The Water Quality and Phytoplankton Project Work Team provides a venue for scientist from diverse agencies and groups to coordinate and synthesize findings, which will inform research and monitoring needs on water quality and phytoplankton issues in the Bay-Delta in the future.
Objectives
- Encourage open science with sharing of data and methods to benefit development of formal synthesis or strategy documents
- Discuss and plan for potential changes to the monitoring programs in the Bay-Delta to inform multiple management priorities, such as flow, fisheries, phytoplankton, and nutrients
- Share and review research on water quality, nutrients, phytoplankton, flows, and fisheries and develop proposals for special studies to address knowledge gaps not being addressed by other groups
- Provide review and input on new monitoring plans and special studies
- Reduce duplication of effort through sharing of water quality and phytoplankton monitoring plans and identify opportunities to collect data more efficiently through coordination across multiple monitoring programs
Charter
Cyanobacteria Harmful Algal Blooms (CHAB) Sub-Team
The CHABs Sub-Team is a focused working group to implement the Delta CHABs Monitoring Strategy. This group functions as a sub-team of the Water Quality and Phytoplankton Project Work Team, and regularly reports out on major milestones and progress updates to the Water Quality and Phytoplankton Project Work Team.
Objectives
- Provide a collaborative venue for Delta scientists to work n CHABs issues
- Lead the implementation of the Delta CHABs Monitoring Strategy
- Share lessons learned and new findings on Delta CHABs
Charter
- CHABs Sub-Team Charter (forthcoming)