Date:
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November 1, 2002
8:00 AM-5:00 PM |
Place: Blue Hill Town Hall
Main Street, Blue Hill, Maine |
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| 8:00-8:20 |
Registration and coffee and viewing
of exhibits |
| 8:20-8:30 |
Welcome
Jim Schatz, First Selectman, Blue Hill and
Dr. Susan D. Shaw, MERI Director & Forum Convener |
| 8:30-8:40 |
Gulf of Maine: Part
Of International And Bi-National Work
The UNEP Global Program of Action to protect the Marine
Environment from Land based activities - 2001 Montreal
Declaration
The Gulf of Maine Global Program of Action Coalition
- 1996 to present
North American Commission on Environment Cooperation pilot
project
Current bi-national group
Why the Gulf of Maine/ regional watershed forums
- process and product leading to the State of the Gulf
Summit by Spring 2004
Pam Person, US Chair, GPAC |
| 8:40-8:50 |
Gulf of Maine Council
on the Marine Environment's Action Plan 2002-2007
David Keeley, Gulf of Maine Council Management Committee |
| 8:50-9:00 |
Goals Of Today's Meeting
Questions to be addressed by the Forum:
(1) What do we know (and not know) about the health of
the US Gulf of Maine
environment?
(2) What are the priority issues threatening the environmental
and resource sustainability of the Gulf of Maine environment?
(3) How does the Gulf of Maine rank in terms of the National
Coastal Assessment indicators? Do we need to look at other
indicators?
Pam Person, US Chair, GPAC |
| 9:00-9:20 |
Maine's Coastal Watershed
Pledge Program and Regional Shore Stewards:
Helping the offshore waters
Theresa Torrent-Ellis, Maine Coastal Program |
| 9:20-10:00 |
Panel I: What do we
know (and not know) about the health
of US Gulf of Maine ecosystem?
Dr Susan Shaw, MERI - Moderator
Dr. Gerald Pesch, EPA region I, Narragansett - National
Coastal Assessment (NCA)
Dr. Neal Pettigrew, UM, Maine Oceanographic Services -
GoMOOS
Robin Alden, Salt Water Network - Fishing Community and
Ecology
Peter Shelley, CLF - Why Marine Protected Areas in the
Gulf of Maine? |
| 10:00-10:15 |
Break |
| 10:15-11:15 |
Roundtable Discussions
to work on ecological indicator matrix |
| 11:15-12:00 |
Panel II: What are
the priority issues threatening the environmental and
resource sustainability of the US Gulf of Maine environment?
Dr. Les Watling, UM Darling Center - Benthic Habitat (TBC)
Dr. Steve Cadrin, Northeast Fisheries Science Center -
Fish Stocks and Fisheries
Dr. Hilary Neckels, USGS - Coastal Habitats
Roger Fleming, CLF - Aquaculture |
| 12:00-1:00 |
Roundtable Discussions
to work on ecological indicator matrix |
| 1:00-2:00 |
LUNCH: "The Only
Way Forward: Management of the Coastal Zone"
Dr. Jack Pearce, Buzzards Bay Laboratory, Woods Hole,
MA
North American Editor, Marine Pollution Bulletin |
| 2:00-2:45 |
Panel III: How does
the US Gulf of Maine ecosystem rank in terms of the National
Coastal Assessment indicators of ecological health? Do
we need to look at other indicators?
Dr. Gerald Pesch, EPA, National Coastal Assessment - Moderator
Esperanza Stancioff, Maine Sea Grant - Phytoplankton Monitoring
Dr. Steve Jones, UNH - Musselwatch Program
Linda Welch, Petit Manan National Wildlife Refuge -Seabird
Nesting Areas
Dr. Susan Shaw, MERI - Seals as Indicator Species for
the Gulf of Maine |
| 2:45-3:45 |
Roundtable Discussions
to work on ecological indicator matrix |
| 3:45-4:45 |
Plenary: Summary of
results from Roundtable Discussions
Consensus Decisions from the Full Group
Dr. Susan Shaw and Pam Person with Facilitators and Recorders |
| 4:45-5:00 |
Plenary: Choosing representatives
to go to the State of the Gulf Summit in 2004
Pam Person and Dr. Susan Shaw |
| 5:00-7:00 |
Wine and Cheese Reception
at MERI for Speakers and Participants
MERI Center for Marine Studies, 55 Main Street, Blue Hill
(A short walk across the street to building with seal
banner) |
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