Steering Committee Meeting
| When | Oct 31, 2012 from 08:00 AM to 04:30 PM |
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| Where | New Paltz, NY |
| Contact Name | Megan Nagel |
| Contact Phone | 413-253-8492 |
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North Atlantic Landscape Conservation Cooperative
Steering Committee Agenda
October 31, 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.
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Agenda Items |
Discussion Leader |
Time |
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Breakfast (provided) |
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7:00 a.m. |
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1. Welcome & introductions |
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 cal 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 |
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 – Project Budget summary |
9:00 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), all Handouts 10 – Project summaries Handouts 11 – Summaries of project funding recommendations |
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 12 – Summary of Workshop results |
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 13 – Summary on Conservation Synthesis and SWAP Update Handout 14 – Data request letter |
11:00 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), Jad Daley (TPL), Steve Fuller (LCC) Handout 15 – Recommendation on process for Science Translation, Conservation Adoption and Delivery |
11:15 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) Handout 16 – Proposal for NEAFWA session |
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) | 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) (invited) Handout 17 – Northeast Climate Science Center projects funded in 2012 Handout 18 – Climate Science Center plan outline |
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 – Draft report from information management needs assessment |
2:20 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 – Existing and proposed communications products summary |
2:40 p.m. |
| BREAK | 2:45 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 Handout 21 – Recommended next steps for North Atlantic LCC on conservation targets |
3:00 p.m. |
| 15. LCC National Council Draft Charter. Expected Meeting Outcome: Discussion and feedback on draft charter. | Andrew Milliken (LCC) Handout 22 – LCC National Council Draft Charter |
3:30 p.m. |
| 16. Other Business, Next Meeting | Ken Elowe (FWS), Patricia Riexinger (NY DEC) | 4:00 p.m. |
| ADJOURN | 4:30 p.m. |
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