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Meeting - December 12, 2012

Overall goals of meeting: Review and approve science projects for FY 2012; provide guidance on direction for science needs and science translation and adoption needs for 2013; agree on priorities for communications and information management; agree on next steps for conservation targets and decision support tools.

Steering Committee Agenda
December 12, 2012 8:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m., New Paltz, New York

Call-in Information: Call Number: 866-762-5634 Passcode: 5866227#
Web page for handouts: http://www.northatlanticlcc.org/meetings_103112.html

Overall Goals of Meeting: Review and approve science projects for FY 2012; provide guidance on direction for science needs and science translation and adoption needs for 2013; agree on priorities for communications and information management; agree on next steps for conservation targets and decision support tools.

Agenda Items

Discussion Leader and Handouts

Time

Breakfast (provided)

 

7:00 a.m.

1. Welcome & introductions
Review agenda
Approve minutes from last call

Ken Elowe (FWS), Patricia Riexinger (New York State DEC) & Andrew Milliken (LCC)
Handout 1 – Agenda
Handout 2 – Attendance List
Handout 3 – Minutes

8:00 a.m.
2. Action items from last Steering Committee call and actions taken

Andrew Milliken
Handout 4 – Action items status

8:20 a.m.
3. Review of progress under Northeast Conservation Framework and LCC Conservation Science Strategic Plan as well as relationship to LCC benchmarks
Expected Meeting Outcome: Understanding of progress and next steps relative to Strategic Plan and Conservation Framework, discussion of next steps

LCC Staff
Handout 5 – Progress on Conservation Framework priorities
Handout 6 – Updated Strategic Plan Table
Handout 7 –Summary of LCC benchmarks

Presentation

8:30 a.m.

4. Review of approved annual process for science needs and projects and budgets, relationship to RCN process Expected Meeting Outcome: Understanding of LCC annual science needs process and budget status.

Scot Williamson (WMI)
Andrew Milliken (LCC)
Handout 8 – Annual science needs process
Handout 9 –LCC Technical Committee list

Presentation

8:50 a.m.
5. Review of ongoing and approved projects, RFP results, science needs and priorities and next steps for FY 2012 and FY 2013 Expected Meeting Outcome: Discussion of recommended science projects and next steps for science needs

Scott Schwenk (LCC), Andrew Milliken (LCC), all
Handouts 10a – Project summaries
Handouts 10b – Project summaries
Handouts 11a – Summaries of project funding recommendations for Topic 1
Handout 11b - Summaries of project funding recommendations for Topic 2
Handout 11c - Additional Handout

Presentation

9:10 a.m.
BREAK 10:00 a.m.
6. Update on Designing Sustainable Landscapes workshops and available tools. Expected Meeting Outcome: Review and discussion of what we heard from partners regarding development of decision support tools. Discussion of oportunities to utilize tools and decisions neeeded to guide their development.

Scott Schwenk (LCC), Andrew Milliken (LCC), Ken Elowe (FWS)
Handouts 12a – Summary of Workshop results
Handout 12b - Project fact sheet

Presentation

10:20 a.m.
7. Update on Conservation Synthesis and SWAP Update Expected Meeting Outcome: Update on Conservation Synthesis and SWAP Update, GIS analysts, agreeement on data sharing.

Steve Fuller (LCC), Lori Peloch (LCC)
Handout 13a – Partner roles - conservation synthesis
Handout 13b – RCN project synthesis
Handout 13c – Database project synthesis
Handout 14 – Data request letter

Presentation

10:50 a.m.
8. Science Translation, Conservation Adoption and Delivery: Revised process for needs and projects related to science translation and adoption Expected Meeting Outcome: Discussion and approval of a process for recommending and selecting projects for science translation and adoption.

George Gay (NWF), Steve Fuller (LCC)
Handout 15 – Recommendation on process for Science Translation, Conservation Adoption and Delivery

Presentation

11:20 a.m.
9. Proposed session at Northeast Fish and Wildlife Conference on LCC and RCN project results Expected Meeting Outcome: Consensus on need for and structure of LCC/RCN session at Northeast Fish and Wildlife Conference. Patricia Riexinger (NY DEC), Andrew Milliken (LCC)
11:45 a.m.
LUNCH (provided) Noon
10. Review of morning discussions and decisions on science projects, needs and science translation process Expected Meeting Outcome: Decisions on projects to fund and recommendations for needs to develop.

Ken Elowe (FWS)
Handout 16 - Initial 2013 Science Needs
Handout 17 - Environmental Flows in the Northeast

Presentation

1:00 p.m.
11. Relationship to LCC and priorities for the Northeast Climate Science Center Expected Meeting Outcome: Understanding Climate Science Center purpose and relationship to LCC; initial projects funded and process to prioritize needs for CSC.

Mary Ratnaswamy (USGS), Rick Palmer (UMass)
Handout 18 – Northeast Climate Science Center projects funded in 2012

Presentation

1:45 p.m.
12. Information Management Needs Assesment results Expected Meeting Outcome: Presentation and discussion of the results of the information management needs assesment.

Michael Terner (Applied Geographics)
Handout 19 – Final report from information management needs assessment

Presentation

2:20 p.m.
BREAK
2:45 p.m.
13. LCC national and regional communications and LCC website. Expected Meeting Outcome: Presentation on new website, review of communicaitons products and consensus on priorities for communication for 2013.

Megan Nagel (FWS)

Handout 20 - Draft Communications Strategy Outline

3:00 p.m.
14. Conservation Targets Expected Meeting Outcome: Review of national LCC guidance on conservation targets, relationsihp to FWS surrogate species and next steps for the North Atlantic LCC.

Ken Elowe, Andrew Milliken

Presentation

3:30 p.m.
15. National updates, including LCC National Council Draft Charter. Expected Meeting Outcome: Discussion on draft charter.

Andrew Milliken (LCC)
Handout 21 – LCC National Council Draft Charter

4:00 p.m.

16. EBTJV Update

Rachel Muir (USGS 4:15 p.m.

17. Other Business, Next Meeting

Ken Elowe (FWS), Patricia Riexinger (NY DEC)

4:25 p.m.
ADJOURN 4:30 p.m.

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