NSF/NIEHS Centers for Oceans and Human Health and the
NOAA Oceans and Human Health Initiative

Joint Annual Meeting
April 16-18, 2008
Hosted by the Pacific Research Center for Marine Biomedicine

Meeting Location:
Hilton Waikiki Prince Kuhio
2500 Kuhio Avenue
Honolulu, Hawaii 96815
Phone: (808) 921-5500
Fax: (808) 921-5511
Web site: Hilton Waikiki Prince Kuhio

Agenda:
Final AGENDA 

List of Presentations

Wednesday morning

• Welcome and introductions
• Focus and plans
• Center updates
  • UH PRCMB (Laws)
  • UW PNCHHOS (Faustman)
  • NOAA NWFSC WA (Stein)
  • NOAA GLERL (Brandt)
  • UM OHHC (Fleming/Smith)
  • NOAA HML (Holland)
  • WHOI WHCOHH (Stegeman/McGillicuddy)
• Use of Bacteroides to detect human-specific fecal Bacteriophage (Ebdon/Taylor)
• Problems associated with assaying for fecal pollution using conventional indicators and recent advances towards addressing them (Boehm)

Wednesday afternoon

• Plenary
• Break-out 1 - Health effects associated with exposure to indigenous microorganisms and non-point pollution from land-based sources (Boehm)
• Break-out 2 - Interpretation of molecular data (Poltz/Sogin)
• Plenary report

Thursday morning

• Climate change and its implications (Dearry/Ebi/Moore)
  • Climate change and human health (Ebi)
  • Impacts of climate variability and change on ocean ecosystems (Moore)
• Antibody-based assays for toxins in fish and shellfish (Furlong)
• Sea Grant (Smith)
• Outreach, education and training (Flemming)

Thursday afternoon

• Plenary
• Break-out 3 - Epidemiology and quantitative microbial risk assessment (Faustman)
• Break-out 4 - Education and training (Grimes)
• Break-out 5 - Outreach and communications (Joseph)
• Break-out 6 - Collaborations among centers (Trtanj)
• Plenary report

Friday morning

• Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) (Shea/Backer)
  • Environmental Epidemiology at the LOD: HABs…and IOOS (Backer)
  • IOOS Program Update (Shea)
• Plenary discussion: New areas of oceans and human health (Holland)
• Summary (Laws)