[ODFWMarineReserves] FYI- September 20-21, 2011: Science Workshop for ODFW's Ecological Atlas

[Anna M Pakenham]

Science Workshop for ODFW's Ecological Atlas

A component of Oregon's Territorial Sea Plan for Renewable Energy Siting

September 20-21, 2011

Comfort Inn (Salbasgeon Suites), Corvallis, Oregon

 

Workshop goals

This workshop will focus on scientific review of data and methods used
in the Ecological Atlas project, a marine spatial planning tool that
will be incorporated into Oregon's Territorial Sea Plan (TSP) process.
For more information on the TSP, see http://www.oregonocean.info/. The

Ecological Atlas will have maps of individual marine resources (e.g.
kelp beds in Oregon waters) and will also identify ecological hotspots.
The TSP process will use this ecological information, along with other
information at a future series of meetings to determine areas to be
protected from ocean development projects in the future, according to
Goal 19 statewide policy.

 

Background

The Ecological Atlas is a collection of ecological data sets
(biological, oceanographic, habitat) that can be displayed and analyzed
in a spatially explicit way to determine ecological hotspots in the
Territorial Sea (0-3 miles offshore). To view data sets that have
already been finalized for the

Ecological Atlas, see Oregon Marine Map (OMM):
http://oregon.marinemap.org/. The Google Earth based OMM includes data
sets for the Ecological Atlas, as well as data sets for other topics
(e.g. socioeconomic), and will be used as a marine spatial planning
decision-support tool. OMM will be the center piece of discussion for a
series of public meetings that will occur along the Oregon coast and in
the Willamette Valley later this year (October-November 2011).

 

Who may attend?

The workshop intent is to bring together invited scientific experts for
specific technical review of data and analysis. However, anyone is
welcome to attend and observe the proceedings. There will be a way to
provide written public comment at the workshop, but there will be no
public comment time period for verbal submission of comments. No
decisions about marine spatial planning or ocean energy development will
be made at this workshop; these types of decisions will begin at the
October-November 2011 public meetings mentioned above. A detailed agenda
for the workshop (including start/stop times) will be posted by
September 15th at: http://www.oregonocean.info/. 

 

Thanks to COMPASS for helping organize this workshop:
http://www.compassonline.org/regional/oregon

 

 

If you have questions on the Ecological Atlas, the TSP process or the
workshop, please direct them to:

Caren Braby, ODFW

Caren.e.braby at state.or.us

541-867-0300 x226

http://www.dfw.state.or.us/

 

 

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