Sea Grant Climate Change Network Workshop 2009

Climate Adaptation in Coastal Communities:
A Network Approach to Outreach

Charleston, South Carolina
November 9 – 11, 2009

Purpose: Enhance the capacity of the Sea Grant Outreach Network to assist stakeholders in addressing climate change issues.

Workshop Participants Roster - updated 11/18/2009

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NEW! The SGCN Workshop Final Agenda is now available! (Last updated 11-06-09)

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Contact: Jessica Whitehead (Jessica.whitehead@scseagrant.org) or Chris Conger (Chris.L.Conger@hawaii.gov)

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Comment by Esperanza Stancioff on January 5, 2010 at 3:11pm
Hi-- All the presentations are posted on the WIKI that Jim Hurley and others have so nicely created at:
http://www.coastalclimatewiki.org
This is a great resource!!!
Comment by Julia Peterson on January 5, 2010 at 2:37pm
I am also particularly interested in Dixon's talk as I missed it due to a problem with my flight and I heard that it was very good. Any chance of having it posted here? thanks!
Comment by Ellen L. Mecray on November 24, 2009 at 3:48pm
HELP...I'm looking on my Flash drive at the ppt presentations and i don't see the one from Keith Dixon's plenary talk on Day 1. Can you post it for us to download? Thanks so much! this was a great workshop!!
Comment by Jessica Whitehead on September 18, 2009 at 3:43pm
There are many non-Sea Grant employees on our Ning site who are specially approved as members because you are closely affiliated with Sea Grant, but please note that registration for this conference is currently open to Sea Grant employees only. Unfortunately, we can't accommodate open registration to all of our Sea Grant partners at this time. The National Sea Grant Office is inviting representatives from other NOAA offices as observers, and several other NOAA folks will be presenting to us, so you won't go wholly unrepresented! However, the goal of this workshop is to help our outreach folks improve their climate capacities by giving them hands-on experience with planning low-cost outreach and extension projects at the state and local level that the Sea Grant outreach folks will carry out over the next year. We only have funding for a limited number of state and local community partners, who will help us design the projects during breakout groups. As the workshop is designed around a specific number and size of breakout groups, there are tight limitations on participation. Rest assured that part of this project planning process will involve asking the breakout groups to identify other necessary partners from NOAA and beyond. It is very likely they will contact you and request your assistance as they carry out the projects.

There will be limited discussion of some of the bigger national issues on climate collaboration, though these issues are tangential to the workshop's focus. This workshop is about building Sea Grant's climate capacity from within, with greater collaboration as an obvious outgrowth of the process. As Sea Grant develops its own capacity to effectively conduct climate outreach, we will be strengthening our relationships with our external partners.

The interest those of you from outside Sea Grant have expressed in the workshop has been tremendous - our workshop planning committee and folks in the NSGO have gotten questions, requests, and suggestions from an immense variety of potential partners who have a stake in making climate outreach work. We have heard you, and we hope to create future opportunities to facilitate partnerships that enable us to address decision-makers' climate information needs on a much broader scale. Meanwhile, all of the materials developed for the workshop will appear on this site, and everyone is welcome to access those when they become available.
Thanks, Jess & Chris

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