The Oceans and Human Health Initiative (OHHI) Principal Investigators Meeting for 2007 took place at the Holiday Inn in Muskegon, MI from 22-24 October 2007.
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Monday, 22 October 2007
08:30	Welcome from NOAA's OHHI and from local host	Stephen Brandt
08:40	Welcome to the All PI's Meeting: NOAA's OHHI Programmatic and Strategic Plan Overview; Introduction of Advisory Panel; Announcement of Traineeship Awardees; and Funding Future	Juli Trtanj
09:10	Interagency OHHI Research Program: Relevant Reports and Interagency Efforts	Paul Sandifer
09:25	Goals of the All PI's Meeting, Meeting Outcomes and Organization
09:40	Open Forum: Q + A
10:00	Introduction to Goal 1 - Early Warning Systems
10:20	Coffee Break
10:40	Goal 1: Early Warning Systems: Beach Management and Drinking Water Safety
	The Use of Remote Sensing and Molecular Detection to Predict the Risk of Infection by Vibrio parahaemolyticus	Jay Grimes
	Update on Pathogen Source Tracking Research at the Hollings Marine Laboratory	Jill Stewart
	Predictability of Endemic Cholera: The Role of the Oceans and Disease Dynamics	Benjamin Cash
	Update on tools and technologies for detection of microbial contaminants in coastal waters	Kelly Goodwin
	Spatially Distributed Surface-Subsurface Watershed Hydrology Model of Water and Materials Runoff	Tom Croley
	Dynamics and Modeling of Lake River Plumes	Phil Roberts
	Predicting Pathogen Fate in the Great Lakes Coastal Environment	Sandra McLellan
	Predicting the Fate of Tributary Discharges into Coastal Waters	David Schwab
	Virtual Beach: Nowcasting and Forecasting Beach Bacteria Concentration	Walter Frick
	Transport of Suspended Sediment/Indicator Bacteria in the Grand River Watershed	Phanikumar Mantha
	Estimating Spatial Distributions of Nonpoint Source Pollution Loadings by Using že Distributed Large Basin Runoff Model	Chansheng He
	Remote sensing to support "Ecosystem research and Harmful Algal Blooms"	Tim Wynne
	Predicting Health Threats from Environmental Conditions: Fecal Pollution, Vibrio cholerae, and Harmful Algae	Alexandria Boehm
	Climate Impacts, Ocean Observing Systems & Harmful Algal Blooms	Kathi Lefebvre
10:40	Goal 1: Early Warning Systems: Sentinel Species/Habitats
	Marine Mammals as Sentinels:essons Learned and Future Directions	Frances Gulland
	The impact of different classes of PCBs on marine mammal and human health: a new assessment of immunotoxicity	Sylvain De Guise
	Zoonoses in Gulf of Maine Sentinel Marine Vertebrates: Vectors or Victims?	Michael Moore
	The Impact of Marine-Origin Brucella on Marine Mammal and Human Health	Cara Field
	Sub-lethal Effects of Domoic Acid on California Sea Lions, Sentinels of Ocean Changes that Affect Human Health	Frances Gulland
	Satellite prediction and tracking of harmful algal blooms	Peter Strutton
	PBDEs in resident Puget Sound Chinook salmon and in utero risk from dietary exposures during pregnancy	Evan Gallagher
	Marine Organisms as Disease Vectors: Multi-Stressor Effects	Karen Burnett
	Applied Marine Genomics	Robert Chapman
	Emerging Chemical Contaminants of Concern Program	Michael Fulton
	Sentinel Habitats: Tidal Creeks Monitoring and Assessment	Denise Sanger
16:00	Goal 1: Early Warning Systems: Seafood Safety
	Human Pathogens in Shellfish Harvesting Waters: Relating Climate, Water Quality and Disease Outcomes	Erin Lipp
	Mercury Dynamics in the Louisiana Gulf of Mexico: Sediment Biogeochemistry, Trophic Transfer, and Human Exposure	James Shine
	Antibiotic Resistance in Coastal Vibrio and E. coli: Potential Role of Indirect Selection? (PDF)	Ramunas Stepanauskas
18:00	Poster Session
	Tuesday, 23 October 2007
08:00	Goal 1: Early Warning Systems: Beach Management and Drinking Water Safety and Seafood Safety (continued)
	Estimating Impacts of Combined Sewer Overflows Relating to the Protozoan Cryptosporidium	Joan Rose
	Identification, Characterization and Inventory of Novel Freshwater Biotoxins	Greg Boyer
	Pseudo-nitzschia: Emerging HAB threat in the Gulf of Maine	Deana Erdner
	Brevetoxin accumulation in fish and potential for human health impacts	Jerome Naar
	Impacts of cyanobacterial HABs on human health in the Great Lakes	Juli Dyble
08:00	Goal 2: Benefits from the Sea: Natural Products and Pharmaceuticals
	Overview of Goal 2	Paul Sandifer
	Lead Compounds from Marine Bacteria	Robert Bidigare
	Sampling Diverse Sedimentary Environments for Novel Microbial Resources	David Rowley
	Exploration of Diversity and Pharmaceutical Potential of Marine Fungi in Hawaii	Guangyi Wang
09:20	Goal 2: Benefits from the Sea: Biomedical Models
	Effects of Brevetoxins on Immune Cells	Cathy Walsh
	COX-2 Upregulation in a Rodent Model of Domoic Acid Toxicity	Cheryl Cross
	A Small Fish in a Big Pond: The Power of the Zebrafish Model for Oceans and Human Health Research	John Incardona
10:40	Goal 2: Benefits from the Sea: Seafood Quality
	The Seafood Dilemma - A Way Forward	Tracy Collier
	Safer Shellfish: Reducing the Vibrio Risks	Mark Strom
	Seafood Benefits and Risks: Exploring the Balance between Beneficial Fatty Acids and Chemical Contaminants to Enhance Seafood Quality through Improved Aquaculture Technologies	John Leffler
11:45	OHHI Data and Information Management Update	Steve Williams
12:05	Lunch
13:10	Introduction to Goal 3: Ocean and Human Health Community and Case Study	Caroyln Sotka
13:30	"Science Communication: Connecting your Findings, Products and Services to Managers, Policymakers, the Public and Media": Communications Training and Interactive Exercise
16:00	Lake Michigan Field Station and R/V Tour
18:30	Reception
Wednesday, 24 October 2007
08:30	Breakout Groups
11:45	Lunch
12:15	Breakout Group Reports
13:15	Closing Remarks
13:30	Meeting Adjourns