PAT-UC Covers - California Sea Grant - UC San Diego

Program Accomplishments & Impacts
Partnerships
From 1998 through 2003, CSG research, extension and
management personnel worked in collaboration with many
local, regional and national organizations on a wide range of
projects. See Appendix F for a list of cooperators and Appendix
E for a list of leveraged funding.
of issues and ideas from the Strategic Plan. Working with Sea
Grant extension staff, that subset was reduced to a manageable
suite of ideas. Those ideas were refined and focused and then
presented to the California Sea Grant Advisory Board on three
successive occasions. On each occasion the Board provided
suggestions on how to refine and focus the plan on a reasonable
set of expectations for two years. Approximately twenty external
stakeholders contributed to the creation of the 2004-2005
Implementation Plan (document enclosed – please note that
this document was originally produced in electronic form).
Plan Implementation
Execution of the strategic and implementation plans is
achieved by continual reference to the plans. Whenever
feasible, adjustments are made in program activities to meet
plan objectives. Examples include decisions on research
funding based on plan priorities, adjustment of advisor and
specialist programs in line with plan priorities, developing
communications products that serve to promote plan priorities,
and sunset of activities that are no longer a program priority.
Fisheries working meeting, 1999. (Photo G. Ratcliffe)
III. LONG-RANGE PLANNING
Strategic Planning Process
The planning process at CSG is continuous, although
punctuated by specific events such as publication of strategic
or implementation plans. At the conclusion of the 1998 PAT
visit, CSG was encouraged to embark on strategic planning.
Interim Director Clinton Winant began this process in 1999,
which culminated in the publication of the California Sea
Grant Strategic Plan 2001-2005. That plan provides strategic
guidance in the six foci areas plus extension, communications
and management. External stakeholders were extensively
consulted in the development of the Strategic Plan; twentyfour
academics throughout California provided critical input
to the plan. The resulting October 1999 publication provides a
strategic road map for CSG until 2005 (document enclosed).
A further refinement in planning was the development of
Implementation Plans. Two such plans have been developed in
the past four years, one for 2002-2003 and the most recent for
2004-2005. In the case of the latter document, again extensive
engagement of external stakeholders and involvement of all Sea
Grant Program components was key to the creation of the plan.
The 2004-2005 Implementation Plan began by taking a subset
Interested parties are referred to the strategic and
implementation plans through a variety of mechanisms.
Both plans are maintained as PDF files on the CSG website.
As investigators prepare preliminary proposals, they are
encouraged to consult these plans. A copy of the executive
summary of the Implementation Plan is included with the
documents for preparing a preliminary proposal. That same
summary is provided to the California Sea Grant Committee
as they embark on their review and evaluation of preliminary
and full proposals. Perhaps most importantly, the management
team makes adjustments in allocation of program resources to
achieve plan objectives.
IV. PRODUCING SIGNIFICANT RESULTS
Contributions to Science and Technology
A complete list of research projects and principal investigators
can be found in Appendix G.
NUMBER OF PUBLICATIONS
CSG-funded research projects resulted in 445 publications from
1998-2002 (see Appendix G).
From 1998 – 2002, CSG researchers, extension staff and
management made 873 presentations at conferences,
workshops and meetings (researchers 361, extension 444, and
management 67).
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California Sea Grant: 1998-2003