[CINAR_PIs] Draft

[Mike Roman]

Letter is fine. Note that we were awarded this grant/institute  through 
an open competition - hence advocating funds for CINAR is not really 
lobbying for an earmark. This was the interpretation by my unit 
President. Since this advocacy in not viewed as supporting an earmark, I 
am free to sign off on letter (i.e. it does not have to be in University 
of Maryland earmark approved list)
Mike

Pete Jumars wrote:
> Don et al.,
>
> Here is a very rough draft of the letter we discussed this morning:
>
> Dear Senator or Representative of Maryland, New Jersey, Massachusetts 
> or Maine:
>
> As you know, Institution X in your state, together with W, X, Y and Z, 
> has successfully competed to become a member of a new NOAA cooperative 
> institute, a Cooperative Institute for the North Atlantic Region 
> (CINAR).  CINAR brings together an immense array of talent in areas of 
> science needed to assist NOAA in its mandate to manage fisheries under 
> the pressures of human use and climate change.  It targets a region of 
> the East Coast whose marine populations are connected by 
> southward-flowing coastal currents and promises solutions to thorny 
> fisheries management problems through explicit spatial planning and 
> understanding of climate change in the coastal ocean.  This spatial 
> planning becomes all the more important as additional uses of the 
> ocean are anticipated, i.e., to generate energy from offshore wind.
>
> CINAR joins the Northern Gulf of Mexico Cooperative Institute as 
> NOAA’s second regional institute in a trend of consolidation from many 
> individual-institution cooperative institutes to a few regional 
> cooperative institutes.  It is the logical path to ecosystem-based 
> management of marine communities and is fully compatible with the 
> parallel move to regional ocean observing networks 
> <http://www.usnfra.org/>, e.g., the evolution from GoMOOS to NERACOOS 
> and MACOORA to cover the CINAR region.
>
> What undercuts this otherwise good news, however, is the lack of funds 
> in the NOAA budget to allocate to our new cooperative institute.  We 
> encourage you to support increases in appropriations, well justified 
> by both oceans commissions, to the lines that support cooperative 
> institutes at NOAA, allowing us to help them in their urgent goals of 
> better managing fisheries resources and the coastal oceans.
>
>
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