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State of the Ecosystem 101

Presentation Overview

State of the Ecosystem (SOE)
- Overview
- Structure
- Workflow
Data
- Information Needed
- Desired Structure
- Delivery Pathways
Expectations
- What we expect from Contributors
- What Contributors can expect from us

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State of the Ecosystem Overview

Integrated Ecosystem Assessment (IEA)

IEA Approach

Supports shift to ecosystem-based management
Iterative
Collaborative

State of the Ecosystem as part of IEA loop

Develop indicators
Assess ecosystem

The IEA Loop¹ IEA process from goal setting to assessment to strategy evaluation with feedbacks

[1] https://www.integratedecosystemassessment.noaa.gov/national/IEA-approach

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State of the Ecosystem Overview

Improving ecosystem information and synthesis for fishery managers

Two reports delivered to two fisheries management councils
- New England
- Mid Atlantic
Fishery-relevant subset of full Ecosystem Status Reports
- Report evolving since 2016
- Contextual information
Ecosystem indicators linked to management objectives (DePiper, et al., 2017)
Open science emphasis (Bastille, et al., 2020)

EPU map, 85%

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State of the Ecosystem StructureReport Structure
Graphical summary
Performance relative to management objectives------------------------->

Risks to meeting management objectivesClimate
Wind Development

Example ecosystem-scale fishery management objectives
 
    Objective Categories 
    Indicators reported here 
  
Provisioning and Cultural Services

    Seafood Production 
    Landings; commercial total and by feeding guild; recreational harvest 
  
    Profits 
    Revenue decomposed to price and volume 
  
    Recreation 
    Days fished; recreational fleet diversity 
  
    Stability 
    Diversity indices (fishery and ecosystem) 
  
    Social & Cultural 
    Community engagement/reliance status 
  
    Protected Species 
    Bycatch; population (adult and juvenile) numbers, mortalities 
  
Supporting and Regulating Services

    Biomass 
    Biomass or abundance by feeding guild from surveys 
  
    Productivity 
    Condition and recruitment of managed species, Primary productivity 
  
    Trophic structure 
    Relative biomass of feeding guilds, Zooplankton 
  
    Habitat 
    Estuarine and offshore habitat conditions 
  
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Example ecosystem-scale fishery management objectives
Objective Categories	Indicators reported here
Provisioning and Cultural Services
Seafood Production	Landings; commercial total and by feeding guild; recreational harvest
Profits	Revenue decomposed to price and volume
Recreation	Days fished; recreational fleet diversity
Stability	Diversity indices (fishery and ecosystem)
Social & Cultural	Community engagement/reliance status
Protected Species	Bycatch; population (adult and juvenile) numbers, mortalities
Supporting and Regulating Services
Biomass	Biomass or abundance by feeding guild from surveys
Productivity	Condition and recruitment of managed species, Primary productivity
Trophic structure	Relative biomass of feeding guilds, Zooplankton
Habitat	Estuarine and offshore habitat conditions

State of the Ecosystem Workflow

tree analogy

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Data Needed

icons

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Data Structure

Desired data structure for delivery

Long format
Five Columns
- Time
- Var
- Value
- Units
- EPU
Metadata and Methods description

Example North Atlantic Right Whale Adult Abundance and Calf Births

ecodata::narw

## # A tibble: 6 x 5
##    Time Var     Value Units EPU  
##   <dbl> <chr>   <dbl> <chr> <chr>
## 1  1990 Lower95   261 n     All  
## 2  1990 Median    264 n     All  
## 3  1990 Upper95   267 n     All  
## 4  1990 Calves     12 n     All  
## 5  1991 Lower95   267 n     All  
## 6  1991 Median    271 n     All

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Data Delivery Pathways

data delivery flowchart

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ExpectationsWhat we expect of data contributorsDataset - Format doesn't matter so much (.csv, .xls, .rda, .netcdf, etc)metadata/methods - for technical documentation
participation in meetings relevant to your data and edits on that section of the final documents. 

What data contributors can expect from usCredit for your workAcknowledgments in SOEs
Authorship in Technical Documentation in NOAA Institutional Repository

Venue for presenting information to Councils/SSCs
Lots of emails :(
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References

Bastille, K. et al. (2020). "Improving the IEA Approach Using Principles of Open Data Science". In: Coastal Management 0.0. Publisher: Taylor & Francis _ eprint: https://doi.org/10.1080/08920753.2021.1846155, pp. 1-18. ISSN: 0892-0753. DOI: 10.1080/08920753.2021.1846155. URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/08920753.2021.1846155 (visited on Dec. 09, 2020).

DePiper, G. S. et al. (2017). "Operationalizing integrated ecosystem assessments within a multidisciplinary team: lessons learned from a worked example". En. In: ICES Journal of Marine Science 74.8, pp. 2076-2086. ISSN: 1054-3139. DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fsx038. URL: https://academic.oup.com/icesjms/article/74/8/2076/3094701 (visited on Mar. 09, 2018).

Additional resources

Slides available at https://noaa-edab.github.io/presentations
Contact: kimberly.bastille@noaa.gov

Thank You!

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