WASHINGTON SEA GRANT PRESENTS Symposium on Ocean Acidification Washington Sea Grant welcomes you to the Symposium on Ocean Acidification. oday’s program features panel discussions with resource managers, scientists, decision makers and others with informed perspectives on this worldwide phenomenonT and its possible impacts on Puget Sound and the Outer Coast. Following the panels, there will be a reception for attendees to visit and share their views about ocean acidification as it pertains to the Pacific Northwest. To facilitate further information sharing, we will soon be posting a password-protected directory of contact information on our website (wsg.washington.edu/ admin/ocean_acidification.html). We thank everyone for joining us today. November 9, 2011 Center for Urban Horticulture, University of Washington campus Agenda Speaker Biographies 12:30 p.m. Hedia Adelsman is an Registration (Auditorium, Center for Urban Horticulture) executive policy advisor with the Washington Department 1:00 of Ecology. She has over 25 years of extensive and Welcome: Penny Dalton, Director, Washington Sea Grant diverse experience in natural 1:05-1:25 resources and environmental and water resources Bill Dewey, Director of Policy and Opening Remarks: management and is currently Communications, Taylor Shellfish working on climate change 1:30-3:00 mitigation and adaptation strategies, energy sitting and development and Ocean Acidification in the Pacific innovative water management approaches. Adelsman Northwest served for four years on the Governor’s Salmon Recovery Moderator: Richard Feely, Senior Scientist, Team. She was Special Assistant for Land Use and NOAA Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory Regulatory Programs at the Department of Ecology and Panelists also managed the Water Resources Program within the Terrie Klinger, University of Washington, department for seven years. School of Marine and Environmental Affairs Brady Olson, Western Washington University, Brian Baird served for 12 Shannon Point Marine Center years in the U.S. House of Carolyn Freidman, University of Washington, Representatives (WA 3rd School of Aquatic and Fishery Sciences Dist.), where he focused on science and technology, 3:00-3:15 break energy, health care, oceans, foreign policy, fiscal disci- 3:15-4:55 pline and Congressional in- tegrity. He was known and Ocean Acidification: Public and Policy Implications respected for taking prin- cipled stands, careful study rd Moderator: Brian Baird, former Washington 3 District of issues and the ability to build bipartisan relationships. Congressman He authored the Federal Ocean Acidification Research Panelists and Monitoring Act of 2009. He is also a social scientist Ron Sims, former Deputy Secretary, and licensed psychologist. U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Micah McCarty, Chairman, Makah Tribal Council Sandra Brooke is Director of Coral Conservation at Sandra Brooke, Coral Conservation Director, Marine Conservation Institute the Marine Conservation Institute and a member of Eric Scigliano, Science Writer the courtesy research faculty Hedia Adelsman, Executive Policy Advisor, at the University of Oregon. Washington Department of Ecology Her work at the Marine Conservation Institute 4:55-5:00 focuses on protecting coral Closing Remarks ecosystems from a variety of anthropogenic impacts, 5:00-6:00 primarily through the designation and effective manage- Reception (Commons, Center for Urban Horticulture) ment of marine protected areas. Past experience includes research and monitoring of shallow coral reefs and, more Richard Feely is the leader recently, exploration, ecology and biology of deepwater of the CO2 program at coral ecosystems in the southeastern U.S., Gulf of Mexico, NOAA Pacific Marine Alaska and Norway. Her research has included field and Environmental Lab here laboratory experiments on tolerance of deep corals to in Seattle, and is also on environmental variation and how this affects their distri- the faculty at the UW bution, health and ultimately their resilience to human School of Oceanography. activities. He is also a member of the Steering Committee Penny Dalton is Director of for the U.S. Carbon and Washington Sea Grant, part Biochemistry Program. His of the National Oceanic and major research areas are carbon cycling in the oceans and Atmospheric Administration ocean acidification processes. He has received numerous (NOAA), based at the awards for his pioneering research on the process of ocean University of Washington. acidification, including the Department of Commerce She is an affiliate associate Gold Award in 2006 and the Heinz Award in 2010. professor in the UW School of Marine and Environmental Carolyn Friedman is a Affairs. Previously, she marine pathologist and was vice president of the University of Washington Consortium for Oceanographic Research and Education, professor who specializes where she was involved in efforts to strengthen ocean in marine invertebrate science and policy, including implementation of the disease diagnostics and recommendations of the U.S. Ocean Commission. She ecology. She has published served from 1999 through 2001 as NOAA’s assistant over 60 peer-reviewed administrator for fisheries and head of the National journal publications and Marine Fisheries Service. Prior to this, she was a staff book chapters. Her work member on the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, focuses on the ecology of Science, and Transportation for 13 years and directed the several marine diseases: withering syndrome, a rickettsial Democratic staff of the subcommittees on Oceans and disease of abalone, herpesvirus infections in oysters, and Fisheries and Science, Technology and Space. vibriosis of larval marine mollusks. She also investigates the influence of ocean acidification on marine mollusks Bill Dewey is Manager including its influence on host-parasite relationships. of Public Policy and Her ocean acidification work is also expanding to include Communications for Taylor multi-generational studies. She develops and validates Shellfish Company, the diagnostic and quantification methods (both classical largest producer of farmed pathology and molecular) for a variety of shellfish and fish shellfish in the country, diseases for use in both laboratory and field studies. and owns and operates his own manila clam farm Terrie Klinger is the Barer in Samish Bay. He serves Professor of Sustainability on a number of boards Science at the UW’s School and committees locally of Marine and Environmen- and nationally, including NOAA’s Marine Fish Advisory tal Affairs. She obtained her Committee and the Board of Directors of the National Ph.D. in biological ocean- Aquaculture Association and the Pacific Shellfish Institute. ography from the Scripps In 2008, NOAA presented him with their Environmental Institution of Oceanography. Hero award in recognition of his work over the past two Her research spans marine decades to help develop and implement public policy that ecology and marine policy protects water quality and marine resources and supports and is increasingly focused sustainable aquaculture. on contemporary changes in nearshore ecosystems. She is the director of UW’s Graduate Training Program in Ocean Eric Scigliano is a Seattle- Change and serves as the Governor’s appointee to the based journalist who has Northwest Straits Commission. She is also the past chair of written on local marine the Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary Advisory and environmental issues Council. (among many other subjects) for more than 25 years. His Micah McCarty is Chairman books include Puget Sound: of the Makah Tribal Council. Sea Between the Mountains He has been pioneering and (with the oceanographer tribal ocean policy on Curtis Ebbesmeyer) environmental protection, Flotsametrics: How One including the areas of Man’s Obsession with Floating Ducks and Runaway Sneakers climate change, integrated Revolutionized Ocean Science. He has contributed to resource management and Harper’s, New Scientist, Discover, MIT’s Technology Review, natural energy (his efforts The New York Times, and many other periodicals, and has led to the Makah receiving received Livingston, Kennedy, and American Association the first Federal Energy for the Advancement of Science writing honors. His Regulatory Commission license for wave energy project). articles on ocean acidification have appeared in Seattle He was elected to the National Ocean Council Governance Metropolitan and OnEarth magazines. Coordinating Committee and was recently elected Vice Chair of this group. He is currently working on a national Ron Sims was appointed symposium on climate change and sustainability for U.S. by President Obama to coastal indigenous people. serve for two years as the Deputy Secretary for the M. Brady Olson is a marine U.S. Department of Housing scientist at the Shannon and Urban Development. Point Marine Center and an Prior to his appointment instructor with the Depart- at HUD, Sims served for 12 ment of Biology at Western years as the elected Executive Washington University. His of Martin Luther King Jr. research interests are wide- County in Washington ranging but center on the state, the 13th largest county in the nation. As County mechanisms that structure Executive, Sims was nationally recognized for his work on marine plankton food webs the integration of environmental, social equity and public and energy transfer. He is health policies that produced groundbreaking work on especially interested in exploring how ocean acidifica-