NOAA Workshop on Climate and Living Marine Resources
| NOAA conducted a Climate and Living Marine Resources workshop May 14-15, 2008. |
Workshop Report |
The overall purpose of the workshop was to explore and enhance internal NOAA cooperation and integration in the development, communication, and application of information related to the impact of climate on NOAA’s living marine resource (LMR) management responsibilities. Specifically, the intent was to advance the development of a strategy for addressing the impact of climate on NOAA-managed LMRs, through focused cooperation in research, assessments and management applications within the agency and among our key partners.
Participants included: living marine resource biologists and ecologists; resource managers and regulators; climate scientists; oceanographers, and senior NOAA climate and ecosystem leadership.
NOAA Climate and Living Marine Resources Workshop
Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory, Seattle, Washington
May 14-15, 2008
- May 14, 2008
- May 15, 2008
Plenary Session: Climate and Living Marine Resource Management (LMR) in NOAA
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Breakout Session 1: The Implications of Climate Change for NOAA�s LMR Portfolio
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10:40 am |
Working Group Discussions
Discussion Questions:
- Which are the major climate change issues about which NOAA and its LMR management partners should be concerned?
- Which LMR management processes need to be informed with climate change information? What are the temporal and spatial scales for these processes?
- To what extent is climate information currently used in NOAA’s LMR portfolio? What are the barriers (e.g., institutional, scientific, resource) to incorporating climate more fully in NOAA’s LMR portfolio?
- Can priority be assigned to any of these issues and/or processes in the specific context of NOAA’s LMR portfolio? If so, which are of greatest importance in terms of timeliness and impact?
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12:00 pm |
Lunch and Guest Presentation: Climate considerations in the management of anadromous fishes in the Pacific Northwest (Nate Mantua, University of Washington) |
Plenary Session: The Implications of Climate Change for NOAA�s LMR
Portfolio
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Breakout Session 2: Key Decision Support Tool and Science Needs for Integrating Climate in LMR Management
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3:00 pm |
Working Group Discussions
Discussion Questions:
- What are the key decision support resources, products, tools and capabilities needed to address climate and LMR management?
- What are the associated climate and living marine resource science issues that NOAA should address, and the current status of associated observations, modeling, process studies, impacts and adaptation research and assessment (well covered, in development, non-existent)?
- What ecosystem information is needed by the climate science community to assess and predict climate feedbacks from human-induced alterations (e.g., ocean acidification, iron fertilization)?
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Plenary Session: Key Decision Support Tool and Science Needs for Integrating Climate in LMR Management
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4:40 pm |
Breakout Groups Report Out, Followed by Plenary Discussion |
6:00 pm |
Adjourn |
Plenary Session: Presentation and discussion of case studies for the successful integration of climate and ecosystem science for LMR management
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Breakout Session 3: Future Directions and Next Steps
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10:10 am |
Working Group Discussions
Discussion Questions:
- How should NOAA’s climate and LMR communities work together to address major needs and priorities identified on the first day?
- Which institutions/programs need to be involved to implement these actions?
- What are some short- and long-term steps that can be taken?
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Plenary Session: Future Directions and Next Steps
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