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Understanding the Coastal Ocean: Partnerships for a Changing World


November 17 and 18, 2009
The Fourth Annual Meeting of MACOORA
Portsmouth, VA 

 

 

  • Annual Meeting
  • Agenda
  • Exhibition
  • Registration
  • Presentations

MACOORA, the Mid-Atlantic Coastal Ocean Observing Regional Association, hosted Understanding the Coastal Ocean: Partnerships for a Changing World. There were roughly 170 registrants, from well over 70 different organizations and eleven different branches of NOAA

 

 

Day Time Speakers and Agency Partners
Nov 16 5:30-8pm MACOORA Board Meeting and Dinner

Nov 17

7:30-8:30am

 Registration and Continental Breakfast
  8:30-10:00 Plenary Visions of the Changing Ocean.
Moderator: Carolyn Thoroughgood
Special Assistant to the Provost for Program Development, University of Delaware
    Jack Dunnigan
Assistant Administrator
National Ocean Service		 National Ocean Service, NOAA
    Joan Cleveland
Deputy Division Director (Acting)
Ocean Sensing and Systems Applications Division		 Office of Naval Research
    Bob Gagosian
President and CEO 		Consortium for Ocean Leadership

 

 

BREAK: Exhibition and Networking

  • MACOORA (www.macoora.org) – Judith T. Krauthamer
  • CBOS (www.cbos.org) -- Liz Smith
  • YSI, Inc (www.ysi.com) -- Chris Heier
  • Green Eyes, LLC (www.greeneyes.com) -- Vince Kelly
  • Envirotech, LLC (www.envirotechinstruments.com) -- Mark Rawlinson
  • US Army Corps of Engineers Field Research Facility (www.frf.usace.army.mil/aboutUS/aboutUS.shtml) -- Jeff Hanson
  • Fugro Atlantic (www.fugroatlantic.com) - Sally McNeilan, Tom McNeilan
  • NortekUSA (www.nortekusa.com) --Eric Siegel
  • Caris, Inc (www.caris.com)– Paul Cooper
  • National Weather Service Office of Climate, Water and Weather Services and Weather Forecast Office Wakefield (www.nws.noaa.gov/os)— David Soroka
  • United State Geological Survey Water Science Centers (va.water.usgs.gov) — Shaun Wicklein
  •  MICG Investment Management ( www.micgwealth.com) - Mike Barclift

Others pending
Some tables still available

 

10:15-11:30

Panel #1:   State Partnerships
Moderator:  Robert Tudor, Deputy Director
Delaware River Basin Commission


What are the major coastal and environmental issues facing the MACOORA states?
   

Nicholas Napoli
Science Program Manager

Massachusetts Ocean Partnership
    Laura McKay
Coastal Zone Management Program Manager 		Virginia Department of Environmental Quality
    Kate Zultner
Policy Coordinator 		Coastal States Organization
    Alan Blumberg
George Meade Bond Professor & Director of
Center for Marine Systems 		Stevens Institute of Technology
    Jay O’Dell
Mid Atlantic Marine Program Director 		The Nature Conservancy
     

  

11:30-12:15

Panel #2 : Industry Partnerships
Moderator—Jay Titlow, Weatherflow
Senior Meteorologist


What are industries major concerns regarding ocean observations?
What are success stories?
    Tom McNeilan
Professional Engineer & Vice President 		Fugro Atlantic
    Wayne Wittman
Scientist 		Public Service Electric & Gas Company
    Jay Titlow
Senior Meteorologist 		Weatherflow, Inc.

12:15-1:30

Lunch

12:30-1:30

Dr. Carolyn Thoroughgood
Chair, MACOORA Board of Directors

State of the Association Message and Business Meeting
Election

 

 1:30-2:00

Panel #2  Continued:   Maritime Industry Partnerships
Moderator—Ed Kelly, Maritime Assocation of the Port of NY/NJ
Executive Director

Ocean Observations and the Maritime Industries

    David White
Executive Director 		Virginia Maritime Association
    Heath Gehrke
Director of Operations 		Cape May - Lewes Ferry
    Ed Kelly
Executive Director 		Maritime Association of the Port of NY/NJ

 

 2:00-3:15

Panel #3 :   Federal Partnerships and Success Stories
Sets the stage for breakout discussions.
    Bill Sammler
Warning Coordination Meteorologist
National Weather Service 		National Weather Service-- Coastal Inundation and Climate Change
    Eric Vowinkel
Hydrologist 		United States Geological Survey-- Water Quality
    Walter Johnson
Oceanographer, Environmental Sciences
Branch 		Minerals Management Service- Offshore wind and energy
    John Manderson
Research Fisheries Biologist
Behavioral Ecology Branch
NEFC/NMFS/NOAA 		National Marine Fisheries Service-- Ecological Decision Making
    Art Allen United States Coast Guard—Search and Rescue

3:15-3:30 pm

BREAK: Exhibition and Networking

3:30-4:45

Breakout Conversations (Along MACOORA Business Lines, coastal inundation, water quality, maritime safety/Search and Rescue, ecological decision-making, offshore energy)
What Can MACOORA Do?  What are the pressing observational/modeling needs? 

  Breakout Session 1A Barry Stamey
Director, Strategic Collaboration, Noblis

Tom McNeilan 		Coastal Inundation/Climate Change Issues
  Breakout Session 1B Tony Macdonald
Director, Urban Coast Institute (UCI)
Monmouth University

Robert Tudor 		Water Quality
  Breakout Session 1C Tom Herrington

Jeff Yapalater
Freeport Tuna Club 		Maritime Safety/Search and Rescue
  Breakout Session 1D Josh Kohut
Assistant Professor
Marine& Coastal Sciences, Rutgers Univ. John Manderson 		Ecological Decision Making
  Breakout Session 1E Larry Atkinson
Slover Professor of Oceanography
Old Dominion University

Walter Johnson 		Offshore Wind Power/Alternative Energy

4:45-5:15

Breakout moderators report back to Plenary with specific recommendations to MACOORA.
Coastal Inundation/Climate Change; Water Quality; Maritime Safety/Search and Rescue; Ecological Decision Making; Offshore Wind

6PM-9 PM

Reception
Reception—Light Refreshments
Virginia Sports Hall of Fame

Sponsors:
• Green Eyes, LLC www.greeneyesobserving.com
• Envirotech, LLC www.envirotechinstruments.com
• YSI, Inc. www.ysi.com
• SAIC www.saic.com

     
     

Nov 18

7:30-8:30am

Registration and Continental Breakfast

8:30-9:00

Plenary  Mid-Atlantic Ocean Observations: Future Directions
Moderator –Judith T. Krauthamer
Executive Director, MACOORA

    Suzanne Skelley -Future for IOOS
Chief of Staff, NOAA IOOS Program Office 		U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System
    Josie Quintrell—NFRA Future
Executive Director, NFRA 		National Federation of Regional Associations
    Oscar Schofield – Ocean Observation
Initiative Associate Professor 		Rutgers University

   9:00-10:00

Plenary Mid-Atlantic Ocean Observations: Mid Atlantic Forum.
Troy Hartley, Director of the VA Sea Grant Program
Paula Jasinski

10:00-10:20

Break:   Networking

 

10:20-11:45

Workshop: Data Management and Communications (DMAC) De-mystified

Trainer: Eoin Howlett
ASA, Inc.

Mr. Howlett is Chief Executive Officer of Applied Science Associates Inc. He has 20 years experience in software development, GIS and data integration, and international project management. He specializes in GIS, computer user interface development, crisis management, metocean data, and integration of a wide variety of computer models for simulation of physical, chemical and biological processes in the marine environment.  

 

10:20-11:45

Outreach and Education Workshop

Discussing existing products and future development of products for educators and the general public. Come to this workshop with ideas of how you would like to improve web or other tool product development and how best to reach different users of MACOORA data. Are there ways MACOORA members can cooperate in proposal development? Where should MACOORA focus its efforts in building products for users?

Fredrika Moser, Ph.D.
Maryland Sea Grant

Dr. Moser is Assistant Director of Research for Maryland Sea Grant, part of the University of Maryland’s Center for Environmental Science, where she oversees research and education activities at Sea Grant. Fredrika also served as a consultant to the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy on sediment and invasive species management issues.

Jeff Yapalater
Freeport Tuna Club
Sales and Marketing

11:45-Noon

Carolyn Thoroughgood. Meeting Close and Final Comments

An Exhibition in Association with the Fourth Annual Meeting of the Mid-Atlantic Coastal Ocean Observing Regional Association (MACOORA)

The Mid-Atlantic Coastal Ocean Observing Regional Association (MACOORA) is proud to announce its first exhibition in conjunction with this year’s annual meeting. 

EXHIBITORS
  • MACOORA (www.macoora.org) – Judith T. Krauthamer
  • CBOS (www.cbos.org) -- Liz Smith
  • YSI, Inc (www.ysi.com) -- Chris Heier
  • Green Eyes, LLC (www.greeneyes.com) -- Vince Kelly
  • Envirotech, LLC (www.envirotechinstruments.com) -- Mark Rawlinson
  • US Army Corps of Engineers Field Research Facility (www.frf.usace.army.mil/aboutUS/aboutUS.shtml) -- Jeff Hanson
  • Fugro Atlantic (www.fugroatlantic.com) - Sally McNeilan, Tom McNeilan
  • NortekUSA (www.nortekusa.com) --Eric Siegel
  • Caris, Inc (www.caris.com)– Paul Cooper
  • National Weather Service Office of Climate, Water and Weather Services and Weather Forecast Office Wakefield (www.nws.noaa.gov/os)— David Soroka
  • United State Geological Survey Water Science Centers (va.water.usgs.gov) — Shaun Wicklein
  • MICG Investment Management ( www.micgwealth.com) - Mike Barclift

 

 

Registration

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Presentations

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