RM 204

Chair: Kate Wing, Ocean Policy Analyst, Natural Resources Defense Council

Organizer: Kristina Gjerde, High Seas Policy Advisor, IUCN, The World Conservation Union
 

Biliana Cicin-Sain, Director, Gerard J. Mangone Center for Marine Policy: Meeting Global Oceans Goals: Trends and Prospect

Sylvia Earle, Executive Director, Global Marine Division, Conservation International: The World Ocean and California: What is at stake?

Kristina Gjerde, High Seas Policy Advisor, IUCN, The World Conservation Union: Global Oceans Governance: The Next Steps

Arlo Hemphill, Director, Global Marine Strategy, Conservation International: Linkages Between Open Ocean and Coastal Waters: Implications for Ocean Governance

Lance Morgan, Chief Scientist, Marine Conservation Biology Institute: Deep Seabed Ecosystems Within and Beyond California Waters

Elliott Norse, President, Marine Conservation Biology Institute: Ecosystem-Based Management: Applying Lessons Learned to Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction

California's Ocean Observatories

RM 203B

Chair and Organizer: John Orcutt, Deputy Director, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
 

Newell Garfield, Physical Oceanographer, San Francisco State University: California’s Coastal Ocean Current Monitoring Program (COCMP)

Heather Kerkering, Coordinator, Central California Ocean Observing System (CeNCOOS): Collaborative Efforts and Resulting Product Development in the Central and Northern California Ocean Observing System

John Largier, Professor, Bodega Marine Lab, University of California, Davis: The Bodega Ocean Observing Node (BOON): Coastal Ocean Observations in the Bodega Region

Stephanie Peck, Manager, Policy and Administration, Southern California Coastal Ocean Observing System (SCCOOS) Scripps Institution of Oceanography: The Southern California Coastal Ocean Observing System: Meeting User Needs at the Regional Level, Integrating at the Federal Level

Jonathan Phinney, Assistant Center Director for Ecosystem Research, NOAA Southwest Fisheries Science Center: The Pacific Coast Ocean Observing System (PaCOOS): The Developing National Backbone for the California Current

Volunteers Making A Difference

RM 203 A

Chair: Deborah Streeter, Director, Upwellings Ministry of Environmental Stewardship

Organizer: Dawn Hayes, Education Coordinator, NOAA

Margo Cowan, Program Coordinator, Volunteers in Parks Program, California State Parks: Volunteers Making a Difference In California State Parks

Eben Schwartz, Outreach Manager, California Coastal Commission: Connecting Californians to the Coast: The Coastal Cleanup Day and Adopt-A-Beach Programs

Shannon Lyday, Beach Watch Supervisor, Farallones Marine Sanctuary Association: Beach Watch: Volunteer Shoreline Monitoring Program

Dawn Hayes, Education Coordinator, NOAA: Volunteers as Partners in Protection

Bridget Hoover, Citizen Watershed Monitoring Network Coordinator, Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary: Real People, Real Science, Real Results

Shauna Bingham, Volunteer and Outreach Coordinator, Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary: Building Coastal Stewards with the Channel Islands Naturalist Corps

Deborah Streeter, Director, Upwellings Ministry of Environmental Stewardship: Religious Congregations as Advocates for Ocean Stewardship: New Constituencies, New Messengers

Marine Protected Areas: Experiences
from Around the World

RM 202 B&C

Chair and Organizer: Mike Osmond, Senior Program Officer, World Wildlife Fund
 

Satie Airame, Marine Policy Coordinator, Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans (PISCO), University of California, Santa Barbara: The Role of Science in Design,
Monitoring, and Evaluation of Marine Protected Areas in California

Meg Caldwell, Senior Lecturer, Stanford University: Marine Protected Areas: Lessons from California's MLPA Blue Ribbon Task Force

Jon Day, Director, Conservation Heritage and Indigenous Partnerships, Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority: The Relative Roles of Science, Public Participation, and Political Support in Ocean
Zoning: Lessons from Australia’s Great Barrier Reef

Sean Hastings, Resource Protection Coordinator, Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary: Successes and Challenges in Designating and Managing the Channel Islands Marine Reserves Network

Mark Zegler, Doctoral Candidate, University of California, Santa Barbara: Geographic Information System Assessment of Fishery, Tourism, and Marine Protected Area Dynamics on the Border of Belize and Mexico

Use and Abuse of Bacterial Indicators

RM 202 A
Chair: Mark Gold, Executive Director, Heal The Bay

James Alamillo, Urban Programs Manager, Heal the Bay: Heal the Bay’s Beach Report Card: Communicating Complex Water Quality Issues and Improving Public Health

Ryan Dwight, Director, Coastal Water Research Group: What to do with the Enterococci Standard?

John Griffith, Marine Microbiologist, Southern California Coastal Water Research Project: Microbiological Water Quality At Non-Human Impacted Reference Beaches In Southern California During Wet Weather

Kenneth Schiff, Deputy Director, Southern California Coastal Water Research Project: Water Quality Indicators and the Risk of Illness in Non-Point Source Impacted Recreational Waters

David Turbow, Assistant Professor of Health Sciences, Touro University International: Web-Based Investigation of Recreational Water Related Illness

Large-Scale Restoration Projects

RM 201 B
Chair: Sam Schuchat, Executive Officer, State Coastal Conservancy

Peter Brand, Senior Project Manager, State Coastal Conservancy: The Santa Clara River Parkway Project: Restoring River Functions on the California Coast

Kate Roney Faulkner, Chief Natural Resources Management, Channel Islands National Park: No Island is an Island; Restoring Islands to Protect Marine Ecosystems

Tom Ford, Director, Kelp Restoration and Monitoring Project, Santa Monica Baykeeper: Santa Monica Bay Needs Your Kelp!

Irma Lagomarsino, Arcata Area Office Supervisor, National Marine Fisheries Service: National Marine Fisheries Service Restoration Activities in the Klamath Basin

Korie Schaeffer, Team Leader, San Francisco Bay Habitat Conservation Team, NOAA: San Francisco Bay Subtidal Habitat Goals Project

Steve Ritchie, Executive Project Manager, State Coastal Conservancy: The South Bay Salt Pond Restoration Project: Using Adaptive Management to Plan a Multi-Objective Project

Rebuilding Depleted Species: Key Component of an
Ecosystem-Based Approach

RM 201 A

Chair and Organizer: Karen Garrison, Co-Director, Ocean Initiative, Natural Resources Defense Council
 

Panelists for Discussion:

Margaret Bowman, Director, Lenfest Ocean Program: What Is and Isn’t Working with U.S. Fisheries Rebuilding Efforts

Steven Berkeley, Fishery Biologist, Long Marine Lab, University of California: Rebuilding Overfished Groundfish: Do We Have the Right Goals?

Selina Heppell, Assistant Professor, Oregon State University: Matching Tools and Research Needs to Management Challenges: Life History, Space and Rebuilding

Stephan Munch, Assistant Professor, Marine Sciences Research Center: Dealing With Uncertainty in Rebuilding Science

Ussif Rashid Sumaila, Director, Fisheries Economics Research Unit, Fisheries Research Centre, University of British Columbia: Economics of Rebuilding

Lisa Suatoni, Ocean Science Fellow, Natural Resources Defense Council: Rebuilding Fish Populations: Emerging Science Points to New Approaches.

West Coast Regional Collaboration to Address Ocean Health: 
Examining Challenges and Opportunities

RM 204

Chair: Mike Sutton, Director, Center for the Future of the Oceans, Monterey Bay Aquarium

Organizer: Craig Russell, Geographer, Residential Site Improvement Standards Inc., NOAA
 

Panelists for Discussion:

Jessica Hamilton, Natural Resources Policy Advisor, Office of Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski: Oregon State Perspective on West Coast Regional Collaboration to Address Ocean Health

Brian Baird, Assistant Secretary for Ocean and Coastal Policy, California Resources Agency: California State Perspective on Regional Collaboration to Address Ocean Health

Kathleen Drew, Governor’s Executive Policy Advisor for Sustainable Economic Development, Energy, and Environmental Management, Office of Washington Governor Christine Gregoire: Washington State Perspective on West Coast Regional Collaboration to Address Ocean Health

William Douros, West Coast Regional Superintendent, National Marine Sanctuary Program: A Federal Perspective on West Coast Regional Collaboration to Address Ocean Health

Russell Moll, Director, California Sea Grant College Program, University of California, San Diego: West Coast Sea Grant Perspective on West Coastal Regional Collaboration to Address Ocean Health

Marc Hershman, Professor, School of Law and School of Marine Affairs, University of Washington: Academic Perspective on West Coast Regional Collaboration to Address Ocean Health

Management Applications of Ocean Infrastructure
and Technology I

RM 203B
Chair: Margaret Davidson, Director, NOAA Coastal Services Center

Robert Guza, Professor of Oceanography, Scripps Institution of Oceanography: Overview of the Huntington Beach 06 Field Experiment

Burton Jones, Research Associate Professor, University of Southern California: From the Shelf Break to the Surf Zone: The Southern California Coastal Ocean Observing System Nearshore Study of Transport and Dispersion Study at Huntington Beach, California

Walter Nordhausen, Staff Environmental Scientist, Office of Spill Prevention and Response, California Department of Fish and Game: Applications of Coastal Observatories for Tracking the Fate and Effects of Dispersed Oil: A program for Natural Resource Damage Assessment

William O'Reilly, Senior Development Engineer, Scripps Institution of Oceanography: California Coastal Wave Predictions from an Observational Network

George Robertson, Senior Scientist, Orange County Sanitation District: Co-Operative Regional Water Quality Monitoring Program

Eric Terrill, Director, Coastal Observing Research and Development Center: Developing Coastal Observatories for Managing Coastal Water Quality and Public Health Risks

Sustaining Beaches through Regional Sediment Management

RM 203 A

Co-Chairs: Brian Baird, Assistant Secretary for Ocean and Coastal Policy, California  Resources Agency
George Domurat, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Organizer: Kim Sterrett, Program Manager, California Department of Boating and Waterways
 

Karen Bane, Project Manager, State Coastal Conservancy: Integrating Coastal Wetland Restoration and Maintenance into Regional Sediment Management Plans

Reinhard Flick, Oceanographer, California Department of Boating and Waterways, Scripps Institution of Oceanography: Beach Width Change Related to Construction of San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station (SONGS), 1964-1985

Steve Goldbeck, Assistant Executive Director, Bay Conservation and Development Commission: San Francisco Bay Regional Sediment Management

Philip King, Associate Professor, San Francisco State University: The Economics of Regional Sediment Management in Maintaining California Beaches

Peter Mull, Project Manager, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, San Francisco: Regional Sediment Management: The New Paradigm at Ocean Beach, San Francisco

Arthur Shak, Chief Coastal Engineering, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Los Angeles: 70 years of Regional Sediment Management in Los Angeles and Orange Counties

Lessons Learned from the California Marine Life
Protection Act Initiative

RM 202 B&C

Chair and Organizer: John Kirlin, Executive Director, Marine Life Protection Act Initiative

Panelists for Discussion:

John Kirlin, Executive Director, Marine Life Protection Act Initiative

Meg Caldwell, Director and Lecturer on Law, Environment and Natural Resources Law and Policy Program, Stanford Law School

J. Michael Harty, Harty Conflict Consulting and Mediation

Eric Poncelet, Associate, CONCUR, Inc.

Melissa Miller-Henson, Operations/Communications Manager, Marine Life Protection Act Initiative

John Ugoretz, Nearshore Ecosystem Coordinator Marine Region, California Department of Fish and Game

Envisioning a Better Ocean through
a Watershed Point of View
State Water Resources Control Board Innovative Land
Use Policy and Planning Tools

RM 202 A

Chair: Celeste Cantu, Executive Director, State Water Resources Control Board, Executive Director

Organizer: Beth Jines, Deputy Director, State Water Resources Control Board

Alfred Wanger, Deputy Director for the Energy, Ocean Resources, and Water Quality Division, California Coastal Commission: From the Headwaters to the Ocean and Back: Understanding the Key to Coastal Resource Protection

Celeste Cantu, Executive Director, State Water Resources Control Board: The River Dwellers’ Vision: Land Use Planning Tools and Actions for Coastal Watershed Protection

Judy Corbett, Executive Director, Local Government Commission: We All Live Downstream, Connecting Smart Growth and Protecting Water Resources, A Local Government Commission Perspective

Chi-Wei Lin, Mayor, City of Trinidad: A Backyard View of the Ocean: An Integrated Watershed Management Approach for the Protection of the ASBS in Trinidad

Jeff Pratt, Director, Ventura County Watershed Protection District: The Living Watershed Perspective: A Treatment and Prevention of Watershed Ills at the Local Government Level

Assessing the Success of Wetland Recovery
Investments in California

RM 201 B

Chair and Organizer: Betty Fetscher, Biologist, Southern California Coastal Water Research Project

Ross Clark, Environmental Scientist, California Coastal Commission: The Central Coast Wetland Working Group: A Regional Partnership to Evaluate the Condition of Central Coast Wetlands

Joshua Collins, Senior Scientist, Wetlands Science Program, San Francisco Estuary Institute: Life on the Line: the Boundary between Fluvial and Tidal Ecosystems as a Sampling Stratum to Assess Coastal Watershed Health

Jeffrey Crooks, Research Coordinator, Tijuana River National Estuarine Research Reserve: Monitoring, Research, and Adaptive Management In Coastal Wetlands of San Diego

Betty Fetscher, Biologist, Watershed Department, Southern California Coastal Water Research Project: Designing An Ambient Monitoring Approach for Intertidal Wetlands

Eric Stein, Principal Scientist, Southern California Coastal Water Research Project: Development of an Integrated Regional Assessment Program for Southern California Wetlands

Drew Talley, Research Coordinator, San Francisco Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve: Ecosystem Engineering and Food Web Effects of a Terrestrial Invader on the Coastal Margin

Improving Fisheries Management:
Research and Case Studies

RM 201 A
Chair: Gary Stacey, Fisheries Program Manager, California Department of Fish and Game

M. James Allen, Principal Scientist, Southern California Coastal Water Research Project: Temporal Trends in Southern California Coastal Fish Populations Relative to 30-Year Trends in Oceanic and Anthropogenic Conditions

Ashley Greenley, Research Assistant, Moss Landing Marine Labs: Relationships Between Diver and Commercial Fishing Gear Surveys of Nearshore Fishes

Jim Marshall: Commercial Fisherman, California Abalone Association: A Limited Fishery for Red Abalone at San Miguel Island

Daniel Pondella, Assistant Professor, Occidental College: Can We Save the Big Fish?: An Analysis of the Gill Net Ban (Proposition 132)

Martina Koller, Passage Data Specialist, Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission: The Passage Assessment Database: a Tool for Stream Habitat Connectivity Restoration via the Publicly Available Calfish Website

Federal and State Roles in Regional Governance:
Alexander Hamilton, Ronald Reagan, and the Ocean

RM 204

Chair and Organizer: Katherine Andrews, Executive Director, Coastal States Organization

Sarah Chasis, Senior Attorney, Natural Resources Defense Council: Should There be Federal or State Leadership in Regional Agreements

Jack Dunnigan, Assistant Administrator, NOAA Ocean Service: Regional Ocean Governance: Federal and State Roles

Gerhard Kuska, Director of Ocean and Coastal Policy, White House Council on Environmental Quality: Coordinating Management Efforts to Make our Oceans, Coasts, and Great Lakes Cleaner,
Healthier and More Productive: Federal Perspectives under the U.S. Action Plan

Tony MacDonald, Director, Urban Coast Institute: Regional Ocean Governance: Federal and State Roles

Susan Snow-Cotter, Director, Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management: A State Perspective on Asserting Interests Beyond State Waters

Management Applications of Ocean Infrastructure
and Technology II

RM 203 B

Chair: Jeffrey Paduan, Associate Professor of Oceanography, Naval Postgraduate School

Sarah G. Allen, Science Advisor, National Park Service: Ocean Stewardship through Marine Monitoring at Point Reyes National Seashore

David Foley, Joint Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research, University of Hawaii: Integrated Multi-Sensor Satellite Habitat Maps for Coastal Management

Jeffrey Paduan, Associate Professor of Oceanography, Naval Postgraduate School: Short Term Drifting Particle Forecasts Using Ocean Surface Current Mapping Data from California Ocean Currents Monitoring Program

William Sydeman, Director, Conservation Science, Point Reyes Bird Observatory: Top Predators as Indicators for Fisheries and Habitat Conservation in the California Current

John Largier, Professor, Bodega Marine Lab, University of California, Davis: Environmental Indicators for Ecosystem-Based Management in the California Current System

Libe Washburn, Professor, Institute for Computational Earth System Science, Department of Geography, University of California, Santa Barbara: A California Coastal Observing System for Marine Ecosystem Studies: A Multi-Agency Partnership on the South-Central Coast

Regional Approaches to Shoreline Erosion and
Management: Central California Examples

RM 203 A

Chair: Les Strnad, Coastal Steward

Organizer: Lesley Ewing, Senior Coastal Engineer, California Coastal Commission

Ed Thornton, Professor, Naval Postgraduate School: Shoreline Change in Southern Monterey Bay

David Revell, Doctoral Candidate, University of California, Santa Cruz: Historic Beach Changes and Storm Event Responses along Santa Barbara and Ventura Counties, California

Brad Damitz, Environmental Policy Specialist, Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary: A Regional, Multi-Stakeholder Approach to Addressing Shoreline Erosion in Southern Monterey Bay

Lesley Ewing, Senior Coastal Engineer, California Coastal Commission: The Coastal Management Framework for Shoreline Planning

Ricardo Pineda, Floodplain Management Branch Chief, California Deptartment of Water Resources:  Implementing No Adverse Impact (NAI) Concepts in California’s Coastal Zone

Scientific Perspectives on the California
Marine Life Protection Act Initiative

RM 202 B & C

Chair: Steve Gaines, Professor, Marine Science Institute, University of California, Santa Barbara

Organizer: Mary Gleason, Marine Conservation Planner, Marine Life Protection Act Initiative, The Nature Conservancy

John Kirlin, Executive Director, Marine Life Protection Act Initiative: Incorporating Science into Science-Based Management: The Marine Life Protection Act Initiative

Steven Gaines, Professor, Marine Science Institute: How to Design an Ecological Marine Protected Area Network

Mary Gleason, Senior Conservation Planner, The Nature Conservancy: A Decision Support System for Stakeholders, Scientists, and Policy-Makers In the Marine Protected Area Planning Process

Astrid Scholz, Vice President, Knowledge Systems, Ecotrust: The Role of Socioeconomic Data in Designing and Evaluating Marine Protected Area Networks

Mark Carr, Associate Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz: Evaluating Alternative Marine Protected Area Network Designs

Louis Botsford, Professor, University of California, Davis: New Directions for the Science of Marine Protected Areas

California’s Coastal Non-Point Source Pollution Program

RM 202 A

Chair: Jack Gregg, Coastal Nonpoint Source Supervisor, California Coastal Commission

Panelists for Discussion:

Jack Gregg, Coastal Nonpoint Source Supervisor, California Coastal Commission

Pedro Nava, Assemblymember, California State Assembly

Rainer Hoenicke, Deputy Director, San Francisco Estuary Institute

Val Connor, Surface Water Ambient Monitoring Program Coordinator, State Water Resources Control Board

Karen Worcester, Staff Environmental Scientist, Central Coast Water Board

Peter Douglas, Executive Director, California Coastal Commission

Development of a National Ocean Research Priorities Plan
and Implementation Strategy

RM 201 B

Chair: Dan Walker, Senior Policy Analyst, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

Panelists for Discussion:

Dan Walker, Senior Policy Analyst, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

John Orcutt, Deputy Director for Research, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Marcia McNutt, President and CEO, Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute

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

Robert Knox, Associate Director, Ship Operations and Technical Support, Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Brian Baird, Assistant Secretary for Ocean and Coastal Policy, California Resources Agency

Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Management

RM 201 A

Chair: Mike Weber, Program Officer, Oceans, Coasts, and Fisheries, Resources Legacy Fund Foundation

Stephen Copps, Senior Policy Analyst, NOAA Fisheries Northwest Region: Emerging Roles for Fishers, NGOs, Federal, and State Governments in Ecosystem Management off the U.S. West Coast

Hunter Lenihan, Assistant Professor, Bren School of Environmental Science and Management University of California, Santa Barbara: Collaborative Fishery Research and Co-Management for the California Spiny Lobster

Santi Roberts, California Project Manager, Oceana: Recommendations towards Ecosystem-Based Fisheries Management of the California Current Large Marine Ecosystem

Cynthia Thomson, Economics Team Leader, NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service: Ecosystem-Based Fishery Management:  From Principles to Application