New Monitoring Guidance Released

New guidance for birds, marine mammals, sea turtles, fish, & mesophotic and deep benthic communities.

Having trouble viewing this email? View it as a Web page. Acoustic receivers are used to monitor tagged fish that swim near areas where they're deployed. Credit Florida FWC New Monitoring Guidance Added to Monitoring and Adaptive Management Manual The Deepwater Horizon Trustee Council has added new monitoring guidance to its Monitoring and Adaptive Management Manual. This new guidance addresses restoration approaches for: Birds Marine mammals Sea turtles Fish and water column invertebrates Mesophotic and deep benthic communities The updated guidance for these resources were released in the updated Monitoring and Adaptive Management Manual V 2.0 and its Appendix E.  Adaptive management involves fine-tuning restoration as monitoring results become available and scientific understanding improves. The manual provides guidance for monitoring activities used to evaluate outcomes of individual projects and across all Deepwater Horizon restoration activities. Updates to the Monitoring and Adaptive Management Manual may occur as we continue to: Develop methodologies for evaluating broad-based restoration progress Learn more about the best ways to measure restoration progress for different resources and environmental settings Read the full article >> Have a colleague or friend interested in Gulf restoration? Forward this email and tell them to sign up for updates!

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