2023 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Conference

March 5-7, 2023 • Cincinnati, OH

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5/20/2019 | 9:30 AM - 9:45 AM | TRANSLATING HISTORICAL AND ONGOING MONITORING DATA INTO GOALS AND ACTIONS IN WATERSHEDS | 250 CF

TRANSLATING HISTORICAL AND ONGOING MONITORING DATA INTO GOALS AND ACTIONS IN WATERSHEDS

Monitoring data accumulated over time provide opportunities to identify ecosystem trends that benefit management and conservation efforts. Here, we show how historical and ongoing monitoring efforts in reservoirs and streams are providing valuable information for nutrient and watershed management, along with a better understanding of how changing climate conditions affect expectations. We further focus on an intensively monitored reservoir in Ohio and its agriculturally dominated watershed as an example of how translational science is turning data and stakeholder engagement into conservation and management actions with better ideas of achievable goals. DNA metabarcoding of stream diatoms is further informing possible nutrient goals. Interdisciplinary collaboration and ongoing engagement among stakeholders, practitioners, ecologists, economists, and modelers are leading to the identification and prioritization of conservation and management practices in the watershed. Actions from 2011 to 2018 include cover crop plantings expanding from 0 to 69 square kilometers, 125 active USDA Environmental Quality Incentives Program contracts being implemented, and 59 nutrient management and conservation practices being funded by the USDA Regional Conservation Partnership Program. Ongoing monitoring and stakeholder engagement will continue being important to realizing the effectiveness of management practices for improving downstream ecosystems.

ClimateChange
Nutrients
Eutrophication

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Nathan Smucker (), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, smucker.nathan@epa.gov;