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3rd CSCOR Coral Reef Programs Review Meeting

March 23 — 24, 2005

Oceanographic Center
Nova Southeastern University
Ft. Lauderdale, FL

Summary

The NOAA Center for Sponsored Coastal Ocean Research (CSCOR) holds an internal program review meeting for its active coral reef programs. The major goal of the program review is to bring together the Lead Principal Investigator and Project Manager from each project so that they can share their successes and failures in a forum-like format, and thus benefit from their collective experiences. A second goal is to promote communication between programs so that individual projects can benefit from their collective. A third goal is to inform the representatives from the programs of any revisions in NOAA's internal processes and grants management practices in order to facilitate their grant proposal writing, project implementation, and project reporting requirements.

The meetings are held on a yearly basis and are hosted by one of the programs institutions with the venue alternated between the Atlantic and Pacific regions. The outcome from our initial meeting clearly demonstrated the value of the forum approach to promote collaboration between CSCOR programs. CSCOR decided to build on this success by inviting representatives from other entities that are involved in activities with or of interest to CSCOR programs. Invited non-CSCOR participants are typically drawn from the region of the program hosting the meeting on that given year. Also, because CSCOR's various coral programs are considered either core or collaborative programs within NOAA's Coral Reef Conservation Program (CRCP), CSCOR has included a senior representative from CRCP as a regular attendee to the review meeting.

The 2005 CSCOR Coral Reef Programs Review meeting was hosted by the National Coral Reef Institute (NCRI) based at the Oceanographic Center of Nova Southeastern University in Ft. Lauderdale , Florida on Wednesday March 23rd and Thursday March 24th. The CSCOR coral programs participating in the 2005 meeting were: Coral Reef Ecosystem Studies-Caribbean; Coral Reef Ecosystem Studies-Micronesia; the Hawaii Coral Reef Initiative Research Program (HCRI - RP); the National Coral Reef Institute; and the newly established Caribbean Coral Reef Institute. The NOAA participants aside from CSCOR and CRCP in the 2005 meeting were: the Southeast Fisheries Science Center, the National Undersea Research Program (represented by the Caribbean Marine Research Center and the National Undersea Research Center), the Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, the Center for Coastal Environmental Health and Biomolecular Research, the Center for Coastal Fisheries and Habitat Research, the Center for Costal Monitoring and Assessment. Table 1 provides a list of the participants.

As part of the 2005 meeting, the participants attended a special meeting of NCRI Principal Investigators held on Tuesday March 23rd prior to the CSCOR review meeting. The purpose of attending this event was to allow CSCOR's other coral programs to learn in more detail about the work performed by NCRI. Field site visits and other activities were also planned. On Tuesday afternoon some of the review meeting participants had the opportunity to visit NCRI's field research sites off Ft. Lauderdale. Following the CSCOR meeting, some of the participants also had the opportunity to visit the site of the Aquarius underwater habitat and Molasses Reef off Key Largo.

For any additional information on the presentations, please contact Dr. Felix A. Martinez (felix.martinez@noaa.gov; 301-713-3338 x153) or Dr. Michael J. Dowgiallo (michael.dowgiallo@noaa.gov; 301-713-3338 x161).

For a copy of the meeting summary download a PDF copy (16.5MB)

Oral Presentations

Oral presentations were given during the NCRI Principal Investigators Session and the CSCOR Coral Reef Programs Review Meeting. Summaries or transcripts and PowerPoint slides (if used) of the presentations are provided in the links below. The information provided in these presentations should not be construed as official NOAA policy unless otherwise noted. Any data, figures, or photos provided in these slides should not be used without the appropriate authorization of the authors. Questions concerning any of the presentations should be addressed directly to the presenters.

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