The
Program Management Committee
The interagency
Program Management Committee (PMC) for the Florida Bay and Adjacent Marine Systems Science
Program consists of scientific representatives
of the state and federal agencies having environmental regulatory responsibilities and/or
scientific interest in this part of the South Florida coastal marine ecosystem. The PMC is charged with providing policy makers
reliable scientific information and science-based recommendations including timely
evaluation of the effects different upstream management alternatives might have upon the
ecosystem within and adjacent to Florida Bay.
The PMC was formed in
1994 based on a recommendation made to the agencies by a panel convened to examine
agencies' plans and procedures in regard to Florida Bay.
Since that time, the PMC has overseen the interagency Florida Bay Science Program
and has recently expanded to assure coordination and collaboration with developing science
programs in Biscayne Bay, the Southwest Florida Shelf (including Rookery Bay), and the
Florida Keys coastal waters in so far as they are germane to South Florida ecosystem
restoration. To accomplish its objectives the
PMC:
1.
developed a Strategic Science Plan for
Florida Bay to guide individual agency implementation plans and to prioritize allocation
of resources;
2.
established a Florida
Bay Science Oversight Panel composed of distinguished, knowledgeable but
financial disinterested scientists from outside this region. This Panel is asked to attend
the Annual Science Conference, to chair or participate in topical workshops that require
technical panel input and to recommend to the PMC any changes in the science program to
assure it is meeting the requirements of the South Florida Ecosystem Restoration Process;
3.
established an
administrative infrastructure consisting of an Executive
Officer and an Florida Bay Education Project Office;
4.
established research teams
consisting of funded investigators and interested experts to review and integrate plans
and sampling protocols of related projects including data management;
5.
sponsors an annual Science Conference in
which all funded investigator teams in all the various agencies are required to
participate;
6.
sponsors topical workshops
on critical scientific issues;
7.
evaluates individual
agency implementation plans to avoid redundancy, assures maximum complementarity and makes
best use of the technical and financial resources being made available for these science
activities.
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