# Presentation: 739688

## Pacific Northwest and Southwest Approach to Regional Research and Information Planning

- Julie M. Barr
- Research and Information Coordinator
- Pacific Marine Region
- Oregon Sea Grant
- Ph: 541-737-4440 email: _[julie.barr@oregonstate.edu](mailto:julie.barr@oregonstate.edu)_
- _[http://seagrant.oregonstate.edu/research/RegionalPlanning](http://seagrant.oregonstate.edu/research/RegionalPlanning)__  _

**Notes:**
Four Sea Grant Programs in a collaborative effort to develop and carry out a participatory process that incorporates diverse interests into a Pacific Marine Research and Information Plan for the California Current LME. 

The recent West Coast Governor’s Agreement on Ocean Health, as well as reports and plans from multiple federal, state, and regional entities have emphasized the importance of regionalization to achieve ecosystem-based management goals.  These existing efforts need to be consolidated and enhanced to reflect the specific coastal economies and both human and non-human communities within the California Current LME. 

## Project Goals and Benefits
Organizational Structure
Building on Previous Work
A West Coast Mirror of JSOST Strategy
State and Regional Parallel Efforts
Our Process
Outstanding Issues

- Organizational Structure
- Building on Previous Work
- A West Coast Mirror of JSOST Strategy
- State and Regional Parallel Efforts
- Our Process
- Outstanding Issues

**Notes:**
Outline of talk

## Goals

**Aid in the transition to an ecosystem-based approach for research, management, and communication of information.**
**Enhance the level of coordination between scientific disciplines and diverse communities of both place and interest.**
**Address and prioritize issues of specific regional concern in a detailed and targeted manner.**

**Notes:**
From Proposal

OBJECTIVES:	
1. Establish a framework plan that consolidates and expands upon existing efforts and draws on the experience of a core planning team to represent diverse stakeholders.
2. Develop and facilitate a series of workshops and an ongoing web forum to provide multiple non-threatening opportunities for participation through which the public can offer feedback. 
3. Create a research and information plan that reflects the expressed stakeholder views, needs, and issues.
4. Distribute resulting plan to research, management, and decision making organizations and stakeholders.
5. Work with partners to establish regional projects, leverage funds, and move forward in a collaborative and informed way.

Area of confusion for participants, who will do the recommended research.  This is not a Sea grant plan, but can contribute to SG program strategies.  This plan is more of a tool.  

## Potential Benefits

- Leverage federal dollars/support
- Generation of a cohesive broad-based regional statement of priorities to compete at federal level
- Build partnerships – economy of scale and reduced redundancies
- Give stakeholders a voice
- Pave the way for addressing our regional issues on an appropriate scale

**Notes:**
Why are we doing this project?

We need to get organized as a region to compete for funds.  Other regional organizations have emerged in a regionalization role for example the Gulf of Mexico Alliance, Gulf of Maine RMRP implemented in the 90’s

Already this project has had positive partnership building effect.  It is one of the first four actions that involves the Three states under the west coast regional agreement, and their involvement helps give the agreement teeth.  It has build alliances between the Sea Grant Programs and the states and with other groups working on a regional scale like PRBO conservation, and NOAA’s West Coast Pilot Program.  We hope that partnership building is extended to the stakeholders that participate.

Positive aspects of first workshop...

## PIs

**PIs**
- Fiscally and
- Administratively Responsible
- Bob Malouf
- Russell Moll
- Penelope Dalton
- Phyllis Grifman
- Jay Rasmussen
- Paul Olin
- Linda Duguay
- Raechel Waters
- Steve Rumrill

**Core Working Group** (Julie Barr,
- Michelle Wainstein, Raechel Waters,
- Phyllis Grifman, Paul Olin)
- Workshops
- Reporting
- Drafting plan
- Catalyst for collaboration
- Communication
- Coordination
- Evaluation of Outcomes

-  Washington Governor’s Office (Kathleen Drew)
- Oregon Governor’s Office (Jessica Hamilton)
- California Governor’s Office and Resources Agency (Brian Baird)
- Oregon Coastal and Ocean Management (Bob Bailey/Greg McMurray)
- Washington Tribal Co-management Representative (Ed Johnstone)

**Sea Grant **
**PACIFIC MARINE REGIONALPLANNING TEAM***
- Managing, Advising, & Policy Making Body

- *Planning team includes the yellow, blue and orange boxes.  In the orange box the current individual representatives of a group or agency are shown in parentheses.  Groups or agencies may be added and individual representatives may be replaced or added at the discretion of the planning team.
- Key stakeholders are not listed here, but will be identified by the planning team, and will participate in workshops.  Stakeholders may be called upon for input in their specific areas of expertise as needed.

**COMMUNICATION**

**COMMUNICATION**

**COMMUNICATION**

- -Draft- 27-Nov-2006

## Seven Theme Areas

**Social and Economic Vitality of Coastal Communities ****	**
**Coastal Natural Hazards****	****	**
**Human Health ****	****	****	**
**Ecosystem Dynamics, Quality and Connectivity **
**E.  ****	****Ocean’s Role in Climate Variability**
**F.  ****	****Marine Transportation and Security**
**G.  ****	****Ocean Education and Environmental Literacy**

**Notes:**
Seven Themes have emerged repeatedly in national and regional programs and Sea Grant

We are still working on identifying the broad elements that fall with in each of these themes, but as you can see they are almost all encompassing.

Our intention is for a broad scale plan.  

One challenge, especially in the outer coast of the PNW is that we do not address fisheries explicitly.

Additionally each of the collaborating Sea Grant Programs focuses on different areas within these themes.

## Slide 7

**Notes:**
There is a lot of momentum in the region and the nation behind the types of themes we are focusing on.  In a sense we are just trying to see where our west coast priorities are similar, (and where are they unique) so we can propose work in the context of the existing federal framework.  

## Parallel Efforts

- COMPASS – EBM, Governance, Managers and Scientists
- PRBO Conservation Science – Cal Current Joint venture
- PaCOOS
- West Coast Pilot Program
- Local, and state efforts

**Notes:**
Challenges, stakeholder commitment – confusion – burnout.  Take extra care to partner with others, avoid divergent messages and overlap in approach and stakeholder activities.

## Our Approach

- State Based Workshops (focus groups, open houses, supplementary)
- Analysis and prioritization of research and information needs
- Creating a prioritized Plan
- Work with Sea Grant Programs, State level agencies & Governor’s offices to leverage funds for regional scale projects and promote the priorities identified

**Notes:**
West coast governor’s agreement, we have the ear of the governor’s office, but that does not necessarily translate into more $$ for research.

Challenge,  what’s the follow up how can we let out stakeholders know that NOAA is interested in what they have to say, what will NOAA do in reaction to our regional plan?

## Our Process - Inputs

- Focus Groups
- Open Houses
- Larger public meetings
- Supplementary meetings (tribal, managers, interest groups, key scientists)
- Web Forum (survey format for input, draft report reviews, regional report reviews)

**Notes:**
Process will be designed specifically for each state and subregion.  Example, southern cal vs. central Oregon.

Provide some information about success of May 2nd meeting.   Stakeholders engaged.

## Information Management

- Subregional Reports
- Updated by additional input and supplementary activities
- State Synthesis
- Sea Grant Strategies
- State Government Focus
- Develop Prioritization Criteria
- Exercise in Reduction    Final report

**Notes:**
Opportunity in each step for additional public input.   Input to sea grant strategies.

## Next Steps	

- Work with West Coast Governor’s
- Update Sea Grant Program Strategies
- Plan used as Evaluation Tool?
- National Sea Grant Funding?
- NOAA funding/programs?
- Collaborative Projects?

## Sea GrantRegional Research and Information Planning

- Julie M. Barr
- Research and Information Coordinator, Pacific Marine Region
- Oregon Sea Grant
- Ph: 541-737-4440 email: julie.barr@oregonstate.edu
- http://seagrant.oregonstate.edu/research/RegionalPlanning

***THANK YOU***