The coastal component of EMAP applies EMAP’s monitoring and assessment tools to create an integrated and comprehensive coastal monitoring program. Water column measurements are combined with information about sediment characteristics and chemistry, benthic organisms, and data from fish trawls to describe the current estuarine condition.
The objectives are:
- to describe the current ecological condition of estuaries; and,
- to work with the states and others to build a strong program of ecological monitoring which will lead to better management and protection of western estuaries; and,
- to develop the infrastructure in the Region and in the States to implement the monitoring program.
Condition of Outer Coastal Estuaries, 1999, Washington State Department of Ecology (PDF)
Other Information and Reports:
Ecological Condition of the Columbia River Estuary (PDF) (60 pp. 1.7MB)
EMAP data depository
"Ecological Condition of the Estuaries of Oregon and Washington" (PDF) (83 pp. 2.8MB)
"H4IIE bioassay-derived 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin equivalents (TCDDEQ) in fish collected in 2000 from large estuaries along the western coast of the United States." (PDF) (72 pp. 1.1MB)
"Relative Toxicity Threshold Comparisons for the Sea Urchin Tests and the H4IIE Bioassays - BEST/EMAP-Western Small Estuary Monitoring" (PDF)
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