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Aquatic Ecosystems, Water Quality,
and Global Change: Challenges of
Conducting Multi-Stressor
Vulnerability Assessments—Release
of Final Report
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EPA is releasing a final report
entitled, Aquatic Ecosystems, Water
Quality, and Global Change: Challenges
of Conducting Multi-stressor
Vulnerability Assessments, (EPA/600/
R–11/011F). The document was
prepared by the National Center for
Environmental Assessment (NCEA)
within EPA’s Office of Research and
Development.
This report investigates the issues and
challenges associated with identifying,
calculating, and mapping indicators of
the relative vulnerability of water
quality and aquatic ecosystems across
the United States to the potential
impacts of global change. Using a large
set of environmental indicators drawn
from scientific literature and data, this
final report explores the conceptual and
practical challenges associated with
using such indicators to assess the
resilience of ecosystems and human
systems to a variety of existing stresses
and mal-adaptations.
DATES: The report was posted publicly
on August 26, 2011.
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The report, Aquatic
Ecosystems, Water Quality, and Global
Change: Challenges of Conducting
Multi-stressor Vulnerability
Assessments, is available primarily via
the Internet on the National Center for
Environmental Assessment’s home page
under the Recent Additions and the
Data and Publications menus at https://
www.epa.gov/ncea. A limited number of
paper copies are available from the
Information Management Team, NCEA;
telephone: 703–347–8561; facsimile:
703–347–8691. If you are requesting a
paper copy, please provide your name,
mailing address, and the document title.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
additional information, contact the
National Center for Environmental
Assessment; Chris Weaver; telephone:
703–347–8621; facsimile: 703–347–
8694; or e-mail: weaver.chris@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
ADDRESSES:
Information About the Project/
Document
This report investigates the issues and
challenges associated with identifying,
calculating, and mapping indicators of
relative vulnerability of water quality
and aquatic ecosystems across the
United States to the potential adverse
impacts of external forces, such as longterm climate and land-use change.
The report does not directly evaluate
the potential impacts of global change
on ecosystems and watersheds. Rather,
it explores the assumption that the
impacts of existing stressors will be a
key input to any comprehensive global
change vulnerability assessment, and
the impacts of global change will be
expressed via interactions with these
stressors. To date, there has been
relatively little exploration of the
assumption that the practical challenges
associated with assessing the resilience
of ecosystems and human systems might
vary as a result of existing global change
stresses and mal-adaptations. The work
described in this report is a preliminary
attempt at such an exploration.
This report uses more than 600
indicators of water quality and aquatic
ecosystem conditions drawn from
numerous scientific literature and
datasets from within EPA, additional
Federal agencies, and other
organizations. The report serves as a
starting point for identifying challenges
in calculating and mapping national
vulnerabilities. The challenges
identified include gaps in ideas,
methods, data, and tools. Some of those
specific challenges are:
• Identifying those indicators that
speak specifically to ‘‘vulnerability’’ as
opposed to those reflecting simply a
state or condition;
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• Calculating and estimating the
values of these vulnerability indicators,
including establishing important
indicator thresholds that reflect abrupt
or large changes in the vulnerability of
water quality or aquatic ecosystems;
• Mapping these vulnerability
indicators nationally, including data
availability and spatial aggregation of
the data; and
• Combining and compositing
indicators and developing multiindicator indices of vulnerability.
This report is intended to be a
building block for future work on multistressor global change vulnerability
assessments. Hopefully, it will
contribute to improve links between the
decision support needs of the water
quality and aquatic ecosystem
management communities and the
priorities and capabilities of the global
change science data and modeling
communities.
Dated: August 15, 2011.
Joseph DeSantis,
Acting Director, National Center for
Environmental Assessment.
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Aquatic Ecosystems, Water Quality, and Global Change: Challenges
of Conducting Multi-Stressor Vulnerability Assessments--Release of
Final Report
AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
ACTION: Notice of Availability.
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SUMMARY: EPA is releasing a final report entitled, Aquatic Ecosystems,
Water Quality, and Global Change: Challenges of Conducting Multi-
stressor Vulnerability Assessments, (EPA/600/R-11/011F). The document
was prepared by the National Center for Environmental Assessment (NCEA)
within EPA's Office of Research and Development.
This report investigates the issues and challenges associated with
identifying, calculating, and mapping indicators of the relative
vulnerability of water quality and aquatic ecosystems across the United
States to the potential impacts of global change. Using a large set of
environmental indicators drawn from scientific literature and data,
this final report explores the conceptual and practical challenges
associated with using such indicators to assess the resilience of
ecosystems and human systems to a variety of existing stresses and mal-
adaptations.
DATES: The report was posted publicly on August 26, 2011.
ADDRESSES: The report, Aquatic Ecosystems, Water Quality, and Global
Change: Challenges of Conducting Multi-stressor Vulnerability
Assessments, is available primarily via the Internet on the National
Center for Environmental Assessment's home page under the Recent
Additions and the Data and Publications menus at https://www.epa.gov/ncea. A limited number of paper copies are available from the
Information Management Team, NCEA; telephone: 703-347-8561; facsimile:
703-347-8691. If you are requesting a paper copy, please provide your
name, mailing address, and the document title.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For additional information, contact
the National Center for Environmental Assessment; Chris Weaver;
telephone: 703-347-8621; facsimile: 703-347-8694; or e-mail:
weaver.chris@epa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Information About the Project/Document
This report investigates the issues and challenges associated with
identifying, calculating, and mapping indicators of relative
vulnerability of water quality and aquatic ecosystems across the United
States to the potential adverse impacts of external forces, such as
long-term climate and land-use change.
The report does not directly evaluate the potential impacts of
global change on ecosystems and watersheds. Rather, it explores the
assumption that the impacts of existing stressors will be a key input
to any comprehensive global change vulnerability assessment, and the
impacts of global change will be expressed via interactions with these
stressors. To date, there has been relatively little exploration of the
assumption that the practical challenges associated with assessing the
resilience of ecosystems and human systems might vary as a result of
existing global change stresses and mal-adaptations. The work described
in this report is a preliminary attempt at such an exploration.
This report uses more than 600 indicators of water quality and
aquatic ecosystem conditions drawn from numerous scientific literature
and datasets from within EPA, additional Federal agencies, and other
organizations. The report serves as a starting point for identifying
challenges in calculating and mapping national vulnerabilities. The
challenges identified include gaps in ideas, methods, data, and tools.
Some of those specific challenges are:
Identifying those indicators that speak specifically to
``vulnerability'' as opposed to those reflecting simply a state or
condition;
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Calculating and estimating the values of these
vulnerability indicators, including establishing important indicator
thresholds that reflect abrupt or large changes in the vulnerability of
water quality or aquatic ecosystems;
Mapping these vulnerability indicators nationally,
including data availability and spatial aggregation of the data; and
Combining and compositing indicators and developing multi-
indicator indices of vulnerability.
This report is intended to be a building block for future work on
multi-stressor global change vulnerability assessments. Hopefully, it
will contribute to improve links between the decision support needs of
the water quality and aquatic ecosystem management communities and the
priorities and capabilities of the global change science data and
modeling communities.
Dated: August 15, 2011.
Joseph DeSantis,
Acting Director, National Center for Environmental Assessment.
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