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Citizen Science and the Chesapeake Bay Programs Water Quality Monitoring Program Peter Tango USGS @ CBPO Mid-Atlantic Volunteer Monitoring Conference August 7, 2015 Nick DiPasquale Director Chesapeake Bay Program Words from Nick

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Citizen Science and the Chesapeake Bay Program’s Water Quality Monitoring Program

Peter Tango USGS @ CBPO Mid-Atlantic Volunteer Monitoring Conference August 7, 2015

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Nick DiPasquale – Director Chesapeake Bay Program Words from Nick

  • Citizen Science is something that has been a priority for me since I

took over as director 4 years ago.

  • Citizen monitoring (water quality, biological, etc.) is extremely

important to extend our reach into areas of the watershed that we would never get to because of limited funds.

  • Citizen monitoring can be used to engage local communities and
  • rganizations in the watershed restoration effort as well as for

educational purposes to enhance our environmental literacy and stewardship efforts.

  • Citizen Science can be used to identify problems or determine if our

management measures are having their intended effect.

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Nick DiPasquale – Director Chesapeake Bay Program Words from Nick

  • “On behalf of the Chesapeake Bay Program

partnership, please extend my appreciation to all our Citizen Scientists for their efforts.”

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Bay 101: Why Monitor at all?

  • Assess and Communicate

Status and Change Effectively – Separate Fact from Fiction

– Confront models with data

  • Support Adaptive Management

–Target resources effectively –Gain new scientific understanding –Understand return on investments – Adjust monitoring

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Chesapeake Bay Long term Water Quality Monitoring Program: 1984 - present.

  • Over 150 long term water

quality monitoring stations provide coverage for the management segments

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Chesapeake Bay Watershed Monitoring Network

Approaching 120 long term monitoring stations. All provide nutrient and sediment concentration data A subset of the total are nutrient and sediment load monitoring stations

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Citizen Science is an established and important part of the Chesapeake Bay Program Partnership monitoring efforts

Stream Health Indicator Dissolved Oxygen Standards Attainment Ground truth Bay grass aerial photos VA Water Quality Standards Support

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Growing support to expand Citizen Science and Nontraditional Partnerships

2007-2009.

Key Management Event for Evolving and Growing Citizen Science in the Chesapeake Bay Program Partnership was the 2007-09 Chesapeake Bay Program Monitoring Realignment Process

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Watershed Partners Senior Managers Said: “The (Clean Water Act Section 303(d)) delisting of the Bay, and determining the success of our management actions, are the responsibilities of the partnership, and should be the priorities of the monitoring program.”

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2009 Monitoring Realignment and Synthesis Process Asked “How we can obtain more data?”

Workshops and Meetings Weekly Conference Calls Focused Reports

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Workshops and Meetings Weekly Conference Calls Focused Reports

Citizen Science Opportunities Grow

2009 Monitoring Realignment and Synthesis Process Asked “How we can obtain more data?”

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NUMBER OF MONITORING PROGRAMS BY SUBJECT AREA

20 40 60 80 100 120 AIR QUALITY BACTERIOLOGICAL BENTHIC BIRDS CLIMATOLOGICAL FISHERIES GROUND WATER METEOROLOGY OBSERVING SYSTEM PHYTOPLANKTON POINT SOURCE RADIOLOGICAL SAV SHELLFISH TOXICS-SEDIMENT TOXICS-TISSUE TOXICS-WATER WATER QUALITY WILDLIFE ZOOPLANKTON

Monitoring Programs By Chesapeake Action Plan Goal Area

10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 110 120 130 140 150 160 170 180 190 200 210 220 230 EBFMP OYSTERS BLUE CRAB STRIPED BASS ALOSIDS MENHADEN FISH PASSAGE SAV WETLANDS STREAM RESTRATION POINT SOURCE AG &CAFOs STORMWATER SEPTIC SHORELINE SEDIMENT AIR ACID MINE TOXICS LAND PRESERVATION LAND CONVERSION PRE-HYDROLOGY Number of Programs

Fisheries Habitats Water Quality Watersheds

295 monitoring programs identified in the watershed and counting!

Monitoring Realignment 2009 Partnering Workgroup findings:

  • J. Johnson & K. Foreman CBP
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Over 600 Watershed Organizations and counting!

http://www.chesapeakebay.net/findabaygroup.aspx?menuitem=14797

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Building Environmental Intelligence: Leading the future of water-quality monitoring

2015 Report

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Thank You

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Break Out Session

Let’s talk What to monitor?

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  • Further document the status of tidal waters

in nearshore areas

  • Identify nutrient and sediment conditions

in local watersheds

  • Verification of selected BMPs

Present discussions on directions for CBP Citizen Science monitoring support include 3 themes:

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Conceptual Model of Chesapeake Bay and watershed recovery

Poor Health Good Health

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Issue #1. Status of the Bay The Dead zone is in the Deep channel of the bay and lower tributaries. However, the history of fish kills shows the kills, often attributed to low dissolved oxygen, are in the shallow water and smaller tributaries. We have a dead zone, we need to monitor the killing zone.

Offshore, deep water dead zone The real action, The nearshore, kill zone Maryland waters 1987-2001 fish kills MDE

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Baby Dead Zones Mortality Moments

Nearshore waters and tributaries have little monitoring

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South River Federation

A Muller. USN Photo

  • D. Muller. SRF

Actions: Enhancing Monitoring to Support Management Effectiveness Through Citizen Science

Increasing resolution Reducing uncertainty

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Issue #2. Status of the Watershed. Targeting resources at the source.

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Report Recommendation: To quantify effects on nitrogen discharge, use low-frequency (e.g., quarterly) sampling of baseflow nitrate from many study watersheds selected to represent a wide range of levels of conservation practices. Compare neighboring watersheds within each physiographic province.

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Using Monitoring Data To Measure Progress and Explain Change

Foundation: Monitoring networks

Tidal Network

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Point Source Mgt late 1970s Water Clarity shows improving trend last 15 yrs 2000 2008 SAV resurgence and continues…

Watershed to Estuary Recovery: Telling the Story, Explaining Change Response to Management Actions in Gunston Cove, Potomac River

Estuary Nutrients Declining

  • ver 30 yrs

CHLA declines last 20 yrs

  • R. Chris Jones

George Mason Univ.

TP load declines Bay recovery model:

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  • Further document the status of tidal waters

in nearshore areas

  • Identify nutrient and sediment conditions

in local watersheds

  • Verification of selected BMPs

Present discussions on directions for CBP Citizen Science monitoring support include 3 themes:

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Thank You

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What to Monitor? It depends on your priorities and interests.

  • Theme: Status. Water quality

(nutrients, sediments, toxics, temperature, algae, dissolved oxygen), bugs, fish, birds, herps, bacteria, pH, conductivity, trash, etc.

– Regulatory, Bay Agreement outcomes, model calibration and verification support, conservation planning, education and stewardship.

  • Theme: Restoration tracking.

Document and monitor the BMP itself

– riparian zone: plantings-growth-success, – stream fencing – dam removals – rain gardens

  • Reason: Support for planning

efforts and targeting resources

  • Reason: Explaining change and

understanding your return on investment.

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Bay Watershed Health Indicators

Furthering communication product development: Watershed-wide status and targeting maps

Buchanan et al. 2010. Acknowledgements

“An adhoc CBP workgroup created to guide development of the Chessie B-IBI consisted of benthic macroinvertebrate experts from the six states in the watershed (New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, and Delaware) as well as federal, academic, and River Basin Commission partners. The authors wish to give special thanks to the members of the adhoc workgroup for their diligence in providing technical guidance and feedback: A.J. Smith (NYDEC), Aimee Budd (VADEQ), Bill Richardson (US EPA Region 3), Brian Chalfant (PADEP), Charlie Poukish (MDE), Dan Boward (MD DNR), Ed Reilly (NYDEC), Ellen Dickey (DNREC), Greg Garman (VCU), Greg Pond (US EPA Region 3),Hassan Mirsajadi (DNREC), Jeff Bailey (WVDEP), Jen Hoffman (SRBC), John Wirts (WVDEP), Kevin McGonigal (SRBC), Maggie Passmore (US EPA Region 3), Mike Fritz (EPA-CBPO), Nita Sylvester (EPA-CBPO), Peter Tango (USGS-CBPO),Rick Hoffman (VADEQ), Rod Kime (PADEP), Ron Klauda (MD DNR), Scott Stranko (MD DNR), Tony Prochaska (MD DNR), and Wayne Davis (EPA). Other members of the Chesapeake Bay Program’s Non-Tidal Water Quality Workgroup as well as the Indicator Workgroup provided input on final presentation of the results.”

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Illustrating and Communicating Results at Different Scales

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Pittman Robertson Fund investments : >$2 billion since 1937.

Return on investments: Habitat acquisition, habitat improvement and species saved

from threatened or extinct status

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Water Quality History: A Century of Dissolved Oxygen Resource Degradation and Recovery Around the Globe: Thames River, England Rhine River, Germany New York Harbor, NY USA Potomac River, MD USA

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1964 Peregrine Falcon Extinct in the eastern U.S. 1997: 174 nesting pairs in eastern U.S.; 27 pairs in the Ches apeake Bay watershed 30 year recovery 40 year recovery

Status and Trends: Recovery takes time .

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There are models about how we think that the Bay works…

Conceptual Model: Rain> Runoff> (Nutrients + Sun + Temperature + Wind) > Algae Blooms > Algae die and sink>Poor Dissolved Oxygen Conditions

Illustration: IAN Ecocheck

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And there are models about how we think that the Bay works…

“All models are wrong, but some are useful.”

George E.P. Box - Statistician

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Why Monitor?

Restoring watersheds project by project: Trends in Chesapeake Bay tributary restoration. Palmer et al.

  • 1990-2005 study: 4700 Tributary

restoration projects.

  • Estimated $400 million invested in Bay and

watershed restoration