Crop Data Managers Meeting
Data Managers Meeting
March 13, 2013
San Juan, Puerto Rico
Meeting Objectives:
- Inform CROP partners of the CROP objectives, goals and vision
- Convene regional CMSP data managers to discuss geospatial data management and regional sharing mechanisms
- Solicit data manager input on CMSP data portal functionality
- Assess CROP partner organizations' collective technical capacity to support regional CMSP
- Identify data managers needs and challenges for advancing CMSP in the US Caribbean
- Discuss means for developing technical CMSP community of practice
Presentations:
- Lynnette Roth, The Nature Conservancy
- Graciela Garcia-Moliner, Caribbean Fisheries Management Council
- Lisamarie Carrubba, National Marine Fisheries Service
- Avram Primack and Kostas Alexandridis, VI EPSCoR
- Ivan Santiago, Oficina de Gerencia y Presupuesto
- Coralys Ortiz, Departamento de Recursos Naturales y Ambientales
- Chris George, Office of the Lt. Governor
- Pedro Nieves, Department of Planning and Natural Resources
- Richard Appeldoorn, Caribbean Coral Reef Institute
- Luis Aponte, Caribbean Coastal Ocean Observing System
- William Gould, International Institute of Tropical Forestry