Delta Waters by Committee on Strategic Research for Integrated Water Resources Management

Author:Committee on Strategic Research for Integrated Water Resources Management
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: The National Academies Press
Published: 2014-01-11T00:00:00+00:00

LONG-TERM MONITORING

Long-term monitoring is traditionally the purview of government agencies providing the public information on topics such as environmental changes and trends, public safety, and economic indicators. Data collection for weather, rainfall, streamflow, tides, and water quality variables is a well-established and uncontroversial task of government because of the recognized value of these data to commerce and the public.

A robust adaptive management program needs data collection aimed at proving/disproving the effectiveness of the restoration efforts, and responding effectively to experimental outcomes. Sustained, multidecadal data collection to support a regional-scale adaptive management program would be costly, and perhaps an inappropriate role for the Water Institute and its interests in strategic research. Basic data collection of environmental variables likely is a more appropriate role for federal (e.g., U.S. Geological Survey) and state (Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality). At the same time, there may be opportunities to review ongoing (federal and state) monitoring programs, and provide advice for improvement.

• A research opportunity in complex deltaic systems is to help identify emerging decision-relevant variables and time scales, and then to propose cost-effective adjustments in monitoring programs, including new data sources, methods, and technologies.

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