Description: The purpose of this condition report is to use the best available information to assess the status and trends of various components of the sanctuary’s ecosystem, as well as the maritime heritage resources within the sanctuary. The report is structured around a management-logic model called the DPSER model, which stands for Drivers-Pressure-State-Ecosystem Services-Response. This model enables the sanctuary to comprehensively document the many factors that affect management responses, including the influence of societal drivers on the levels of pressures on resources, the effects of those stressors on the condition of resources, and the effects of changing conditions on the services they provide to society. The first condition report for OCNMS was released in 2008. This is the second comprehensive update of the status and trends of sanctuary resources, covering the broad categories of water quality, habitat, living resources, and maritime heritage resources. This report also includes the status and trends of ecosystem services—the ways humans derive benefits from different ecosystem attributes that they care about for their lives and livelihoods. Ecosystem services evaluated in this report include consumptive and non-consumptive recreation, science, education, heritage, sense of place, commercial and subsistence harvest, and ornamentals.
ID: ID456 Info. Type: ISI
Start date of Peer Review: 4/19/2021
Estimated Initial Dissemination Date: 3/1/2022
Actual Dissemination Date of peer review report and final work product: 03/07/2022
Contact Person: Kathy Broughton Get contact information
Review Type: A panel
Expected Number of Peer Reviewers: 4
Peer Reviewers will be selected by: Office of National Marine Sanctuary staff
Will the public, including scientific or professional societies, be asked to nominate potential peer reviewers? No
Will there be opportunities for the public to comment on the work product to be peer reviewed? No
Will the agency provide significant and relevant public comments to the peer reviewers before they conduct their review? Not applicable.
Primary disciplines or expertise needed in the review: Natural ecologists, historians, and economists.