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GLERL 2000 Milestone Reports
The Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory (GLERL) has 11 Milestones to report under the OAR FY00 Operating Plan. The milestones fall under the Sustain Healthy Coasts (8) and the Implement Seasonal to Interannnual Climate Forecasts (3). 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 2000)
GOAL: SUSTAIN HEALTHY COASTS
OBJECTIVE 2: 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-00-1-1: Develop improved water-level statistics that reflect: (1) existing hydrologic and hydraulic conditions; (2) the long lag response of the lakes to meteorological variability; (3) changes in climatic regimes; and (4) the needs of diverse Great Lakes decision-makers.
Scientist: F.
Quinn
Milestone-00-1-2:Complete and publish new Lake Ontario high resolution bathymetry.
Scientists: D.F. Reid and T.L. Holcombe
SECOND QUARTER (APRIL 2000)
GOAL: SUSTAIN HEALTHY COASTS
OBJECTIVE 2: Promote Clean Coastal Waters to Sustain Living Marine resources and to Ensure Safe Recreation, Healthy seafood, and Economic vitality
PM: Develop better tools, predictive models and understanding related to water quality and coastal ecosystems management
Milestone-00-2-1 : Complete the first year of the 6-year NOAA-NSF Coastal Ocean Program "the Impact of Episodic Events on the great Lakes" and report results to NOAA-COP, NSF, and on the web.
Scientists: B. Eadie and D. Schwab
THIRD QUARTER (JULY 2000)
GOAL: SUSTAIN HEALTHY COASTS
OBJECTIVE 1: Protect, conserve, and restore Coastal Habitats and their Biodiversity
PM: Number of U.S. coastal regions with reduced introductions and impacts of non-indigenous species.
Milestone-00-3-1: Determine whether the interaction of zebra mussels with nutrient dynamics in mussel-infested areas of the Great Lakes is a significant factor in the development of blue-green algal blooms in those areas.
Scientist: H.A. Vanderploeg
OBJECTIVE 2: Promote Clean Coastal Waters to Sustain Living Marine resources and to Ensure Safe Recreation, Healthy seafood, and Economic vitality
PM: Develop better tools, predictive models, and understanding related to water quality and coastal ecosystems management.
Milestone-00-3-2: Determine the utility of the critical body-residue approach for improving assessment of contaminant impacts for non-persistent high volume commercial products such as selected surfactants, an important component of laundry detergents.
Scientist: P.F. Landrum
GOAL: IMPLEMENT SEASONAL TO INTERANNUAL CLIMATE FORECASTS
OBJECTIVE 1: Implement prediction Systems
PM: % of system operational
Milestone-00-3-3: Next-generation of water resources prediction will be augmented through publication of a book "Using Meteorology Probability Forecasts in Operational Hydrology."
Scientist: T.E. Croley
OBJECTIVE 3: Conduct Research for Improved Climate Predictions
PM: Improvements in the seasonal prediction as measured by: (1) The RMS error in the El Nino3 SST (2) the forecast lead time
Milestone-00-3-4: The impact of climate change on water resources will be evaluated through a regional coupled model prediction of Great Lakes water resources under greenhouse warming.
Scientist: B.M Lofgren
FOURTH QUARTER (SEPTEMBER 2000)
GOAL: SUSTAIN HEALTHY COASTS
OBJECTIVE 1: Protect, Conserve, and Restore Coastal Habitats and Their Biodiversity
PM: Number of environmental technologies and tools developed that enhance monitoring, assessment, management and restoration of coastal habitats
Milestone-00-4-1 : Improve technology transfer program in the Great Lakes region to give Great Lakes communities access to remote sensing and other tools to improve monitoring, environmental science, and decision-making to enhance water resource protection, management, and public enjoyment.
Scientist: G.A. Leshkevich
PM: Number of U.S. coastal regions with reduced introductions and impacts of non-indigenous species.
Milestone-00-4-2: Determine the role of zebra mussels on the decline of the amphipod Diporeia spp.
Scientist: T.F. Nalepa
OBJECTIVE 2: Promote Clean Coastal Waters to Sustain Living Marine resources and to Ensure Safe Recreation, Healthy Seafood, and Economic Vitality
PM: Develop better tools, predictive models, and understanding related to water quality and coastal ecosystems management.
Milestone-00-4-3: Develop new perspective on the wind wave generation and growth processes.
Scientist: P.C. Liu
GOAL: IMPLEMENT SEASONAL TO INTERANNUAL CLIMATE FORECASTS
OBJECTIVE 2: Maintain and Improve Observing and Data Delivery Systems
PM: Number of operational data sets updated developed and produced
Milestone-00-4-4: Complete updating the digital Great Lakes ice cover data set. This data will advance the understanding of the impact of climate variability.
Scientist: R.A. Assel
Last updated: 2002-07-09 mbl