Public Input

The general public can make suggestions and comment on the ocean management planning process in many ways including:

1. Attending any of the 18 Public-Input Listening Sessions being held throughout the state from September 18 through October, 2008

2. Visiting the MOP/EEA online Public-Input Website to see video of the Public-Input Listening Sessions, download text transcripts of the events, and submit comments online (site to be launched by mid October), or by

3. Mailing your comments to:

Massachusetts Ocean Plan
Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs
100 Cambridge, 9th Floor
Boston, MA 02114

 

Stakeholder Input

The state will gather stakeholder input through its Workgroups and other means.  Another effective way for organized stakeholder groups (including: recreational/commercial fishers, the marine trades, renewable energy organizations, etc.) to have meaningful input into the ocean-management planning process is by joining the Massachusetts Ocean Partnership.  We bring ocean-interest groups together to collaboratively solve problems, provide input and develop common sense ocean-management planning solutions.

Stakeholder input will be considered by a variety of EEA’s bodies:

1. The EEA’s Ocean Advisory Commission 
2. EEA Science Advisory Council
3. EEA Workgroups

 

Ocean Advisory Commission Members (OAC)

Link to EEA’s OAC information page.

Senator Robert O’Leary

Representing the Cape and Islands

Senator Anthony Petruccelli

Representing the First Suffolk and Middlesex Districts

Senator Bruce Tarr

Representing the First Essex and Middlesex Districts

Representative Frank Smizik

Representing the Fifteenth Norfolk District

Representative Demetrius Atsalis

Representing the Second Barnstable District

Representative Viriato DeMacedo

Representing the First Plymouth District

Deerin Babb-Brott

Assistant Secretary for Oceans and Coastal Zone Management, Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs

Paul Diodati

Director, Division of Marine Fisheries, Department of Fish and Game

Laurie Burt

Commissioner, MA Department of Environmental Protection

Susan Tierney (Chair)

Managing Principal, Analysis Group; (energy sector)

John Pappalardo

Chairman, New England Fishery Management Council; Policy Analyst, Cape Cod Commercial Hook Fishermen’s Association

Jack Clarke

Director of Public Policy and Government Relations, Mass Audubon

Stacey Justus

Planner, Cape Cod Commission

JoAnn Taylor

Coastal Planner, Martha’s Vineyard Commission

Alan Macintosh

Assistant Director, Merrimack Valley Planning Commission

Carolyn Kirk

Mayor, City of Gloucester; Metropolitan Area Planning Council

John Bullard

President, Sea Education Association; Southeastern Regional Planning and Economic Development District

Science Advisory Council Members (SAC)

Link to EEA’s SAC information page.

Dave Terkla

UMass-Boston

Jack  Looney

UMass-Boston

John Duff

UMass-Boston (alternate to Looney)

Anamarija Frankic

UMass-Boston (alternate to Looney)

Frank Muller-karger

UMass - Dartmouth

Wendell Brown

UMass – Dartmouth (alternate to Muller-karger)

Kevin Stokesbury

UMass – Dartmouth (alternate to Muller-karger)

Scott Krauss

New England Aquarium

Priscilla Brooks

Conservation Law Foundation

Carlton Hunt

Battelle

Kathryn Ford

MA Division of Marine Fisheries
William Schwab US Geologic Survey
Todd Callaghan MA Center for Coastal Zone Management  

 

EEA Workgroups (Subject Areas)

  • Habitat
  • Renewable Energy
  • Sediment Management
  • Fisheries
  • Recreational and Cultural
  • Transportation, Navigation, Infrastructure

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