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Individual Program Manager Perspective

Individual Program Manager Perspective. Or: What’s in it for me?. Melissa Hulting U.S. EPA Great Lakes National Program Office. How could I benefit from a nationwide PBT strategy?. Data for comparison, information sharing Lessons learned from others: methods, siting, etc.

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Individual Program Manager Perspective

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  1. Individual Program Manager Perspective Or: What’s in it for me? Melissa Hulting U.S. EPA Great Lakes National Program Office PBT Monitoring Strategy Workshop

  2. How could I benefit from a nationwide PBT strategy? • Data for comparison, information sharing • Lessons learned from others: methods, siting, etc. • Resource sharing, investing in common networks PBT Monitoring Strategy Workshop

  3. Data Sharing • Compare my data to data from other regions of the country: Is the GL problem unique? Are rural or urban levels comparable among regions? • Transport of PBTs between regions • What is coming to my area from other areas of the country, continent, and world? • What is my area contributing to other areas? PBT Monitoring Strategy Workshop

  4. Data Sharing • Emerging pollutants • What are people seeing that’s “new” in the environment? • What are the risks/toxicity associated with these contaminants? • Are they present at significant levels? • Sources? PBT Monitoring Strategy Workshop

  5. Data Sharing • How can we combine or improve data so that it is more useful to modelers? • So modelers can in turn better inform monitoring managers and policy makers • Can we relate environmental concentrations collected by one party to emissions data from another? PBT Monitoring Strategy Workshop

  6. Data Sharing • What information has already been gathering through short-term, research-oriented studies that I don’t know about? • How can we design our monitoring to use that knowledge? PBT Monitoring Strategy Workshop

  7. Data Sharing • Can we combine data from different media to better predict flows between media? • Predict changes in fish tissue concentrations from changes in water concentrations • Are trends similar in different media? PBT Monitoring Strategy Workshop

  8. Learning from others • Are there new methods that I should know about? • How much does X type of monitoring typically cost? • Are there standard methods available? PBT Monitoring Strategy Workshop

  9. Sharing Resources • Share site operators, sample collectors • Multimedia sampling • Sharing common laboratories • Pool talents: analytical knowledge, political knowledge, reporting savvy, etc. PBT Monitoring Strategy Workshop

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