Update on the progress of the Monitoring, Modeling, and Research Subgroup of the Baltimore Urban Waters Partnership. Presented at the 9/15 BUWP meeting.

1. Monitoring, Modeling, and
Research Subgroup Update
BUWP Quarterly Meeting
8 September 2015

2. Update
• Met in July 2015
• Subset of members meeting in Sept. for
workshop planning
• Full steering committee meeting to be held in
Oct.
• Making progress toward two main calendar
year goals

3. Continued Progress Toward Goals
• Data Assessment (Can mandated monitoring
be optimized and/or improved to better
understand progress toward restoration?)
– Drafted a proposal for a retrospective trends
analysis of constituents in Gwynns Falls and
Middle Branch (receiving waters) and elucidation
of explanatory factors of trends. Collaborative
project between Cary Institute (BES), USGS, and
BWB
– Abell Foundation seed funds, need additional
funding source for remainder.

4. Continued Progress Toward Goals
• Maintain/continue communication (vision that
committee serves as venue for technical feedback
and exchange)
– Planning a workshop for mid-January 2016, place TBD
– Main focus will be information exchange between
researchers and broader monitoring community
(jurisdictions, practitioners, non-profits)
• Morning: updates from research community to broader
community
• Afternoon: feedback loop from broader community to
researchers to generate next set of questions/areas of focus
• Will include a round-robin opportunity for researchers to
meet with organizations with a particular existing need