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STEERING COMMITTEE MEETING
January 12th – 14th
Lafayette, LA
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Day 1 – January 12th
Wetlands and Aquatic Research Center
Welcome Ken Rice and Tom Doyle
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Outcomes and Actions
•Steering Committee – leadership, strategic planning, responsibilities and governance •Facilitated session – Group Solutions
•Science Team – membership, project review and recommendations
•Regional and National Conservation •SECAS and NAS Report
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The GCP LCC: Mission
“…to sustain, protect, and conserve natural
and cultural resources in the Gulf Coast
Prairie landscape/geography in the face of
such threats and stressors as climate change,
population growth, and urbanization…”
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GCP LCC Coordinator
Admin Support GCP LCC Science
Coordinator Communication
Specialists
GIS, IT, Media Gulf Liaison
SECAS
Staff Structure
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2016 Staff Status
Staff Capacity • Coordinator – Bill Bartush FWS (Lafayette)
• GCPO-GCP Shared Position – Cynthia Edwards (MS)
• Science Coordinator – Ben Kahler FWS (Lafayette) • GIS, Data Technical Capacity – Blair Tirpak (Lafayette)USGS
• Annual Report summary & accomplishment (brief)
• USFWS Funding overview (reduced)
• Seeking successional planning & shared capacity
• National & Regional Connections
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Shared Leadership and Support
Strategic Capacity
• WARC – Blair Tirpak (CPA, Data Management, Geo-spatial)
• Steve Hartley, Craig Conzelmann, Heather Baldwin
• WMI – Chris Smith • Coordination & Communication
• CESU – Debbie Danford & Brian Hays • Administration, Extension, Website Platform, TAMU fire & private lands
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Plans 2016
Develop Strategic Capacity • Annual Report
• Diversify Funding, shared positions • Leverage human, financial and scientific assets among partners
• Emphasis Area / Focal Species-landscape conservation design
• Extend/communicate Science through Partners
• Engage HD
• (SC CSC – Rio Grande & Red Rivers-MX & Private Lands)
• Region & Gulf Partnership (LCC liaison - NOAA & GOMA)
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GCP LCC Funding Overview
Year 1410
FWS/Contract 1420
WMI/CESU/USGS Total
2011 $531k $761k $1,292k
2012 $438k $699k $1,137k
2013 $385k $341k $726k
2014 $435k $462k $897k
2015 $448k $461k $909k
2016 $289k $366k $655k
Total
mean
$2,237k
$447k
$2,724k
$545k
$4,961k
$992k
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LCC Partners & Successional Planning
Strategic Capacity •Shared positions & Contributions
• Contributions, other funds for human resources • Annual Contributions Summary
•Communications (GCP, SECAS & R2)
•Leadership – Chair/V.Chair & EX-ADV
•Steering Committee Membership & Staff •Homework Questions
•Science Team – Future Technical Skills
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LCC Council, NAS & Regional Strategy
LCC Council Membership • 6 Feds, 3 Tribes, 1 Indigenous
• 4 State agency directors
• 4 Non-governmental organization (NGO) participants
• 1 LCC, 2 "Major partnership" participants, 4 International 2 "At Large" participants
• NAS See Website = GCPO blog & questions
• SE CAS – SEAFWA Member State Directors • GCP Support since 2011
• RESTORE Act – LCC engagement
• Gulf LCCs letter of Support to Restore Council
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2016 Calendar
• February 23-26: Oklahoma Natural Resources Conference - conservation LCD session (Quail, Aquatic meetings)
• June 14-17: GCP Steering Committee & GOMA Baton Rouge
• October 16-10: SEAFWA – SECAS 2016 Baton Rouge
• January 10-12 or 17-19, 2017: Oklahoma or Texas
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SCIENCE
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Outline
• October Science Team Meeting
• Progress on LCD and next steps
• Science Projects
• Science Team Updates
• Science Needs
• Work to Date
• Continual Improvement
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Perspective
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October Science Team meeting: Winnie, TX
• Focused primarily on advancing the coarse filter (habitat cover type centric) and fine filter (species centric) landscape conservation design (LCD) efforts that the Steering Committee approved in June 2015.
• Science Team members identified and discussed new science needs including suggestions for Climate Science Center to address, topics that are suitable for structured decision making approach, and capacity to complete the LCD tasks.
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Landscape Conservation Design (LCD)
LCD is an iterative & collaborative process that moves a collection of conservation organizations (US), places, and actions towards an ecologically-connected network of lands and waters capable of sustaining natural and cultural resources for future generations.
Our two-stage approach to LCD includes
1. Coarse filter addressing broadly defined habitats
2. Fine filter ‘Pilot Study’ within a more restricted geography stretching from Edwards Plateau through the Colorado and Guadalupe River watersheds to the Gulf of Mexico.
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Principles that guide our LCD efforts
• Use and not duplicate existing work
• Effective and sustained collaboration among partners through a bridging organization
• Science has a specific role in collaborative decision making with the intent to develop decision support tools
• Our role in decision making is dependent upon conservation design elements already in place
• As an ongoing, iterative process, focus on a rapid prototype that can be refined through time.
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Coarse Filter LCD
Blair Tirpak, Cynthia Edwards, and Science Team
• Work to date
• Current tasks
• Next steps
• Timeline
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Fine Filter LCD
Ben Kahler with Science Team and others as needed
• Work to date
• Current tasks
• Next steps:
• identify the narrow road in the pilot study area; close coordination with ongoing LCD efforts in the area not to duplicate rather to add value
• Timeline
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Science Projects
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Science Projects
• GCP-funded (Tier 1 focal species) • Technical review team membership
• Multi-LCC efforts • Gulf Hypoxia
• Least Tern
• Monarch
• Gulf Resiliency
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Technical Review Team members • 1. Alligator Gar Project - WMI - Steve Magnelia, Amity Bass, Shannon
Brewer (OSU/USGS), David Buckmeier (TPWD), Yvonne Allen (GCPO)
• 2. American oyster - WMI - Cindy Loeffler, Woody Woodrow, Jorge Brenner, Amity Bass, Patrick Banks
• 3. Guadalupe Bass - WMI - Steve Magnelia, Dakus Geeslin (TPWD), Ryan Smith, Nate Smith (TPWD)
• 4. Mottled Duck - CESU - Mike Brasher, Jena Moon (FWS), Woody Woodrow, Barry Wilson
• 5. Northern Bobwhite - 2 projects: WMI and CESU - Jon Hayes (OPJV), Mark Howery, Chad Ellis, Blair Tirpak, Steve DeMaso, Ken Gee (OPJV)
• 6. Quadrula - WMI - Ryan Smith, Steve Magnelia, Amity Bass, Shannon Brewer (OSU/USGS), Dakus Geeslin (TPWD), Charrish Stevens (FWS), Mark Howery
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Regional LCD Coordination
Our efforts add value to other efforts in the region through the alignment of LCD processes,
• Coarse filter LCD Ecological Indices Project, TPWD
• Fine filter LCD efforts in coastal Texas and Balcones, FWS I&M
and add value through the provision and hosting of • geospatial platform (CPA)
• spatial data
• decision support tool (GMIT)
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Science Team
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Science Team Members • Scott Alford, USDA-NRCS
• Amity Bass, LDWF
• Mike Brasher, DU & GCJV
• Jorge Brenner, TNC
• Chad Ellis, The Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation
• John Foret, NOAA
• Mark Howery, ODWC
• Cindy Loeffler, TPWD
• Andy Nyman, LSU Ag Center
• Mark Shafer, Oklahoma Climatological Survey
• Ryan Smith, TNC
• Don Wilhelm, USFWS
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Science Team Membership
Member Vacancies: 3 current
Kyle Balkum, LDWF
Steve Magnelia, TPWD and SARP
Woody Woodrow, USFWS
1 vacancy soon (likely Spring 2016)
Amity Bass, LDWF
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Science Team Membership
Capacity needed within the Science Team: LCD-focused • Risk and decision sciences
• Aquatic resource expertise
• Geospatial expertise
My recommendation:
• Steering Committee members to nominate potential Science Team members to fill vacancies who have any combination of the current capacity needs.
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Science Needs [handout]
• Science Strategy
• Science Team member identified
• CSC identified and aligned
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Our work together to date
• Forum for collaborative landscape conservation in the GCP
• Identification of a common landscape vision
• Focal species identified that represent broadly defined habitats
• Science Strategy with identified science needs
• Funding for and creation of science to bridge critical knowledge gaps for focal species and broadly defined habitats
• Regional and national alignment and efforts
• IMHO: All tremendous advances forward
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Continual improvement
Strengthen our approach to science through • Direction and narrowing the road, driven by the Steering Committee
to the Science Team (Potential outcome of the Goals/Objectives discussion)
• Metrics for success (SIAS and NAS)
• Science strategy to be more explicit and give more detail and prioritization of science needs to achieve our landscape goals.
• Better availability and alignment of science needs
• Improve documentation of science funded through our partnership
• Science Base and Conservation Planning Atlas
• Convene and add value to landscape conservation design efforts across our LCC and with other LCCs (Emphasis areas, SECAS, EPIC).
• Refinement of grassland tools – I&M (G-MIT & GRIP)
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TAMU GCP LCC Project Funding
Agreement
Number
Agreement
End Date
Amount
Funded1
Available for Science
Projects and Website
Support 2
F14AC00765
(Legacy) 9/30/2016 $ 622,825 $65,138
F14AC0661 9/30/2016 $ 258,733 $124,112
Total $189,250
1 Amounts do not include associated IDC of 17.5% and are pending end of
year account reconciliation
2 Note: Texas A&M AgriLife Research cannot enter into a sub-agreement with
a research partner that extends past the master agreement end date
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WMI GCP LCC Project Funding
Agreement Number Amount
Funded Available for Science Projects 1
R2 LCC GCPLCC 1410 $173,108 $78,175
R2 LCC GCPLCC 1420 $289,360 $6,468
R2 LCC MOD #1 – 1410 $108,984 $108,984
R2 LCC MOD #1 - 1420 $245,000 $92,798
Total $816,452 $286,425
1 Amounts do not include associated IDC of 10% or $70,000 additional funds
set aside for LCD support that could be redirected.
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GCP LCC Funding Overview
Year
1410
FWS/Contract
1420
WMI/CESU/USGS Total
2011 $531 $761 $1,292
2012 $438 $699 $1,137
2013 $385 $341 $726
2014 $435 $462 $897
2015 $448 $461 $909
2016 $289 $366 $655
Total $2,526 $3,090 $5,616
Average $421 $515 $936
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Accomplishments
Executive Contributions 363,200 52%
Technical Contributions 181,000 26%
GCVA 18,900 3%
USGS 111,910 16%
TAMU 25,000 4%
TOTAL Non-FWS LCC 700,010
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Accomplishments
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Performance metrics [handout]
• SIAS progress • Told that SIAS is on hold for now following NAS review
• However, are there any changes to SIAS report from last year?
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New Budget reporting format [handout]
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