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VASG will be picking up steam on strategic planning over the next six months san marco vet with workgroups examining five specific san marco vet focus areas . But the process was initiated in the spring of 2008, before I started san marco vet as Director. It continued in the fall, after I came on board, with over twenty informational meetings san marco vet and discussions across the state.
I held meetings with all of VASG s partner institutions, as well as stakeholder groups throughout the Commonwealth. A list of meetings appears in the full version of this entry. san marco vet Many themes both focus areas for our work and tactical approaches to address coastal and marine issues emerged from those meetings and are important considerations throughout the strategic planning process.
Collaborative research to ensure broad impacts, high relevance, and leveraged expertise and resources, VASG could encourage collaborative research with co-PIs san marco vet from industry, government, and/or the non-profit sector. VASG could help facilitate the partnerships between scientists and these end-users. Partners bring expertise, capacities ,and resources that match and leverage VASG investments.
Student-only research awards to add a graduate student to a research project san marco vet supported by other funders. This would target VASG s strength in graduate student support and leverage larger, more extensive scientific research funded by other (often larger) sources. Further, VASG could provide value-added services to the cohort of students funded as “VASG Commonwealth Scholars” by providing a short seminar series on communicating science to non-scientists. san marco vet The VASG seminar would advance the preparation of future coastal and marine scientists for their roles in linking science to management and ensuring that policy makers and resource managers have the science-based information san marco vet critical san marco vet to address today s complex and challenging resource management decisions.
Human dimensions research filling the gap in social sciences within the coastal and marine science context, including research that integrates with natural science san marco vet research underway and supported by other funders.
Hazard and community resiliency ensuring that the community resilience is considered along with emergency response and management when advancing the hazard resiliency focus area. Community resiliency reflects a communities ability to successfully deal with multiple ecological, social and economic san marco vet changes.
Habitat research on benthic mapping a scientific gap exists in understanding the marine benthic communities and their relationship to essential fish habitat and other critical, sensitive marine habitats. san marco vet
Strategic planning can easily become flawed if judgments are passed before adequate listening and reflection occurs VASG is in the listening stages of strategic planning. Reflection and prioritization is forthcoming and the workgroups that are being formed san marco vet will have a central role in fleshing out VASG s future priorities. The points raised above will be brought to the table and discussed in the next stages san marco vet of strategic planning.
We look forward san marco vet to further engagement with VASG s critical partners across the state and region. We are committed to that engagement and to ensuring that VASG continues to thrive and provide the science-based information that enables our end-users to be successful in the challenging and complex future of coastal and marine communities.
Stakeholders Chesapeake Bay Program s Science and Technical Advisory Committee (STAC) Chesapeake Research Consortium College of William & Mary s Environmental Science & Policy program College of William & Mary s Jefferson Public Policy Program Maryland Sea Grant Mid-Atlantic Sea Grant Directors DE, PA, MD, NC, NJ, NY, NJ Mid-Atlantic Sea Grant Extension Leaders and Staff NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office NOAA National Sea Grant Office Virginia Clean Marina Advisory Board Virginia Coastal Policy Team (state agencies) Virginia Coastal Energy Policy Team Virginia Institute san marco vet of Marine Science san marco vet (VIMS)-Industry Partnership group VIMS Aquaculture Genetics and Breeding Technology Center VIMS Center for Coastal Resource Management VIMS Eastern san marco vet Shore Lab Virginia san marco vet Marine Resource Commission (VMRC)
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