Goals
Based on the March 2007 EBM workshop, these work groups have the following goals. The work groups have decided to join together and work collaboratively toward these goals.

1. To learn about the implementation of EBM by understanding how best to manage the interactions between ecology and human activities in the pilot project areas.
2. To create and make accessible coupled human/ecosystem models for managers to assist in making coastal and ocean decisions.

Work group members
Member list

Subgroups
At the meeting on October 19, 2007, it was decided to create 4 sub-groups to pursue aspects of the Work Group 1 & 2 activities. Members joined subgroups based on their skills and interests.

• Goals Subgroup Lead: Jud Crawford
  Update 1/15/08: After a bit of background research, this group developed a list of critical ecosystem services (Excel, 32 KB) in each of the pilot site areas, as well as a report listing the goals and explaining the process (Word, 80 KB) and thinking behind the list. Note that this is simply a starting point to inform the data and modeling sub-groups. It is by no means the final list.
  
• Modeling Subgroup Lead: Les Kaufman
  Update 1/15/08: Les and and others are meeting with the Gund Institute in late February to discuss next steps and we will keep the entire group informed.
  
• Data Subgroup Lead: Nick Wolff
  Update 1/15/08: Nick has created a data portal for this group to share data that are pertinent to the development of the MIMES model.
  
• Funding Subgroup Lead: Andy Rosenberg
  Update 1/15/08: Andy Rosenberg and others are working on funding sources to hire a few post-docs to work specifically on these pilot projects
  

Meetings
October 19, 2007:

• Invitation and agenda
• Meeting summary
  
• MIMES presentation by Roelef Boumans (PDF, 6.1 MB)
  

• Presentation by Peter Lawton (PDF, 3.4 MB)
  

Metadata portal
The Global Change Master Directory metadata portal for the EBM pilot projects is now live at http://gcmd.nasa.gov/portals/ebm/.
Here is more information about the portal from Nick Wolff.

Resources
Useful references relevant to the pilot projects and modeling. Provided by work group members.

Links
MIMES (Multi-scale Integrated Models of Ecosystem Services)
Ecosystem Services Conference, July 2007 (Gund Institute)