Ammerman in Korea Jong-Geel Je Discussed Ecotourism and Its Connections to Coastal Wetlands Conservation
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Korea’s Gyeonggi Sea Grant Advisory Scientist Ammerman in Korea Jong-Geel Je discussed ecotourism and its connections to coastal wetlands conservation. New York Sea Grant Director Jim Ammerman ”Ecotourism would seem to be an important took part in a two-day “2010 Korea - U.S. Sea new area for the Korean Sea Grant programs to Grant Collaboration International Workshop” develop,” said Ammerman. late last September at South Korea’s Jeju National University. The Korea Sea Grant Program (KSGP) was established in 2000 by the Ministry of Maritime Presenting twice during the meeting, Affairs and Fisheries (MOMAF) as a part of Ammerman first discussed the impacts of “Ocean Korea 21,” Korea’s comprehensive nitrogen loading on estuaries in the New York plan to improve the management of coastal Bight based on a regional Sea Grant planning resources. The National Oceanic and NYSG’s Jim Ammerman (c.) visits Chungcheong Sea Grant (CSG) at Chungnam workshop held last summer. He then switched Atmospheric Administration (which invited gears for a talk the next day on the impacts and National University. CSG staff includes Director Man Sik Choi (far left) and Moon- Jin Park (right of Ammerman). Photo courtesy of Jim Ammerman NYSG to participate in the workshop) and the mitigation of storm surge and sea level rise on National Sea Grant Office (NSGO) continue to the South Shore of Long Island, focusing on the Sciences in May 1990 under Professor Dong- work with KSGP on their mission “to promote outreach work of NYSG Coastal Processes and Ping Wang, was a speaker at the conference the involvement of universities in marine Facilities Specialist Jay Tanski. for Chungcheong Sea Grant. His presentation research through granting programs, Ammerman’s invitation to participate in the examined the impacts of manmade tidal outreach, and education,” a mission workshop came in part from Moon-Jin Park, barriers in western Korea on tides and coastal similar to that of the NSGO. a former Stony Brook University (SBU) Sea currents, and the changes these caused in navigation and other features. There are currently six entites under KSGP Grant Scholar and current Professor and – YoungNam Sea Grant, based at the Korea Chairman of the Department of Oceanography In other presentations at the workshop, Maritime University in Busan; HoNam Sea at the College of Natural Sciences, Chungnam Delaware Sea Grant Associate Director Grant, in Mokpo; GyeongGi Sea Grant, in National University, one of 10 flagship Korean James M. Falk and Maine Sea Grant’s Natalie Incheon; Chungcheong in Daejeon; GyeongBuk National Universities. Park, who graduated Springuel addressed Sea Grant’s role in on the eastern coast; and Jeju on Jeju Island, from SBU’s School of Marine and Atmospheric promoting and developing ecotourism. South the sponsors of this international workshop. —Paul C. Focazio.