AGENDA
Ocean SAMP Stakeholder Meeting
March 29, 2016, 5:00 – 8:30pm
URI Bay Campus, Coastal Institute Building

Stakeholder Chair and Moderator: Ken Payne

5:00 Pizza and Salad Served

5:30 Welcome and Meeting Overview

• Ken Payne and Jen McCann, URI/GSO, Coastal Resources Center/RI Sea Grant

5:45 Rhode Island’s Offshore Renewable Energy: An Update

• Grover Fugate, RICRMC
• Aileen Kenney, Deepwater Wind
• Elizabeth Marchetti, Independent Fisheries Liaison

6:20 Ongoing Research for the Ocean SAMP: Unexpected Results – Jason McNamee, RIDEM

• Where the Wild Things Are: Bird use of Ocean SAMP study area – Peter Paton, URI, College of Environmental Science
• Lobsters: Assessing Distribution and Population – Jeremy Collie, URI Graduate School of Oceanography (GSO)
• Submerged Archeological sites: Are they preserved and under what circumstances– John King, URI/GSO

7:30 Updating the Ocean SAMP

• Recreational and Tourism Chapter – Nicole Andrescavage and Christian Fox, URI
• Regional Planning and New Information – Betsy Nicholson, NOAA
• Information about Narragansett Bay – Grover Fugate
  http://sgw2016.seagrant.gso.uri.edu/venue/

8:05 Next Steps – Jen McCann

8:15 Final Thoughts – Ken Payne

8:30 Adjourn

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