MIT Sea Grant College Program
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Three Cambridge Center
NE20-360
Cambridge, MA 02142
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Copyright 2006 MIT Sea Grant College Program
| 8:30a | Chair: Judith Pederson (MIT Sea Grant College Program) Opening Remarks and Logistics |
| Session 1: Bloom Dynamics | |
| 8:45a | Neal Pettigrew & Huijie Xue (University
of Maine) The Response of the Gulf of Maine Coastal Current System to Late-Spring Northeasterly Wind Forcing |
| 9:15a | Don Anderson (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) Overview of 2005 Bloom and a Historical Perspective |
| 10:00a | Ruoying He (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution) Hindcasting the 2005 Alexandrium Bloom |
| 10:30a | Break |
| 10:45a | Discussion / Q and A |
| Session 2: Management Actions and Issues | |
| 11:15a | Jennifer Martin (Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada) Alexandrium fundyense and PSP in the Bay of Fundy - 2005 |
| 11:35a | Darcy Couture (Maine Department of Marine Resources) Grabbing a Bear by the Tail: Managing the 2005 Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning Event in Maine |
| 11:55a | Lunch |
| 12:55p | Chris Nash (New Hampshire Department of Environmental Protection)
2005 New Hampshire Bloom |
| 1:15p | Mike Hickey and Dave Whittaker (Massachusetts Department of Marine Fisheries)
Massachusetts Red Tide Response |
| 1:35p | Di Jin (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution)
Economic impacts of the 2005 Red Tide Event: Project Description and Preliminary Results |
| 1:55p | Discussion |
| 2:25p | Break |
| Session 3: Implications for the Future | |
| 2:40p | Scott Libby (Battelle) Implications for the future: Plans for data analysis relevant to potential MWRA outfall effects |
| 3:10p | Dave Townsend (University of Maine)
Offshore blooms of Alexandrium fundyense in the Gulf of Maine and the possible influence of North Atlantic Oscillation in recent decades |
| 3:40p | Discussion / Q and A |
| 4:10p | Program Summary and Closing Discussion |
| 5:00p | Adjourn |