Geographic Information Systems and Ocean Mapping in Support of Fisheries Research and Management

Agenda [print version]

Tuesday April 11, 2006

8:00am	Registration, coffee and muffins
8:30am	Welcome and Introductions Chryssostomos Chryssostomidis, Director, MIT Sea Grant College Program John Boreman, Director, Northeast Fisheries Science Center, NOAA Fisheries
8:45am	Overview of Integrated Ocean Mapping Richard Pickrill, Director, Marine Environmental Geoscience, Geological Survey of Canada National Seafloor Mapping Strategies in Canada
9:30am	Fisheries Management: Habitats, Stocks, and Data Needs
	9:30am Dan Furlong, Executive Director, Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council
	9:50am Paul Howard, Executive Director, New England Fishery Management Council
	10:10am John Boreman, Director, Northeast Fisheries Science Center, NOAA Fisheries Fisheries Research Needs in Support of Management
10:30am	Break
11:00am	Eastern Seaboard Regional Ocean Mapping Initiatives and Oceanographic Data John Haines, Program Coordinator, USGS Coastal and Marine Geology Program Roger Parsons, Director, NOAA Office of Coast Survey Integrated Ocean and Coastal Mapping - the NOAA Perspective
12:00pm	Lunch and Poster Session
2:15pm	Integrated Data, Mapping, and Data Access
	2:15pm Patrick Halpin, Professor of Geospatial Analysis, Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University From data to decisions: Making ocean biogeographic data useful for marine ecosystem-based management
	3:00pm Philip Bogden, CEO, Gulf of Maine Ocean Observing System Sharing Oceanographic Data on the Web
3:45pm	Ocean Mapping: A Case History Peter Auster, Science Director, National Undersea Research Center, and Associate Research Professor, Department of Marine Sciences, Univ. of Connecticut at Avery Point Deep Coral Reefs and Mapping Special Areas
4:30pm	Break
5:00pm	Panel Discussion on Next Steps Moderated by Ronald Baird, Former Director, National Sea Grant College Program
6:00pm	Summary and Concluding Remarks Thomas Noji, Chief, Ecosystems Processes Division, Northeast Fisheries Science Center, NOAA Fisheries
6:30pm	Reception