Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-009782",
  "term": "Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "1. A USEPA program to monitor and assess the ecological health of major ecosystems, including surface waters, forests, near-coastal waters, wetlands, agricultural lands, arid lands, and the Great Lakes, in an integrated, systematic manner. Although EMAP has been curtailed somewhat during recent years, the program is designed to operate at regional and national scales, for decades, and to evaluate the extent and condition of entire ecological resources by using a common sampling framework to sample approximately 12,500 locations in the conterminous United States.\n\n2. An EPA Office of Research and Development long term research program. EMAP was developed to establish the scientific basis for monitoring programs that measure the current and changing conditions of the nation's ecological resources.",
  "abbreviation": "EMAP",
  "subject": "Water",
  "references": [
    "Sediment Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs) Glossary",
    "Aquatic Resource Monitoring - Terminology"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/environmental-monitoring-and-assessment-program/"
}