8:00 AM |
Breakfast |
8:30 AM |
Welcome |
8:40 AM |
Congressional Perspective |
9:00 AM |
National Research Council Recommendations |
9:30 AM |
Current Federal Activities:
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10:30 AM |
Break |
10:45 AM |
Chanrge to Morning Breaking Groups - Scientific Priorities for NOAA Program |
10:50 AM |
Morning Breakout Groups:
- Marine animals as models for study of human disease
- Organism-derived pharmaceuticals and biotoxins
- Marine diseases: infectious and non-infectious
- Impacts of ocean health on coastal ecosystems and human
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12:00 PM |
Lunch |
1:00 PM |
Reports from Morning Breakout Groups |
2:00 PM |
Charge to Afternoon Breakout Groups - Definition of NOAA Program Elements |
2:05 PM |
Afternoon Breakout Groups:
- NOAA centers and internal research
- Relationship to ocean observing and other programs
- Education, traineeships and distinguished scholars
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3:15 PM |
Break |
3:30 PM |
Report from Afternoon Breakout Groups |
4:30 PM |
Remarks by VADM Conrad Lautenbacher, NOAA Administrator |
5:30 PM |
Adjourn |