Tentative Agenda; 4 February 2008
February 26, 2008
| 0730 | Coffee, juice, etc. |
| 0800 | Opening of Meetings |
| Joint meeting of GCOOS Parties and Board of Directors | |
| Reports on U.S. IOOS and GCOOS | |
| 0815 | NOAA IOOS Program Office (PowerPoint presentation prepared by Gabrielle Canonico of IOOS Program Office) |
| 0840 | Status of IOOS Modeling and Analysis Steering Team (Christopher Mooers) |
| 0855 | Development of the GCOOS-RA (Worth Nowlin) |
| 0920 | Status and plan for RCOOS in GoM, including discussion of Conceptual Design (Ann Jochens) |
| 0945 | Announcement of results of Board of Directors election |
| 1000 | BREAK |
| Related Activities | |
| 1015 | Integrated Ecosystems Assessments (Becky Allee) |
| 1035 | NOAA Hypoxia Monitoring Implementation (Alan Lewitus) |
| 1055 | GOMA Nutrient Fate and Transport Workshop Summary and other interations with GOMA (presentation prepared by Steven Wolfe and Ann Jochens) |
| 1115 | HABIOS Plan (Bart Bibler) |
| 1135 | Discussion of issues raised by Parties |
| 1205 | LUNCH |
| Open Meeting of Board of Directors | |
| Reports from GCOOS-RA Councils and Committees | |
| 1315 | Report on Stakeholder Council (Robert Stickney, Chair) |
| 1330 | Report on Education and Outreach Council (Jessica Kastler, Chair) Introduction of Education & Outreach Coordinator Status of Strategic and Action Plans |
| 1400 | Report on Observing Systems Committee (Stephan Howden, Chair) Status of Observing System Plan |
| 1430 | Report on Data Management and Communications Committee (Ed Kearns, Chair) |
| 1450 | Report on Products and Services Committee (Rost Parsons, Chair) |
| 1510 | BREAK |
| 1525 | Report on Membership Committee (Landry Bernard, Chair) |
| Interactions with other groups | |
| 1545 | NFRA |
| 1600 | SECOORA (Parker Lumpkin) |
| 1630 | Next actions in engaging Mexico (Alfredo Prelat) |
| 1645 | CaRA (Presentation prepared by Roy Watlington, Jorge Corredor, and Julio Morell) |
| 1700 | Islands in the Stream (Board discussion with Brian Keller, National Marine Sanctuaries Program) |
| 1715 | ADJOURN MEETING FOR THE DAY |
February 27, 2008
| 0700 | Coffee, juice, etc. |
| Resume Open Session of Board Meeting | |
| Reports on Development Activities of GCOOS | |
| 0730 | Plans for further identification of User Requirements |
| 0740 | Status of Pending Proposals |
| 0745 | Status of Pilot Projects |
| 0800 | Membership (MoA) development |
| Regional Association Business Session | |
| 0810 | Plans for development of DMAC Plan (Matthew Howard) |
| 0820 | Status of the Business Plan (Ann Jochens) |
| 0840 | Status and Discussion of GCOOS Communication Plan (Worth Nowlin) |
| 0855 | Any further discussion of the Observing Systems Plan or Conceptual Design |
| Closed Session of Board Meeting | |
| 0910 | Review of RA Budget |
| 0925 | Changes to committee/council memberships |
| 0940 | Liability insurance |
| 0945 | Conflict of Interest—signature pages |
| 0950 | Status of 2007 Actions |
| 1000 | Date of Next Board Meeting |
| 1005 | New Business |
| 1015 | ADJOURN BOARD MEETING / BREAK |
| Meeting of Executive Committee | |
| 1030 | Open Meeting of Executive Committee |
| 1200 | ADJOURN MEETING |