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2nd CSCOR Coral Reef Program Review Meeting
April 7-8, 2004

Social Science Research Institute
University of Hawaii at Manoa; Honolulu, HI

Summary

The meeting brought together Lead Principal Investigators and Project Managers of the coral reef programs to share their collective successes and failures. It also allowed CSCOR to inform the program representatives of revisions in NOAA’s internal processes and grants management practices in order to facilitate their grant proposal writing, project implementation, and project reporting requirements. CSCOR projects participating in the meeting were: Coral Reef Ecosystem Studies-Caribbean; Coral Reef Ecosystem Studies-Micronesia; Coral Reef Research for Hawaii’s Managers; the Hawaii Coral Reef Initiative Research Program (HCRI – RP); and the National Coral Reef Institute. The non-NOAA participants in the meeting consisted of the Lead PI’s and the Project Managers of all CSCOR’s Coral Reef Programs. This year CSCOR also invited representatives from the Hawai’i chapter of The Nature Conservancy (TNC – HI) to attend the meeting. NOAA participants in the meeting included CSCOR’s Program Officers, a representative from the National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science (NCCOS) headquarters and the NCCOS / Center for Costal Monitoring and Assessment (CCMA) each, and two representatives for NOAA’s Coral Reef Conservation Program from the National Ocean Service’s Office of Response and Restoration (ORR).

As part of the 2004 meeting, the participants attended the most recent HCRI – RP Quarterly PI Meeting held on April 6 th, 2004. The purpose of attending this event was to allow CSCOR’s other coral programs to experience firsthand one of the mechanisms that HCRI – RP utilizes to determine if and how its research priorities need to be modified in order to fulfill its mission more effectively. Field site visits and other activities were also planned. Some of the participants had the opportunity to visit some of the HCRI – RP research sites on the Kona Coast and the North Shore of the Big Island, as well as visiting the collections of the Bishop Museum in Honolulu and the Hanauma Bay Beach Park (HBBP) in East Oahu. The HBBP is the most visited beach in the State of Hawaii and presents an excellent example of a challenging but effective management of a natural resource.

For a copy of the meeting summary click here (pdf) (html)

Presentations: Project Overviews

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