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CMarZ – USA Plans for Year Ahead. Program Management - Develop realistic Milestones and Applications - Prepare for synthesis - Encourage small-group meetings to discuss synthesis / applications - CMarZ evening meeting at ASLO in New Mexico 2/2007(?)
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CMarZ – USA Plans for Year Ahead Program Management - Develop realistic Milestones and Applications - Prepare for synthesis - Encourage small-group meetings to discuss synthesis / applications - CMarZ evening meeting at ASLO in New Mexico 2/2007(?) - CMarZ visit to agency (NSF) program managers(?) - Make better contact with CoML N/RICs - CMarZ – USA coordination meeting(?) Cruises and sampling - Plans and proposals for biodiversity surveys in hotspots - Coordinating planning for cooperating project cruises Sample analysis - Coordinate morphological taxonomic analysis - DNA barcode regional assemblages: Sargasso Sea, Arctic, N. Atlantic, South Africa, Chile Page 1
CMarZ – USA Plans for Year Ahead Outreach & Education - CMarZ Taxonomic Workshops encourage new workshop ideas encourage SG members to serve as instructors coordinate planning and allocate funding - International exchanges Chaolun Li (China) to UConn, USA Annelies Pierrot-Bults (Neth.) to UConn, USA Communications - Gather information for CoML - Meet CoML reporting requirements - Maintain and update website Database - Increase data submission rates - Encourage preparation of Species Pages Page 2
Upcoming Meetings ASLO Aquatic Sciences MeetingSanta Fe, New Mexico, USA; dates 4-9 Feb 2007 ASLO Summer MeetingSt. John's, Newfoundland; dates 8-13 June 2007 2nd International Conference for DNA Barcoding Singapore; dates 13-15 June 2007 2007 ICES Annual Science Conference Helsinki, Finland; dates17-21 September 2007 - CoML All-Program Meeting Auckland, New Zealand; dates 12-18 November 2007 AGU/ASLO/TOS Ocean Sciences Orlando, Florida, USA; dates 2-7 March 2008