April 5, 2005 NEIT Meeting

Presentations and Reports

Presenters	PowerPoint Presentations	Reports
Bruce Russell and Amy Knowlton	Vessel Traffic Management Scenarios	Vessel Traffic Management Scenarios Based on NMFS’ Strategy to Reduce Ship Strikes of Right Whales
Hauke Kite-Powell	Economic Implications of Port Call Dislocation in the Port of Boston	Economic Implications of Possible Reductions in Boston Port Calls Due to Ship Strike Management Measures: Report produced for NMFS and MASSPORT
Amy Knowlton	Update of GIS Presentation of Survey Tracklines, Right Whale Sightings, and Right Whale Movements	Available at: http://www.marinegis.org/rwhale_gis.html
Russell Leaper and Lex Hiby	Mid Atlantic Right Whale Movements Modeling	DRAFT Progress report on the use of photographic capture histories of individually identified North Atlantic right whales in the Southeast United States to make inferences about whale occurrence in the mid-Atlantic region
Bill McWeeny and Bruce Russell	Development of a Merchant Mariner Education Module Entitled: Voyage Planning and Marine Environmental Protection Measures to Avoid Collisions with the North Atlantic Right Whale	Report on Merchant Mariner Education: Training to Reduce Ship Collisions with North Atlantic Right Whales
Owen Nichols	Analysis of risk to right whales in Cape Cod Bay	Analysis of Risk to North Atlantic Right Whales from Shipping Traffic in Cape Cod Bay
Mason Weinrich (Dave Wiley)	A proposal to move the Boston Approach shipping lanes
Greg Silber	North Atlantic Right Whale Recovery Program
George Detweiler	Port Access Routes Study (PARS)
Tom Fetherston	US Navy Right Whale Protective Measures