Evaluating the Design and Implementation of the Chesapeake Bay Shallow Water Monitoring Program

STAC held a workshop that reviewed the design of the Chesapeake Bay Shallow Water Monitoring Program to ensure that the design meets the objectives established by the Shallow Water Monitoring Design workgroup, while optimizing achievable temporal and spatial coverage with limited resources. The second objective was to solicit input from workshop participants and technical experts in the field of monitoring on outstanding issues regarding implementation, data analyses and model integration. Prior to the STAC workshop, documentation on the tidal monitoring design process was made available to workshop participants. Discussions focused on development of criteria to optimize site selection and monitoring duration, and to enhance coordination with living resource and local source monitoring efforts.