[CINAR_PIs] Draft

[Pete Jumars]

Mike,

Thanks for that input.  I tried to write it to get around UMaine's  
prioritized earmark list by not asking for an earmark.

Pete

On 02 Sep 2009, at 1542, Mike Roman wrote:

> 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.
>>
>>
>> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Pete Jumars <http://www.umaine.edu/marine/people/sites/pjumars/>
>> *For administrative purposes:*
>> Director, School of Marine Sciences
>> 360 Aubert Hall, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469-5706
>> Voice: (207) 581-4381; Fax: (207) 581-4388
>> *For research purposes:*
>> Professor of Marine Sciences,
>> Darling Marine Center University of Maine
>> 193 Clark's Cove Road
>> Walpole, ME 04573-3307
>> Voice: (207) 563-3146 x.242; Fax: (207) 563-3119
>> *Fastest communication:*
>> e-Mail: jumars at maine.edu <mailto:jumars at maine.edu>
>> Cell: (207) 592-0717
>>
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Pete Jumars <http://www.umaine.edu/marine/people/sites/pjumars/>
For administrative purposes:
Director, School of Marine Sciences
360 Aubert Hall, University of Maine,
Orono, ME 04469-5706
Voice: (207) 581-4381; Fax: (207) 581-4388
For research purposes:
Professor of Marine Sciences,
Darling Marine Center
University of Maine
193 Clark's Cove Road
Walpole, ME 04573-3307
Voice: (207) 563-3146 x.242; Fax: (207) 563-3119
Fastest communication:
e-Mail: jumars at maine.edu
Cell: (207) 592-0717