San Diego

October 27-30, 2002
Santa Barbara, California



Concurrent Sessions G

Tuesday, 4:15 p.m.


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



Measuring and Improving Marine Protected Area Effectiveness

Chair: Charles M. Wahle, Acting Director, Science Institute, Marine Protected Areas Center

Ben Halpern, Graduate Student, Marine Science Institute, University of California Santa Barbara: The Impact of Marine Reserves: A Synthesis of Global Evidence
Irene Tetreault, Ph.D. Candidate, University of California Los Angeles: Empirical Research on Effects of MPAs For Conservation and Fishery Enhancement
Charles Ehler, Director, National Ocean Service: Measuring Effectiveness in Marine Protected Areas
Mark Carr, Associate Professor, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Santa Cruz: Evaluating the Effectiveness of Marine Reserves
Billy D. Causey, Superintendent, Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary: Moving Beyond Paper Parks: Improving Compliance and Enforcement





Coastal Pleasure: How Much is it Worth?

Chair: Michael Hanemann, Chancellor’s Professor, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California Berkeley

Michael Hanemann, Chancellor’s Professor, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics and Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California Berkeley: The Economic Value of Ocean Beach Recreation in Southern California
Philip King, Chair, Economics Department, San Francisco State University: Do Beaches Benefit Local Communities? A Case Study of Two California Beach Towns
Linda Lent, Independent Economic Consultant: A Preliminary Estimate of the Regional and Federal Economic Benefits of Nourishment at Waikiki Beach
Eileen Hook, Research Manager and Rural Tourism Liaison, Division of Tourism, California Technology, Trade and Commerce Agency: California’s Beaches - Where the Tourists Are
Ryan H. Dwight: Estimated Economic Burden from Illnesses Associated with Contaminated Recreational Coastal Waters





Using GIS Data in Management Decisions

Chair: Jon Van Coops, Mapping/GIS Program Manager, California Coastal Commission

Nancy Wright, GIS/Remote Sensing Coordinator, Marine Region GIS Lab, California Department of Fish and Game: GIS and Remote Sensing Technology for California Nearshore Management
Astrid Scholz, Principal Investigator, Groundfish Fleet Reduction Information and Analysis Project, Ecotrust: Factoring People into Ecosystems- Analytical tools for Assessing the Socioeconomic Impacts of Marine Resource Management on the West Coast of the United States
Christopher Jones, Information Systems Coordinator, Marine Science Institute, University of California Santa Barbara: Developing and Implementing a Metadata-based Framework to Manage Diverse, Collaborative Datasets
Claudia Avendano, Coastal Planner/Physical Scientist, Los Angeles District, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: GIS Applications in Coastal Studies
Katherine Born, Belle W. Baruch Institute for Marine Biology and Coastal Research, Marine Science Program, University of South Carolina: An Internet Mapping System for Coastal Resource Management and Data Dissemination in Support of a Special Area Management Plan





Undersea Cultural Treasures and Hazards

Chair: Erica Burton, Research Specialist, Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary

Sue Vezeau, Submerged Cultural Resource Coordinator, Santa Barbara Maritime Museum: The Pacific Coast Maritime Archaeological Summary
Michele C. Aubry, Senior Archeologist, National Park Service: State and Federal Management of Submerged Cultural Resources
Robert V. Schwemmer, Cultural Resources Coordinator, Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary: Shipwrecks as Environmental Threats to California’s National Marine Sanctuaries
John W. Foster, Senior State Archaeologist, California Department of Parks and Recreation: History and Archaeology Beneath the Sea: The Preservation, Management and Interpretation of California’s Submerged Heritage Resources





Water Quality: Ocean Modeling,
Observations and Remote Sensing

Chair: John Largier, Associate Research Oceanographer, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California San Diego

Keith Stolzenbach, Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California Los Angeles: Modeling of Coastal Water Quality: Linking Large Scale Features of the Coastal Circulation to Local Water Quality Management
John Helly, San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California San Diego: Stormwater: Where Is It Coming From And Where Is It Going? An Integrated Real-Time Watershed Monitoring And Modeling Approach To The Water Quality Dilemma
Burton H. Jones, Oceanographer, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California: Coastal Ocean Contamination: Observations, Modeling and Future Directions
Paul DiGiacomo, Scientist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology: Pollution Hazards Off the Southern California Coast: Satellite and In Situ Observations of Naturally Occurring Oil Seepage, Storm Water Runoff and Wastewater Plumes
Jan Svejkovsky, President, Ocean Imaging Corporation: Integrating Aerial and Satellite Remote Sensing into Regional Water Quality Monitoring Programs
D. Bart Chadwick, Scientist, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center San Diego: Modeling of Copper Toxicity From Chemical Speciation and Physicochemical Conditions in San Diego Bay





Development Pressures on Habitat
Restoration and Conservation

Chair: Susan Jordan, Executive Director, California Coastal Protection Network for Development

Rikk Kvitek, Associate Professor, Earth Systems Science and Policy Seafloor Mapping Lab, California State University Monterey Bay: Coastal Watershed Development, Erosion, Marring Habitat Loss and Kelp Forest Decline in Santa Monica Bay, California
Brad Damitz, Assistant Management Plan Coordinator, Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary: A Regional Approach to Desalination in the Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary
Timothy H. Robinson, Ph.D.Candidate, Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California Santa Barbara: Santa Barbara Coastal Long Term Ecological Research (LTER); Nutrient Concentrations in Coastal Streams, Variations with Land Use in the Carpinteria Valley, California
Mark Massara, Coastal Campaign Coordinator, Sierra Club: Death by a Thousand Cuts: How Thousands of Development Projects Annually Along the California Coast Undermine the Best Efforts and Intentions of Scientists and Academics




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