• HSRP issue paper: Charting the U.S. Maritime Arctic.pdf
• HSRP issue paper: NOAA Hydrographic Survey Fleet: A Critical National Asset.pdf
• HSRP issue paper: Hampton Roads Regional Pilot Project: Response to the Challenge of Increased Coastal Flooding.pdf
• NOAA Navigation Services Great Lakes Activities Report.pdf

Tuesday August 30, 2016

8:30-10AM

• 10:15-11:45AM
  Mr. Mike Aslaksen, Chief, Remote Sensing Division, National Geodetic Survey (NGS)
• Mr. Rich Edwing, Director, Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services
• Rear Admiral (Select) Shepard Smith, Office of Coast Survey (OCS)
• Dr. Larry Mayer and Mr. Andy Armstrong, Co-Directors, NOAA/University of New Hampshire Joint Hydrographic Center, Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping

1:00-2:30PM

Great Lakes Navigation Challenges

Challenges facing the Great Lakes ports, waterways and the Saint Lawrence Seaway can benefit from NOAA’s navigational, positioning, and coastal data. The panelists will explore NOAA’s “next generation” of navigation service solutions in the Great Lakes context. The Great Lakes marine transportation system – involving the world’s largest system of surface freshwater – has unique navigational challenges, including environmental performance, seasonal system availability, water level variability, and surface transportation congestion. The panelists will examine how NOAA navigation services and products can help address these challenges, as well as the broader issues involving infrastructure, dredging, expansion of maritime tourism, and waterway management.

• Ms. Betty Sutton, Administrator, Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation, U.S. Department of Transportation
  “Draft Information System – An Innovation in Vessel Traffic Management”
• Captain George Haynes, Vice President, Lakes Pilots Association, Inc.
  “Great Lakes Weather and Commercial Navigation; A Pilots' Perspective”
• Mr. Mike Piskur, Program Manager, Conference of Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Governors and Premiers
  “A Regional Strategy for the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Maritime System”

Wednesday August 31, 2016

9:45AM-11:45AM

Hydrographic Services: The Foundation of Great Lakes Water Resources Management and Restoration

The Great Lakes region faces unique challenges in water resources management and environmental restoration.  The dynamic nature of the climate and earth's crust require state-of-the-science hydrographic services to provide the foundation for lake regulation, water balance accounting, navigation and sediment dredging and environmental restoration of the nearshore.  This panel will examine these challenges and discuss potential measures for improvement of services

• Mr. John T. Allis, Chief, Great Lakes Hydraulics and Hydrology Office, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers - Detroit District, and U.S. Chair, Great Lakes Coordinating Committee,
  "Great Lakes Water Level Regulation and Forecasting"
• Mr. Thomas R. Crane, Deputy Director, Great Lakes Commission
  “Collaborative Efforts Addressing Regional Sediment Management, Dredging and Nearshore Restoration Challenges in the Great Lakes”
• Ms. Jackie Adams, Environmental Scientist, Great Lakes Restoration Initiative, Great Lakes National Program Office, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
  "EPA & GLRI: An Overview of the Use of NOAA’s Hydrographic Services"

1:30PM-2:30PM

• Ms. Helen Brohl, Director, Committee on Marine Transportation System (CMTS), U.S. Department of Transportation

• Ms. Ashley Chappell, Coordinator, Integrated Ocean and Coastal Mapping (IOCM) program
  “National Coastal Mapping Strategy (NCMS) and IOCM program”

2:30PM – 5:30PM

• HSRP Technology Working Group - Mr. Ed Saade

• HSRP Recommendation Letter Cleveland 2016.pdf
• HSRP Hydrography A Core NOAA Mandate 20 October 2016.pdf
• HSRP PORTS Critical Data for Critical Decisions 28 October 2016.pdf
• HSRP US Latitudes Longitudes Elevations to Change 20 October 2016.pdf

• HSRP Cleveland Meeting summary minutes August 30 - September 1 2016 Final 7 October 2016.pdf
• HSRP Cleveland Meeting summary minutes August 30 - September 1 2016 Final 7 October 2016.docx