Centralized Data Management Office - NOAA National Estuarine Research Reserve System
Original (non-English) name
Acronym
CDMO - NERRS
Citation
Abstract
NOAA's National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERRS) acknowledges the importance of both long-term environmental monitoring programs and data and information dissemination through the support of the NERRS System-wide Monitoring Program (SWMP). The goal of the SWMP is to "identify and track short-term variability and long-term changes in the integrity and biodiversity of representative estuarine ecosystems and coastal watersheds for the purpose of contributing to effective national, regional and site specific coastal zone management." This comprehensive program consists of three phased components:
- estuarine water quality monitoring,
- biodiversity monitoring,
- land-use and habitat change analysis.