Document Type
Report
Publication Date
6-2005
Pages
46 pp.
Abstract
(First paragraph) The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) intends to unite elements of its National Coastal Assessment Program (NCA) with its Chesapeake Bay Probabilistic Benthic Monitoring (CBP-PBM) Program beginning in the summer of 2005. The primary motivations for this decision were two-fold. First, the probable reduction of federal grant support for the NCA Program after the summer of 2004 would require considerable restructuring of the of DEQ’s estuarine probabilistic monitoring to continue with a comprehensive program in the future. Second, the current CBP-PBM Program has not provided sufficient data for the assessment of minor tidal tributary segments using the recently approved Benthic Index of Biotic Integrity (B-IBI) assessment method. A formal assessment methodology, using the standardized Chesapeake Bay Benthic IBI, was approved by the States of Virginia and Maryland, the Interstate Chesapeake Bay Program, and EPA Region 3 for the 2004 305(b) assessment.
Rights
Included with kind permission from the authors.
Repository Citation
Dauer, Daniel M. and Lane, Michael F., "Side-by-Side Comparison of Young Grab and Composite Petite Ponar Grab Samples for the Calculation of the Benthic Index of Biological Integrity(B-IBI)" (2005). Benthic Applications. 4.
https://digitalcommons.odu.edu/chesapeakebay-archive_benthic/4
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Comments
This study was supported by general funds of the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality’s Chesapeake Bay Program, and by EPA Assistance Agreement No. R-82854401-0 for the National Coastal Assessment Program, via the DEQ Office of Water Quality Monitoring and Assessment.