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DEVELOPMENT OF THE COASTAL INTENSIVE SITE NETWORK (CISNET)
Citation:
Summers, J K., A. Robertson, AND B. M. Levinson. DEVELOPMENT OF THE COASTAL INTENSIVE SITE NETWORK (CISNET). ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT 64(1):379-390, (2000).
Description:
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) have joined in partnership to establish pilot sites for the development of a network known as the Coastal Intensive Site Network (CISNet). CISNet is composed of intensive, long-term monitoring and research sites around the U.S. marine and Great Lakes coasts. In this partnership EPA and NOAA are funding research and monitoring programs at pilot sites that utilize ecological indicators and investigate the ecological effects of environmental stressors. NASA is funding research aimed at developing a remote sensing capability that will augment or enhance in situ research and monitoring programs selected by EPA and NOAA under this announcement. CISNet has three objectives: (1) to develop a sound scientific basis for understanding ecological responses to anthropogenic stresses in coastal environments, including the interaction of exposure, environment/climate, and biological/ecological factors in the response, and the spatial and temporal nature of these interactions; (2) to demonstrate the usefulness of a set of intensively monitored sites for examining short-term variability in long-term trend behavior in the relationships between changes in environmental stressors, including anthropogenic and natural stresses, and ecological response; and (3) to provide intensively monitored sites for development and evaluation of indicators of change in coastal systems. A 1998 Announcement of Opportunity (AO) was prepared and competed through EPA's STAR Program. The breadth and scope of the selected projects is outlined in the presentation and can be found on the Internet at www.epa.gov/ncerqa.