Minutes

Chesapeake Bay Program Monitoring and Analysis Subcommittee

Indicator Workgroup
Tuesday, January 23, 2007, 9-10:30 a.m.

Meeting Materials Posted at http://www.chesapeakebav.net/irw.htm
(Click on the calendar entry for the 01/23/07 meeting)

Attendance: John Wolf, Jeff Sweeney, Nita Sylvester, Brent McCloskey, Michael Williams,

Jeni Keisman, Jamie Bosiljevac, Mike Land, Katherine Dowell, Jane Ballentine, Ben Longstaff

Demonstration of how we will be using the web to feature Assessment information and to
"drill down" to supporting level indicator information - Mike Land

Mike Land gave the workgroup a preview of the redesigned Chesapeake Bay Program
website. The idea is to provide news stories that link to the indicators. The overall design is
aligned with the indicators framework that includes Bay Health and Restoration. All the slides,
methods and data will be able to be downloaded from the annual assessment and reporting level
indicator pages. The main entry webpage for the Assessment will feature the annual
assessments as well as the summer forecast and "lookback". The summer forecast will have
tracking tabs of updates for each month along with a final tab to show how accurate the forecast
was. The web team is currently assessing where their progress is and when the final website
launch will be. They would like it to be aligned with the 2006 Bay Health assessment report
release. If it is not ready then, Mike will do some tweaking to the current Bay Trends and
Indicators webpage to align it with the Assessments, temporarily. John Wolf brought up a good
point that some reporting level indicators may not have a geographical map associated with it,
because some indicators do not have % goal at the segment level. Maps that display data that is
not associated with a goal could be made available at the diagnostic level. Also, Mike Land
will make the point of contact for the indicators link to a form rather than a direct email to make
it hard for people to send "spam".

2006 Assessment - All

Subcommittee representatives provided updates on their ability to provide 2006 data by
Feb 2. Concerns:

-	SAV data will only be available March 1st.

-	Bay Health Index, pending acceptance, will be available mid February.

-	3 year rolling average of dissolved oxygen will be available Feb. 2.

-	3 year rolling average of Chlorophyll, possibly by mid Feb.

-	Air indicator data available mid Februray, waiting on data from PSU, data
will be updated through 2005.

-	2006 fish passage data available Feb. 2.

-	2005 wetland data (except from PA) available Feb. 2.


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-	Striped bass hopefully have 2005 data Feb 2.

-	Oyster abundance data have 2005 data Feb. 2

-	Shad returning to Susquehanna River data available with 2006 data.

-	Menhaden will have to wait another year. Will report as not measured.

-	River flow and nutrient loads will be updated with 2006 data by Feb. 2.

-	Wastewater pollution indicator will report with 2005 data.

-	Oyster reef restored indicator will report with 2006 data.

-	Managing fisheries will report with the same data as last year.

-	Land preservation will report with 2006 data.

-	Fostering Stewardship will be discussed more at length during this
Thursdays MASC conference call. Jane thinks they will be able to report
something.

-	Tidal Wetlands: Brent will incorporate the comments received so far into his
presentation for the MASC meeting on Thursday. They will be asking
MASC for comments and approval. Comments from the Indicators
workgroup included showing a trend with this data. Included the baseline of
what you are measuring this loss with. Include text along with the indicator
of how the loss of tidal wetlands relates to sea level rise.

Long Term Plan Update - All

Send edits to Nita via email by February 2nd.

Upcoming IWG meetings

•	2/22/07 - this meeting will focus mostly on the assessment reports. Most of the data

should be in by then.

•	3/22/07

•	5/22/07

•	7/17/07

•	9/18/07

•	11/8/07


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