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GLERL 1999 Milestone Reports
The Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (GLERL) has 10 Milestones to report under the OAR FY99 Operating Plan, all of which fall under the Sustain Healthy Coasts element. GLERL's Milestones are listed below, along with the Objective, Performance Measure, Reporting Date (Quarter), and Responsible Scientist. Milestones are organized by fiscal year quarter.
FIRST QUARTER (JANUARY 1999)
GOAL: SUSTAIN HEALTHY COASTS
OBJECTIVE: PROMOTE CLEAN COASTAL WATERS TO SUSTAIN LIVING MARINE RESOURCES AND TO ENSURE SAFE RECREATION, HEALTHY SEAFOOD, AND ECONOMIC VITALITY
PM: Number of coastal and Great Lakes states provided with improved predictive capabilities and understanding of environmental processes.
Milestone 99-1-1: Complete acquisition, compilation, and archiving of Eulerian current measurements for the pilot field year of the Episodic Events: Great Lakes Experiment (EEGLE) Program. These measurements will provide a better understanding of coastal dynamics and, in particular, cross-shore transport of suspended materials during the winter/spring coastal plume events in Lake Michigan.
Scientist: G. Miller
PM: Number of coastal and Great Lakes states provided with improved
predictive capabilities and understanding of environmental processes.
Milestone 99-1-2: Complete final report on Lake Michigan Mass Balance Hydrodynamic Modeling Project, a multi-agency Great Waters demonstration Project under the Clean Water Act designed to improve aquatic contaminant fate and transport modeling so as to improve management of contaminants. The hydrodynamic model is to be used with other modeling efforts to model the fate and transport and bio-accumulation of four different toxic contaminants.
Scientist: D. Schwab
SECOND QUARTER (APRIL 1999)
GOAL: SUSTAIN HEALTHY COASTS
OBJECTIVE: PROMOTE CLEAN COASTAL WATERS TO SUSTAIN LIVING MARINE RESOURCES AND TO ENSURE SAFE RECREATION, HEALTHY SEAFOOD, AND ECONOMIC VITALITY.
PM: Number of Coastal and Great Lakes States Provided with Improved Predictive Capabilities and Understanding of Environmental ProcessesMilestone 99-2-1: Complete assessment of environmental factors that influence the bioaccumulation of PCBs by Diporeia spp. and develop a steady-state model.
Scientist: P. Landrum
OBJECTIVE: PROMOTE CLEAN COASTAL WATERS TO SUSTAIN LIVING MARINE RESOURCES AND TO ENSURE SAFE RECREATION, HEALTHY SEAFOOD, AND ECONOMIC VITALITY.
GOAL: SUSTAIN HEALTHY COASTS
PM: Number of Coastal and Great Lakes States Provided with Improved Predictive Capabilities and Understanding of Environmental Processes.
Milestone 99-2-2: Complete the spatial interpolation of grain size, nutrients, and organic parameters onto a 5-km hydrodynamic modeling grid necessary for developing a particle transport model as a step toward the Lake Michigan Mass Balance Project goal of a coupled hydrodynamic-sediment transport-ecological-contaminant model. The transport model requires initial conditions and rates of many parameters in each of over 2000 horizontal grid boxes. This effort involves interpreting 4 years worth of data collected by numerous investigators and preparing the data for use in the model.
Scientist: B. Eadie
THIRD QUARTER (JULY 1999)
GOAL: Sustain Healthy Coasts
OBJECTIVE: Promote Clean Coastal Waters To Sustain Living Marine Resources And Ensure Safe Recreation, Healthy Seafood And Economic Vitality.
PM: Number of Coastal and Great Lakes States Provided with Improved Predictive Capabilities and Understanding of Environmental Processes.
Milestone 99-3-1: Estimate the long-term contaminant removal rates for Lake Michigan based on fallout Cs-137 in material re-suspended into benthic traps.
Scientists: J.A. Robbins and B.J. Eadie
GOAL: Implement Seasonal to Interannual Climate Forecasts
OBJECTIVE: Deliver Climate Services and Assess Socioeconomic Impacts
PM: Improvement of Forecasts for Application to Climate-sensitive Sectors through Collaboration with Decision Makers and Other Climate Forecast Users.
Milestone 99-3-2: Develop climate/hydrologic scenarios for the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence River basin using monthly data from the Canadian Climate center GCM transient runs with aerosols
Scientists: F.H. Quinn,
B.M. Lofgren, and T.E.
Croley II.
FOURTH QUARTER (OCTOBER 1999)
GOAL: DOCUMENT, PREDICT, & ASSESS DECADAL-TO-CENTENNIAL CHANGE
OBJECTIVE: Ensure a Long-term Climate Record
PM: Results of 90% of the Research Activities Are to Be Cited in the Year-2000 IPCC Third Assessment of Climate Change. (FY’01,Q4)
Milestone 99-4-1: The 1998 Laurentian Great Lakes ice cover in historical perspective
Scientist: R.A. Assel
GOAL: Implement Seasonal to Interannual Climate Forecasts
OBJECTIVE: Deliver Climate Services and Assess Socioeconomic Impacts
PM: Socioeconomic and policy assessments of weather impacts as linked to climate variations on seasonal to interannual time scales.
Milestone 99-4-2: Prepare manual of procedures and theory for using short-term, seasonal, and interannual probabilistic meteorology outlooks from NOAA and other agencies in derivative water resources probabilistic forecasts via operational hydrology methods.
Scientist: T. E. Croley II
Goal: ADVANCE SHORT-TERM WARNING AND FORECAST SERVICES
Objective 3: ENHANCE OBSERVATIONS AND PREDICTION
PM: Severe Thunderstorm Warning Lead Time And Accuracy And Other PM’s
Milestone 99-4-3: Complete improvements to the algorithm developed for Great Lakes ice cover classification and mapping using new field data and/or satellite SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) data.
Scientist: G. Leshkevich
GOAL: SUSTAIN HEALTHY COASTS
OBJECTIVE 3: Foster Well-planned and Revitalized Coastal Communities That are Compatible with the Natural Environment, Minimize the Risk from Natural Hazards, and Provide Access to Coastal Resources for the Public’s Use and Enjoyment.
PM: None
Milestone 99-4-4: Complete Analysis of the Occurrence of Gravity Currents and Internal Bores in Lake Champlain and Publish the Results of the Analysis in a National Journal.
Scientist: J. Saylor
Last updated: 2002-10-03 mbl