[CINAR_PIs] Draft

[John Annala]

Hi all

This looks good.

I am back on line sporadically over the next couple of days and then
pretty full time from the weekend. I still don't get back until 15 Sep
into Portland.

Cheers
John

-----Original Message-----
From: cinar_pis-bounces at whoi.edu [mailto:cinar_pis-bounces at whoi.edu] On
Behalf Of Pete Jumars
Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 4:51 PM
To: Francisco Werner
Cc: CINAR_PIS
Subject: Re: [CINAR_PIs] Draft

Cisco,

Thanks for the good input.  Feel free to add specifics.  My intent was  
to encourage more funding for CIs in general, and I can reword to make  
that much clearer.  Input from savvy DC hands is welcome.

Regards,
Pete

On 02 Sep 2009, at 1609, Francisco Werner wrote:

>
> Dear Pete, Mike et al.,
>
> I concur - very good letter.  It's not clear how the Sens/Reps from  
> our
> states would advocate for additional funds (and how much).
>
> 1. Do we need to be more specific?
>
> 2. Should the letter urge for support for increases for *all* CIs?   
> It may
> be easier for them to make the case than if they focused initially  
> on CINAR.
>
> 3. I also believe am free to sign off without going through university
> channels, but if OK with all, I would like to ask for input from our  
> Federal
> Relations person in DC.  She's quite savvy and may offer suggestions  
> for the
> letter.
>
> Cheers,
> Cisco.
>
>
>
> On 9/2/09 3:42 PM, "Mike Roman" <roman at hpl.umces.edu> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
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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 <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

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