Related Links and Documents

• Final Report of the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy (US COP) An Ocean Blueprint for the 21st Century, Washington, DC (US COP 2004), [http://oceancommission.gov/documents/full_color_rpt/welcome.html].

• The General Accounting Office (GAO) Report: Watershed Management: Better Coordination of Data Collection Efforts Needed to Support Key Decisions, (GAO, 2004), [http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d04382.pdf].

• A recent report by the National Academies', NRC: Confronting the Nation's Water Problems: The Role of Research, [http://books.nap.edu/books/0309092582/html/index.html].

• The Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (CENR) Report Assessment of Coastal Hypoxia and Eutrophication in U.S. Waters, (CENR, 2003) [http://www.oceanservice.noaa.gov/outreach/pdfs/coastalhypoxia.pdf]

• An Interagency report on research needs related to nutrient pollution in coastal waters: Nutrient Pollution in Coastal Waters: Priority Topics for an Integrated National Research Program for the United States (Howarth and others, 2003).

• Interagency work toward creating The Integrated Oceans Observing System (Parts I, II, and III) [http://www.ocean.us/documents/componentsIOOS.jsp].

• Final Plan for the U.S. Integrated Earth Observation System [http://usgeo.gov/docs/EOCStrategic_Plan.pdf].

• The Heinz Center Report: The State of the Nation’s Ecosystems. Measuring the Lands, Waters, and Living Resources of the United States. The H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment, 2002 [http://www.heinzctr.org/ecosystems/report.html]

• The National Academy of Public Administration Report: Understanding What States Need to Protect Water Quality. The National Academy of Public Administration, December, 2002. [http://www.napawash.org/pc_economy_environment/recent_publications.html#2002]

• The General Accounting Office Report: Inconsistent State Approaches Complicate Nation’s Effort to Identify Its Most Polluted Waters (GAO, 2002). http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d02186.pdf

• The report of the CENR, Environmental Monitoring Team, Integrating The Nation’s Environmental Monitoring and Research Networks and Programs: A Proposed Framework (CENR, 1997). [http://www.epa.gov/cludygxb/Pubs/framewrk.pdf]

• ACWI/NWQMC Framework for Monitoring published in Water Resources IMPACT, September 2003 (Peters and Ward, 2003). [http://acwi.gov/monitoring/pubs/0309impact.pdf]

• The General Accounting Office (GAO) Report: Water Quality: Key EPA and State Decisions Limited by Inconsistent and Incomplete Data, (GAO, 2000), [http://www.gao.gov/new.items/rc00054.pdf]

• The National Academy of Science, NRC: Assessing the TMDL Approach to Water Quality Management, [http://books.nap.edu/books/0309075793/html/index.html]

• The National Academy of Science, NRC: Opportunities to Improve the U.S. Geological Survey National Water Quality Assessment Program, [http://books.nap.edu/books/0309083052/html/index.html]

• A report of the Mississippi River/Gulf of Mexico Watershed Nutrient Task Force, Monitoring Modeling and Research Workgroup, A Science Strategy to Support Management Decisions Related to Hypoxia in the Northern Gulf of Mexico and Excess Nutrients in the Mississippi River Basin, 2004, [http://water.usgs.gov/pubs/circ/2004/1270]

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