GCMRC Protocol Evaluation Program
The Protocol Evaluation
Program (PEP), is described in a prospectus entitled, Prospectus for
Evaluating GCMRC Monitoring Protocols for the Colorado River
Ecosystem
(see below). The
information gained through the PEP process is intended to support
decisions by the GCMRC Chief and his staff as to the specific
monitoring protocols that will be used within the ecosystem. Details
on the specific monitoring techniques will be discussed with the TWG
and the Science Advisors (SA), and conveyed through RFP's to
prospective cooperators that are selected through a competitive
process. Although technologies, science and management needs may cause
evolution in monitoring protocols and strategies through time, the
GCMRC is committed to ensuring that all monitoring data sets are comparable to the
greatest extent possible with previously collected information.
The PEP process for evaluating current and new alternative protocols in all program resources area is scheduled for completion by the end of FY 2002. A PEP review workshop on remote-sensing technologies was held in May 1998. PEP review workshops for physical resource monitoring were held in August 1998, and 1999. Reports on the results of those meetings have been submitted to the GCMRC and distributed to the TWG and AMWG. PEP activities in FYs 2000 and 2001 focused on protocols that support long-term monitoring of biological, cultural and social resources. All PEP workshops and evaluations are conducted in cooperation with external experts identified through a nationwide scoping and competitive selection process, the SA, as well as GCMRC science cooperators, contractors, technical workgroup members.
- Reports generated as part of the ongoing PEP are listed below.
- FINAL REPORT - Survey Protocal Evaluation Program * -- .pdf format (381 KB)
- Final Report of the Integrated Water Quality Program (IWQP) Protocol Evaluation Panel -- .pdf format (147 KB)
- Final Report of the Lee's Ferry Rainbow Trout Monitoring Peer Review Panel -- .pdf format (233 KB)
- Final Report: Cultural Resource Program Assessment -- .pdf format (134 KB)
- Final Report on the Aquatic Foodbase Protocol Evaluation Panel -- .pdf format (221 KB)
- Peer Review Guidelines and Protocols -- .pdf format (146 KB)
- Report of a Peer Review Panel on Terrestrial Aspects of the Biological Resources Program of the Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center -- .pdf format (514 KB)
- Final Report of the Physical Resources Monitoring Peer Review Panel (SEDS I) [GCMRC'S Protocol Evaluations Program (PEP)] -- .pdf format (140 KB)
- Draft Prospectus for Evaluating GCMRC Monitoring Protocols for the Colorado River Ecosystem -- .pdf format (155 KB)
- Final Report GCMRC Remote Sensing Protocols Review Panel -- .pdf format (5.15 MB)
- * Latest Report as of 06/17/2003