Oceans and Human Health Public Health Workshop, January 2006

2006年1月23日至25日，佛罗里达州圣彼得堡随着我们的沿海水域和海滩变得更加发达，成为多用途地区，它们受到人类和环境压力因素的综合影响，其影响往往不清楚，也难以管理。与此同时，科学家们正在努力更好地理解、监测和预测这些复杂的系统。在该奖项的支持下，大学大气研究公司（UCAR）将组织一次讲习班，汇集管理人员、沿海公共卫生官员和科学家，确定基于生态系统的决策所需的观测和环境信息，以解决与沿海水域有关的公共卫生问题。本次讲习班的一个关键目标是为建立一个综合的全球海洋观测和疾病监测系统制定蓝图，该系统能够向管理人员和决策者提供有关海洋和沿海公共卫生风险的有用和及时的信息。虽然显然需要通过观察来解决一系列公共卫生问题，但本次讲习班将侧重于与海滩管理广泛相关的问题，包括病原体、海洋疾病、有害藻华和海洋生物毒素，并将介绍与上述主题有关的哨兵物种的使用问题。这个为期2.5天的研讨会将采用互动形式，由管理人员、科学家和观测界的发言组成，以及一系列有针对性的工作组，重点确定与海洋观测和预测相关的关键知识差距的解决方案。将为海滩和沿海公共卫生管理人员编写一份报告，并用于综合海洋观测系统的规划过程。这次讲习班的成果还将为在海洋、海岸和五大湖与人类健康交界工作的机构的规划进程、筹资活动、规章和业务能力的演变提供信息。

Assessing Public Health Risks: Coastal Observations for Decision Making January 23-25, 2006 St. Petersburg, Florida As our coastal waters and beaches become more developed, multi-use areas, they are subject to a combination of human and environmental stressors, the impact of which is often unclear and difficult to manage. At the same time, scientists are working to better understand, monitor, and predict these complicated systems.With support from this award, the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) will organize a workshop to bring together managers, coastal public health officials, and scientists to identify observations and environmental information needed for ecosystem-based decision making for public health issues related to coastal waters. A key goal of this workshop will be to develop a blueprint for building an integrated global ocean observation and disease surveillance system that can deliver useful and timely information about ocean and coastal public health risks to managers and decision-makers. While the need for observations to address a suite of public health issues is apparent, this workshop will focus on issues broadly related to beach management, including pathogens, marine diseases, harmful algal blooms and marine biotoxins, and will introduce the use of sentinel species issues as they related to the above topics.The format for this 2.5 day workshop will be interactive with a combination of presentations from managers, scientists, and the observation community, as well as a series of targeted working groups focused identifying solutions to key knowledge gaps related to ocean observations and predictions. A report will be produced for beach and coastal public health managers, and used in the planning process for the Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS). The results of this workshop will also inform planning processes, funding activity, regulations, and the evolution of operational capabilities of agencies working at the interface of oceans, coasts, and Great Lakes, and human health.