Research Activity Panel: Meeting Agenda
Big Creek Marine Ecological Reserve/Landels-Hill Big Creek Reserve
Big Sur,  CA 93920  831-667-2543
Friday  November 13, 1998
10:30 -  followed by the Annual RAP Barbecue


Introduction of members and guests (G. Cailliet)

  Institution Representatives
	Greg Cailliet, Moss Landing Marine Labs- Chair
	Rick Starr, U.C. Sea Grant- Vice Chair
	Andrew DeVogelaere, MBNMS- RAP Coordinator

	Jane Caffrey/Mark Silberstein, ESNERR and ESF
	William Douros, Monterey Bay NMS
	Michael Field/Steve Eittreim, USGS
	Churchill Grimes/Mary Yoklavich, NOAA/NMFS
	Chris Harrold/Randy Kochevar, Monterey Bay Aquarium 
	Deborah Johnston, CA DFG/ Monterey
	Rikk Kvitek/Steve Moore, CSUMB
	Patricia Port, Department of the Interior 
	Giacomo Bernardi/Dan Costa, UCSC
	Dennis Powers/Jennifer Nielsen, Hopkins Marine Station
	David Clague, MBARI 
	Jan Roletto, GFNMS/CBNMS
	Leslie Rosenfeld/Jeff Paduan, Naval Postgraduate School
	Mark Stephenson, CDFG/Mar. Pollution Studies Lab
	Geoff Wheat, NOAA/NURP
	Karen Worcester, Morro Bay Foundation
  At-Large
	Jim Harvey, Moss Landing Marine Labs
	Caroline Pomeroy, UCSC/CSUMB
	Les Strnad, CA Coastal Commission 
  Special Advisors
	Jim Rote, CSUMB
	Gary Sharp, CIRIOS


CONSENT ITEMS:

Modifications to the agenda (G. Cailliet)


PRESENTATIONS

Institutional Update: Big Creek Reserve (John Smiley)

Highway one failure on the Big Sur Coast as related to offshore multibeam data imagery 
(Steve Eittreim)


BREAK


DISCUSSION

1998 review of the RAP: what worked, what did not work, the future (A. De Vogelaere)

Sanctuary Currents: award nominations (Andrew De Vogelaere)

Status of shared tank facility at NPS (Jeff Paduan)

Overview of a new USGS seafloor database (Mike Field)


SHORT INFORMATION ITEMS

Verbal items:

Status of ICON, the Innovative Coastal-Ocean Observing (Jeff Paduan)

Update on the live fish fishery (Greg Cailliet)

Update on Sustainable Seas Expeditions (A. De Vogelaere)



Legislation update (Caroline Pomeroy)


Written items (no discussion unless there are questions):

MBCORC (Andrew De Vogelaere)
	On October 14, research institution Directors met for a day to discuss research 
activities in the Monterey Bay region.  The Monterey Bay Crescent Research Consortium is 
a newly developing organization to promote research in the region.  Presentations were 
given by the Naval Postgraduate School, Naval Research Laboratory, Fleet Numerical 
Meteorology and Oceanography Center, U.C. Santa Cruz, MBARI, Monterey Bay 
Aquarium, MBNMS, National Marine Fisheries Service, U.C. MBEST, MATE, U.C. Sea 
Grant Extension Program, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, Monterey Institute of 
International Studies, Cal. State Monterey Bay, California Department of Fish and Game 
and the U.S. Geological Survey.

ATOC
	The ATOC Consortium published a paper in the August 28 issue of Science on 
"Ocean climate change: comparison of acoustic tomography, satellite altimetry, and 
modeling."  Andrew has reprints for those who are interested in a copy.

Introduced species (Andrew De Vogelaere)
	Dr. Kerstin Wasson, with Humbolt State University, is working with MBNMS to 
update our introduced species list on the MBNMS Site Characterization (see MBNMS web 
site http://montereybay.nos.noaa.gov)

Future Agenda (Greg Cailliet)
	Don't hesitate to forward agenda topics, speaker suggestions, and written items to 
G. Cailliet or A. De Vogelaere for future meetings.

	
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