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General Information and Program
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Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary Symposium
-Sanctuary Currents 2004-
March 6, 2004
8:00 AM - 4:30 PM
FREE ADMISSION
California State University,
Monterey Bay,
University Center, Sixth Street,
Seaside, CA
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Researchers, educators, students and the public are invited
to learn about water quality issues affecting our marine sanctuary. Hear
from experts as they discuss the sources of pollution and impacts to
our coastal environment. Find out how you can get involved in water quality
monitoring, or what you can do to help keep sanctuary waters clean and
healthy.
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Event Sponsors
- Association of Monterey Bay Area Governments
- California State University, Monterey Bay
- Hopkins Marine Station of Stanford University
- Monterey Bay Aquarium
- Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
- NOAA's Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary
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Program of Events
| 8:00 – 8:45 am |
Registration
(This is a free event. No pre-registration is necessary) |
| 8:45 – 9:00 am |
Welcome
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| 9:00 – 9:15 am |
Introduction Chris Coburn, Monterey Bay National
Marine Sanctuary |
| 9:15 – 10:45 am |
Session I "Inflows to the Sanctuary"
Moderator: Dr. Chris Harrold, Monterey Bay Aquarium
Cultivating for Clean Water: Agriculture's Role in Protecting the Bay
Dr. Daniel Mountjoy, USDA – Natural Resources Conservation
Service
Seawater Desalination and the California Coastal Act
Tom Luster, California Coastal Commission
Beach Water Quality: Sources of Contamination and Risk of Illness in Northern Monterey Bay
John A. Ricker, Santa Cruz County Environmental Health Services
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| 10:45– 11:00 am |
Break |
| 11:00 – 12:30 pm |
Session II “Impacts of the Chemical Cocktail”
Moderator: Kaitilin Gaffney, The Ocean Conservancy
DDT in the Oceans: An Early Impact of Changing Technologies
Robert Risebrough, Bodega Bay Institute, Berkeley
California Killer Whales: Their Ecology and Chemical Contaminants in an Apex Predator
Nancy Black, Monterey Bay Cetacean Project
Non-Point Pollution Around the Bay: Examples of Sources and Solutions
Brian Anderson, Department of Environmental Toxicology, U.C. Davis
Marine Pollution Studies Laboratory, Monterey
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| 12:30– 2:30 pm |
Lunch
(on your own), Research Posters and Exhibits |
| 2:30 – 3:15 pm |
Ricketts Memorial Lecture
The Health of the Ocean's Intertidal: Then, Now, and in the Future
John Pearse, Joseph M. Long Marine Laboratory, University of California,
Santa Cruz |
| 3:30 – 4:30 pm |
Sanctuary Awards and Reception (sponsered by the Association of Monterey Bay Area Governments) |
Directions
- From
Highway 1: exit at the CSUMB/Fort Ord Main Entrance
and follow Light Fighter Drive to the second stop sign. Turn left on
General Jim
Moore Boulevard, and continue to the second stop sign, then turn right
on Third Street. Continue to the second stop sign, and turn right on
Sixth Avenue. Continue past the stop sign to the University Center (third
building on your right with distinctive "white tent" roof).
- From Salinas: take
Blanco Road west to Monterey, then turn right on Reservation Road.
Turn left on Imjin Road, then turn left at the first
traffic signal
on Abrams Drive. Where Abrams ends at a stop sign, turn right on
Inter-Garrison Road. At the second stop sign, turn left on Sixth
Street. Continue past
the stop sign to the University Center (third building on your
right with distinctive "white tent" roof).
Parking is free in lot #29 at the University Center or across the street
in lot #42 at the Watershed Institute (in regular parking spaces only).
For more information, call Liz Love at the Monterey Bay National Marine
Sanctuary at (831) 647-4255, or email liz.love@noaa.gov; or contact Peggy
Edgerton at the Association of Monterey Bay Area Governments at (831)
883-3750, or email pedgerton@ambag.org.
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