DATE: | September 22, 2000 |
TO: |
Florida Bay Phytoplankton
Bloom Research Team |
FROM: | Gary Hitchcock and Ed Phlips |
SUBJECT: | Meeting Announcement |
The
next Florida Bay and Adjacent Marine Systems Science Conference will be held
April 24-26, 2001, at the Westin Beach Resort in Key Largo, Florida. The format
of the upcoming conference will be different than that of past meetings in that
there will be no individual presentations.
Instead, a one-hour synthesis presentation will be given for each of the
five Central Questions. The synthesis presentations will be preceded by a
poster session devoted to the specific questions. Everyone whose work
contributes to the synthesis is asked to submit an abstract and poster. The call for "draft abstracts" has
been posted with an October 1 deadline.
The final poster abstracts will be due on February 15, 2001. The synthesis will have to be provided to
the PMC as a draft document for limited distribution (PMC, Phytoplankton Bloom
Research Team, and Oversight Panel members only) by April 1, 2001. Following each synthesis presentation the
Oversight Panel will be given an opportunity to ask questions of any of the
attending members of the research team whose research and posters formed the
basis of the synthesis presentation.
The
Bloom Research Team needs to prepare for this new approach, as well as to address
the future direction and objectives of Florida Bay bloom-related research. Our
specific recommendations are in the latest Florida Bay Oversight Panel Report.
This information is available at:
http://www.aoml.noaa.gov/ocd/sferpm/oversight_report00.html.
We
are therefore scheduling a meeting on Tuesday October 24, 2000; this meeting is
coordinated with the Nutrient Team workshop in Miami on the following day (Oct.
25). The specific objective of Bloom
Team meeting on Oct. 24 is to synthesize research results into a conceptual
model to be presented the upcoming science conference. We will post a draft
conceptual model for the participants by Oct. 13 with the meeting agenda. The second task at the meeting will be to
select the presenter(s).
Please
confirm that you can attend this meeting via e-mail to Gary Hitchcock (ghitchcock@rsmas.miami.edu) or Ed
Phlips (phlips@ufl.edu). The meeting will be held in the first floor
conference room at NOAA/AOML in Miami.
Thanks
for your help in meeting this goal.