B. Introduction.- EMAP Overview: Objectives, Approaches, and Achievements.- C. Regional Assessments.- An Overview of EPA's Regional Vulnerability Assessment (ReVA) Program.- Status of Aquatic Bioassessment in U.S. EPA Region IX.- An Integrated Ecosystem Assessment of the Interior Columbia Basin.- A Landscape Ecology Assessment of the Tensas River Basin.- D. Approaches to Database Design, Monitoring & Modeling.- Designing Environmental Databases for Statistical Analyses.- EMAP Design and River Reach File (RF3) as a Sample Frame in the Central Valley, California.- Monitoring Air Quality in Mountains: Designing an Effective Network.- Global Grids from Recursive Diamond Subdivisions of the Surface of an Octahedron or Icosahedron.- An Automated Technique for Delineating and Characterizing Valley-Bottom Settings.- Combining Accuracy Assessment of Land-Cover Maps with Environmental Monitoring Programs.- Mapping Patterns of Human Use and Potential Resource Conflicts on Public Lands.- Monitoring Ecosystems in the Sierra Nevada: The Conceptual Model Foundation.- E. Landscape Considerations.- Assessing and Monitoring the Health of Western Rangeland Watersheds.- Monitoring Australian Rangeland Sites Using Landscape Function Indicators and Ground- and Remote-Based Techniques.- A Landscape Approach for Detecting and Evaluating Change in a Semi-Arid Environment.- Application of Ecological Classification and Predictive Vegetation Modeling to Broad-Level Assessments of Ecosystem Health.- Montane Meadows as Indicators of Environmental Change.- F. Water Quality and Land Use.- Assessing Landscape Condition Relative to Water Resources in the Western United States: A Strategic Approach.- Relations of Habitat-Specific Algal Assemblages to Land Use and Water Chemistry in the WillametteBasin, Oregon.- Responses of Physical, Chemical, and Biological Indicators of Water Quality to a Gradient of Agricultural Land Use in the Yakima River Basin, Washington.- G. Watersheds, Lakes and Rivers.- A Knowledge-Based Approach to the Assessment of Watershed Condition.- Modeling Runoff Response to Land Cover and Rainfall Spatial Variability in Semi-Arid Watersheds.- Monitoring Inter-Annual Variability Reveals Sources of Mercury Contamination in Clear Lake, California.- Macroinvertebrate Assemblages on Woody Debris and their Relations with Environmental Variables in the Lower Sacramento and San Joaquin River Drainages, California.- Instream-Flow Needs for Anadromous Salmonids and Lamprey on the Pacific Coast, with Special Reference to the Pacific Southwest.- Characterizing Small Subbasins: A Case Study from Coastal Oregon.- H. Marine Coastal Areas.- Development of the Coastal Intensive Site Network (CISNet).- Spatial Extent of Sediment Toxicity in U.S. Estuaries and Marine Bays.- An Overview of Contaminant-Related Issues Identified by Monitoring in San Francisco Bay.- Assessment of Benthic Infaunal Condition on the Mainland Shelf of Southern California.- A Regional Survey of the Microbiological Water Quality Along the Shoreline of the Southern California Bight.
