2023 Conference Themes

  • 50 Years After the Clean Water Act and Similar Efforts — a retrospective & prospective; lessons learned in water quality condition, assessment, justice & equity and long-term trend monitoring
  • Effectiveness Monitoring — Are management actions working? Restoration results, best management practices, monitoring and education/outreach successes, inform priorities and track progress in protecting and restoring the condition of our nation’s waters
  • Protecting High Quality Waters — monitoring to identify and evaluate waters; inform/implement protection strategies
  • Monitoring Collaboration — national, tribal, regional, state and local initiatives, partnerships, and councils; inclusive stakeholder identification and engagement; Justice, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion
  • Volunteer and Community-Based Monitoring — volunteer monitoring, school & community groups and watershed associations, data to action, stewardship, increasing diversity & inclusion
  • Aggregating, Analyzing,Visualizing & Disseminating Data and Information — Open data science tools and tool development; data portals; data equity; R-Shiny applications, story maps, and dashboards; communicating assessment, condition, and trends to decision makers and public
  • Hot Topics in Monitoring and Analysis
    • Climate Change (impacts on quantity, quality, and biota)
    • Harmful Algal Blooms (freshwater & marine)
    • Persistent Toxic Contaminants (emerging and bioaccumulative contaminants, including PFAS)
    • Nutrients (dynamics, impacts, monitoring, modeling, and analysis)
    • Source Identification (nonpoint source, point source, stormwater, atmospheric deposition)
    • New and Emerging Technologies (in situ and continuous monitoring, remote sensing, analytical methods, eDNA)
    • Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

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