9:00-9:45

Welcome and Introductions
Review agenda for this meeting (126 KB)
Review Meeting Protocols (46 KB) and Guidelines for Public Comment (18 KB)
Approve First Plenary Meeting summary (386 KB)

9:45-10:40

Review, discuss, and reach agreement on Operating Procedures (38 KB) including the Marine Mammal Commission's proposed new language (10 KB) for the Operating Procedures

10:40-10:55

Break

10:55-12:15

Session I: Background on assessing the risk to marine mammals from anthropogenic sound (25-minute presentations with 15 minutes for Committee discussion)

10:55

Overview of past efforts: High Energy Seismic Studies (HESS) Panel and National Research Council (NRC) Panel reports (338 KB) -- Douglas Wartzok

11:35

Current risk analysis activities under the Endangered Species Act and the Marine Mammal Protection Act (435 KB) -- Penny Ruvelas and Donna Wieting

12:15-1:15

Lunch

1:15-4:15

Session II: Examples of Risk Assessment Methods (20-minute presentations with 20 minutes for Committee discussion)

Panelists will address:

1. How are specific approaches used to assess risks to marine mammals from anthropogenic sound, including risk criteria and assumptions used, if any?
2. What challenges have arisen in assessing risk using these methods, including types of information needed?

1:15

Application of Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) risk assessment model to marine mammals and sound (1.8 MB) -- John Harwood

1:55

Effects of Sound on the Marine Environment (ESME) model (2.3 MB) -- Bob Gisiner

2:35

Break

2:55

U.K. Navy risk mitigation and management (730 KB) -- Claire Burt

3:35

U.S. Navy low-frequency active sonar environmental impact statement (490 KB) -- Kurt Fristrup

4:15-4:45

Report from Beaked Whale Technical Workshop (152 KB) -- Andy Read

4:45-5:15

Public comment period

Written comments (11.2 KB) Submitted 20 February 2004 by B. Sachau, Florham Park, NJ

Written comments (1.1 MB) Submitted 11 March 2004 by U.S. Representatives Sam Farr, Barbara Lee, Lynn Woolsey, Adam Schiff, Bob Filner, Loretta Sanchez, Anna Eshoo, and Michael Honda

Commission response (82 KB) to public comments by U.S. Representatives Sam Farr et al.

5:15-5:30

Wrap up and adjourn

8:30-8:45

Opening remarks and comments on day one

8:45-12:30

Session III: Emerging Approaches -- Noise Exposure Criteria (13.3 MB) (presentations followed by Committee discussion)

• Background on development and intended use of criteria -- Donna Wieting
• Overview of history and scope of noise exposure criteria -- Roger Gentry
• Structure of noise exposure criteria matrix -- Brandon Southall
• Scientific Basis for noise exposure criteria -- Roger Gentry and Members of thee Acoustic Science Panel convened by NOAA Fisheries: Ann Bowles, Jim Finneran, Charles Greene, Darlene Ketten, James Miller, John Richardson, and Peter Tyack
• Summarize noise exposure criteria approach -- NOAA Fisheries

12:30-1:30

Lunch

1:30-3:45

Development of policy guidelines for the application of Noise Exposure Criteria
Questions and discussion with Donna Wieting: How noise exposure criteria could be applied in NOAA Fisheries' regulatory decisions about incidental take and harassment
Plenary discussion: Most useful portions of the proposed criteria? Major concerns?

3:45-4:00

Break

4:00-4:30

Summarize what has been accomplished through presentation and discussion -- What more is needed by the Committee on this topic?

4:30-5:00

Public comment period

5:00

Wrap up and adjourn

5:30

Reception

8:30-8:35

Opening remarks and review tasks for day three

8:35-9:45

Follow up on interim work since the First Plenary Meeting

• Report from the Subcommittee on Existing Knowledge and discussion of next steps (24 KB) -- Naomi Rose
• Update on International Workshop (1.7 MB) -- Erin Vos

9:45-10:00

Break

10:00-11:45

Plan for the Committee's next steps

• Discussion of a Management and Mitigation Subcommittee, including Proposed Management and Mitigation Subcommittee Charge (9 KB)
• Plan the agenda for the Third Plenary Meeting -- Proposed Topics for Plenary Three (68 KB)

11:45-12:00

Wrap up and adjourn