Links and Additional Resources

• Planning projects in other regions:
  • Alaska Regional Marine Research Plan
  • Gulf of Maine Regional Ocean Science Initiative
  • West Coast Regional Research and Information Planning
  • Great Lakes Regional Research Information Network
  • Gulf of Mexico Research Plan *

    * (see also, NOAA Ocean Service, Office of Ocean & Coastal Resource Management -- Gulf of Mexico News, March, April)

• The National Science and Technology Council’s Joint Subcommittee on Ocean Science and Technology (JSOST) issued the “Ocean Research Priorities Plan and Implementation Strategy” (4 Mb, PDF) in January 2007.

• NOAA/ Sea Grant Regional Planning Workshop (May 2007): Agenda and links to many of the presentations. http://www.seagrant.noaa.gov/regional/workshop.html [note that there have been problems with the links on this page, but you can still view the agenda]

• From the Joint Ocean Commission Initiative:
  • 2007 U.S. Ocean Policy Report Card (released Feb 27th, 2008)
  • An Agenda for Action: Moving Regional Ocean Governance from Theory to Practice (Aug 07)

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