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Mid-Atlantic Integrated Assessment (MAIA)
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The Mid-Atlantic Integrated Assessment
(MAIA) is a research, monitoring,
and assessment program in the Mid-Atlantic region. MAIA is a partnership
of federal, state and local governments; Non-Governmental organizations
(NGOs); and academic institutions. MAIA's goal is to provide integrated
scientific knowledge to support the environmental decision-making
process for the Mid-Atlantic region. This includes development and
implementation of multi-scale monitoring designs, scientific tools,
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Mid-Atlantic Land Use/Land Cover Conference
The second Mid-Atlantic
Land Use/Land Cover Conference, focusing on landscape characterization,
will be held at Towson University, in Towson, Maryland, on January
8 and 9, 2004.
Conference
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Monitoring Science and Technology Symposium: Unifying Knowledge
for Sustainability in the Western Hemisphere
September 21-24, 2004, Denver, Colorado
The goals of the Monitoring Science &
Technology Symposium 2004 are to create an environment where, for
the first time, the intellectual capabilities of people from throughout
the Americas and other parts of the world can exchange ideas, network,
and otherwise interact to promote global sustainability.
Symposium
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Using Science to Assess Environmental Vulnerabilities: A ReVA-MAIA
Conference
The purpose of this conference was to bring environmental
decision-makers and researchers together to illustrate practical
uses of recently developed approaches, tools, and decision-support
systems that can be used to assess current and future environmental
vulnerabilities. Presentations from speakers are available for download.
Download Presentations
Conference Website
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Watershed Partnership Protects World-Class Trout Stream
The brown trout population in Spring Creek was
stressed because water quality was being degraded by both point
and non-point sources of pollution.
Publication #EPA/903/F-02/007
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(4.06 MB)
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 June
Bugs Invade Links
June beetle larvae infested an Aberdeen Proving
Ground golf course, severely damaging the turf. Applications of
insecticide finally killed the larvae, but the resulting odor of
decaying insects closed the course. Golf course managers needed
a new approach.
Publication #EPA/903/F-03/005
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(3.45 MB)
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 Mid-Atlantic
Integrated Assessment (MAIA) Estuaries 1997-98
During the summers of 1997-98, a consortium of
federal and state environmental agencies conducted the Mid-Atlantic
Integrated Assessment Estuaries (MAIA-E) program to characterize
the environmental condition of the four major estuaries in the mid-Atlantic
region of the United States. The assessed estuaries were the Delaware
Estuary, Chesapeake Bay, the coastal bays in Maryland and Virginia,
and the Albemarle-Pamlico Estuarine System. Twelve smaller estuaries
were also monitored to focus attention on systems at the local scale.
Over 800 stations were selected at random and key properties were
measured in three estuarine components – the water column,
the sediments, and the biological community. This summary report
examines thirteen measured or calculated parameters that serve as
indicators of estuarine conditions. Three important environmental
issues are emphasized: eutrophication, contamination of the sediments,
and the impairment of the biological communities in the estuaries.
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