Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands

Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana

Islands

John Starmer

CNMI CRMO

Pacific Marine Resources Institute 2007

•Population- 60,000•Size- 600 km•EEZ- 758,121 km2

•14 islands•Ethnicity•Economy•US Commonwealth

Background

Houk & Van Woesick 2008

Major Environmental Issues

• NPS Pollution

• Overfishing• Lack of Awareness

• Development

• Data Gaps

Federal Data Collection

• EMO/NOAA NWS- Surf Observations• NASA- Satellite Imaging Systems• NOAA CRED- Biological, Oceanographic• NOAA VENTS- Marine Volcanoes• USGS?- Tide Station, Saipan• USGS- Volcanoes• NOAA CHAMP-ICON• USGS- Stream gauges• USACOE-Wave Height??

Local Data Collection

• CPA- Meteorological Stations at Airports• CRM&NPS- Shoreline Erosion• DEQESL- Physical & Bacterial WQ• DLNR DFW- Forest & Protected Area Surveys• CRM & EMO- Govt. GIS server (ARCIMS)• CNMI MMT (DEQ&CRM)

– SST, WQ trends, ecological – resilience, habitat mapping, – WQ mapping, watershed modeling

Programatic Goals

• Capacity Building- People, Training, Tools• Radio-linked WQ monitoring network by 2010 • Build Physical Environmental Data- Meteorology,

Oceanography• Systems Level View- Watershed, Island,

Archipelago, Region• Genetic Connectivity• Predictive GIS Models

Houk et al, 2007

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