PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR:

Dr. Steven Dollar, WRRC & U.H. Oceanography

SPONSOR:

Hawaii Department of Health

PROJECT PERIOD:

12/23/05 - 04/22/07

ABSTRACT:

We shall be assisting the state to prepare and develop phase 2 of the Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (EMAP), which will include continuation of an earlier assessment of the physical, biological, and chemical condition of Hawaii's estuaries and nearshore coastal waters using standardized methods and a suite of environmental indicators. We will be ranking the relative importance of various stressors on the affected resources, and working to build partnerships among implementing agencies for more effective future monitoring and assessments.