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On-line Resources

Schiller et al. 2001 Communicating ecological indicatros to decision-makers and the public. Conservation Ecology

www.chesapeakebay.net/pubs/indpub/indpub.htm
Environmental Outcome-Based Management: Using Environmental Goals and Measures in the Chesapeake Bay Program.

www.chesapeakebay.net/indicators.htm
For informatoin on indicators and copies of presentations.

cads.nos.noaa.gov
This is Dan Farrow's Coastal Analysis and Data Synthesis. It is a "make a watershed map" site.

www.csc.noaa.gov/cts/coos
This is a Coastal Services Center we site describing coastal observing systems and linking to them

www.cnic.noaa.gov/CENR/cenr.html
This has all the CENR documents, including those on monitoring.

ioc.unesco.org/iocweb/iocpub/iocpdf/i1146.pdf
This is the IOC site, specifically "Strategic Design for Coastal Component of GOOS"

ocean.us.net/documents.php
This is NOPP's Ocean.us site, with the ocean observing plans and studies.

www.nap.edu/catalog/9720.html
This is the NAS/NRC site, specifically Gordon Orians' committee report on Ecological Indicators for the Nation

EPA Monitoring and Indicators Websites http://www.epa.gov/ceisweb1/ceishome/atlas/bioindicators/biologicalindicators.html http://www.epa.gov/owow/monitoring/techmon.html
http://www.epa.gov/owow/monitoring/
http://www.epa.gov/owow/estuaries/monitor/
http://www.epa.gov/owow/estuaries/guidance/contents.html
http://www.epa.gov/OWOW/watershed/wacademy/its03/
http://www.epa.gov/owow/wetlands/draftintro.pdf

Other Federal Agency Websites
http://water.usgs.gov/wicp/itfm.html
http://water.usgs.gov/
http://ccmaserver.nos.noaa.gov/
http://www.ocrm.nos.noaa.gov/nerr/monsys.html
http://www1.nature.nps.gov/im/monitor/index.htm

State, Estuary, and NGO Websites
http://www.epa.state.oh.us/dsw/bioassess/ohstrat.html.
http://www.us-ecosystems.org/ http://www.cleanwater.gov
http://www.tbep.org/baystate/bemr.html
http://www.chesapeakebay.net/monprgms.htm
http://www.epa.gov/region01/eco/lis/progress.htm