BOARD AGENDA

July 9-10, 2009                                                                             

Meeting of the

OCEAN STUDIES BOARD

Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute

Moss Landing, California

Meeting Highlights:

Special Sessions:

§        Fisheries Subcommittee meeting

§        GoogleOcean

§        Climate Effects on Marine Ecosystems

§        Market Based Approaches to Sustainable Seafood

Thursday, July 9, 2009
CLOSED SESSION —

8:15 a.m.         Welcome---Marcia McNutt, OSB Chair

           8:30 a.m.         Working Breakfast

           9:00 a.m.         Review of action items from last meeting                                        

9:30 a.m.         OSB web portal

10:00 a.m.       OSB's public web sites

10*:30 a.m.*       Plans for the fall meeting

11:00 a.m.       Discussion of Studies in Development

11:30 a.m.       Break

12:00 p.m.       Working Lunch

OPEN SESSION—

1:00 p.m.         Welcome---Keith Criddle, Chair, Fisheries Subcommittee

1:10 p.m.         Update on Ongoing NRC Fisheries Studies

-        Best Practices for Shellfish Mariculture and the Effects of Commercial Activities in Drake's Estero, Pt. Reyes National Seashore, California (funded by National Park Service)---Susan Roberts, study director

-        Development of an Integrated Science Strategy for Ocean Acidification Monitoring, Research, and Impacts Assessment---Susan Park, study director

-        Review of Sea Turtle Population Assessment Methods—Susan Park, study director

-        Certification of Sustainable Products and Services—Jodi Bostrom, associate program officer

1:30 p.m.         Emerging Issues for NMFS—Steve Murawski, Director of Scientific Programs and Chief Science Advisor, NMFS Office of Science and Technology

2:15 p.m.         Proposed study: Improving Models in Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Management---Keith Criddle, Chair, Fisheries Subcommittee

3:00 p.m.         Break

3:15 p.m.         News from the SouthwestFisheriesScienceCenterFisheries Ecology Division---Churchill Grimes, Director

3:45 p.m.         TNCCentralCoast Groundfish Project - Collaborative Science Efforts---Mary Gleason, The Nature Conservancy, and Liz Clarke, NMFS

4:30 p.m.         Open forum

-        Other studies in development

-        Other emerging issues

5:00 p.m.         Adjourn

Friday, July 10, 2009
OPEN SESSION—

8:00 a.m.         Opening Remarks---Marcia McNutt, OSB Chair

8:05 a.m.         Breakfast

9:00 a.m.         Panel on Climate Effects on Marine Ecosystems---Don Boesch, Panel Moderator, Jim Barry (MBARI), Raphael Kudela (UC Santa Cruz), and Alec McCall (NMFS)

10:30 a.m.       Break

11:00 a.m.       How MBARI uses Google Ocean---Speaker TBA

Noon               Working Lunch

1:00 p.m.         Featured Lunch Talk GoogleOcean*: What will it be in the future?* --Speaker TBA                 

2:00 p.m.         Panel on Market Based Approaches to Sustainable Seafood---Andy Rosenberg, Panel Moderator, Tobias Aguirre (FishWise), Kai Lee(Packard Foundation), other speakers TBA

3:30 p.m.         Adjourn Open Session

CLOSED SESSION —

4:00 p.m.         Review of Current and Planned OSB Activities

-        Report from the Fisheries Subcommittee

-        Other activities (see below)

5:00 p.m.         Action Items

6:00 p.m.         Meeting Adjourn

7:00 p.m.         Optional Dinner