Measuring Ecological, Economic and Social Values

of Coastal Habitats to Inform Ecosystem-based Management

of Land-Sea Interfaces

 

Meeting #1: January 22-26, 2007

 

Tentative Agenda

 

Sunday, January 21

6:30 pm – Meet for dinner at Emilio’s Restaurant near hotel – (for those who are around)

 

Monday, January 22

9-10:30 am                  5 minute introductions per person (who and where you are, what you do, your interest in working group)

10:30-11 am                coffee break

11-11:20                      IT Introduction

11:30-12:30                 Brainstorming on Vision, Scope and Objectives of Working Group; areas of  expertise that we need presented

12:30-1:30 pm             Lunch

1:30 –3:30 pm              Continue brainstorming on Vision, Scope and Objectives of Working Group; identify areas of expertise for which we need presentations

3:30-4 pm                   Break

4-5:30  pm                   Presentations as identified during morning session

[Possibilities include: Ecology (Sally Hacker, Eva Koch, Brian Silliman); Conservation Planning and Mapping Tools (David Stoms) Coastal Oceanography (Eric Wolanski); The Social Dimension and Management (Shankar Aswani, Lori Cramer, Jurgenne Primavera); Environmental Economics (Ed Barbier and Steve Polasky), Coastal Geomorphology (Denise Reed)]

 

5:30 pm                        Happy Hour to get to know everyone

 

Tuesday, January 23rd

 

8:30- 10                       Continue with discussion including Conceptual model(s) Subgroup topics and general Products

10-10:30                      Break

10:30 – 12:30               Additional topical presentations as needed or determination of Break-out

groups

12:30-1:30                   Lunch

1:30 – 5:30                   Break-out groups

 

 

 

 

Wednesday, January 24th

8:30 am to 5 pm           Break out groups:

Identify:

  1. Questions
  2. Available data
  3. Target audience
  4. Product - manuscript outline

 

Thursday, January 25th

Morning:

                                    Break-out groups on subset of topics

12-1                             Lunch with EBM

Afternoon:

            Switch around groups to tackle other subset of topics

 

Friday, January 26th

 

8:30 –12                      A 30-minute summary + questions by each break-out group to the bigger

group (20 minute break around 10:30 am)

12-1                             Lunch

1-3                               Planning for next meeting; assigning tasks and timelines during the interim

            - Set date for next meeting

            - Set goals for tasks that need to be accomplished by next meeting

            - Identify replacement for DeWitt based on gaps in expertise