National Monitoring Network – Lake Michigan Pilot
The Ocean Action Plan requested that the National Water Quality Monitoring Council develop a National Monitoring Network Design. The NMN design included next steps, one of which was to select pilot locations to test the network design concepts. A Statement of Interest Solicitation was developed to solicit pilot proposals. The Lake Michigan Monitoring Coordination Council Statement of Interest and a requested Lake Michigan Pilot SOI addendum were submitted and on March 27th Lake Michigan was selected as one of three pilot areas. The acceptance letter included three attachments that describe the timeline for conduct of the pilot studies (interested parties, network task statements and timeline and network task statements and timeline summary).
The LMMCC will establish component based workgroups (based somewhat on the LMMCC resource work groups) to address the requirements of the pilot study. These teams will conduct discovery conference calls during April and early May, 2007. The LMMCC will meet in New Buffalo, MI on May 9th and on May10th will host a NMN Pilot workshop to develop a plan for compiling the pilot information needed by November 2007.
A final report will be prepared in early 2008. This site will be used to compile information gained during the discovery phase, organized by component working group.
This pilot will:
This will be done for each of the resource components - Tribs, wetlands, air, near shore, GW, open lake, estuaries, for the Lake Michigan watershed, however, we will be considering how we will apply this to all the Great Lakes.
We will be putting resource component workgroups together and start holding conference calls this month, we have a meeting in early May where we hope to better define our tasks/develop a workplan, we need to complete the tasks noted above, for all resource components, by about November of this year.
New on the site:
NMN Wiki
Summary of May 10, 2007 Workshop 1
USGS Press Release about Pilot
Minutes
Upcoming Workshop:
Workshop
I - May 10, 2007 - draft agenda
(meeting will
be held in conjunction with the LMMCC Spring 07 meeting)