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Sea Grant
Staff Meeting
September 14, 2010
Sea Grant
• How Sea Grant began • Changing focus through the years • The state of our coasts today • The world of Sea Grant • Why Sea Grant is nimble • The future of the University of Hawaii Sea Grant College Program
Who is Athelstan Frederick Spilhaus?
• Geophysicist and oceanographer • Dean, University of Minnesota, Institute of Technology • Syndicated newspaper cartoonist
Who is Athelstan Frederick Spilhaus?
Who is Athelstan Frederick Spilhaus?
I'm impatient with the past and irritable with the present. The future is where my concern lies, and I'm very optimistic about it."
In the beginning, there was…
Sea Grant
The National Sea Grant College Program
The Beginning
"Just as the scholars in the Land Grant Colleges developed a passion for the land and led not only in ways to benefit by it, but also in the ways to preserve it —we must seek through a welding together of science, art, literature, engineering, medicine, law, public administration, and politics to develop a public which will not only homestead our new spaces in the sea, but colonize and civilize them through an integrated interdisciplinary education in the Sea Grant Colleges.“ Dr. Athelstan Spilhaus
Athlestan Spilhaus
Dean, Institute of Technology, University of Minnesota Science September 4, 1964 “...I have suggested the establishment of 'sea grant colleges'...” “The sea-grant college would focus attention on marine science…develop strengths in the applications of marine science in colleges of
aquaculture and oceanic engineering
…”
Athlestan Spilhaus
Dean, Institute of Technology, University of Minnesota Science September 4, 1964 • Establishment of the land-grant colleges was one of the best investments this nation ever made. • The same kind of imagination and foresight
should be applied to
exploitation
the sea.
of
The Evolution
And then there was…
Fish Grant
SEA GRANT: The First Ten Years
Ned A. Ostenso, Director
1979:
• Marine Resource Development • Aquaculture • Fisheries • Marine Biomedicinals and Extracts • Minerals from the Sea
SEA GRANT: The First Ten Years
Ned A. Ostenso, Director
1979 (Cont.):
• Socioeconomic and Legal Research • Marine Technology Research and Development • Marine Environmental Research • Marine Education and Training
THE NATIONAL SEA GRANT NETWORK
1989:
Oceans of Opportunity Ned A. Ostenso, Director • Fostering international trade competitiveness • Exploring the new realm of marine biotechnology • Discovering marine natural products • Developing unmanned underwater work vehicles • Improving trawler efficiency
THE NATIONAL SEA GRANT NETWORK Oceans of Opportunity Ned A. Ostenso, Director
1989 (cont.)
• Introducing new advances in fishing gear technology • Upgrading seafood science and technology • Investigating parasitic diseases of shellfish • Advancing aquaculture • Enhancing salmon resources • Promoting exports of US. fishery products
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1995 Strategic Plan
• • • • • Advanced Technology for Commercial Products And Processes Seafood Production Economic Development Coastal Ecosystem Health And Public Safety Education and Human Resources
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1998
• • • • • • • • Aquaculture Aquatic Nuisance Species Coastal Economic Development Coastal Habitat Enhancement Coastal Hazards Education Marine Biotechnology Seafood Technology
America’s Coasts
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Wealth of natural resources
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Diversity of species, habitat types, and nutrients
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Centers of economic activity, waterborne commerce, energy and mineral production, and employment
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Recreation and tourism
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Ironically, the qualities that make them so desirable are the very ones that have led to their endangerment
(Population Trends Along the Coastal United States: 1980-2008, NOAA Report, 2004)
The State of Our Coasts
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America’s coastal ecosystems are dominated by human use
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America’s coasts’ invaluable economic, cultural and environmental resources are at risk
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Increased rates of climate-related environmental changes have made coastal communities vulnerable in ways never before imagined
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America must use its coastal land, water, energy, and other natural resources in ways that preserve the health and productivity of coastal ecosystems
The World of Sea Grant
• Ten of the fifteen largest cities in the US are coastal • Of the total US population of 307 million, 253 million people live in coastal states • In 2003, 153 million people (53 % of the US population) lived in 673 coastal counties, a 28% increase from 1980 • Excluding Alaska, these coastal counties account for only 17% of US land area
The World of Sea Grant
(Population Trends Along the Coastal United States: 1980-2008, NOAA Report, 2004)
The World of Sea Grant
The Population density of Oahu is greater than 1,500 persons/mile 2
(Population Trends Along the Coastal United States: 1980-2008, NOAA Report, 2004)
The World of Sea Grant
• Median household income for coastal counties is approximately 17% higher than non-coastal counties • Fourteen of America’s 20 busiest airports are in coastal areas • Since 1947, > 50,000 boreholes have been drilled in Federal waters off the US • Today ~10,500 producing wells are present on the Federal Continental Shelf • > 27,000 abandoned oil and gas wells sit beneath the Gulf of Mexico alone
These realities have driven the National Sea Grant College Program to re-envision itself…
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A future where people live along our coasts in harmony with the natural resources that attracted and sustain them
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A vision of coastal America where we use our natural resources in ways that capture the economic and recreational benefits they offer, while preserving their quality and abundance for future generations
Claiborne Pell
United States Senator State of Rhode Island An important strength of sea grant, often overlooked, is that the program has produced not merely a number of
effective
marine-science institutions, but a national network of colleges, universities, and institutes that share their thoughts and ideas, as well as the results of their research. Because of this, the sea grant program is not only an important asset to each state and region, but a true national asset.
Claiborne Pell
United States Senator State of Rhode Island Although a truly national program, sea grant draws its strengths from its roots - from the researchers in the field. Unlike many national programs, sea grant's research and work agenda is not dictated by government officials in Washington, but developed by those in the sea grant colleges who are closest to the problems and opportunities.
A Nimble Sea Grant
Sea Grant is unique in NOAA – Sea Grant is “bottom-up” – Integrated into state and local organizations – Not structured by regulatory responsibility or discipline, e.g. fisheries, oceans or atmosphere – Sea Grant programs collaborate with NOAA offices and programs, but are not supervised by them
A Nimble Sea Grant
• • • • Sea Grant is nimble because it opportunistically engages America’s universities, the greatest intellectual and scholarly enterprise in human history Sea Grant is collaborative, distributed and local by design: 32 separate programs in a unified network Sea Grant integrates these resource in: – Research – new knowledge – Education – new human resources Outreach – better living along coasts
A Nimble Sea Grant
• Hawaii Sea Grant’s history – a pursuit of excellence and high service • Hawaii Sea Grant today • Hawaii Sea Grant in ten years ????
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National • • Among demonstrated strengths of individual Sea Grant programs is the ability to move rapidly to mobilize universities and other partners to address challenges across the country and around the world. Likewise, one of the strengths of the Sea Grant network is the ability, through the organization’s coordinated state and regional structures, to implement the national goals of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) at local, state, and regional levels.
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1995 Strategic Plan • Advanced Technology for Commercial Products And Processes -
Sea Grant envisions that the application of advanced technologies...to the development of products and processes for medical, industrial, and environmental applications will result in an expanded economy, improved public health, and a cleaner environment.
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1995 Strategic Plan Seafood Production -
… we will see expanded economic contribution of our seafood production industries through revitalization of the commercial fishing industry, development of sustainable aquaculture, and enhanced competitiveness through advances in seafood technology.
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1995 Strategic Plan • Economic Development
- Sea Grant will undertake collaborative efforts with business firms, industries, and community leaders: – To advance the coastal and marine-related economies by strengthening job skills and business opportunities that undergird community stability. – To protect the marine resources and environmental assets of coastal communities for the benefit of present and future generations.
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1995 Strategic Plan
– To help maintain U.S. coastal and offshore industries in positions of global leadership, and to provide the scientific and engineering professionals needed to assure maintenance of our vital infrastructure through the next century.
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1995 Strategic Plan -
Sea Grant envisions the implementation of policies and programs to protect and enhance both the health of coastal ecosystems and the safety of its inhabitants and users while … providing for sustained growth of the coastal economies.
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1995 Strategic Plan
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Protection of Life and Property
Sea Grant envisions that the generation of relevant research information and the transfer of it to coastal communities will improve the ability of coastal residents to protect better their lives and property. In addition, the coastal zone of the United States will be safer, less hazardous, and more amenable to wise development.
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1995 Strategic Plan Education and Human Resources
• Sea Grant visualizes a higher quality of life by developing an informed citizenry and producing highly qualified professionals.
• Cultivation of marine environmental awareness and expertise in the nation's work force will facilitate integration of environmental criteria into engineering and business decisions and support diffusion of environmental technologies. • Directed flow of research-based information is central to innovation and sustainable development.
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1995 Strategic Plan Education and Human Resources
A technically trained work force: Sea Grant will provide national leadership to develop well prepared professionals who understand the changing nature of science and research in marine and coastal problems and make wise decisions concerning resource management.
Milner B. Schaefer, Ph. D. Professor of Oceanography and Director, Institute of Marine Resources, University of California, and Chairman, National Academy of Sciences Committee on Oceanography • • • Fulfillment of our destiny great deal more than the application of science and technology. in the ocean requires a This strange and unfamiliar milieu, the sea, presents problems of economics, sociology, law and philosophy to which old solutions and old traditions imperfectly apply. New institutions, and new ways of thought, require development. Our entry into this new realm requires the integration of many disciplines in both the sciences and humanities .
Milner B. Schaefer, Ph. D. Professor of Oceanography and Director, Institute of Marine Resources, University of California. He is Chairman, National Academy of Sciences Committee on Oceanography • We need to have scholars working closely together in the hard sciences such as physics, chemistry, biology, and mathematics; in the soft sciences, such as sociology and economics; in engineering; in law; and others.
• There is an obvious need for the college of the sea to bring together men of all these disciplines to carry out their scholarly pursuits, research and education in relation to the ocean.
Milner B. Schaefer, Ph. D. Professor of Oceanography and Director, Institute of Marine Resources, University of California. He is Chairman, National Academy of Sciences Committee on Oceanography • • • It is clear that in the major part of the watery realm, … there will be increasing competition for the use of the resources. It is already abundantly clear that the inshore waters… along the coast of the United States … is becoming crowded. The coastal belt within 50 miles of the ocean is now occupied by 52 million people, 29% of our population and contains a vast industrial and urban complex. The margin of the sea, its beach and shore, is used for a variety of purposes, including seaside recreation, ports and harbors. industrial sites. power plants, and waste disposal establishments.
Milner B. Schaefer, Ph. D. Professor of Oceanography and Director, Institute of Marine Resources, University of California. He is Chairman, National Academy of Sciences Committee on Oceanography • To accommodate all of these uses we must stretch the beaches and properly allocate the various uses. • Similarly. the adjacent waters are of tremendous importance for recreation, for transportation, for production of petroleum and minerals, as a source of fresh water on arid coasts, for cooling water for power plants, for disposal of domestic and industrial wastes and for the production of animal protein from the sea.
Milner B. Schaefer, Ph. D. Professor of Oceanography and Director, Institute of Marine Resources, University of California. He is Chairman, National Academy of Sciences Committee on Oceanography • This multiplicity of alternative. and sometimes conflicting, uses demands the highest degree of sophistication in the application of science, engineering, economics, sociology, law. politics, and diplomacy, if we are to develop the necessary new institutional arrangements for the fullest and most beneficial use of this region…
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National • Social and natural systems are inextricably linked. Human health, prosperity, and well-being depend upon the health and resilience of natural ecosystems; human activities modify the coupled human-natural systems. At the broadest level, NOAA must seek to advance more holistic approaches to understand and balance human use, sustainability, and preservation of ecosystem resources and functioning
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Challenges Facing the Nation
• • • • Economic Recovery and Job Creation Energy Security and Sustainability Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Sustainable Use and Protection of Ocean and Coastal Resources • Public Safety, Security, and Health
NOAA 2009 Annual Guidance Memorandum Dr. Jane Lubchenco, Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere Sea Grant Association
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Core Competencies for NOAA to Strengthen
Improve high impact weather and water forecasts Manage ocean and coastal resources with an ecosystem-based approach Support coastal communities and economies Deliver information for safe, efficient, and environmentally sound transportation Maintain and expand the technical infrastructure that supports noaa’s mission: NOAA 2009 Annual Guidance Memorandum Dr. Jane Lubchenco, Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere Sea Grant Association
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Core Competencies for NOAA to Strengthen
"... the purpose of the National Sea Grant Program is to accelerate national development of marine resources, including their conservation, proper management, and economic utilization. This is to be accomplished through the sponsorship of programs which encompass (1) research applied to real and current problems, (2) adequate training and education of manpower, and (3) transfer of technology and knowledge to the people who need it in a form they can use." Dr. Robert M. White, Former Administrator National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Sea Grant Association
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National • Sea Grant builds the scientific foundation needed by supporting research related to ecosystem health and by transferring this information to coastal residents, resource managers, businesses and industries
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National • • Sea Grant builds and applies knowledge Sea Grant builds human resources
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