Alaska Ocean Observing System

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Alaska Ocean Observing System

• Status Report
• November 21, 2005

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Governance Issues

• Status of new MOA
• Issue of federal participation
• State concerns
• Future opotions

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Stakeholder Engagement

• NPFMC
• ACE Coastal Engineering Research Board
• Coastal Erosion Workshop
• PWSOS user needs workshop
• Aleutian Life Forum
• Kodiak stakeholder workshop
• Education planning workshop
• UFA board meeting
• Future Arctic stakeholders, industry, Aleutians,
  Norton Sound, Bristol Bay

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Business Plan Components

• Strategic plan and implementation plans
• DMAC
• - UAF activities
• - Future integrate with national DMAC, NOAA,
  NSSI, NPRB
• Education and outreach
• - Survey, workshop, draft education plan
• - AOOS brochure by Sea Grant, display
• - Future education implementation outreach
  plan MAP
• Coordination and collaboration activities

5
Arctic

• NRC Committee on AON
• Arctic stakeholders workshop
• Coordinating with North Slope Science Initiative,
  Barrow Cabled Observatory planning, IPY

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Bering Sea/Aleutians

• Integrated Bering Sea Ecosystem planning
• Aleutian Life Forum
• Future Bristol Bay, Norton Sound fisheries
• Sea ice planning

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Gulf of Alaska

• PWS pilot project
• Cook Inlet plan underway
• Kodiak
• Southeast
• Overall GOA integration
• National workshop on public health issues