3. Appreciation
• National Sea Grant
Implementation Plan
• Identifying national stories
• Strategic investments
• Aquaculture ($10.8M in 2010-12)
• Invasive species ($2M in 2010 and
2011)
• Providing national leadership and
support
• Energy Use in Fisheries
Symposium
• Big ideas
• Small Business and Innovative Research
(SBIR)
• Budget initiatives
4. Inspiration
• NOAA Reorganization
• New NOAA Climate Service
• Hallmark of new OAR is innovation
• NOAA Next Generation Strategic Plan
• National Ocean Policy
• Deepwater Horizon
• Interagency disaster planning
• Renewed NOAA/EPA MOA
• SBIR
5. Vision for the future
• Big ideas
– SBIR
– NOPP
– NOAA annual budget initiatives
• Ground truthing
• Innovation
6. Evolution of Focus Teams
Jim Murray
Deputy Director
National Sea Grant Office
7. Beginnings
• National Research Council recommendations
• NOAA National Sea Grant College Program
Strategic Plan 2009-2013: Meeting the
Challenge
• Four focus areas
• Healthy Coastal Ecosystems
• Hazard Resilient Coastal Communities
• Safe and Sustainable Seafood Supply
• Sustainable Coastal Development
• Three cross-cutting goals
• Research, Education, Extension
• Purpose
• To help the National Sea Grant College
Program develop and accomplish the goals and
strategies outlined in the four focus areas
described in the NOAA National Sea Grant
College Program Strategic Plan.
8. Focus Team Report:
Safe and Sustainable
Seafood Supply
Jim Murray
National Sea Grant Office
Focus Team Annual Meeting
October 14, 2010
9. Members
National Sea Grant Office
Jim Murray (Chair)
Gene Kim (Alternate Chair)
Jacky Haskell (Coordinator)
Sea Grant Advisory Board
Rolland A. (Rollie) Schmitten
State Sea Grant Programs
Chuck Wilson (Vice-Chair), Louisiana Sea
Grant
Dan Williams, Washington Sea Grant
Vicki Clark, Virginia Sea Grant
Paul Olin, California Sea Grant
Bill Dupaul, Virginia Sea Grant
Phil Moy, Wisconsin Sea Grant
Steve Otwell, Florida Sea Grant
Dana Morse, Maine Sea Grant
NOAA, University, and Industry Partners
Terry Smith, National Marine Fisheries Service
Christopher Moore, Mid-Atlantic Fishery
Management Council
Gil Sylvia, Oregon State University
Jeff Stephan, United Fisherman’s Marketing
Association, Inc.
Ron Baird, University of North Carolina
10. Activities and contributions
• 2009 Seafood Science & Technology Conference
– Steve Otwell, Florida Sea Grant
• Focus Team Seafood Science & Technology
Subcommittee
– Jeff Stephan, United Fisherman’s Marketing Association, Inc.
• Advice on Sea Grant Aquaculture Research and
Extension National Strategic Investments
– Gene Kim, National Sea Grant Office
• Symposium at 2010 American Fisheries Society
Meeting: “Local Catch – Quality, Marketing and
Consumption”
– Terry Smith, National Marine Fisheries Service
• Energy Use in Fisheries Symposium
– Chris Moore, Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council
• Fisheries Extension Catch Share Workshop
– Ken La Valley, New Hampshire Sea Grant
– Tom Murray, Virginia Sea Grant
11. Operating procedures
• Communication by conference calls
• Decision-making
– Aquaculture subcommittee
– Catch shares funding
– In general, the goal is consensus. If not, the
chair and vice-chair decide.
13. Members
NSGO
Mike Liffmann (Chair)
Lisa Adams (Coordinator)
Sea Grant Advisory Board
John Byrne, National Sea Grant Advisory Board
Sea Grant Programs
LaDon Swann (Vice-Chair), Mississippi- Alabama Sea Grant
Robert Bacon, South Carolina Sea Grant
Dennis Hwang, Hawaii Sea Grant
Wendy Carey, Delaware Sea Grant
Gene Clark, Wisconsin Sea Grant
Joe Cone, Oregon Sea Grant
Sharon Walker, Mississippi- Alabama Sea Grant
NOAA
Sandy Eslinger, NOAA CSC
Eddie Bernard, NOAA PMEL
Lisa Vaughan/ Nancy Beller-Simms, NOAA CPO
14. Projects’ Funding Process
1. HRCC solicited ideas in 2010 (Note: need to expand our
reach for earlier and more SG and other input)
2. Ideas submitted to Liffmann and Swann
3. Best ideas invited to submit proposals under a Broad
Agency Announcement (very short time fuse)
4. Proposals subjected to three external reviews
5. Funding provided and projects underway
15. HRCC Funded Activities
• 2009 Climate Network Workshop
– Jess Whitehead, SC Sea Grant
• 2010 Coastal Processes Roundtable
– Spencer Rogers, NC Sea Grant
• National Climate Survey
– Joe Cone, Oregon Sea Grant
• Integrating Smart Growth, Hazards &
Climate Change
– Sarah van der Schalie, NOAA Oceans and
Coastal Resource Management
• SG-LG Climate Summit
– Mike Spranger, Florida Sea Grant
16. Special Recognition
DWH Oil Spill Response
Gulf of Mexico Sea Grant Programs
Climate Network
Jessica Whitehead, Esperanza Stancioff, & Chris Conger
18. NSGO
Heather Triezenberg (Chair)
Joshua Brown (Alternate- Chair)
Lisa Adams (Coordinator)
Sea Grant Advisory Board
Ross Heath, National Sea Grant Advisory Board
Sea Grant Programs
Brian Miller (Vice-Chair), Illinois - Indiana Sea Grant
John Carey, Hawaii Sea Grant
Jim Falk, Delaware Sea Grant
Jim Hurley, Wisconsin Sea Grant
Mike Spranger, Florida Sea Grant
Tom Murray, Virginia Sea Grant
Stephanie Showalter, Mississippi- Alabama Sea Grant
John Jacob, Texas Sea Grant
David Hart, Wisconsin Sea Grant
Kristen Grant, Maine Sea Grant
Martin Jaffe, Illinois- Indiana Sea Grant
NOAA
Sarah van der Schalie, NOAA OCRM
Members
19. 2009 Activities
• 2009 Sustainable Urbanism Seminar
-Kristen Grant, Maine Sea Grant
• 2009 Climate Network Workshop
– Jess Whitehead, North Carolina Sea
Grant
• Smart Growth for Coastal &
Waterfront Communities
– Sarah van der Schalie, NOAA Oceans
and Coastal Resource Management
20. Projects’ Funding Process
1. SCD solicited ideas in 2010 (Note: need to expand our
reach for earlier and more SG and other input)
2. Ideas submitted to Liffmann and Miller
3. Best ideas invited to submit proposals under a Broad
Agency Announcement (very short time fuse)
4. Proposals subjected to three external reviews
5. Funding provided and projects underway
21. 2010 Activities
• Working Waterways & Waterfronts
National Symposium
– Natalie Springuel, Maine Sea Grant
– Tom Murray, Virginia Sea Grant
• NEMO U7 Symposium & Workshop
– David Dickson, CT NEMO
• Sea Grant Coastal & Marine Tourism
Roundtable
– Jim Falk and John Carey, Delaware Sea Grant
• Improved Land Use & Land Cover
– Brian Miller & David Hart
22. 2011 Activities
• Integrating Smart Growth, Hazards &
Climate Change
– Sarah van der Schalie, NOAA Oceans and
Coastal Resource Management
• 2011 SG-LG Climate Summit
– Mike Spranger, Florida Sea Grant
23. Special Recognition
Coastal & Waterfront Smart Growth
Pam Rubinoff and Sarah van der Schalie
Working Waterways & Waterfronts National
Symposium
Natalie Springuel, Tom Murray and Kristen Grant
SCCD Network
Vicky Carrasco (Chair), John Jacob, Kristen Grant, Lisa
Schiavinato, Joe Lucente, Robert Emanuel, & Jim Falk
24. Focus Team Report:
Healthy Coastal
Ecosystems
Miguel Lugo
National Sea Grant Office
Focus Team Annual Meeting
October 14, 2010
25. Members
National Sea Grant Office
Dorn Carlson (Chair)
Miguel Lugo (Alternate Chair)
Jacky Haskell (Coordinator)
Sea Grant Advisory Board
Nancy Rabalais, Louisiana Universities
Marine Consortium
State Sea Grant Programs
Barry Costa-Pierce (Vice-Chair), Rhode
Island Sea Grant
Anders Andren, Wisconsin Sea Grant
Robert Kent, New York Sea Grant
Dianne Lindstedt, Louisiana Sea Grant
Russell Moll, California Sea Grant
NOAA Partners
Michele Dionne, Wells Reserve
Roger Griffis, NOAA Fisheries
University Partners
Steven Gaines, UC Santa Barbara
Russ Herwig, University of Washington
Judith Weis, Rutgers University
26. Activities
• Sessions about Sea Grant’s activities in coastal ecosystem management
at:
– 2009 International Marine Conservation Congress
• Judith Weis, Rutgers University; Dorn Carlson, National Sea Grant Office
– 2009 Coastal Estuarine Research Federation Conference
• Judith Weis, Rutgers University
– 2009 Ecological Society of America Annual Meeting
• Dorn Carlson, National Sea Grant Office
• Support for the 2009 Sea Grant Climate Network Workshop
• Advice on the NSGO’s Invasive Species Research Regional Strategic
Investments
• Support for the Working Group to Identify Critical New Directions in
Marine and Coastal Ecosystem Science Research for NOAA Sea Grant
– Steven Gaines, UC Santa Barbara
30. Procedural Manual: Overview
• Need for clarity and communication on
focus team roles, activities, and
membership
• General guidance designed to:
• increase transparency
• improve communications
• increase consistency across teams
• avoid conflicts
31. Responsibilities
• Facilitate national planning,
implementation, synthesis, and reporting.
• Identify new national opportunities and
directions.
• Catalyze cooperative efforts within Sea
Grant and external partners.
• Solidify Sea Grant’s national identity.
32. Membership
• Nomination process ensures:
– Effective interaction with Sea Grant network and
external partners
– Multi-regional perspective
– Broad expertise within the focus areas
• Subcommittees
– Within or among teams (cross-cuts)
• Term
– Life cycle of the national plan
• Member replacement
– May follow resignations
– Recruitment emulates nomination process
33. Communication
• Teams
– Public conference calls and
meetings
• Among teams
– Cross-cutting issues
– Cross-team communication for consistency
• With the Sea Grant network
– Updates to the network
– Input from the network
– Communication with network groups
• With external audiences
– On behalf of the network
• With the National Sea Grant Director
– Periodic discussions
– Focus team chairs are liaisons for frequent updates
34. Funding
• Focus team responsibilities
• NSGO may cover expenses as needed
• Focus area funding
• Allocation of funds should be transparent,
participatory, and inclusive of ideas from focus
team membership and the network
• Providing input on National Sea Grant
Office funding
• Upon request from the National Sea Grant
Director
36. Challenge
• Use partnerships as a strategic tool and
leverage or build contacts.
• Be innovative and creative in
recommending new initiatives and
opportunities.
• Collaborate across teams to address
cross-cutting issues.
37. Questions We Hope You Will Address
1. How well is the Sea Grant network achieving
its national goals?
2. What national impacts should be highlighted
in communication products and reporting?
3. Where are the gaps in the National Strategic
Plan?
4. What are new opportunities or future
directions?
5. Recommendations for focus area activities
Notas do Editor
This slide is meant to emphasize how the teams were created: with attention to expertise, multi-regional perspective, and representative of Sea Grant groups and partners.
This slide describes the activities that the focus team has done or sponsored, and the focus team members who took the lead on each activity (*recognizing focus team members*).
Members drawn from Sea Grant & NOAA and represent geographic and expertise scope. 60K-foot view and help advise our National Plan
Yellow dots are where the focus team members are located.
Expertise in climate, coastal storms, GL coastal engineering, SLR, shoreline erosion, beach nourishment, rip currents, tsunami, technological hazards and disasters
Here we need your help. Not satisfied with our process to date.
Timing is part of the problem. Have not known about money until last minute.
2009– All 25K used for Climate Extension Meeting. SCD and HCE also contributed
November 9-11, 2009: Climate Network met in Charleston, SC to build the capacity of the Sea Grant outreach network to assist stakeholders in addressing climate change issues.
On June 18, 2010 in Wilmington, North Carolina, a coastal processes roundtable, “Making Coastal Hazards and Climate Adaptation Work” brought Sea Grant coastal processes and climate specialists together to strengthen the capacity within the Sea Grant network to plan, deliver and evaluate outreach programming in two interrelated areas, coastal processes/hazards and climate change adaptation.
A National climate survey to explore the views of coastal constituents concerning climate change.
In 2011, the Smart Growth for Coastal and Waterfront Communities working group will convene an expert panel to explore how smart growth approaches can help waterfront communities plan for and address hazard resiliency and impacts of climate change. (Also supported by SCD)
In 2011 Florida Sea Grant will host a National Extension Climate Literacy in Agriculture and Marine Sciences Summit for senior Sea Grant and Land Grant administrators. This will build capacity in both institutions to develop integrated, collaborative activities that focus on the issue of climate change. (Also supported by SCD)
The spill posed remarkable hardships for our Gulf programs, stressed our staffs, and affected many of our constituents. All four of the GoM programs were involved to some extent or another, but clearly LaDon was the regional focal point while Chuck’s team got to do most of the heavy lifting on account of near-term impacts. Thanks for your leadership and caring!
When we first started talking about the need to build our capacity to address climate change adaptation all eyes turned to NC and SC where we had the only climate extension specialist. Jessica Whitehead eagerly accepted our challenge to lead us through the early steps, and with Bob and Jack’s support, enlisted HI’s Chris Conger , and our Climate Network was born. Jess and Chris organized the 2009 Charleston meeting and enthusiastically lead our climate extension efforts. Thanks, both of you, and keep it going!
Members drawn predominantly from include the Sea Grant community & one NOAA –at large rep. There is broad geographic and topical expertise representation.
Members have subject-matter expertise in land use, regional and urban planning, decision-support tools, alternative energy, policy, coastal uses and access,tourism and recreation, and management of nonpoint source pollution.
November 9-11, 2009: Climate Network met in Charleston, SC to build the capacity of the Sea Grant outreach network to assist stakeholders in addressing climate change issues.
In 2009: Sustainable Urbanism Seminar that provided resources to Sea Grant staff & cooperative extension regarding sustainable urbanism.
SCD training for the SGA: Focus team met with the SGA to help inform them of what sustainable development is.
In 2009: Smart Growth for Coastal and Waterfront Communities was printed and distributed, along with the ‘hazards” related flyer. SCD also funded this working group to convene an expert panel that will explore how smart growth approaches can help waterfront communities plan for and address hazard resiliency and impacts of climate change.
Here we need your help. Not satisfied with our process to date.
Timing is part of the problem. Have not known about money until last minute.
September 2010: Working Waterways & Waterfronts; A National Symposium on Water Access. Stellar representation from the Sea Grant Network
September –October 2010: NEMO U7: SCD funded a symposium session titled “Hybrid approaches to sustainable land use planning and regulations” and the workshop “Building online decision support tools using Google mapping resources”.
Upcoming Sea Grant Coastal and Marine Tourism Roundtable to discuss Sea Grant’s role in tourism. Not yet been scheduled but please join the “Sustainable Coastal Tourism” discussion on Saturday for more info.
Improved Land Use and Land Cover Data; Initiating the development of a consistent land use and land cover data set for the nation’s coastal watersheds.
In 2011, the Smart Growth for Coastal and Waterfront Communities working group will convene an expert panel to explore how smart growth approaches can help waterfront communities plan for and address hazard resiliency and impacts of climate change. (Also supported by HRCC)
In 2011 Florida Sea Grant will host a National Extension Climate Literacy in Agriculture and Marine Sciences Summit for senior Sea Grant and Land Grant administrators in 2011. This will build capacity in both institutions to develop integrated, collaborative activities that focus on the issue of climate change. (Also supported by HRCC)
Given my brief tenure with NSGO, I consulted with Mike, and we agreed that leadership abounds within SCD. In no particular order, we recognize the network contributions of : (1) Pam and Sarah for their heavy-lifting in publishing of (hold up a copy) xxxx; (2) A couple of weeks ago, Lisa and I, and 200+ others attended the WWWF Symposium in Portland. It was a follow-up to a meeting held in 2007 in Norfolk. Great job Nat, Tom and Kristen in having made it happen! (3) Last, but certainly not least, what an impressive network has been created by our extension specialists and their partners. Kudos to Chair Vicky, Immediate Past Chair John and the rest of the Executive Committee for helping the network grow and go!