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=='''2017 Knowledge Assessment'''==
 
=='''2017 Knowledge Assessment'''==
The GCDAMP advises the Secretary of the Interior (Secretary) on:
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Knowledge assessments are a standard tool in adaptive management, with two purposes:
  
*Meeting environmental and cultural commitments.
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(1) They assess the state of knowledge concerning:
*Long-term monitoring and the status of resources.
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*Status and trend for resources central to an adaptive management program
*Studies undertaken to increase knowledge of the effects of routine and experimental dam operations, other management actions, and environmental factors on key resource values.
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*The factors (aka ‘drivers’) that shape resource status and trends
*Activities undertaken to comply with applicable laws.
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*The ways in which past, current, and planned future management actions affect these drivers or directly affect resource status.
  
The GCDAMP carries out a substantial program of monitoring and research, and manages large bodies of data and knowledge, in order to advise the Secretary on these topics. The ultimate purpose of this advice is to sustain a robust program of adaptive management. The GCDAMP periodically undertakes a review of the knowledge on which it bases its advice to the Secretary. This knowledge and advice crucially help inform the decisions of the Secretary concerning adaptive management of dam operations and their impacts. The review – here termed a ‘knowledge assessment’ – assesses the knowledge, and the reliability or certainty of the knowledge, for three broad objectives, to:
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(2) They identify areas of uncertainty in this knowledge that the adaptive management team may want to
#summarize what is known;
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address through additional investigations, including but not limited to field monitoring or research.
#assess ongoing needs for monitoring to sustain crucial knowledge; and
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The present (FY 2017) knowledge assessment is timed to coincide with and inform the Annual Reporting
#identify crucial gaps and weaknesses in this knowledge that require attention.  
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process and development of the next GCDAMP Triennial Work Plan for FY 2018-2020. This knowledge
 
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assessment is testing a methodology for better organizing, displaying, and communicating its findings,
The results will inform work planning and budgeting.
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potentially to carry forward to guide future knowledge assessments as well. [https://www.usbr.gov/uc/rm/amp/amwg/mtgs/17feb15/Knowledge%20Assessment.pdf]
  
 
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2017 Knowledge Assessment

Knowledge assessments are a standard tool in adaptive management, with two purposes:

(1) They assess the state of knowledge concerning:

  • Status and trend for resources central to an adaptive management program
  • The factors (aka ‘drivers’) that shape resource status and trends
  • The ways in which past, current, and planned future management actions affect these drivers or directly affect resource status.

(2) They identify areas of uncertainty in this knowledge that the adaptive management team may want to address through additional investigations, including but not limited to field monitoring or research. The present (FY 2017) knowledge assessment is timed to coincide with and inform the Annual Reporting process and development of the next GCDAMP Triennial Work Plan for FY 2018-2020. This knowledge assessment is testing a methodology for better organizing, displaying, and communicating its findings, potentially to carry forward to guide future knowledge assessments as well. [1]

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