Welcome (again) to the Sea Grant Week blog

Welcome to the 2012 Sea Grant Week blog, AND the archives of the 2010 Sea Grant Week blog.

Oh joy of joys, our hacker didn’t empty the trash.

It happens to the best of us, and it serves as a cautionary tale: Our blog was hacked into on Sunday, May 27, and all posts and pages were deleted. Thanks to the WordPress forum, we were advised to check the trash in case the hacker didn’t think to empty it. Sure enough, there were our 48 or so missing posts, all of which have been restored. Now to find a good back-up program!

(Our formerly sad and now much-relieved voice of experience: Please remember to protect your passwords, make them hard to guess, and use different passwords for different sites.)

We will begin posting content here as the 2012 meeting gets closer, and we hope to have a small cadre of guest bloggers to help. If you’d like to be a guest blogger, email Carol Kaynor. Meanwhile, the archives from 2010 make fascinating reading.

Until we begin blogging in earnest for 2012, your best source for current information is the Sea Grant Week 2012 website.

Sea Grant Week: A handy index

A day-by-day index to Sea Grant Week 2010 coverage, including presentations in both Flash video  (for viewing) and downloadable .pdf format. (Note: Some .pdfs are very large; if you have trouble downloading them and would like a copy, contact Pat Kight)

Thursday, Oct. 14-Friday Oct. 15

• Focus Area meetings:
  Background presentation |.pdf

Saturday, Oct. 16

• Fiscal Officers meeting
• Educators meeting
• Communicators meeting:
  Summary
  LaDon Swann: Impact statements
  Telling the Sea Grant Story to NOAA (Rochelle Plutchak, Linda Joy, OAR):
  presentation | .pdf
  Using Social Media in Public Communication (Felicia Song & Masudul Biswas, Louisiana State University)
  presentation | .pdf
• Legal network meeting
• Sea Grant 101
• Annual reporting (Sami Grimes, Heather Treizenberg, NSGO):
  presentation | .pdf
• Topical workshops:
  Offshore renewable energy
  Sea Grant Response to Deepwater Horizon Oil Disaster
• Information Management Systems for Tracking and Reporting

Sunday, Oct. 17

• Sea Grant International Symposium:
  • Indonesian Sea Partnership program:
    presentation | .pdf
  • Strategic action plan for implementation of Gyeonggi Sea Grant Program:
    presentation | .pdf
  • Habitation state of Wando coastal soft coral/marine protected area:
    presentation | .pdf
  • ChungCheong Sea Grant Action Plan & 2010 Activities:
    presentation | .pdf
  • A study on the development of Korea style mud boat for marine tourism resources:
    presentation | .pdf
  • Yeongnam Sea Grant College Program
    presentation | .pdf
• Field Trips and Service Projects:
  • Legal Program field trip
  • Educators field trip (see Photo Gallery, below)
  • Communicators service project – “Armed and dangerous”

Monday, Oct. 18

Rethinking the Sea Grant Model

• Social Science and Sea Grant (Heather Triezenberg, National Sea Grant Office): presentation | .pdf
• Shaking the Sea Grant Tree (Margaret Davidson, director, NOAA Coastal Service Center)
• Science, the Next NOAA and Sea Grant (Paul Sandifer, NOAA National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science: presentation | .pdf
• OAR Next and Sea Grant (Craig McLean, acting assistant administrator, NOAA OAR): presentation | .pdf
• Allocation Committee update, Ross Heath, National Sea Grant Advisory Board: presentation | .pdf

Shifting Sands of Sea Grant in a Changing World

• The Evolution of Sea Grant as a “National” Program (Leon Cammen, Director, National Sea Grant College Program)
• Crisis du Jour, or Where is Sea Grant Going Over the Next 20 years (Gordon Grau, president, Sea Grant Association and director, Hawaii Sea Grant)
• Panel: The Sea Grant Model (Q&A highlights)

Photos from the evening poster session

Tuesday, Oct. 19

International program field trip to Plaquemines Parish

Moving Forward with and Adjusting the Focus Areas

• Focus Area Reports
• Presentations: Moving Forward
  • Toward Greater Hazard Resilience in a Rapidly Changing World, Susanne Moser, Susanne Moser Research and Consulting
    presentation | .pdf
  • Safe and Sustainable Seafood, Robin Alden, Penobscot East Resource Center (no presentation)
  • Sustainable Coastal Development: Finding Certainty in UncertainTimes, Mayor Tom Murphy, Senior Resident Fellow, Urban Land Institute
    presentation | .pdf
  • Healthy Coastal : Landscapes on the Edge, the Mississippi River Delta System, Robert Twilley, vice chancellor of research, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
    presentation | .pdf
  • The Sea Grant Challenge: Coastal Communities and Climate Change, Jeremy Harris, former mayor, Honolulu, Hawaii, and National Sea Grant Advisory Board member
    presentation | .pdf

Wednesday, Oct. 20

• NOAA and Sea Grant – Larry Robinson, Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere
• Wrapup: Focus Area reports

Additional content:

• A Sea Grant Week photo gallery (from our blogging team)
• Sea Grant Week photos from Louisiana Sea Grant:
  Communicators’ Day of Service
  Plenary sessions
  Poster session
• “The Peculiar Nature of Sea Grant …” and the Characters Within

Presentation: Science, the Next NOAA and Sea Grant

Paul Sandifer, Senior Scientist, NOAA National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science
(Presented Monday, Oct. 18)

(Downloadable .pdf)

Presentations: International Symposium (Part II)

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Presentations: International Symposium (Part I)

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Presentation: Toward Greater Hazard Resilience in a Rapidly Changing World, S. Moser

Oct. 19 presentation by Susanne Moser, director and principal researcher, Susanne Moser Research and Consulting:

(Downloadable .pdf)

A Sea Grant Week photo gallery

We’re working on getting some of the presentations from Sea Grant Week 2010 ready to add to this blog. Meanwhile, enjoy a gallery of photos from New Orleans:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/oregonseagrant/sets/72157625106853767/

(Thanks to photographers Kurt Byers, Jim Hiney, Dianne Lindstedt, Chelsea Lowes, Peg Van Patten and Jim Wilkins for sharing their photos with us. If you have photos you’d like to see added to the gallery – or if you see something that’s misattributed – contact Pat Kight).