisions regarding coastal resource use
1. Determine types of data necessary for addressing coastal resource management needs
2. Establish repository library
3. Determine appropriateness, comprehensiveness, adequacy and “up-to-date-ness” of existing data and materials
4. Engage the necessary resources to provide needed data and materials
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EXISTING PROGRAMS: 1. Outreach ·
CBLAD GIS ·
DCR- DNH
partnerships with agencies and localities for resource maps ·
EDP digital/GIS data · Fish and wildlife Information Service – DGIF · NGO databases- Native Plant Society, Herp. society, etc · PDC GIS network · VGIN · Virginia Outdoors Plan planning process and maps 2. Regulation ·
N/A 3. Monitoring ·
Alliance citizen
monitoring ·
CBNERRS monitoring ·
Ches Bay monitoring
– DEQ ·
Polecat creek monitoring ·
USGS water quality
monitoring ·
VIMS Shoal Water
Quality Monitoring 4.
Planning/coordination
· CBP water quality models 5.
Research · Biota of Virginia · Comprehensive Coastal Inventory –VIMS · Conservation Management Institute databases · Natural Heritage Information Management Program- DCR · SAV Maps – VIMS · VGIN N/A |
MISSING ELEMENTS: 1. Outreach · Develop effective distributive system for serving data 2. Regulation ·
3. Authority ·
4. Monitoring ·
Design and implement
routine base data 5.
Planning/coordination
· Establish/manage data acquisition programs (address scale, accuracy, funding and infrastructure) · Develop protocols for distributed data system (metadata, use policies) · Develop and maintain interagency cooperation 6.
Research ·
7. Definition of management targets ·
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