2009 Northeast/Mid-Atlantic Virtual Regional Coastal Zone Management Meeting

Welcome to the website of the 2009 Annual Northeast and Mid-Atlantic Regional Coastal Management Meeting. The virtual meeting brought together staff from state coastal zone management programs, NOAA and other partners to discuss three pressing coastal management issues for the region:

• Regional Ocean Governance
• Planning for Climate Change & Dealing with Uncertainty
• Energy and Marine Spatial Planning

All presentations and a summary of key discussions from the meeting are posted here for your reference. Thank you to everyone who made this meeting a success and to everyone who participated! Contact Allison Castellan if you have any questions.

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Session 1:   Thursday Nov. 12th 1:00-3:30 

1:00 -1:15:  Welcoming Remarks
David Kennedy, Acting Deputy Assistant Administer for NOAA’s National Ocean Service

1:15 – 2:15:  NOAA Updates
Goal:  Keep state coastal management programs abreast of key efforts underway at NOAA and provide opportunity to ask questions.  Topics to be covered include:
Moderator:  Randy Schneider

• Status of COMIA & NOAA Coastal Efforts (Kennedy)
• OCRM Staffing Changes (King)
• Budget Update (King)
• Status of Program Change Rule Making (King)
• CZMA Performance Measures (Schneider)
• New Guidance: (Schneider)
• 309 Assessment and Strategy Guidance
• Performance Reporting Guidance
• Status of Climate Change Adaptation Guidance (Lott)
• CELCP Updates (Aviram)

2:15-3:30:  Regional Ocean Governance
Goal:  Foster lesson sharing session among regional governance entities to help newly formed groups (MARCO) get off the ground and enhance the effectiveness of existing efforts (NROC). Representatives for different regional ocean governance organizations will discuss their successes, pitfalls and other lessons learned.

• Overview of Regional Ocean Governance and NOAA Involvement
  Darlene Finch, NOAA Coastal Services Center

Regional Ocean Governance Panel:  Lessons Learned in Regional Ocean Governance

• Dr. Bill Walker, Mississippi Department of Marine Resources, current state chair, Gulf of Mexico Alliance
• Kathleen Leyden, Maine Coastal Management Program and current chair, Northeast Regional Ocean Council
• Mike Snyder, New York Department of State and the Mid-Atlantic Regional Council on the Ocean
• Focused Q&A/discussion

Session 2:  Wednesday Nov. 18th  1:00-3:30

Planning for Climate Change & Dealing with Uncertainty
Goal:  Foster lesson sharing among state coastal management programs to learn about recent state activities to plan for and adapt to climate change and how they are addressing uncertainty. 

• Projecting Sea-level Change in the Mid-Atlantic Region
  Ray Najjar, Penn State University

Panel:  Perspectives from State CZM Programs

• Defining Coastal Vulnerability Along the Delaware Bay:  A Protocol for Determining Resilience
  Dorina Frizerra, New Jersey Coastal Management Program
• Advancing Adaptation Through State Strategies and Local Action
  Julia Knisel, Massachusetts Coastal Zone Management Program
• Coast-Smart Communities: Adapting to Climate Change in Maryland
  Gwen Shaughnessy, Maryland Chesapeake and Coastal Program
• Rhode Island Efforts towards Mitigation and Adaptation to Climate Change
  Jim Boyd, Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management Council

Session 3:  Tuesday December 1st 1:00-3:00pm

Energy and Marine Spatial Planning
Goal:  Educate participants about recent advances in marine spatial planning and offshore energy facility siting and how state coastal zone management programs will be impacted.

• Update on Ocean Policy Task Force and Marine Spatial Planning Efforts at the Federal Government
  David Kennedy, Acting Deputy Assistance Administrator NOAA National Ocean Service
• The Ocean Use Atlas
  Charlie Wahle, NOAA Marine Protected Areas Center
• Biogeographic Assessments to Meet Regional Marine Spatial Planning Needs
  Chris Caldow, NOAA National Centers of Coastal Ocean Science
• New MMS Rule and Implications for State CZM Programs
  Winston de Monsabert, CZMA Lead, MMS Marine Minerals Branch

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