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Learning the Landscape
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... (See outreach map.) Meeting participants included representatives from state natural resource agencies, local university researchers and administrators, public health experts, oil industry scientists, and representatives from NGOs.
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... Oil Spill and Ecosystem Science conference, which is becoming an annual gathering place for researchers interested in Gulf related science. At the 2014 GOMRI conference, Gulf Research Program staff co-organized a session focused on "Current and Future Ecosystem-Monitoring Strategies in the Gulf of Mexico," presented in a session entitled "Socio-economic Analysis of Ecosystem Change: from Baselines to Catastrophic Events," and co-led a town hall to brief the scientific community about DWH-related funding programs.
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... The discussions led to the development of one of the Request For Application topics for the Program's first round of Exploratory Grants. Monitoring Ecosystem Restoration and Deep Water Environments September 3-4, 2014, New Orleans, LA Ecosystem monitoring is a significant challenge as restoration efforts get under way, especially in deep water (i.e., waters deeper than 200 meters and beyond the edge of the outer continental shelf in the Gulf)
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... • Options to ensure that project, or site-based, monitoring could be used cumulatively and compre hensively to provide regionwide insights and track effectiveness on larger spatial and longer temporal scales. THE GULF RESEARCH PROGRAM Annual Report 2013-2014 7
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