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Coral Reef: Coral Reef Managers Meet on Guam to Battle Climate Change PAGE 5 Mission Complete: Nereus Returns to the Surface Volume 2 • Issue 4 In this issue Director’s letter: A message from Tony Lamorena PAGE 2 DAWR: Management-Planning Sessions for the Tumon Bay and Piti Bomb Holes PAGE 3 Coral reef: Coral Reef Managers meet on Guam to Battle Climate Change PAGE 5 Mission complete: Nereus returns to the surface. Prutehi I Islan Guahan: Protect our Island Guam from invasive species Exploring PAGE 6 Marine Preserves: Heritage, Protecting our Mariana Trench Future ’ve been to THE with the ship. Other ROVs use PAGE 7 TRENCH!! Of thick, heavy cable up to 25 miles course, that’s the Mar- in length and are tethered to the iana Trench. Not ship via this cable. Nereus’fiber Kika Kids Page: many people on Earth optic line looks like light-weight Color in the Ko’ko’ while canI make that claim. I some- monofilament fishing line. It is learning more about this times feel is was all a dream. I so fine that it can be broken by native Guam bird relive the adventure over and an 8 pound fish. It is not a teth- over with pictures and in my er, it drifts along behind Nereus mind. and 25 miles of fiber can fit in PAGE 8 I didn’t physically go to the a canister the size of a coffee Trench, but I was in the control can. room when Nereus went. Nereus was designed and Nereus, a robot, can place built at Wood’s Hole Oceano- equipment on the sea floor, pick graphic Institute (WHOI) in up samples, catch critters and Massachusetts. At 8.5 million sends video of it all to the con- dollars it was funded by the Na- trol room. When you’re in the tional Science Foundation, Na- control room watching the mon- tional Oceanic and Atmospher- itors, you are transported to the ic Administration and the Of- sea floor. It’s like magic. You fice of Naval Research. Nereus no longer feel you are on a ship, is a Hybrid ROV (HROV); it you are with Nereus. can operate via its fiber optic Nereus is a new design in Re- cable or it can operate independ- ently via computer program- Managing coral reefs. Analysis: Dr. Patty Fryer, chief scientist of the expedition and motely Operated Vehicles (ROVs) that uses a thin fiber ming. Most ROVs operate in Linda Tatreau. Page 5 optic line for communication I continued on page 4 A supplement to the Pacific Daily News, Friday, Septemeber 18, 2009 www.guampdn.com 1 Message from the MAN, LAND & SEA NEWSLETTER Volume 2, Issue 4 EDITORS Director Tom Quinata Esther G. Taitague Hafa Adai! There is an article from the Depart- ment of Agriculture, Division of Aquat- BUREAU STATISTICS ic and Wildlife Resources (DAWR) on seems like just yesterday that we their Management-Planning sessions and & PLANS Ithad the Coastal Cleanup and I the process that will help the agency in Alberto A. Lamorena V guess with other pressing problems con- balancing the protection of natural re- Director fronting Guam it is easy to simply for- sources and recreational use in the Tu- get how important this activity is for our mon Bay and Piti Bomb Holes Marine GUAM COASTAL island. People say it’s a losing battle for Preserves. MANAGEMENT us to continually pick up other people’s Other articles include coral reef man- PROGRAM trash but I believe that if we instill the agers meet to discuss the challenges of Evangeline D. Lujan idea of conservation and the protection climate change and an update of inva- Administrator of our natural resources to the youth, sive species. they in turn will teach the adults to stop We hope you will enjoy this issue GCMP STAFF littering and to remind them that what and we appreciate any comments you they do on land affects the health of our Raymond Caseres have on any of the articles or how we Amelia De Leon ocean. Over 3,200 volunteers last year can better improve our newsletter to Terry M. Perez understood the importance of a clean better serve the community’s needs. and healthy coastal environment by pick- Esther G. Taitague ing up 31,111 pounds of trash in less Si Yu’os Ma’ase, Victor Torres than four hours. Let us hope that more Timothy Semuda people will come out this Saturday and Nydia Llarenas participate in the International Coastal of the Earth, the Mariana Trench. What Dave Burdick Cleanup while finding less trash to pick she didn’t tell you is that she was invit- Tom Quinata up. ed to be a part of an elite team of scien- Alberto A. Lamorena V. In this issue of Man, Land and Sea, we tists and engineers. Congratulations to follow Linda Tatreau to the deepest part Linda! NOAA CORAL REEF MANAGEMENT FELLOW Elaina Todd FOR GCMP INFORMATION Please contact: Evangeline Lujan Man, Land & Sea Newsletter Guam Coastal Management Program Bureau of Statistics & Plans P.O. Box 2950 FEDERAL CONSISTENCY REVIEW Hagåtña, Guam 96932 TEL: PUBLIC NOTICE 671.472.4201/2/3 ection 306(d)(14) of the Coastal Zone Manage- FAX: Sment Act of 1972, as amended, requires public 671.472.1812 participation in the federal consistency review of pro- 2) The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Guam Na- posed project with the Guam Coastal Management Pro- tional Wildlife Refuge Guam Federal Consistency De- E-MAIL: gram (GCMP) enforceable policies. Project proponents termination for the proposed Guam National wildlife [email protected] have filed a statement of determination and accompany- Refuge Comprehensive Conservation Plan. ing information with the GCMP/BSP Office that their ___________________________________________ The Man, Land & Sea proposal is consistent with these policies. This informa- ________________________________ Newsletter is funded by a tion is available for public inspection at the GCMP Of- grant from the U.S. fice, Suite 303, GCIC Building. Anyone having ques- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region IX Department of tions regarding the public comment process, or having proposed Designation of an Ocean Dredged Disposal comments on project listed below should contact Site Offshore of Guam. Commerce, National Amelia F. De Leon, Planner at telephone No.671-475- Oceanic and 9669 or email [email protected]. Written Atmospheric comments may be submitted or mailed within 15 days Administration (NOAA) of this publication date or as otherwise noted below, to: US Dept. of Transportation, Federal Highway Ad- through the Coastal ministration – DPW proposed reconstruction and reha- Management Act of 1972, Bureau of Statistics and Plans bilitation of three culverts and the repair of the Cetti as amended, Attn: Administrator, Guam Coastal Management Pro- Bay administered by the gram Slide (FHWA Project Number GU-NH- Office of Ocean and P.O. Box 3631 0002(102)(104)(105)(108) in Agat & Umatac. Coastal Resource Hagatna, Guam 96932 Management Program Fax: (671) 477-1812 (OCRM) and the Guam Coastal Management To submit comments electronically,send e-mail to US Dept. of Transportation, Federal Highway Ad- [email protected], cc: ministration – DPW proposed widening and resur- Program (GCMP) of the [email protected] facing of Route 17 Yona to Pago Bay. (FHWA Pro- Bureau of Statistics and ject No. GU-NH-0004(012) The road project will Plans, Government of Guam The Department of the Air Force 36th Wing (PACAP also include the restoration of Route 15 at two loca- through Grant is proposing to construct a perimeter fence and access tions north of route 29 in Yigo (FHWA Project Number road and relocate the main Gate and Associated infra- Nnumber GU-NH-0015(104). NA08NOS419045 structure to improve operations and security at AAFB. 2 A supplement to the Pacific Daily News, Friday, Septemeber 18, 2009 www.guampdn.com DAWR to Hold Management-Planning Sessions for the Tumon Bay and Piti Bomb Holes Marine Preserves he Department of Agricul- Marine Preserves are managed to ture’s, Division of Aquat- LAC PROJECT join this effort. To be successful, we Tic and Wildlife Resources need community involvement (DAWR) invites the public to partic- OBJECTIVES throughout the entire process and ipate in community planning ses- these two planning sessions are the sions to determine the future levels The objective of the LAC process first step,” said Torres. of recreational and commercial ac- is to address impacts of recre- The sessions include a presenta- ational use and to protect the en- tivities allowed in the Tumon Bay vironmental resources for future tion on the history of the Marine Pre- and Piti Bomb Holes Marine Pre- recreational use within the Tumon serves, their unique resources and an serves. DAWR will follow a com- Bay and Piti Bomb Holes marine overview of the Limits of Accept- munity based planning process preserves. able Change process. The presenta- called “Limits of Acceptable I Balance two major needs of (1) tion was followed by a working ses- Change,” or LAC, that will help the encouraging public and commer- sion in which participants began the agency balance resource protection cial recreation and tourism, while first two steps of the LAC process. (2) protecting social and environ- and recreational use in these special mental values in the marine pre- During this session, participants were areas. serves asked to identify special values, is- Two planning sessions are sched- I Control impacts and change, sues, and concerns for each preserve uled for September. On September rather than trying to prevent it and to share their vision for the fu- 8th, a session was held in Tamuning I Determine the management ac- ture management of each preserve. for the Tumon Bay Preserve and a tions required to maintain desired Any individuals or groups that are session for the Piti Bomb Holes Pre- resource and social conditions interested in the future management serve was held on September 10th of the Tumon and Piti marine pre- in Piti.
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