41st Meeting, Washington, D.C.
April 2019
Meeting Information
The 41st U.S. Coral Reef Task Force Meeting was held in Washington D.C. from April 1 - 4, 2019 in Silver Spring, MD and Washington, DC.
The agenda for the public Business Meeting which was held on April 4, 2019 at the Main Department of Interior Auditorium, 1849 C Street NW, Washington, DC, 20240 can be accessed here.
The Week-at-a-Glance Agenda can be accessed here
Presentation List
- U.S. All Islands Committee Chair's Report
- U.S. Coral Reef Task Force Steering Committee Update
- Building the Allen Coral Atlas - Helen Fox, National Geographic Society
- Coral Reef Benefits to Hawaii � Brian Neilson, Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources
- Coral Reef Watch Bleaching Update � Mark Eakin, NOAA Coral Reef Watch
- Highlights from the December Reef Futures Symposium � Tali Vardi, NOAA
- International Coral Reef Initiative Update � Christine Dawson, DOS
- Lessons Learned from Hurricanes Irma and Maria: FEMA NCR RSF � Ernesto Diaz, Puerto Rico Department of Natural and Environmental Resources
- Management Response to Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease� Maurizio Martinelli, Florida Sea Grant
- Manager's Guide to Coral Reef Restoration Planning & Design � Liz Shaver, The Nature Conservancy
- National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Committee on Interventions to Increase the Resilience of Coral Reefs � Bob Richmond, University of Hawaii Manoa
- Next-Generation Sensing Technologies for Exploring Ocean Worlds � Juan Torres-Perez, NASA
- NOAA Support to FEMA: Recap and Lessons Learned � Jennifer Moore, NOAA
- Protecting Coral Reefs for Enhanced Coastal Resilience � Mark Way, The Nature Conservancy
- Stony Coral Tissue Loss Disease Spreads to the Wider Caribbean� and Beyond? � Leslie Henderson, USVI Department of Planning and Natural Resources
- XPRIZE for Coral Restoration Launch � Jennifer Koss, NOAA
Public Comment
- National Coral Reef Management Fellowship Presentation - Wendy Wood-Derrer, Nova Southeastern University