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A Project Overview and Request for Assistance Rebekah Brooks, UW Olympic Natural Resources Center Pacific County Science Conference May 17, 2012
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Today’s Focus : Reminder of scope of project Overview of Phase One and progress to date Overview of Phase Two Invitation to join Steering Committee Request for feedback and advice
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Tough economic times Communities share common challenges Need to develop a more detailed picture of the marine based jobs Need to seek ways to sustain and expand them
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This project voted one of two top projects by Coastal MRCs All coastal Washington counties Series of three phases; still in Phase One Phase One: Establish information base Phase Two: Class project for graduate student team Phase Three: Coastwide conference
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Establish information base for Phase Two Create foundation of information
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All available recent socio-economic studies of coastal region List of marine-based businesses List of industry leaders
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Targeting coastal MRC counties Following guidance of Steering Committee Critically review and improve on past studies Conducted by Program on the Environment team http://depts.washington.edu/poeweb/index.php http://depts.washington.edu/poeweb/index.php Cost effective way to conduct project
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Program on the Environment team Capstone Project for Graduate Certificate in Environmental Management A team of 5 to 6 graduate students Working September, 2012 to March, 2013 Supervised by faculty mentor MRC steering committee actively involved Students will travel to the coast to interview industry leaders
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Funding needed from next MRC project round Vital if we are to use PoE students for this work $13,000 needed $10,000 for UW faculty mentor $3,000 for student travel to coast
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Steering Committee provides direction Open/transparent process Invitation to join Steering Committee (not yet fully formed)
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Trying to cast as wide a net as possible! Socio-economic studies we don’t know about? Interest in participating in the Steering Committee? Business/industry leaders? Marine-based businesses in the area?
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Send additional questions/comments/feedback of any kind to: Rebekah Brooks: rebalynn@uw.edurebalynn@uw.edu Miranda Wecker: mwecker@uw.edumwecker@uw.edu
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