Atlantic and Gulf Rapid Reef Assessment

Workshops

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Training participants in applying the AGRRA protocol is essential for capacity building, as well as ensuring that assessments made by different teams are comparable. For these reasons we have hosted three large training workshop over the last two years. 

The first, for 12 participants, was sponsored by the Bonaire Marine Park and hosted by its director, Kalli De Meyer. The second, for 24 reef scientists from Central America, was sponsored by the World Bank/Netherlands Partnership Fund and held in Akumal, Mexico. The most recent workshop at Discovery Bay in Jamaica, sponsored in part by USAID and UNEP, hosted 20 scientists and managers.

These intensive five to seven day workshops combine numerous field exercises, presentations, hands-on data analysis, and discussions. The best measure of success of these workshops is that many of the participants have lead or participated in subsequent AGRRA assessments. 

Additional workshops were held in Miami to review the AGRRA protocol and get regional scientific input (1999) and to synthesize the results from AGRRA surveys conducted over the last three years (2000).

The latest workshop was held in Barbados, to release the version 4.0 of the Protocol.

AGRRA Methods Workshop, Miami 1998 Bonaire Workshop Report, Feb. 1-5, 1999 Mesoamerican Barrier Reef System   Workshop, May 17-21, 1999.  Jamaica workshop, August 1-6, 2000

AGRRA Results Workshop, Miami 2000 AGRRA Training Workshop, Barbados, June 5-11, 2005 AGRRA Training Exercise

Robert N. Ginsburg Atlantic and Gulf Rapid Reef Assessment MGG-RSMAS, University of Miami 4600 Rickenbacker Causeway Miami, FL 33149 USA	Telephone: (305) 421-4664 Email: info@agrra.org Send data to: data@agrra.org URL: http://www.agrra.org

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