Lake Ontario
Coastal Wetlands Workshop

The Lake Ontario Coastal Wetlands Workshop, which took place June 24-25, 2008 in Buffalo, NY, sought to identify Lake Ontario coastal wetlands indicators and options on the New York side of Lake Ontario that would be applicable to the Lake Ontario Lakewide Management Plan (LaMP) and Adaptive Management approach. Further, potential project implementation areas in New York were desired to be identified, comparable to the coastal wetland monitoring activities in Canada in the Durham region.

The goals of the workshop were:

• To identify the available options and make recommendations as appropriate to the Lake Ontario LaMP for a suite of coastal wetland indicators and monitoring protocols for Lake Ontario, and
• To identify and lay the groundwork for a project implementation area for Lake Ontario coastal wetland monitoring in New York State – identifying the ongoing and needed monitoring and the available options to make up a comprehensive suite of coastal wetland indicators.

Workshop participants included agency representatives from the main federal and state/provincial agencies contributing to the development of the Lake Ontario LaMP, academic and other stakeholders in the Lake Ontario basin.

Proceedings

• Lake Ontario Coastal Wetlands Workshop Proceedings

Presentations

• Lake Ontario Lakwide Management Plan: Developing Lake Ontario Coastal Wetland Indicators (Mario Del Vicario, U.S. EPA Region 2)
  
  
• Status and Needs: Coastal Wetland Monitoring in New York (Roy "JR" Jacobson, NYSDEC)
  
  
• Lake Ontario Biodiversity Conservation Strategy: Targets and Indicators for Lake Ontario Coastal Wetlands (David Klein, The Nature Conservancy)
  
  
• Great Lakes Coastal Wetlands Monitoring Plan: Application to Monitoring Lake Ontario Coastal Wetlands (Don Uzarski, Central Michigan University)
  
  
• The Marsh Monitoring Program: Monitoring Marshes on Lake Ontario’s South Shore (Ryan Archer, Bird Studies Canada)
  
  
• Durham Region Coastal Wetlands Monitoring Project: Lessons Learned and Application to Monitoring Lake Ontario Coastal Wetlands (Graham Bryan, Environment Canada)
  
  
• IJC Lake Levels Study: Field Studies and GIS-Based Predictive Modeling as a Foundation for Developing Monitoring Protocols (Doug Wilcox, U.S. Geological Survey)
  
  
• Applying Adaptive Management in a New Regulation Plan - Lake Ontario/St. Lawrence River (David Klein, The Nature Conservancy)
  
  
• State Wildlife Grants Program and the Comprehensive Wildlife Strategy (This presentation was added to the agenda by request of Amy Mahar, NYSDEC)