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| | Months 1-3:
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| |  | Conduct initial project planning via teleconference to clarify scope, partners, roles and a plan for project initiation workshop
| | Conduct initiation workshop |
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| | Months 3-6:
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| |  | Consult with working groups to clarify analytical and data needs, information flow, specific functional roles, and a process model for applying each DST
| | Collect data and integrate it into shared databases
| | Populate the DSTs with data, model parameters to support performance indicators, and value inputs from the working groups
| | Define necessary inputs and outputs among the DSTs
| | Develop manual interoperability processes
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| | Months 6-9:
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| | | Perform initial analyses to populate starting indicators of socioeconomic and ecosystem variables
| | Identify areas of conflict
| | Develop visualizations and presentations
| | Hold WebEx demonstrations with working groups
| | Develop parameters for several alternative future scenarios to address potential or emerging problems
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| | Months 9-15:
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| | | Continue consultation with working groups and local DST users
| | Refine performance metrics plan with working groups
| | Conduct workshop to present initial analytical results and options to local partners and identify desirable parameters form alternative scenarios
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| Conduct at at least one community visioning exercise utilizing the tool package (i.e., pre-training exercise to enable the local users to understand how the tools can be used to solve local problems)
| | Conduct observations and interviews of local tool users
| | Develop a database of DST and interoperability improvements that could improve usability, efficiency, or quality of results relative to decision making
| | Synthesize and prioritize recommendations for improving interoperability and vet these with the working groups
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| | Months 15-18:
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| Host an evaluation workshop for the partnership to assess the locally-developed alternative future scenarios, the decision process, the utility of the DST toolkit, and the prognosis for the ongoing integrated planning and implementation
| | Develop a case study that includes a presentation and written products to inform other coastal communities on how to organize such a project
| | Feature the case study and outreach products on the Coastal-Marine Ecosystem Based Management Tools program website (www.ebmtools.org)
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| Link case study website to other relevant websites (NOAA, PlaceMatters, NACo, NEMO) |
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EBM Initiation Project Meeting Agenda