The recommendations from the National Oceanographic Partnership Program (NOPP) breakout session on Attaining an Operational Biodiversity Observing Network: Transforming Recommendations to Action at the January 19-20, 2011 National Council for Science and the Environment (NCSE) conference are now available. To view these recommendations and recommendations from additional breakout sessions, please visit the Earth Portal Community.
A review panel was held on February 2 to examine the proposals received by the NOPP office from the funding announcement on Marine Mammal Detection and Monitoring. Funding decisions will be available on the NOPP website shortly.
The NOPP office would like to welcome Dr. Margaret Leinen, Executive Director of Florida Atlantic University’s (FAU) Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institute, to her new role as Chair of the Ocean Research Advisory Panel (ORAP). The next ORAP meeting will be April 25-26, 2011 at the Consortium for Ocean Leadership in Washington, DC. The ORAP will discuss input to the development of the nine Strategic Action Plans of the National Ocean Policy and briefings will be held on data management. The meeting is open to the public.
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