Monitoring Advisor

PNAMP, working in partnership with the State of the Salmon Project, has been hosting and maintaining the Salmon Monitoring Advisor (SMA) website since 2011. The SMA site was developed by a working group of scientists through a series of workshops 2008 to 2010, funded by a grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. The grant was administered through the United States National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS) in Santa Barbara, California. The working group was composed of 14 scientists with extensive experience in a variety of governmental and nongovernmental organizations, many of which are involved in PNAMP.

After migrating the site to PNAMP hosted servers in early 2012, PNAMP had the software platform that the site was hosted on updated. This update was to provide a more user friendly editing platform for PNAMP staff and others in the future. Since all components did not transfer directly, there was some work required to make sure all original components from the site were completely transferred to the new platform. 

With increased national interest in MonitoringResources.org, PNAMP has identified the need for improved guidance on implementing monitoring programs. This project will expand the previously developed text on Monitoring Advisor for broader applicability, update content to make current, and integrate the Monitoring Advisor text into MonitoringResources.org tools.

For more information about this past project or specific events related to this project, please contact us at gs-pnamp_contact@usgs.gov.