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Scientific Advisory Committee

Agenda - 11/28/00

OCS Scientific Committee Meeting Agenda for Tuesday, November 28, 2000
8:15 - 8:30 a.m. Welcome & Introductions
(Dr. Jim Coleman, Chair, OCS Scientific Committee)
8:30 - 9:00 a.m. Director's presentation (Dr. Tom Kitsos, Deputy Director)
9:00 - 9:30 a.m. Associate Director's Presentation (Ms. Carolita Kallaur, Associate Director for Offshore Minerals Management and Executive Director of the OCS SC)
9:30 - 10:00 a.m. OCS Policy Committee Report (Mr. George Banino, OCS Policy Committee Vice Chair)
10:00 - 10:15 a.m. Sand and Gravel Update - OCS Policy Committee (Mr. George Banino, Chair, Sand and Gravel Subcommittee)
10:15 - 10:30 a.m. Break
10:30 - 10:45 a.m. Ocean Activities Update (Dr. Ken Turgeon, Chief Scientist)
10:45 - 11:00 a.m. Program Status Update (Ms. Carol Hartgen, International Activities and Marine Minerals Division)
11:00 - 11:45 a.m. Sand and Gravel Program: Studies Methodology and Results (Mr. Barry Drucker, International Activities and Marine Minerals Division)
11:45 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Lunch
1:00 - 5:30 p.m. Environmental Studies Program Highlights
1:00 - 1:30 p.m. 1.  Alaska Region
  1. Overview of Current Arctic Nearshore Impact Monitoring In Development Area (ANIMIDA) Activities (Drs. Cleve Cowles and Richard Prentki, Environmental Studies Section, Alaska Region)
  2. Summary of October 2000 Planning Workshop (Arctic Monitoring Subcommittee)
1:30 - 2:00 p.m. 2.  Pacific Region
  1. Platform Fisheries Ecology Study - USGS BRD (Dr. Fred Piltz, Chief, Environmental Studies Section, Pacific OCS Region)
  2. Biotechnology Initiative (Dr. Fred Piltz)
  3. Coastal Recreation and Tourism Inventory (Dr. Fred Piltz)
2:00 - 5:00 p.m. 3.  Gulf of Mexico Region
  1. Gulf of Mexico Region Perspective (Mr. Chris Oynes, Regional Director)
  2. Northern Gulf of Mexico Continental Slope Habitats and Benthic Ecology Study (Dr. Gilbert Rowe)
  3. Effects of Oil and Gas Exploration and Development at Selected Continental Slope Sites in the Gulf of Mexico (Dr. Alan Hart)
  4. MMS/NMFS Pilot Sperm Whale Study (Drs. Bill Lang and Keith Mullin)
  5. Deepwater Program (Dr. Pat Roscigno)
  6. Physical Oceanography Slope and Rise of the Gulf of Mexico Workshop (Dr. James Coleman, Deepwater Subcommittee)
  7. Open Discussion Regarding Deepwater
5:00 - 5:30 p.m. 4.  National Program
  1. Social Science in the Environmental Studies Program (Dr. Rodney Cluck)
  2. Environmental Data (Mr. Jim Bennett)
  3. Deep Spill Modeling (Mr. Bob LaBelle)
5:30 p.m. Adjourn for the day

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