1. A Project Overview and Request for Assistance Rebekah Brooks, UW Olympic Natural Resources Center Pacific County Science Conference May 17, 2012

2. 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

3.  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

4.  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

5.  Establish information base for Phase Two  Create foundation of information

6.  All available recent socio-economic studies of coastal region  List of marine-based businesses  List of industry leaders

9.  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

10.  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

11.  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

12.  Steering Committee provides direction  Open/transparent process  Invitation to join Steering Committee (not yet fully formed)

13. 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?

14. Send additional questions/comments/feedback of any kind to: Rebekah Brooks: rebalynn@uw.edurebalynn@uw.edu Miranda Wecker: mwecker@uw.edumwecker@uw.edu