SEA GRANT REGIONAL RESEARCH & INFORMATION PLANNING WORKSHOP

Wednesday May 20 - Thursday May 21, 2009
NOAA Auditorium
1301 East-West Highway, Silver Spring, MD 20910
Conference call-in line:
1-866-746-2456 (passcode:3234152)

AGENDA

Wednesday, 20 May 2009
8:00 - 8:20 AM Welcome Remarks - Leon Cammen, NSGO
8:20 - 9:30 AM Sea Grant Regional Presentation
8:20 - 8:35am - Judy Pederson, Gulf of Maine
8:35 - 8:50am - Nancy Balcom, New York Bight (Office 2007 version)
8:50 - 9:05am - Shelby Hockenberry, Mid-Atlantic
9:05 - 9:20am - Christine Laporte, South Atlantic
9:20 - 9:35am - Jasmine Seda, Caribbean (Office 2007 version)
9:35 - 9:55am - Q&A
9:55 - 10:15 AM Break
10:15 - 12:00 PM Sea Grant Regional Presentation (Continued)
10:15 - 10:30am - Jeffrey Reutter, Great Lakes (via teleconference)
10:30 - 10:45am - Stephen Sempier, Gulf of Mexico
10:45 - 11:00am - Keith Criddle, Alaska
11:00 - 11:15am - Julie Risien, California Current
11:15 - 11:30am - Darren Okimoto, Insular Pacific
11:30 - 11:50am - Q&A
11:50 - 12:00pm - Open Discussion
12:00 - 12:30 PM NOAA Regional Efforts - Laura Furgione, NOAA Office of Program Planning and Integration
12:30 - 1:30 PM Lunch
1:30 - 2:45 PM Other Efforts within NOAA
1:30 - 1:50pm - NCCOS Regional Workshop Recap - Rob Magnien, NCCOS
1:50 - 2:10pm - Coastal Integration - Kate Barba, National Policy and Evaluation Division of OCRM
2:10 - 2:30pm - Climate Services - Eileen Shea, NOAA National Climatic Data Center/IDEA Center
2:30 - 2:45pm - Q&A
2:45 - 3:00 PM Break
3:00 - 5:00 PM Efforts by Outside Agencies
3:00 - 3:20pm - Kristen Fletcher, Executive Director, Coastal States Organization (CSO)
3:20 - 3:40pm - Dan Ashe, Science Advisor to the Director, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
3:40 - 4:00pm - Mary Reiley, Environemental Protection Agency (EPA), Office of Water
4:00 - 4:20pm - NASA Earth System Science and the Role of the Oceans - Paula Bontempi, Program Manager, NASA Ocean Biology and Biogeochemistry Research
4:20 - 5:00pm - Q&A
5:30 PM Happy Hour / Dinner (McGinty's, Downtown Silver Spring)
   

Thursday, 21 May 2009 - Internal Sea Grant Meeting
8:15 - 8:30 AM Update from the Director - Leon Cammen, NSGO
8:30 - 9:00 AM Links to Focus Teams - Jim Murray, NSGO
9:00 - 9:45 AM Discussions with Focus Team Chairs - Jim Murray, Mike Liffmann, Dorn Carlson, Terry Smith, NSGO
9:45 - 10:15 AM Mechanisms for cooperation: BOPs, IAAs, MoUs - Nikola Garber, NSGO
10:15 - 10:30 AM Break
10:30 - 11:15 AM Discussion: Differences and similarities in planning processes
11:15 - 12:30 PM Discussion: Planning for implementation
11:30-12:30 PM Questions / Discussion / Wrap-up
12:30 PM Adjourn