47th U.S. Coral Reef Task Force Joint Working Group Leads Meeting
Tuesday, October 24th, 2023
3:00 - 4:30 PM
Moderated by Whitney Hoot and Dana Wusinich-Mendez
3:00 – 3:15
Brief updates on Working Group Priorities, Products, and Deliverables
3:15 – 3:30
Discussion of the Climate Ready Workforce Proposal
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Brian Beck and Joanna Walczak
3:30 – 3:45
Discussion on how the Communications WG can support other WGs
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Caroline Donovan and Madyson Miller
3:45 – 4:00
Opportunities for collaboration between working groups to improve
efficiencies / Overlap across WGs
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Example: Coordination between disease and climate change WG on
thermal stress preparedness and response
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Dana Wusinich-Mendez, Caroline McLaughlin
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Example: Overlap between climate, watershed, disease, restoration and
fisheries in the area of water quality
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Gerry Davis
4:00 – 4:30
Open Discussion
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Review WGs that are no longer active - are they still needed?
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Are all current WGs serving an essential purpose?
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Could we benefit from WG restructuring?
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Mechanism for updating each other, leveraging opportunities, sharing
how decisions are made, how tasks are created and completed, and
communications methods that work best in your group
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Sharing successes in recruiting the right people to the table, including
reaching into agencies and jurisdictional staffs that are not typically
represented on the USCRTF
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Sharing successes in getting strong leaders and coordinators for working
groups and sub-working groups
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Sharing what hasn’t worked
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Term limits for WG chairs and co-chairs?