At the First CoML Workshop to Establish U.S. Program Priorities, the scientific community agreed that a field project on coral reefs is an essential component of the national program. Following up on this recommendation, a workshop to outline a U.S. coral reef field project, under the auspices of the U.S. National Committee, will be held 16-18 August 2004 at the Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology in Kaneohe Bay on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. The national project defined by this workshop will constitute the U.S. contribution to an international coral reef field project under the CoML.

Workshop Chairs

Daphne Fautin, University of Kansas, Chair of the U.S. National Committee
Nancy Knowlton, Scripps, Member of the U.S. National Committee
Jo-Ann Leong, University of Hawaii

Workshop Sponsors

NOAA Coral Reef Initiative
Hawaii Coral Reef Initiative
Khaled bin Sultan Living Oceans Foundation
U.S. Geological Survey
Bishop Museum
Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology

Participants

Workshop Documents

Agenda
Background Paper on Coral Reef Ecosystem Functions and Processes
Background Paper on Coral Reef Biodiversity

Presentations

CoML Overview and Workshop Mission (Daphne Fautin)
NOAA Coral Reef Program (Ruth Kelty)
NBII Coral Reef Interests (Mark Fornwall)
NOAA Work in the U.S. Pacific Islands (Rusty Brainard)
Examples from NOAA Benthic Habitat Mapping efforts (Rusty Brainard)
Northwest Hawaiian Islands Coral Reef Ecosystem Reserve (Randy Kosaki)
OBIS Overview (Daphne Fautin)
Presence/Absence Surveys (Gustav Paulay)
Dispersal (Steve Palumbi)
Taxonomic Nomenclature (Rich Pyle)
Education and Outreach: Example (Janie Wulff)
Survey work in the "deeper shallow reefs" (Rich Pyle)
Invertebrate Diversity: Guana Island (Jody Martin)