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MANAGING TROUBLED WATERS: THE EVOLUTION OF THE EMAP COASTAL MONITORING PROGRAM 2001 EMAP SYMPOSIUM, APRIL 24-27, PENSACOLA BEACH, FL
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Summers, J K. AND A. F. Holland. MANAGING TROUBLED WATERS: THE EVOLUTION OF THE EMAP COASTAL MONITORING PROGRAM 2001 EMAP SYMPOSIUM, APRIL 24-27, PENSACOLA BEACH, FL. Presented at EMAP Symposium 2001: Coastal Monitoring Through Partnerships, Pensacola Beach, FL, April 24 - 27, 2001.
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In 1990, Managing Troubled Waters concluded by stating three primary conclusions and then developing specific recommendations regarding their execution. Using the decade of the 90s, we examine the evolution of the U.S. EPA's Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program's Coastal Monitoring component to assess adherence of that program to the Managing Troubled Waters guidance. These include: (1) the role of EMAP monitoring concepts in strengthening the role of marine environmental management at the national, regional, state and local scales, (2) the conduct of large scale regional and national monitoring efforts, and (3) the improvement of the designs of monitoring programs and the development of useful information products. We examine each of the Managing Troubled Waters recommendations and compare them to EMAP's conceptual promise, execution, mistakes, and adaptive development. The evolution of EMAP's coastal monitoring from largely regional monitoring in the early 1990s to a national program with state and local emphasis (Coastal 2000 Program) in 2000 has demonstrated a continuing desire to "push" that program toward a realization of Managing Troubled Waters lofty goals.