Welcome to PNAMP

The purpose of the Pacific Northwest Aquatic Monitoring Partnership (PNAMP) is to provide a forum for coordinating state, federal, and tribal aquatic habitat and salmonid monitoring programs. Improved communication, shared resources and data, and compatible monitoring efforts provide increased scientific credibility, cost-effective use of limited funds and greater accountability to stakeholders. PNAMP provides leadership through the development and the advancement of recommendations and agency level agreements that are considered for adoption by the participating agencies.

PNAMP has adopted the following goals:

• Improve communication between monitoring programs across state, tribal, and federal organizations.
• Improve scientific information needed to inform resource policy and management questions and decisions.
• Seek efficiencies and cost-effectiveness across monitoring programs through compatible and cooperative monitoring efforts.
• Promote science-based credibility of monitoring and assessment efforts.
• Share resources and information between monitoring programs across state, tribal, and federal organizations.

In addition to adopting a monitoring coordination structure with Steering Committee guidance, PNAMP has identified and developed working groups for five key elements of monitoring: watershed condition monitoring, effectiveness monitoring, fish population monitoring, estuary monitoring, and data management. PNAMP has adopted a Charter to formalize the agreement among federal, state, and tribal entities to participate in the coordination of scientific monitoring programs. PNAMP has also developed a coordination plan to facilitate aquatic monitoring in the Pacific Northwest titled, "Strategy for Coordinating Monitoring of Aquatic Environments in the Pacific Northwest." 

UPCOMING MEETINGS

LINK to TTM project documents

PNAMP IMW workshop.  The Intensively Monitored Watershed subcommittee, led by Steve Leider, will be hosting a workshop in Corvallis, OR on July 23-24, 2008.  The workshop will include refining our overview of the nature and progress on IMW efforts across the Pacific Northwest. The work of the Oregon Watershed Research Cooperative and ODFW's Coastal Life Cycle basins will be profiled.  If you would like to attend, please RSVP to jschei@usgs.gov. 

PNAMP Protocol Comparison work gets published.  The first peer-reviewed product from the PNAMP John Day Protocol Comparison Test project has been published (link to paper).  The Role of Observer Variation in Determining Rosgen Stream Types in Northeastern Oregon Mountain Streams (Roper et al) was published in the April 2008 volume of the Journal of the American Water Resources Association.  Congratulations and many thanks to the authors of this paper.  The next step for PNAMP is to consider recommendations to the PNAMP partners regarding the results of the protocol comparison.

PNAMP hosts session at ASPRS 2008 Annual Conference.  On April 30 and May 1, PNAMP hosted the special session 'Remote Sensing Applications for Aquatic Resource Monitoring' at the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing (ASPRS) annual conference.  Click here to view a flyer with presentation information.  Next steps include peer-review of presenter manuscripts and publication.