Office News - Updated April 2006

Outreach Efforts:

Ecosystem Indicators - European Environmental Agency, Briefing for Executive Director, Copenhagen, Denmark (Nov. 2003)

Multiple Marine Ecological Disturbance - International Council for the Exporation of the Sea (ICES. Copenhagen, DK (Nov. 2003).

U.S. Marine Ecosystem Monitoring Programs. US ICES delegate to study group on Ecosystem Health, Gdynia, Poland (Nov. 2003).

Ecosystem Health - Baltic Sea Regional Program. ICES Study Group Pollution and Ecosystem health, Gdynia Poland (Nov. 2003).

The HEED MMED Approach for the Baltic. ICES Study Group Pollution and Ecosystem Health, Gdynia Poland (Nov. 2003).

Lobster Health Issues and the Environment in Rhode Island Workshop, URI-GSO Narragansett, RI (2003)


Columbia University, CERC, Conservation Medicine Guest Lecture (April 2002)

Toxicology and EPA Superfund Symposium. Duke University Durham, NC ( April 2002)

Global Ocean Observation System. Oceans.US Arlie House, Warrenton,
VA (March 2002)

Evaluation of Health /Performance: Sex and Money Lecture. Computer
Measurement Group. Anahiem CA (Dec 2001)

Consortium for Conservation Medicine Retreat Tufts University School
of Veterinary Medicine (October 2001)

Bioscapes - Integrating Conservation Objectives in NY Landscapes. Wildlife Trust, Tarrytown, NY (September
2001)

Interdisciplinarity - Biogeosciences at the Threshold Workshop,
American Geophysical Union, Elkridge, MD (March 2001)

Establishing Baseline Trends in the Health of California's Marine
Ecosystems- NMFS, UC Santa Cruz (Jan. 2001)

Marine Ecosystem Health Assessment of the Eastern Pacific Ocean-
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute (Jan. 2001)

Correlation of Diverse Disturbance Data to Better Understand Climate
Variability, AGU SaFr. Session.co-chair (Dec. 2000)

Rock Crab Gender and Commodities Trading AI & Neural Networks
- Greenwich Tech. Partners NY, NY (Dec. 2000)

Data Archiving - Earth Oceans and Space Seminar University of New
Hampshire. Durham, NH (October 2000)

Marine Disturbance - Marine Sentinels Workshop. Wildlife Preservation
Trust Tarrytown, NY (October 2000)

Ecological Indicators -U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 5th
Annual NHEERL Conference. Durham, NC (May 2000)

Tracking Marine Morbidity - U. S. Environmental Protection Agency,
Gulf Ecology Division NHEERL, FL (Feb. 2000)

Wild Life Preservation Trust International
and CIESIN Talk. Columbia University.
Lamont Doherty Earth Observatory (Dec. 1999)

Marine Disease Data Mining - Health
of the Oceans, UN IOC NIEHS Workshop- Bermuda Biological St.
(Nov. 1999).

Marine Data Standards- Estuarine Research Federation International
Workshop. New Orleans (Sep. 1999).

Baltic Sea Information System Development- Sea Fisheries Institute,
Gdnya, Poland (July 1999).

HEED Data System -Coastal Global Ocean Obs. System Workshop. Chesapeake
Bio. Lab. Solomons, MD (May 1999).

New England Climate Change, Health and Water Resources Workshops,
Univ. of NH (Mar. 1999)

State of the World's Ecosystems- World Resources Institute, Experts
Meeting, World Bank, NY (Feb. 1999).

Marine Information Survey Methods- U. S. General Accounting Office.
Water Div. Boston, MA (Jan. 1999).

Health of the Oceans Congressional Briefing, Washington D.C. and
Press Conference (December 1998).

Pfiesteria piscicida and Climate. American Public Health Association,
Pfiesteria Workshop, D. C. (Dec. 1998)

Marine Data Mining- New England Estuarine Research Society Fall
Meeting, Woods Hole, MA (Oct. 1998).

Gulf Breeze Workshop on CGOOS and HAB databases, NHEERL, GED, EPA,
FL (fall 1998)

Marine Data Rescue - National Ocean Data Center. National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration (June 1998).

Year of the Oceans, New England Regional Telecast. Boston, MA (June
1998)

HEED Global Change Program- Environmental Protection Agency- Narragansett,
RI (April 1998).

New England Aquarium, Lowell Lecture Series. Marine Disease Exhibit.
Boston, MA (April 1998)

Harvard School of Public Health & Boston Museum of Science Family
Sci. Weekend.Museum of Science, Cambridge MA (March 1998)

Global Database & Marine GIS-
International Soc. for Aquatic Animal Health Conference, Baltimore,
MD. (August. 1998).

Inventory of Disease Data- Maryland DNR Fisheries Service. Lesion
Workshop. Oxford, MD (July 1998).

NOAA Site Visit . Kirk Waters(NOAA-CSC) and Pat Tester (NOAA-COP),Durham,
NH. (January 1998).

Climate, Oceans and Health- U. S. National Research Council- Ocean
Studies Board. Washington, D. C. (Nov, 1997).

Marine Disturbance Data Warehousing Plenary Speaker - U. S. National
Academy of Sciences-

National Research Council Conf.
on Scientific and Technical Data Exchange and Integration,–
Bethesda MD (December 1997).

Coastal Zone 97. Boston, MA (summer 1997).

HEED Dept. of Health Statistics Talk. Harvard School of Public Health. Boston MA
( 1997).

 HEED Publications

see publications page for more recent publications

1. Sherman. B. H., 2000. Marine Ecosystem Health as an Expression
   of Morbidity, Mortality and Disease Events (Chapter in Volume
   1). Seas at the Millennium. An Environmental Evaluation. Edited
   by C. Sheppard Elsevier Science, New York. 2010p.
2. Sherman, B. H. 2000. Marine Disease, Morbidity and Mortality,
   Toward a Baltic Sea Information System. Proceedings of the International
   Symposium on Fisheries Ecosystem Research and Assessments. Sea
   Fisheries Institute, Morski Instytut Rybacki. Gdynia, Poland.
   July 5- 6 1999 (Submitted: Special Issue of the Bulletin of the
   Sea Fisheries Institute).
3. Hayes, M. L., J. Bonaventura, T. P. Mitchell, B. H. Sherman,
   J. M. Prospero, E. A. Shinn, F. V. Dolah, R. T. Barber. 2000.
   Climate forcing harmful algae blooms and major marine ecological
   disturbances, a functional relationship? Submitted Oct. 15, 1999
   to Hydrobiologia: The International Journal on Limnology and Marine
   Sciences. W. Junk Publishers. The Hague.
4. Epstein, P. R, B. H. Sherman, and J. Rose, 2000. Health, Climate
   and Water Resources. In US Global Change Research Program’s National
   Assessment of Potential Consequences of Climate Change and Variability
   (S. M. Bernard, J. Patz, M. McGeehin and J. Scheraga eds., Health
   Assessment) (In Review).
5. Sherman, B. H., W. S. Fisher and P. R. Epstein, 2000. Methodology
   for Marine Disturbance Impact Evaluation. Marine Pollution Bulletin
   (Special Issue). In Preparation.
6. Sherman, B. H. 1999. Disturbance Indicators for Time Series
   Reconstruction and Marine Ecosystem Health Impact Assessment.
   Ph.D. Dissertation.(175pgs) - Could someone help me publish this?
   I could really use the Diploma!!!!!.
7. Harvell, C. D., Kim, K., Burkholder, J. M., Colwell, R. R.,
   Epstein, P. R., Grimes, D. J., Hofmann, E. E., Lipp, E. K., Osterhaus,
   A. D. M. E., Overstreet, R. M., Porter, J. W., Smith G. W., and
   G. R. Vasta. 1999. Emerging marine diseases Climate links and
   anthropogenic factors. Science 285:1505-1510.
8. Fisher, W. S. and B. H. Sherman, 1999. Integrated monitoring
   of marine disease and mortality. 91 st Annual Meeting of the National
   Shellfisheries Assoc. Halifax, Canada, April 1999. J. Shellfish
   Res. 18: 318
9. Sherman, B. H. 1999. Tracking Marine Disturbance Morbidity and
   Mortality. A Retrospective Data Analysis and Prototype Monitoring
   System. In Causes and Effects of Ulcerative Lesions in fish. Proceedings
   of a Workshop Easton, Maryland August 11- 12, 1998. Eds. S. J.
   Jordan C. J. Sindermann, A. Rosenfield, E. B. Maryland Department
   of Natural Resources Fisheries Service Paul S. Sarbanes Cooperative
   Oxford Laboratory July, 1999.
10. Epsetin, P.R. 1999. Large Marine Ecosystem Helath and Human
    Health. in H. Kumpf, K. Steidinger and K. Sherman (eds). Gulf
    of Mexico Large Marine Ecosystem . Assessment, Sustainaibility,
    and Managment H. Kumpf, K. Steidinger and K. Sherman (eds). pp.
    459-475.
11. Bernard S. M., J. Rose, B. H. Sherman, M. McGeehin J. Scheraga,
    J. Patz. 1999. Water, Health, and Climate: Assessing the Potential
    Consequences of Climate Change and Variability on Waterborne Disease
    Risk. The American Water Resources Association 1999 Conference.
    Potential Consequences of Climate Variability and Change to Water
    Resources of the US Atlanta, Georgia, May 10- 12, 1999
12. Fisher, W. S., P. R. Epstein, and B. H. Sherman 1999. Overview
    of health, ecological and economic dimensions of global change:
    tracking marine disturbance and disease. In: T. J. O’Shea, R.
    R. Reeves and A. K. Long (editors) Marine Mammals and Persistent
    Ocean Contaminants. Marine Mammal Commission, pp. 113- 116
13. Epstein, P. R., B. H. Sherman and E. Spanger- Siegfried (Eds),
    1999. Extreme Weather Events. The Health and Economic Consequences
    of the 1997- 1998 El Nino and La Nina. The Center for Health and
    the Global Environment. Harvard Medical School. January 1999.
14. HEED 1998. Health Ecological and Economic Dimensions of Global
    Change Program. Marine Ecosystems: Emerging Diseases As Indicators
    Of Change. Health of the Oceans from Labrador to Venezuela. Year
    of the Ocean Special Report. NOAA- OGP and NASA Grant number NA56GP
    0623. (Eds.) P. R. Epstein, B. H. Sherman, E. S. Siegfried, A
    Langston, S Prasad, B. Mckay. December 1998. Published by The
    Center for Conservation Medicine and CHGE Harvard Medical School,
    Boston, MA. 85p.
15. Sherman. B. H. 1997. "Health, Ecological, and Economic Dimensions
    of Global Change: Tracking Marine Disturbance and Disease," Proceedings
    of the National Academy of Sciences - Conference on Scientific
    and Technical Data Exchange and Integration. Sponsored by the
    U. S. National Committee for CODATA, National Research Council.
    NIH, Bethesda, Maryland. Dec. 15- 17, 1997.
16. Sherman, B. H. 1994. "Toward a Unified Environmental Studies:
    Theory and Method for Landscape Ecological Assessment, Monitoring,
    and Management of Multijurisdictional Regions." Masters Thesis,
    Institute for Environmental Studies Land Resources Program. University
    of WI- Madison (1994).

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