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NATIONAL COASTAL ASSESSMENT - COASTAL 2000.
Citation:
Summers, J K. NATIONAL COASTAL ASSESSMENT - COASTAL 2000. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, EPA/620/R-00/005b.
Description:
The U.S. EPA's National Coastal Assessment (also know as Coastal 2000 or C2000) is a five-year effort led by EPA's Office of Research and Development to evaluate the assessment methods it has developed to advance the science of ecosystem condition monitoring. This program will survey the condition of the Nation's coastal resources (estuaries and offshore waters) by creating an integrated, comprehensive coastal monitoring program among the coastal states to assess coastal ecological condition. Coastal 2000 is being organized and managed by the National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory's Gulf Ecology Division in Gulf Breeze, FL.
The strategy for Coastal 2000 focuses on a strategic partnership with all 24 U.S. coastal states. Using a compatible, probabilistic design and a common set of survey indicators, each state will conduct the survey and assess the condition of their coastal resources independently, yet, these estimates can be aggregated to assess condition at the EPA Regional, biogeographical and National levels. The maps illustrated below show the states (and Puerto Rico) that are included in the survey, the intended number of sampling sites in each state for 2000-01 and the stage of development of the survey.