[CINAR_PIs] Draft

[Don Anderson]

Cisco:

I think some input from your DC person would be a good idea.

don

At 4:09 PM -0400 9/2/09, 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.
>>>
>>>
>>> 
>>>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>  ---------------
>>>  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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