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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."
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Link to UPCOMING MEETINGS
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PNAMP's First Publication - Remote Sensing Applications for Aquatic Resource Monitoring (link)
We are pleased to share a new Special Publication from PNAMP. This publication, which is the result of a PNAMP special session at the 2008 American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 2008 Annual Conference, is PNAMP’s first peer-review publication. Focusing on current applications of remote sensing tools used in aquatic resource monitoring, the publication includes 11 chapters presenting examples of current applications and a summary of the session’s expert panel discussion. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Newest Edition of PNAMP Pursuits - Special Invasive Species Edition of the Newsletter (link)
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LINK to TTM project documents
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PNAMP Product "Overview of Progress and Direction: Challenges of Meeting Multiple Expectations". This document will help readers better understand what PNAMP is doing and how to gauge expectations.
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