Water Quality for Healthy Beaches and Shellfish Beds
Implementation Activities
Water Quality Team Meetings
Supporting Documents
Water Quality Priority Issue Team
Implementation Activities
Water Quality Combined Activities Matrix- Updated December 8, 2009 (xlsx, 207kb)
Action Plan II: Tier 2 Water Quality Detail - October 30, 2009
For more detailed information on the Governors' Action Plan and the implementation activities, click here.
Click here for Information on HAB detection and forecasting in the Gulf of Mexico.
Click here for more info on the July 2006 State of the Research on Red Tide in the Gulf of Mexico Workshop, which assessed progress of research and identified future research needs.
Water Quality Team Meetings
Click here to view Water Quality PIT Conference Call Notes
**NEW** Joint GOMA/GCOOS HABs Workshop- St. Petersburg, FL, April 21-22, 2009
**NEW** Gulf of Mexico Monitoring Forum - New Orleans, LA, April 7-8, 2009
Microbial Source Tracking Workshop - St. Pete Beach, FL, Feb 11-12, 2009
Mercury Workshop Presentations - Gulfport, MS, December 2-4, 2008
Click here to view U.S./Mexico Harmful Algal Bloom Monitoring Meeting Notes and Presentations
Click here to view July APIIW Water Quality Materials
Supporting Documents
Mercury Experts - Updated July 29, 2009 (pdf)
Round Robins:
Field Round Robin #1 (pdf)
Analytical Round Robin #1 (pdf)
Procedure for Analytic Round Robin #2 (pdf)
The National Water Quality Monitoring Network for U.S. Coastal Waters and their Tributaries - July 18, 2006 (pdf, 71 kb)
A Framework for an Integrated and Comprehensive Monitoring Plan for the Estuaries of the Gulf of Mexico (pdf, 2.5 mb)
Harmful Algal Research and Response: A Human Dimensions Strategy (pdf, 1.7 mb)
Gulf of Mexico Alliance Water Quality /
Hydrodynamics Model Database (zip, 707kb)
Hydrodynamic and Water Quality Model Inventory Excel Template (xls, 35kb)
Inventory of Hydrodynamic Models in Florida (pdf, 894kb)
Water Quality Priority Issue Team
State Leadership
Federal Co-Facilitators
Water Quality PIT Contact Info - Updated February 5, 2009 (pdf, 47 kb)
Water Quallity Coordinator
Steve Wolfe
Program Administrator, OCAMA FDEP
Phone: (850) 245-2102
Email: steven.wolfe@dep.state.fl.us
State Leadership
ALABAMA
Mark Ornelas
ADEM
Phone: (251) 450-3430
Email: meo@adem.state.al.us
FLORIDA
Ellen McCarron (PIT Lead)
Florida DEP
Phone: (850) 245-2094
Email: ellen.mccarron@dep.state.fl.us
Linda Sedlacek
FDEP
Phone: (850) 245-3021
Email: Linda.Sedlacek@dep.state.fl.us
Becky Prado
FDEP
Phone: (850) 245-2103)
Email: Rebecca.Prado@dep.state.fl.us
LOUISIANA
Dugan Sabins
LDEQ
Phone: (225) 219-3553
Email: dugan.sabins@la.gov
Kris Pintado
LDEQ
Phone: (225) 219-3596
Email: kris.pintado@la.gov
MISSISSIPPI
Alice Dossett
Water Quality monitoring Section Chief
MDEQ Field Services Division Biology Lab
Phone: (601) 961-5664
Email: alice_dossett@deq.state.ms.us
Kay Whittington
TMDL Section Chief, MDEQ
Phone: (601) 961-5729
Email: kay_whittington@deq.state.ms.us
TEXAS
Jim Davenport
TCEQ
Phone: (512) 239-4585
Email: JDAVENPO@tceq.state.tx.us
Leslie Williams
TPWD
Phone:(361) 825-2329
Email:Leslie.Williams@tpwd.state.tx.us
Federal Co-facilitators
Co-faciliatators from EPA and NOAA have been designated for each of the Priority Issue Teams (PITs) to serve as staff support to PIT state leads. Water Quality co-facilitators are listed below:
Jeanne Allen
Environmental Scientist
EPA - GMP
Phone: (228) 688-2761
Email: allen.jeanne@epa.gov
Chris Sinigalliano
NOAA - AOML
Phone: (954) 801-4384
Email: christopher.sinigalliano@noaa.gov