Archives by Tag 'NOAA/NMFS'

National Marine Fisheries Service Southeast Region Office Training (September 2008)

In September, CONCUR conducted a customized negotiations training for two dozen staff with the National Marine Fisheries Service’s Southeast Region Office in St. Petersburg, Florida. The two-day training session, led by co-instructors Scott McCreary and Bennett Brooks, focused on providing the region’s Protected Resources Division staff with a framework for negotiating complex environmental agreements. [...]

Strategic Planning for NMFS Protected Resources Outreach and Education (2005)

CONCUR worked with NOAA’s National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) outreach and education coordinators to develop a national Outreach and Education Strategic Plan focused on protected resources. The purpose of the Plan was to coordinate and outline protected resources outreach and education actions for the next three to five years. The three-day effort brought together fifteen [...]

Strategic Planning and Organizational Capacity-Building for Federal Agency Partners in the Pacific Islands (2003-2004)

CONCUR provided strategic planning and facilitation services to assist key governmental agencies to form a stronger partnership in the vast Pacific Islands Region. In the spring of 2003, the Pacific Islands Region was established as an autonomous region within the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The establishment of the new region created a strong [...]

Facilitated Workshop Jeopardy Analyses under Section 7 of the Endangered Species Act (2004)

CONCUR was retained by NOAA Fisheries to help design and facilitate a three-day Technical Workshop on jeopardy assessment in August 2004. The goal of the workshop was to solicit individual comments from scientific experts in the disciplines of conservation biology, population ecology, and risk assessment on the current analytical framework by which NOAA Fisheries evaluates [...]

Facilitated Technical Workshop on Marine Turtle Post-Hooking Mortality (2004)

CONCUR was retained by the U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) to help design and facilitate a Technical Workshop on marine turtle mortality resulting from interactions with longline fishing gear. The Workshop took place in Bethesda, Maryland on January 14-15, 2004 and brought together 17 experts in the fields of marine turtle veterinary medicine, biology, [...]

Facilitated Dialogue on International Marine Turtle Conservation (2003)

CONCUR was retained by the U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service to help design and facilitate an International Technical Expert Workshop on Marine Turtle Bycatch in Longline Fisheries. The workshop - which took place in Seattle, Washington from February 11-13, 2003 - brought together fisheries managers, leading researchers, environmentalists, and fishing industry representatives from 19 countries [...]