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RESTORE Council Monitoring and Assessment Program (CMAP): Supporting Information (NCEI Accession 0224419)

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The RESTORE Council Monitoring and Assessment Program (CMAP) uses a Monitoring Community of Practice, coordinated by the Gulf of Mexico Alliance, and a Monitoring Coordination Committee to leverage existing resources, capacities, and expertise. This project builds on existing monitoring programs, which will be coordinated into a network, to provide efficiency in monitoring and collaborative cross-program review of performance with other Gulf ecosystem recovery efforts. Included in this release are datasets and products developed by the RESTORE Council Monitoring and Assessment Program (CMAP). Ten datasets are provided for the RESTORE Council Monitoring and Assessment Program (CMAP) and distributed as one compiled package.
  • Cite as: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; United States Geological Survey (2021). RESTORE Council Monitoring and Assessment Program (CMAP): Supporting Information (NCEI Accession 0224419). [indicate subset used]. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. Dataset. https://doi.org/10.25921/hnwn-rt12. Accessed [date].
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Distributor NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
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Dataset Point of Contact NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information
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Time Period 2016-07-11 to 2020-07-31
Spatial Bounding Box Coordinates
West: -98.87349
East: -79.974012
South: 23.81794
North: 31.9456
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General Documentation
Associated Resources
  • Geological Survey (U.S.); United States. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. (2019). Council Monitoring and Assessment Program (CMAP) Inventory of Existing Habitat and Water Quality Monitoring, and Mapping Metadata for the Gulf of Mexico Programs. National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (U.S.). https://doi.org/10.25923/gwpx-ff30
  • United States. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. , & Geological Survey (U.S.). (2019). Council Monitoring and Assessment Program (CMAP) Compilation of Existing Habitat and Water Quality Monitoring and Mapping Assessments for the Gulf of Mexico Region. United States. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Geological Survey (U.S.). https://doi.org/10.25923/bpj6-z187
  • Report of the Technical Expert Workshop: Developing Recommendations for Field Response, Captive Management, and Rehabilitation of Sea Turtles with Fibropapillomatosis
  • Council Monitoring and Assessment Program (CMAP): A Framework for Using the Monitoring Program Inventory to Conduct Gap Assessments for the Gulf of Mexico Region
Publication Dates
  • publication: 2021-02-13
Data Presentation Form Digital table - digital representation of facts or figures systematically displayed, especially in columns
Dataset Progress Status Complete - production of the data has been completed
Historical archive - data has been stored in an offline storage facility
Data Update Frequency As needed
Supplemental Information
The Resources and Ecosystems Sustainability, Tourist Opportunities, and Revived Economies of the Gulf Coast States Act (RESTORE Act) was signed into law on July 6, 2012. The RESTORE Act calls for a regional approach to restoring the long-term health of the valuable natural ecosystem and economy of the Gulf Coast region. The RESTORE Act dedicates 80 percent of civil and administrative penalties paid under the Clean Water Act, after the date of enactment, by the responsible parties in connection with the Deepwater Horizon oil spill to the Gulf Coast Restoration Trust Fund (Trust Fund) for ecosystem restoration, economic recovery, and tourism promotion in the Gulf Coast region. In addition to creating the Trust Fund, the RESTORE Act established the Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council (Council). The Council includes the Governors of the states of Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas, the Secretaries of the U.S. Departments of Agriculture, the Army, Commerce, Homeland Security, and the Interior, and the Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The Council plays a key role in developing strategies and implementing projects that help ensure the Gulf’s natural resources are sustainable and available for future generations.
Approved as a Gulf-wide investment in the 2015 Initial FPL, The Council Monitoring and Assessment Program (CMAP) was administered jointly by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). Funded activities include the development of basic, foundational components for Gulf-wide monitoring to measure beneficial impacts of investments in Gulf restoration by the Council. The program, in coordination with the Gulf of Mexico Alliance (GOMA) and through collaboration with the Gulf States, federal and local partners, academia, non-governmental organizations, and business and industry, leveraged existing resources, capacities, and expertise and built on existing monitoring data and programs. The initial effort of CMAP ended in the latter part of 2020. Efforts will continue into 2021 to maintain and update the CMAP datasets.
Purpose The RESTORE Council Monitoring and Assessment Program (CMAP) was designed and funded to inventory and integrate existing monitoring efforts, improve discovery and accessibility of existing monitoring data, and ensure the collected information supports management decisions. Currently, federal, state and local agencies, universities, private industry, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are conducting monitoring activities at various scales around the Gulf of Mexico. In addition, each RESTORE Council-funded project will, at a minimum, perform project-specific monitoring. This collection of monitoring activities is being inventoried and coordinated into a framework of existing water quality monitoring, habitat monitoring, and mapping programs. The fundamental approach to building this framework includes: 1. Adopt, or construct as needed, a comprehensive inventory of existing habitat and water quality observation, monitoring, and mapping programs in the Gulf of Mexico (hereafter referred to as the “Inventory”; NOAA and USGS, 2019a); 2. Evaluate the suitability/applicability of each program and its existing and prospective data for use in restoration activities (NOAA and USGS, 2020a); 3. Develop a process to use the Inventory to conduct gap assessments (NOAA and USGS, 2020b); 4. Develop a catalog of baseline assessments conducted in the Gulf of Mexico (NOAA and USGS, 2019b); and 5. Develop a searchable monitoring information portal/database to enable access to collected information and products. For complete information and descriptions of attributes and data fields for all data tables resulting from the above efforts, refer to the data dictionaries and CMAP Dataset Overview document included in this data package.
Use Limitations
  • accessLevel: Public
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Dataset Citation
  • Cite as: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; United States Geological Survey (2021). RESTORE Council Monitoring and Assessment Program (CMAP): Supporting Information (NCEI Accession 0224419). [indicate subset used]. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. Dataset. https://doi.org/10.25921/hnwn-rt12. Accessed [date].
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Acknowledgments
  • Funding Agency: Gulf Coast Ecosystem Restoration Council
Theme keywords NODC DATA TYPES THESAURUS WMO_CategoryCode
  • oceanography
Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Science Keywords NCCOS Research Areas
  • Coastal Change > Natural and Nature-based Features
  • Coastal Change > Restoration
  • Coastal Change > Vulnerability and Risk Assessment
  • Marine Spatial Ecology > Ecological and Biogeographic Assessments
  • Marine Spatial Ecology > Habitat Mapping
  • Marine Spatial Ecology > Regional Ecosystem Science
  • Stressor Impacts and Mitigation > Biological Effects of Contaminants and Nutrients
  • Stressor Impacts and Mitigation > Coral
NCCOS Research Data Types
  • Field Observation
  • Geospatial
  • Long-term Monitoring
Provider Keywords
  • agriculture
  • artificial reef
  • barren
  • barrier island
  • baseline assessments
  • beach
  • bivalve bed
  • coral reef
  • deep sea benthic communities
  • dune
  • emergent marsh
  • floating microalgae
  • forest
  • habitats
  • hard bottom
  • karst
  • mangrove
  • monitoring methods
  • oyster
  • presence/absence of required element
  • sargassum
  • shrub grassland
  • soft bottom
  • submerged aquatic vegetation
  • tidal flat
  • urban
  • water column
  • wetlands
Data Center keywords NODC COLLECTING INSTITUTION NAMES THESAURUS NODC SUBMITTING INSTITUTION NAMES THESAURUS Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Data Center Keywords
Instrument keywords NODC INSTRUMENT TYPES THESAURUS
Place keywords NODC SEA AREA NAMES THESAURUS Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Location Keywords NCCOS Regions of Study
  • Waterbodies > Gulf of Mexico
Project keywords NCCOS Project Names
  • RESTORE Council Monitoring and Assessment Program (CMAP): Building a Comprehensive Monitoring Network
  • Water quality monitoring programs
  • habitat monitoring programs
  • mapping programs
Keywords NCEI ACCESSION NUMBER
Keywords Send2NCEI Submission Package ID
  • 0D1WC3
Use Constraints
  • Cite as: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; United States Geological Survey (2021). RESTORE Council Monitoring and Assessment Program (CMAP): Supporting Information (NCEI Accession 0224419). [indicate subset used]. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. Dataset. https://doi.org/10.25921/hnwn-rt12. Accessed [date].
Access Constraints
  • Use liability: NOAA and NCEI cannot provide any warranty as to the accuracy, reliability, or completeness of furnished data. Users assume responsibility to determine the usability of these data. The user is responsible for the results of any application of this data for other than its intended purpose.
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Processing Steps
  • 2021-02-13T20:29:05Z - NCEI Accession 0224419 v1.1 was published.
Output Datasets
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Processing Steps
  • Parameter or Variable: Presence/Absence of required element (calculated); Units: n/a; Observation Category: other; Sampling Instrument: visual analysis; Sampling and Analyzing Method: Refer to: NOAA and USGS (2019a,b) NOAA and USGS (2020a,b); Data Quality Method: Refer to: NOAA and USGS (2019a,b) NOAA and USGS (2020a,b)
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  • visual analysis
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