Report of the Working Group on Environmental Monitoring and Assessment - Fourth Meeting of the Scientific, Technical and Advisory Committee (STAC) to the Protocol concerning Pollution from Land based Sources and Activities in the Wider Caribbean

The WG focused on the continued development of the State of the Convention Area Report (SOCAR). Post-3rd STAC, the WG focused on: developing a methodology for analyzing the water quality data, continued gathering of national water quality data from the Parties and non-Parties, QA/QC and analyzing the data, determining how to present the results in the report, resolving several issues with the data, and the actual drafting of the report. The WG Data Sub-group, led by Dr. Linroy Christian, held teleconferences to make decisions related to specific parameters that were considered to be difficult to put into ranges of good-fair-poor.