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TABLE OF CONTENTS COASTAL MONITORING THROUGH PARTNERSHIPS Proceedings of the Fifth Symposium on the Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (EMAP) Pensacola Beach, FL, U.S.A., April 24-27, 2001 A. Preface MIcHAEL E. McDona_p / Preface B. Regional and National Coastal Monitoring Partnership Programs Brock B. BERNSTEIN and STEPHEN B. WEISBERG / Southern California’s Marine Monitor- ing System Ten Years After the National Research Council Evaluation RAINER HOoeNIcKE, JAY A. Davis, ANDREW GUNTHER, THOMAS E. MUMLEY, KHALIL ABU- SABA and Karen Tabersk! / Effective Application of Monitoring Information: The Case of San Francisco Bay PAUL BERTRAM, NANCY STADLER-SALT, PAUL Horvatin and HARVEY SHEAR / Bi-National Assessment of the Great Lakes: SOLEC Partnerships Mark Tepesco, W. FRANK BOHLEN, Mary M. Howarb-Srropel, David R. COHEN and PETER A. TeBeau / The MYSound Project: Building an Estuary-Wide Monitoring Network for Long Island Sound, U.S.A. Curisty V. PATTENGILL-SEMMENS and Brice X. SEMMENS / Conservation and Manage- ment Applications of the REEF Volunteer Fish Monitoring Program Tuomas C. MALone / The Coastal Component of the U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System C. Monitoring Approaches, Modeling, and Data Management GLENN J. WARREN and Paut J. Horva/t Girena t Lakes Monitoring Results—Companri- son of Probability Based and Deterministic Sampling Grids JOHN W. BRAKEBILL and STEPHEN D, Preston / A Hydrologic Network Supporting Spa- tially Referenced Regression Modeling in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Rosert F. VAN Dotan, Davip E. CHESTNUT, JOHN D. JoNEs, PAMELA C. JuTTE, GEORGE RIEKERK, MARTIN LEvISEN and WILLIAM McDermott /T he Importance of Consid- ering Spatial Attributes in Evaluating Estuarine Habitat Condition: The South Caro- lina Experience Vi Pau. A. Conraps, WILLIAM P. MARTELLO and Nancy R. SuLLiNs / Living with a Large Reduction in Permitted Loading by Using a Hydrograph-Controlled Release Scheme 97-106 Grecory D. STEYER, CHARLES E. SASSER, JENNEKE M. Visser, ERICK M. SWENSON, JOHN A. Nyman, and RICHARD C, RAYNIE/A Proposed Coast-Wide Reference Monitor- ing System for Evaluating Wetland Restoration Trajectories in Louisiana i07-117 KENNETH SCHIFF, STEVEN Bay and Dario DiEHL / Stormwater Toxicity in Chollas Creek and San Diego Bay, California 119-132 STEPHEN S. HALE, ANNE HALE MIGLARESE, M. PATRICIA BRADLEY, THOMAS J. BELTON, Larry C. Cooper, MICHAEL T. FRAME, CHRISTOPHER A. FRIEL, LINDA M. HARWELL, ROBERT E. KING, WILLIAM K. MICHENER, Davip T. NICOLSON and Bruce G. PeTERJOHN / Managing Troubled Data: Coastal Data Partnerships Smooth Data Integration 133-148 D. Benthic Communities Monitoring and Assessment JEFFREY L. HYLAND, W. LEONARD BALTHIS, VIRGINIA D. ENGLE, EDwarD R. LONG, JOHN F. PAUL, J.KEviIN SuMMers and Rosert F. VAN DotaH / Incidence of Stress in Benthic Communities Along the U.S. Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico Coasts Within Different Ranges of Sediment Contamination From Chemical Mixtures 149-161 RosertoJ . LLANSO, DANIEL M. Dauer, Jon H. Votstab, and Lis A C. Scorr /Appli- cation of the Benthic Index of Biotic Integrity to Environmental Monitoring in Chesapeake Bay 163-174 DanieL M. Dauer and Roserto J. LLANso / Spatial Scales and Probability Based Sampling in Determining Levels of Benthic Community Degradation in the Chesapeake Bay 175-186 Cory S. CHRISTMAN and DantEL M. Dauer /An Approach for Identifying the Causes of Benthic Degradation in Chesapeake Bay 187-197 J. ANANDA RANASINGHE, Davib E. MONTAGNE, STEPHEN B. WEISBERG, MARY BERGEN and RONALD G. VELARDE /V ariability in the Identification and Enumeration of Marine Benthic Invertebrate Samples and its Effect on Benthic Assessment Measures 199-206 E. Biological Indicators & Interlaboratory Sediment Comparisons JANE M. Carrrey / Production, Respiration and Net Ecosystem Metabolism in U.S. Estuaries 207-219 PAMELA HALLOCK, BARBARA H. Lipz, ELIZABETH M. CocKEY-BURKHARD and KELLY B. DonNELLY / Foraminifera as Bioindicators in Coral Reef Assessment and Monitoring: The FORAM Index 221-238 KENNETH B. RAPosA, CHARLES T. ROMAN and James F. HELTSHE / Monitoring Nekton as a Bioindicator in Shallow Estuarine Habitats STEVEN M. Bay, ANDREW Jirik and STANForD Asato/ Interlaboratory Variability of Am- phipod Sediment Toxicity Tests in a Cooperative Regional Monitoring Program RICHARD GosseTT, RODGER BAIRD, KIMBERLY CHRISTENSEN, and STEPHEN B. WEISBERG / Making Performance-Based Chemistry Work: How We Cre- ated Comparable Data Among Laboratories as Part of a Southern Califor- nia Marine Regional Assessment 269-287 F. Microbiological Modeling, Indicators, and Monitoring Grea A. OLYPHANT, JUDITH THOMAS, RICHARD L. WHITMAN, and DENVER HARPER / Char- acterization and Statistical Modeling of Bacterial (Escherichia coli) Outflows From Watersheds That Discharge Into Southem Lake Michigan 289-300 RACHEL T. NoBLeE, STEPHEN B. WEISBERG, MoLLy K. LEECASTER, CHARLES D. McGee, Kerry RitreR, KATHY O. WALKER and Patricia M. VAINIK /Comparison of Beach Bacterial Water Quality Indicator Measurement Methods KATHERINE G. FIELD, ANNE E. BERNARD, and Timotuy J. BRODEUR / Molecular Approaches to Microbiological Monitoring: Fecal Source Detection O. Coun Stine, AMY CARNAHAN, RuBy SINGH, JAN POWELL, JON P. FURUNo, ALICIA Dorsey, ELLEN SILBERGELD, HENRY N. WILLIAMS and J. GLENN Morris / Characterization of Microbial Communities from Coastal Waters Using Microarrays R. HEATH Kesey, GEOFFREY I. Scorr, Dwayne E. Porter, BRIAN THOMPSON and LAURA Wesster / Using Multiple Antibiotic Resistance and Land Use Characteristics to Determine Sources of Fecal Coliform Bacterial Pollution G. Monitoring and Assessment of Phytoplankton and Submerged Aquatic Vegetation Communities Haro_p G. MARSHALL, MICHAEL F. LANE and KNEELAND K. Nesius / Long-Term Phy- toplankton Trends and Related Water Quality Trends in the Lower Chesapeake Bay, Virginia, U.S.A. 349-360 ALAN J. Lewrrus and A. Frep HoLLANp / Initial Results From a Multi-Institutional Col- laboration to Monitor Harmful Algal Blooms in South Carolina 361-371 WILLIAM S. FISHER, THOMAS C. MALONE and JAMes D. GiartinA/A Pilot Project to Detect and Forecast Harmful Algal Blooms in the Northern Gulf of Mexico 373-381 Davip J. WILLIAMS, Nancy B. Rysicki, ALFONSO V. LOMBANA, TIM M. O’BrIEN and RICH- ARD B. Gomez / Preliminary Investigation of Submerged Aquatic Vegetation Map- ping Using Hyperspectral Remote Sensing 383-392 Vill Pau R. Cartson, JR., LAURA A. YARBRO, KEVIN MADLEY, HERMAN ARNOLD, MANUEL MERELLO, LIsA VANDERBLOEMEN, GILL McRae and Micuaet J. Dura/k Efofec t of El Nino on Demographic, Morphological, and Chemical Parameters in Turtle- Grass, Thalassia testudinum: an Unexpected Test of Indicators 393-408