The Florida Bay Science Oversight Panel
Integral to the
implementation of the Florida Bay Research Program is independent expert review. This need has been served by the Florida Bay Science
Oversight Panel and is defined in the original 1994 interagency science
plan. That plan defined the Panel's role as providing regular, broad, technical and
management review of agency plans, of PMC strategies for program development, of the
scientific quality of research, modeling and monitoring, and of research results and
inferences. The Panel consists of seven senior scientists with significant experience in
major estuarine restoration programs but without involvement in Florida Bay projects. The
Panel participates in annual conferences by formally leading question and answer sessions
and by providing written reports to the PMC presenting critical review and recommendations
for advancing the program.
Additionally, the Panel has, at the request of the
PMC, arranged for ad
hoc advisory panels of experts in specialized subject areas to participate in
technical workshops where critical research issues and questions are addressed. These
workshops also lead to written recommendations that the PMC accepts as guidance in
coordinating the interagency program as described above. To date, substantive workshops
have included: Circulation Model
(April 17-18, 1996), Nutrients (July 1-2,
1996), Water Quality Model
(October 22-24, 1996), Higher
Trophic Level
Initiative (November 4-5,
1997), Seagrass Model
(January 13-14, 1998), Paleoecology and Ecosystem History
(January 22-23, 1998) and Model Integration (May
11, 1998).
Other workshops
sponsored by the PMC but not having ad hoc advisory panels include Hurricane
Georges Retrospective (November 20, 1998), Florida Bay Salinity Models
(August 30-31, 1999), and Florida Bay Water Quality Model (September 13, 1999).
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