Dear ROSA Community,
I am pleased to present our 2021 Year in Review, which outlines all that we as a community accomplished last year – from establishing research advisors to hiring our research director to working on data sharing, a regional framework, and gear standardization. Thank you to everyone who contributed to ROSA’s mission. The number of volunteer hours that were committed is immense and much appreciated – and we are making great progress on laying the groundwork for conducting research at the intersection of offshore wind and fisheries.
We have a big agenda for 2022, including developing the regional framework and strategies to improve data sharing, and look forward to collaborating across sectors to bring these and other projects to fruition.
If you have ideas for advancing ROSA’s key initiatives or suggestions on how we can most effectively work together, or know of others with whom we should be partnering, I would love to hear from you. Please reach out to me at lyndie@rosascience.org. It would be wonderful to connect with you.
Please read other announcements related to ROSA work below.
Plans for a Productive Spring
Due to the depth of work that we will be undertaking on a number of projects in coming months, we will not be holding an Advisory Council meeting this spring. Instead, Advisory Council subcommittees will collaborate with ROSA staff on gear standardization, fishermen’s ecological knowledge, data sharing, and the regional framework, and Research Advisors will provide input to the subcommittees, as well as continue to review sections of the Synthesis of the Science report.
Staff will send updates via email to members of ROSA’s governance bodies, and we will look forward to convening for a rich discussion at the next Advisory Council meeting, to be held in May or June.