CMar Z USA Plans for Year Ahead

CMar. Z – USA Plans for Year Ahead Program Management - Develop realistic Milestones and Applications - Prepare for synthesis - Encourage small-group meetings to discuss synthesis / applications - CMar. Z evening meeting at ASLO in New Mexico 2/2007(? ) - CMar. Z visit to agency (NSF) program managers(? ) - Make better contact with Co. ML N/RICs - CMar. Z – USA coordination meeting(? ) Cruises and sampling - Plans and proposals for biodiversity surveys in hotspots - Coordinating planning for cooperating project cruises Sample analysis - Coordinate morphological taxonomic analysis - DNA barcode regional assemblages: Sargasso Sea, Arctic, N. Atlantic, South Africa, Chile Page 1

CMar. Z – USA Plans for Year Ahead Outreach & Education - CMar. Z Taxonomic Workshops encourage new workshop ideas encourage SG members to serve as instructors coordinate planning and allocate funding - International exchanges Chaolun Li (China) to UConn, USA Annelies Pierrot-Bults (Neth. ) to UConn, USA Communications - Gather information for Co. ML - Meet Co. ML reporting requirements - Maintain and update website Database - Increase data submission rates - Encourage preparation of Species Page 2

CMar. Z Tasks Dec/2006 – Oct/2007

Upcoming Meetings ASLO Aquatic Sciences Meeting Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA; dates 4 -9 Feb 2007 ASLO Summer Meeting St. John's, Newfoundland; dates 8 -13 June 2007 2 nd International Conference for DNA Barcoding Singapore; dates 13 -15 June 2007 ICES Annual Science Conference Helsinki, Finland; dates 17 -21 September 2007 Co. ML All-Program Meeting Auckland, New Zealand; dates 12 -18 November 2007 AGU/ASLO/TOS Ocean Sciences Orlando, Florida, USA; dates 2 -7 March 2008