Event title: The Power of Partnerships Serving Stakeholders: Leveraging Resources, Expertise and Technology
Date: 15/12/2011 to 16/12/2011
Location: J.W. Marriott, 1331 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, D.C. 20004, USA
Organised by: MARACOOS
This year, MARACOOS is pleased to convene its Annual Meeting from December 15-16, 2011 in Washington, D.C. to highlight the partnerships that have been and will continue to be vital to safeguard lives, enhance water quality and public health, improve flood warnings, protect fish stocks from overfishing while enhancing the fishing experience, save shipping time and fuel costs, as well as to spawn new businesses—ultimately improving the economic, environmental, and general well-being of residents and visitors in the Mid-Atlantic Region.
The Annual Meeting will focus on partnerships and leveraging efforts to maximize value for stakeholders throughout the Mid-Atlantic region.
Washington, DC is not only within MARACOOS' regional footprint, it is also home to many of MARACOOS' federal agency partners.
Along with our federal, state, local, academic, and private sector partners and stakeholders from around the Mid-Atlantic, we look forward to welcoming our federal agency partners from the DC area to the meeting, providing an opportunity to review some of the successful partnerships and lay groundwork for new ones in the future.
An outline of the agenda for the Annual Meeting will be posted soon. Highlights of the agenda include panels and discussions on the following
- The Building of MARACOOS Partnerships
- The Perspective of MARACOOS Partners
- The Context for Moving Forward: Policy and Initiatives at the Federal Level
- The Ten Year Build Out for IOOS
- Enhanced Federal and State Agency Partnership Perspectives
- The Private Sector Partnerships
- The Stakeholders—Maritime Safety
- The Stakeholders—Commercial and Recreational Fishing
- The Stakeholders—Water Quality
- The Stakeholders—Coastal Inundation
- The Stakeholders—Offshore Wind Energy
Delegates attending this meeting will be able to pick up a FREE copy of the Journal of Operational Oceanography
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