Agenda

Monday, April 2, 2007
7:15 a.m.	Registration and coffee
8:15 a.m.	Welcome, introduction, Alaska marine environments Clarence Pautzke (North Pacific Research Board)
8:30 a.m.	Marine habitat mapping: What is it and why do managers need it? Doug Woodby (Alaska Dept. of Fish & Game) Jon Kurland (NOAA NMFS Habitat Conservation Division) David Witherell (North Pacific Fishery Management Council)
9:10 a.m.	Multibeam echo sounding as a tool for fisheries habitat studies Larry Mayer (Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping, University of New Hampshire)
9:50 a.m.	Multibeam surveys for marine habitat: What can be expected from a multibeam survey? Doug Lockhart (Fugro Pelagos, Inc.)
10:30 a.m.	Break (20 min)
10:50 a.m.	NOAA NOS hydrographic charting in Alaska, and applications to habitat mapping CDR Gerd Glang (NOAA NOS Office of Coast Survey)
11:30 a.m.	Bathymetric LIDAR surveys for marine habitat: What can be expected from an airborne bathymetric LIDAR survey? Carol Lockhart (Fugro Pelagos, Inc.)
12:10 p.m.	Lunch (1 hr 30 min)
1:40 p.m.	What you should and should not expect from towed high-frequency side scan sonar, compared to other forms of acoustic remote sensing Lloyd Huff (Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping, University of New Hampshire)
2:20 p.m.	High-resolution multibeam, sidescan, and subbottom surveys of seamounts, submarine canyons, deep-sea fan channels, and gas seeps using the MBARI AUV D. Allan B. Dave Caress (Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute)
3:00 p.m.	Small-boat surveys in shallow water Rob Hare (Canadian Hydrographic Service, Pacific Region)
3:40 p.m.	Break (20 min)
4:00 p.m.	Surficial geology: The third dimension in habitat mapping Vaughn Barrie (Geological Survey of Canada–Pacific)
4:40 p.m.	Systematic seafloor habitat mapping of the British Columbia coast Jim Galloway (Canadian Hydrographic Service, Pacific Region)
5:30 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.	Poster Session and Reception (abundant refreshments provided)
Tuesday, April 3, 2007
7:30 a.m.	Coffee
8:00 a.m.	Conducting visual surveys with a small ROV in shallow water: Lessons learned in San Juan Channel, Washington Bob Pacunski (Washington Dept. of Fish & Wildlife)
8:40 a.m.	Use of a shallow-water ROV in the northern Gulf of Alaska Mike Byerly (Alaska Dept. of Fish & Game)
9:00 a.m.	Sampling strategies and sources of uncertainty associated with visual surveys of demersal fishes and habitats using the occupied submersible Delta Mary Yoklavich (NOAA NMFS Southwest Fisheries Science Center)
9:30 a.m.	A review of habitat-based submersible surveys in the Gulf of Alaska and the role of habitat mapping in fisheries management and research in Alaska Victoria O'Connell (Coastal Marine Research, Sitka)
10:00 a.m.	Break (20 min)
10:20 a.m.	Rockfish live on rocks and trawls get stuck on rocks: The development of new methods to monitor populations of West Coast groundfish and their habitat using the SeaBED AUV Nick Tolimieri (NOAA NMFS Northwest Fisheries Science Center)
11:00 a.m.	Underwater video sleds from simple to complex: A series of versatile and cost-effective tools for habitat mapping Chris Rooper (NOAA NMFS Alaska Fisheries Science Center)
11:20 a.m.	Video supervised numerical classification of acoustic data from Glacier Bay, Alaska Guy Cochrane (U.S. Geological Survey)
12:00	Lunch (1 hr 30 min)
1:30 p.m.	Video analysis, database management, and statistical analysis Brian Tissot (Washington State University)
2:10 p.m.	Marine benthic habitat classification: What's best for Alaska? Gary Greene (Center for Habitat Studies, Moss Landing Marine Laboratories)
2:50 p.m.	Twenty years of fish-habitat studies on Heceta Bank, Oregon Brian Tissot (Washington State University)
3:30 p.m.	Break (20 min)
3:50 p.m.	Do large-scale multibeam survey programmes improve our knowledge of seafloor habitats? The example of the Irish National Seabed Survey (INSS) Anthony Grehan (National University of Ireland)
4:30 p.m.	Application of geoscience information to marine environmental management at the scale of continental margins: Australia's representative marine protected area program Peter Harris (Geoscience Australia)
5:10 p.m.	Summary Steering Committee
5:30 p.m.	End formal sessions
Wednesday, April 4, 2007
8:30 a.m. – 11:00 a.m.	Working groups, discussion/writing assignments
11:30 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.	Reports from working groups

Workshop links

Registration

Agenda

Monday, April 2, 2007

Welcome, introduction, Alaska marine environments

Marine habitat mapping: What is it and why do managers need it?

Multibeam echo sounding as a tool for fisheries habitat studies

Multibeam surveys for marine habitat: What can be expected from a multibeam survey?

NOAA NOS hydrographic charting in Alaska, and applications to habitat mapping

Bathymetric LIDAR surveys for marine habitat: What can be expected from an airborne bathymetric LIDAR survey?

What you should and should not expect from towed high-frequency side scan sonar, compared to other forms of acoustic remote sensing

High-resolution multibeam, sidescan, and subbottom surveys of seamounts, submarine canyons, deep-sea fan channels, and gas seeps using the MBARI AUV D. Allan B.

Small-boat surveys in shallow water

Surficial geology: The third dimension in habitat mapping

Systematic seafloor habitat mapping of the British Columbia coast

Poster Session and Reception

Tuesday, April 3, 2007

Conducting visual surveys with a small ROV in shallow water: Lessons learned in San Juan Channel, Washington

Use of a shallow-water ROV in the northern Gulf of Alaska

Sampling strategies and sources of uncertainty associated with visual surveys of demersal fishes and habitats using the occupied submersible Delta

A review of habitat-based submersible surveys in the Gulf of Alaska and the role of habitat mapping in fisheries management and research in Alaska

Rockfish live on rocks and trawls get stuck on rocks: The development of new methods to monitor populations of West Coast groundfish and their habitat using the SeaBED AUV

Underwater video sleds from simple to complex: A series of versatile and cost-effective tools for habitat mapping

Video supervised numerical classification of acoustic data from Glacier Bay, Alaska

Video analysis, database management, and statistical analysis

Marine benthic habitat classification: What's best for Alaska?

Twenty years of fish-habitat studies on Heceta Bank, Oregon

Do large-scale multibeam survey programmes improve our knowledge of seafloor habitats? The example of the Irish National Seabed Survey (INSS)

Application of geoscience information to marine environmental management at the scale of continental margins: Australia's representative marine protected area program

Summary

Wednesday, April 4, 2007

Working groups, discussion/writing assignments

Reports from working groups