The 2005 Edwin W. Pauley Summer Program addressed the question, "Are Ecological Risk Assessments applicable for Coral Reefs?" The course was designed for resource managers and regulatory scientists from countries with limited resources who need a management tool to help them make risk assessment decisions. The ultimate objective of the course was to have resource managers develop risk assessments applicable to their situations.
The course had a two-week format with one week in October, '05, and one week in March, '06. During the first week, October 2-7, participants were taught the principles and methods employed in establishing ecological risk assessment programs. The program consisted of lectures on the framework and rationale for ERA, classical contaminant analyses, microscale testing, and how to access on-line databases to assist with formulating risk assessments. The lectures were complemented with laboratory demonstrations involving sample preparation and contaminant analyses, microscale testing, sea urchin lethality and development test and enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA).
Participants returned to their home environments, designed risk assessment strategy and proposed a problem formulation for an actual resource issue in their environment, and then returned to HIMB, March 5-10, '06, and discussed the ERA strategy and work plan with the instructors and other particpants.
FACULTY |
| Mr. Craig Downs, Haereticus Environmental Laboratory, USA |
| Dr. John Manock, University of North Carolina-Wilmington, USA |
| Dr. Robert Richmond, Kewalo Marine Laboratory, University of Hawaii, Manoa, USA |
| Dr. Peter Wells, Environment Canada, Canada |
STUDENT PARTICIPANTS |
| Fuad Al-Horani, Marine Science Station, Jordan |
| Melissa Bos, Hawaii Department of Natural Resources, USA |
| Suchana Chavanich, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand |
| Jesse Cruz, Guam Environmental Protection Agency, Guam |
| Monifa Fiu, World Wildlife Fund, Fiji |
| Diego Gil-Agudelo, INVEMAR, Columbia |
| Dave Gulko, Hawaii Department of Natural Resources, USA |
| Eugene Joseph, Conservation Society of Pohnpei, Pohnpei |
| Ruth Kelty, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminstration, USA |
| Esti Karmarsky-Winter, Tel Aviv University, Israel |
| Kristine McElwee, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminstration, USA |
| Melanie McField, World Wildlife Fund, Belize |
| Angelie Nellas, Seahorse Foundation for Marine Conservation, Philippines |
| Patricia Ramirez Romero, Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico |
| Michelle Taylor, ReefDoctor, UK |
| Voranop Viyakarn, Chulalongkorn University, Thailand |
| Karenne Tun, WorldFish Center, Malaysia |
| Wendy Wiltse, US Environmental Protection Agency, USA |
| David Zakai, Israel Nature/National Parks Protection, Israel |
Wells P, Downs C, Manock J eds. (2006) Ecological risk characterization for coral reefs: 2005 Edwin W. Pauley Course. Kaneohe, Hawaii, 89 pp. (Download Report)
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A list of publications that directly or indirectly resulted from scientific concepts, training, or research experiences during the Pauley Summer Program.