2017 Knowledge Assessment

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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Summary The KA has three components: “Status and Trends,” “Drivers and Constraints,” and “Effects of Management Actions.”

Links and Information Knowledge Assessments, Annual Reporting Meetings, and SCORE Reports Page Documents 2017 Knowledge Assessment Table 2017 Knowledge Assessment Guidance Science Advisors Memo: Symbol set(s) for displaying Knowledge Assessment findings Knowledge Assessment Summaries 2017 KA Summary: Drivers & Constraints 2017 KA Summary: Experimental & Management Actions 2017 KA Summary: Status and Trend Knowledge Assessment Tables Recreational Experience Drivers & Constraints Recreational Experience LTEMP Actions Recreational Experience Status & Trend Vegetation Drivers & Constraints Vegetation LTEMP Actions Vegetation Status & Trend Sediment Drivers & Constraints Sediment LTEMP Actions Sediment Status & Trend Water Quality Drivers & Constraints Water Quality LTEMP Actions Water Quality Status & Trend Presentations and Papers Knowledge Assessment Update Review of the 2017 ARM and Discussion of Knowledge Assessment Other Stuff