Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource

Management

Hawaii: CNMI: Guam: Kathy Chaston Dana Okano Adrienne Loerzeland Steve Frano

• Land Use Planning• Alternative Energy• Local Priorities: Tsunami Response (AS), Military Build-Up (GU)

DIVISIONS:Coastal Programs Division (CPD) – Coastal Zone Management

National Goals and Objectives:• Impacts of Fishing• Impacts of Land Based Sources of Pollution• Impacts of Climate Change

State and Territory Management Priority Setting

DIVISIONS:Coral Conservation Division (CCD) – Coral Reef Management

OCRM Activities in the Pacific

1. Grants Management

2. Coordination

3. Capacity Building

Grants Management

Federal liaison to CZM ProgramsProgram planning/implementation guidanceManagement of financial awards ($5 M/yr)CZMA section-specific oversight

Federal liaison to Coral Reef Management ProgramsProgram planning/implementation guidanceDirectly managed and co-manage with DOI financial awards

($1.5 M/yr)Facilitated establishment of local priorities, Starting development

of Capacity Assessments

COASTAL PROGRAMS DIVISION OVERVIEW ~ NOVEMBER 2008

Coordination/ Partnerships

• Partner with other NOAA Offices – PSC, NMFS, NMS

• State/Territorial Agencies

• Non-Governmental Agencies

CRCP Partnerships

•Established priority areas with each Jurisdiction •For Hawaii Coral Program – focus on West Maui and Big Island (includes ARRA project site at Pelekane)

•Coordination with NMFS •Both liaisons participate on project planning and grant reviews•Co-located in CNMI

•TNC Marine Program Cooperative Agreement•Conservation Action Plans: Guam, CNMI, AS, Palau, FSM, Maui

•SeaWeb Cooperative Agreement•Support 2 pilot social marketing campaigns in CNMI and Hawaii

West Maui Watershed Project New USCRTF Pacific Watershed

Partnership

Study Goal:Improve the overall quality of the West Maui Watershed, from the summit of Pu’ukukui to the outer reef, incorporating holistic management aspects of traditional Hawaiian land and natural resource management at the watershed or ahupua’a level.

Maui Land & PineappleNOAAPublic CollaborationUS Army Corps of EngineersWest Maui Mountains Watershed PartnershipWest Maui Soil & Water Conservation

Partners & Funding Commission of Water Resource Management Department of Health, Clean WaterDivision of Aquatic ResourcesDivision of Forestry & WildlifeEnvironmental Protection Agency Maui County

Capacity Building

•Coordination with CZM/Coral liaison staff located on island

•Identify jurisdiction priorities through cooperative agreements

•Project assistance: Planning tools, GIS Needs, Climate Adaptation Planning •Training

Pacific Island Watershed Institute

June 13 – 17 2011•PurposeTo engage Pacific island watershed and stormwater practitioners in an intensive four-day training experience that will lead to improved on-the-ground management of island watersheds, particularly in priority coral reef watersheds.

•Instructors: Horsley Witten Group, the Center for Watershed Protection, NOAA's Coral Reef Conservation Program, and guest speakers

•Targeting State and territorial staff, officials, and watershed and stormwater professionals in the Pacific islands (80 participants)

•More information: kathy.chaston@noaa.gov

Regional Ocean Partnerships

•OCRM investments into regional ocean partnerships in the Pacific•Hawaii’s Ocean Resources Management Plan (ORMP)•Micronesia Challenge•Two Samoa’s

•Pacific Region Ocean Partnership•CZM and Coral program leads are points of contact appointed from their governors•Agreed to establish partnership but still need to identify: support, membership, structure•Looking for existing opportunities (NOC CMSP Workshop)

•Ocean Partnership Issues•Size, diversity, model will vary from contiguous states

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