| 8:00
AM |
Coffee
& Pastries, Corless Auditorium, Narragansett Bay Campus |
| 8:30 |
Introduction,
Peter August, Coastal Institute |
| 8:40 |
Welcome,
Curt Spalding, Save the Bay |
| 8:45 |
Understanding
the Consequences of Human Actions: Indicators from GNP to IBI,
Dr.
James Karr, Professor, University of Washington |
| 9:35 |
Lessons
Learned from Two Decades of Chesapeake Bay Monitoring and Communicating
via Ecological Indicators. Richard
Batiuk, Associate Director for Science, Chesapeake Bay
Program Office, US EPA |
| 10:25 |
Break with Refreshments |
| 10:40 |
Using
Bioindicators to Assess Man-made vs. Climatic (Hurricane) Impacts
on Estuarine and Coastal Water Quality in North Carolina - Implications
for Research and Management. Dr.
Hans Paerl, Institute of Marine Sciences, University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| 11:30 |
Description of the Charge to Working
Groups |
| 11:45
|
Lunch
(included with registration fee), Hazard Conference Room, Coastal
Institute Building |
| 12:45
PM |
Working
Group Discussions on Indicators for (1)
Water Quality, (2) Living
Resources, and (3) Watersheds and Landscape Characteristics.
|
| 2:15 |
Break
with Refreshments, Preparation of Working Group Reports |
| 2:45 |
Working
Group Reports, Corless Auditorium |
| 3:30 |
Panel
Discussion on Indicators for Narragansett Bay and Coastal Ponds
- S. Nixon
(Graduate School of Oceanography, U Rhode Island), J. Karr
(U Washington), H. Paerl (UNC) and R. Batiuk (U
Maryland) |
| 4:30 |
Adjourn |
