Marine and Estuarine Goal Setting for South Florida

MARES

IMPACT workshopJanuary 11, 2010

NOAA/AOML Miami, Florida

MARES Background information

• 3 year project• Kick-off in September 2009• NOAA’s Center for Sponsored Coastal Ocean

Research

MARES goal

• To reach a science-based consensus about the defining characteristics and fundamental regulating processes of a South Florida coastal marine ecosystem that is both sustainable and capable of providing the diverse ecological services upon which our society depends

Ecosystem system goal setting

Players

• Cooperative Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Studies (University of Miami)

• 50+ Pis• Administrative staff

Process• Project Briefings to administrators and

researchers• Workshop to develop Integrated Conceptual

Ecosystem Models (ICEMS)• Workshop to identify Quantitative Ecosystem

Indicators (QEIs)• Public meetings to review results• Total Marine Ecosystem Assessment Report Card

Using existing datasets

MARES regions

Where are we today?

• Held first ICEM workshop December (FKDT)• Planning QEI workshop in March (FKDT)• Scheduling future workshops for other regions• Drafting ICEM report with ICEM model for use

in identifying Indicators and engaging resource managers

• NOAA logic model approach – planning for outputs

IMPACT Relevance • Climate Component• Human Dimensions Science Component– Opportunity to review findings regarding HDS– Florida Keys and Dry Tortugas sub-region is the first to

be developed (January draft ICEM doc)

• Opportunities for collaboration with FKDT region

Potential to obtain information for IMPACT-climate data-human dimensions science-possibility to use MARES outputs

DPSIR model

For more information

• Website– www.sofla-mares.org– Join the listserv (lower right column on home page)

• Pamela FletcherFlorida Sea Grant and NOAA/AOMLpamela.fletcher@noaa.gov