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Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary Advisory Council would like to announce the opening of the Education Primary position. An ideal candidate for the Education seat would reside in a community near the Sanctuary, is well-known and well-connected in the field of marine education, has experience or knowledge regarding marine resource protection issues in the Sanctuary, experience or knowledge regarding public use and activities in the Sanctuary, and has the freedom to express views and cast votes without consideration of any expectations held by an employer or other organization with which the member is affiliated.

For further information please read the Press Release (124kb PDF).

You may also want to view the SAC Charter.

You can download an application here (32kb PDF), or contact the Advisory Council Coordinator as listed on the Press Release.

The annual National Sanctuary Advisory Council Chairs and Coordinators meeting is just around the corner, set to take place May 12th-15th in Newport News, Virginia, at the site of Monitor National Marine Sanctuary. This annual meeting is a great opportunity for representatives from all 13 National Marine Sanctuary Advisory Councils to share and learn from each other's projects, issues and accomplishments. Case study presentations from all Regions of the National Marine Sanctuary Program will be presented hi-lighting issues effecting the several Councils and Sanctuaries embodied in each Regional system. Representing Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary at the National meeting will be Advisory Council Chair, Lance Morgan, and Advisory Council Coordinator, Rowena Forest.

Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary staff would like to send our heartfelt thanks to the several Advisory Council members whose terms were up in March of this year. Departing long-time Council members were: Tom Lambert, Sonoma Community at Large Primary and SAC Chair; Carol Keiper, Research Primary; Daniel Cohen, Research Alternate; Doreen Moser, Education Primary; and Michael Mery, Marin Community at Large Alternate. Their hard work and solid advice to the Sanctuary is very much appreciated, and the many accomplishments of the Advisory Council during their terms has greatly raised the profile and contributions of the Cordell Bank Advisory Council within the National Marine Sanctuary Program.

We would like to welcome Lance Morgan as new Cordell Bank Advisory Council Chair, as well as the several new members of the Advisory Council: Bill McMillon, Brian Mulvey, Jaime Jahncke, Liza Crosse, Susan Anderson, Geogre Clyde, and Edmund Smith. Bill McMillon and Brian Mulvey are returning charter members of the Cordell Bank Advisory Council, first "on-board" at the inception of the Council in 2002. You can read more about each Cordell Bank Advisory Council member on the Council Members web page.

David White Wave Project Update: Hydraulic Engineer NMFS (download 5.8 mb pdf here)

Mirko Previsic: Overview of Wave Energy Technology-Technology Lead-EPRI Ocean Energy Programs (download 1.8 pdf here) Mirko Previsic.pdf

Scott Terrill: H.T. Harvey and Associates, Ecological Consultants: Ecological Implications of Wave Energy Conversion Installations (download 2.2 mb file here)

Update of H.R. 1187, the Gulf of the Farallones and Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary Boundary Modification and Protection Act, co-authored by Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey: On October 24, 2007 there was a hearing in Washington, D.C. before the House Committee on Natural Resources, Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife and Oceans on H.R.1187. In the written statement that John H. Dunnigan, Assistant Administrator of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) provided at the hearing it is clear that the Cordell Bank Sanctuary Advisory Council's resolution to adjust the proposed boundary of the Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary to the west to include all of Bodega Canyon was heard and adopted by NOAA. This demonstrates the important role that our Advisory Council plays protecting sensitive habitats and marine life within Cordell Bank National Marine Sanctuary.

Want to keep up to date on the Cordell Bank Sanctuary Advisory Council?

We welcome interested constituents and citizens to sign up for the list serve, which will provide you with updates concerning activities of the Sanctuary Advisory Council. Updates, such as public meeting announcements and agendas will be sent to you on a quarterly basis. Special events such as Sanctuary celebrations or lectures may also be announced periodically via this list serve.

If you would like to subscribe to the Cordell Bank SAC list serve please send a message to: requests@willamette.nos.noaa.gov with "Subscribe cbsacinterest" as the subject heading. You can unsubscribe at any time to the same address.

For general information about Sanctuary Outreach Events, Education Workshops, outings, and events you can subscribe to our education list serve by sending a message to requests@willamette.nos.noaa.gov with "Subscribe cordellbank" in the subject heading.

Credit: Rick Starr/CBNMS

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