United States
                  Environmental Protection
                  Agency
                                             Office of Research and
                                             Development
                                             Washington DC 20460
EPA/620/R-00/005L
       July, 2000
                  Coastal Communications
                      NATIONAL COASTAL REPORT CARD
             COASTAL 2000 - NORTH CAROLINA  ASSESSMENT
                      OR&/REGION 4/OW/NC&ENR
                                                North Carolina
                                                 Coastal 2000 Design
Background
The U.S. EPA's National Coastal Report Card (also known
as Coastal 2000) is a multi-year partnership among
EPA's Office of Research and Development, EPA Region
4, EPA's Office of Water and the North Carolina
Department of Environmental and Natural Resources
(NCDENR). This joint effort will evaluate the condition
of coastal resources in North Carolina as part of a
region wide assessment for EPA Region 4.  This effort
is being coordinated by the National Health and
Environmental Effects Research Laboratory's Gulf
Ecology Division in Gulf Breeze, Florida.

Coastal 2000 Strategy
The strategy for Coastal 2000 focuses on a strategic
partnership with all coastal states within the United
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 conditions at the EPA
Regional, biogeographical, and National levels. The map illustrated here shows the coastal
resources included in the survey and the intended number of sampling sites in North Carolina for
2000.
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Water Quality
Dissolved oxygen
Salinity, temperature, depth
PH '
Nutrients
Chlorophyll
Sediment Quality
Grain size
Total organic carbon
Sediment chemistry
Benthic community structure
Sediment toxicity
Biota
Community structure
External pathology
Tissue analyses
Further Information
For further information, please contact Kevin Summers at the National Health and Environmental
Effects Laboratory's Gulf Ecology Division at (850) 934-9244 or summers.kevin@epa.gov.
General information on the U.S. EPA EMAP is available at http://www.epa.gov/emap.

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