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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