San Diego

October 27-30, 2002
Santa Barbara, California



Concurrent Sessions F

Tuesday, 2:00 p.m.



Please note: co-authors will be identified in the conference book of abstracts and post-conference proceedings.



Marine Protected Area Design

Chair: Satie Airame, Scientific Advisor, Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary

Steven Gaines, Director, Marine Science Institute, University of California Santa Barbara: Scientific Criteria for Reserve Design
Robert Warner, Principal Investigator, PISCO, University of California Santa Barbara: Opening the Black Box: Dispersal Scales and Connectivity Among Marine Populations
Rodney M. Fujita, Marine Ecologist, Environmental Defense: Integrating Marine Reserves with Fishery Management
Kaya C. Pederson, Marine Policy Specialist, Marine Science Division, Point Reyes Bird Observatory,: Pelagic Predators, Prey and Processes (P4): An Initiative to Protect Offshore Organisms and Habitats Along the West Coast of North America
Mark E. Monaco, Biogeography Program Manager, National Ocean Service: A Biogeographic Assessment Off North/Central California to Support the Joint Management Plan Review Process for Cordell Bank, Gulf of the Farallones, and Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuaries





Responding to California’s Ocean Agenda:
The California Coastal Environmental Quality Initiative


Chair: Gary B. Griggs, Director, Institute of Marine Sciences, University of California Santa Cruz

Louis D. Zeidberg, Department of Organismic Biology, Ecology, and Evolution, University of California Los Angeles: Distribution of Squid Paralarvae,Loligo opalescens (Cephalopoda: Myopsida), in the Southern California Bight in the Three Years Following the 1997 El Niño
Libe Washburn, Professor, Institute for Computational Earth System Science and Department of Geography, University of Califorina Santa Barbara: A Coastal Observing System on the South-Central Coast for Understanding Regional Circulation, Pollutant Transport, and Dispersion
Jeffrey A. Riffell, Graduate Student, Department of Biology, University of California Los Angeles: Fertilization in Flow: Towards Maximizing the Production of Offspring of Over-Exploited, Free-Spawning Invertebrates
Margaret Dekshenieks, Assistant Professor, Ocean Sciences, University of California Santa Cruz: Data Management Techniques for NEoCO, the Network for Environmental Observations of the Coastal Ocean
John Largier, Associate Research Oceanographer, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego: Early Results and Historical Data from NEOCO (Network for Environmental Observations of the Coastal Ocean)
Mary W. Silver, Professor, Ocean Sciences, University of California Santa Cruz: Phytoplankton Toxin in the California Coastal Oceans





Developing K-12 Ocean Education

Chair: Kathy Fletcher, Deputy Secretary for External Affairs, California Environmental Protection Agency

Lyndell Whitley, Education Programs Coordinator, University of Southern California Sea Grant: Developing Curriculum and Teacher Training — Island Explorers Case Study
Francesca Cava, Education Program Manager, National Geographic Society- Sustainable Seas Expedition: Enhancing the National Geography Standards with Ocean Content
John S. Pearse, Research Professor, Joseph M. Long Marine Laboratory, Institute of Marine Sciences, University of California Santa Cruz: Assessing Sanctuary Shorelines: A Role for Volunteers, Particularly High School Students, in Resource Management
Timothy Tyndall, Director, RAIN Network: Use of GIS and the Internet for Community and Classroom Education
Tony Michaels, Director, Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies: Introducing COSEE WEST





Ocean Monitoring

Chair: Stephen Weisberg, Executive Director, Southern California Coastal Water Research Project

Kenneth Schiff, Deputy Director, Southern California Coastal Water Research Project: Inventory of Ocean Monitoring in the Southern California Bight
Brock B. Bernstein, Independent Consultant: Southern California’s Marine Monitoring Systems Ten Years After the National Academy of Sciences Evaluation
Walt Nelson, Chief, Pacific Coastal Ecology Branch, Western Ecology Division, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: A Statewide Assessment of Coastal Ecological Condition for California: The Western Coastal Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Program (WEMAP)
Jay A. Davis, Regional Monitoring Program Manager, San Francisco Estuary Institute: Monitoring Water Quality in San Francisco Bay
Roger Briggs, Executive Officer, Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board: A New Regional Board Paradigm





California Coastal Wetland Issues

Chair: Madelyn Glickfeld, Assistant Secretary, California Resources Agency

Kathie Matsuyama, Senior Landscape Architect, Watershed and Coastal Resources Division, County of Orange: Southern California Wetlands Recovery Project
Josh Collins, Environmental Scientist, San Francisco Estuary Institute: Sustaining Regional Partnerships for Conservation: Sharing the Future
Christopher Potter, Wetlands Coordinator, California Resources Agency: Achieving a Statewide Wetlands Inventory
Frederic C. Wurster, Wetlands Biologist, National Wetlands Inventory, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service: Recent Changes in the Extent of Estuarine Wetlands in Southern California: Piedras Blancas to Santa Monica
Robert Gearheart, Professor, Humboldt State University: Role of Wetlands in Restoring Coastal Watersheds




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