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The Department of
Fish and Game, OC Parks, and the City of Newport Beach intend to
develop a single
Comprehensive Resource Management Program (CRMP) for Upper Newport
Bay. The CRMP will establish specific objectives for the long-term
protection of native habitat and wildlife combined with compatible
public education, recreation, enjoyment and use, and specify how
best to achieve these objectives through adaptive management.
A
key tenet of adaptive management is that objectives are
driven by valid scientific data. A necessary first step before
creating the CRMP is the cataloging of existing scientific data
relevant to Upper Newport Bay. The City has engaged NBNF to perform
this data cataloging. In this context data refers to both
compilations of actual numerical data, and to reports that reference
or summarize such data.
A wealth of data pertaining to the Upper Bay exists, including but not
limited to environmental documents (EIRs, MNDs, Federal EISs), Basin
Plans and TMDL reports, research studies, management plans,
watershed plans, maps, aerial
photos and GIS information and more.
If you have the credentials to
review/critique the data assembled pertaining to your field of
expertise and would like to be involved in helping establish completeness,
level of detail, breadth of scope, and current validity and
applicability to the management of UNB,
please contact Roger.
See also the Research Cataloger and
Information Technologist job listings.
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Job Description:
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Research Catalogers will seek out and compile a
listing of all potentially relevant data, indentifying source, data
and other general information about the data. The data subject
matter to be identified is open-ended, ranging from geology to water
quality to mammal sightings to recreational use.
The first task of the Science Advisors is to
make a preliminary determination of the data that should be
collected in electronic or paper form for scientific review and
synopsis. Science Advisors may write the synopses or review those
written by others.
Science Advisors will then work as part of a
Peer Review Panel (or sub-committees under it) to rank data
relevance to specific aspects of the CRMP based on objective issues
such as completeness, level of detail, breadth of scope, and current
validity and applicability to UNB.
Finally, Science Advisors will be involved in conducting a “gap
analysis” to identify what information, data, or research is
missing that will be needed for the CRMP stakeholders to complete
the CRMP and to make meaningful decisions on management priorities.
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