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Conference	Title	Presented by	Year
Journal Of Ocean & Coastal Management	Shifting shorelines and political winds – The complexities of implementing the simple idea of shoreline setbacks for oceanfront developments in Maui, Hawaii	JOCM #73 pages 13-21. Elsevier Publications	2013
	ASCE Coastal Disasters power point presentation (33.4 mb)
ASCE Solutions to Coastal Disasters	Erosion-based Shoreline Setbacks – Lessons for Policy Implementation	Thorne Abbott and Zoe Norcross-Nuu	2008
Coastal Zone 05	Adoption of Erosion-based Shoreline Setbacks in Maui, HI	Thorne Abbott and Zoe Norcross-Nuu	2005
Ocean & Coastal Council	Govenor’s Appointee and Representative of Maui County		ongoing
HI CZMP Coastal Erosion Committee	Co-representative (with Zoe Norcross-Nuu) for Maui County		ongoing
National MPA Advisory Committee	Public Testimony		2004
World Parks Congress	Contributing Author. Marine Protected Area Management Effectiveness Indicators. An Assessment of Governance Indicators for Bird Island Sanctuary	IUCN/WWF publication	2003
Pacific Fisheries Regional Workshop	Fisheries Laws of the Northern Mariana Islands	Richard B. Seman	2003
U.S. Coral Reef Task Force Meeting	Status of Marine Protected Areas of the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands	Richard B. Seman	2003
6th Mitigation Banking Conference	Crafting Workable Management Plans for the Nigthengale Reed-Warbler	Ben Camacho, Daniel Furhh	2003
Coastal Zone ’03	From Paper to Park – Mariana’s Style	Thorne Abbott	2003
NOAA mpa.gov	Inventory of Marine Protected and Managed Areas of the CNMI	Thorne Abbott	2002
WESTPac Annual Meeting	Benefits of Marine Protected Areas of the CNMI	Thorne Abbott	2002
17th All Islands Coastal Managers Meeting	Status of Marine Protected Areas of the CNMI	Thorne Abbott	2002
Coastal Zone Asia	New Methods of Environmental Monitoring in MPAs	Thorne Abbott	2002
The 17th Coastal Society Conference: Coasts At The Millennium	The Use of Multi-Tiered Probabilistic Risk Assessments at a Watershed LevelNew Advances in Environmental Monitoring: Time Lapse Video of Manta Ray Bay	Thorne Abbott	2000
International Coral Reef Symposium	Constructed Wetlands in Southeast Asia	unpresented	2000
Coastal Zone ’99	The Use of Time-Lapse Video, Great Barrier Reef Marine Park	Thorne Abbott	1999
New England Water Environment Association	National Research Trends and Biosolids Issues as they Pertain to New England	Thorne Abbott	1999
Conference On Urban Water Quality, Paris-Quebec	The Use of Ecological Risk Assessments at the Watershed Level	Thorne Abbott	1998
Florida Water Reuse Special Committee	Pathogen Removal and Inactivation in Wastewater Reclamation	Project Proposal	1998
New York Water Environment Association	National Research Needs and Wet Weather Issues	Thorne Abbott	1998
Chesapeake Bay Water Environment Association	Nutrient Removal and Non-Point Source Issues	Thorne Abbott	1998
Environmental Design Research Association	New Methods in Environmental Monitoring	Thorne Abbott	1997
Pine Creek Land Conservation Trust	An Environmental Management Plan for the Wildwood Ravine, Crouse Run Open Space Proposed Protected Area	Land Stewardship Proposal	1996
CRC Reef Research Center	Time Lapse Video Monitoring of Manta Ray Bay in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park	Technical Report	1996
Great Barier Reef Marine Park Authority	Time Lapse Video Monitoring of Manta Ray Bay in the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park	Seminar	1995
Honolulu, HI	Facilitator, Participant: Barbers Point Redevelopment Charette	Public Planning Process	1994
Hawaii State Legislative	An Analysis of the Interactive Effects of Oil Liability Laws as they Pertain to Hawaii. Oil Pollution Act of 1990	Congressional Report	1993
City and County of Honolulu, HI	The Ala Wai Canal Restoration Project – Results of the Scoping Phase	KRP Environmental Consulting Services	1992
Environmental Engineering Conference, WVU	Populations of high sensitivity to air pollutants in Morgantown, West Virginia	Technical Report	1991
City of Wheeling, WV	A Recycling Program for the City and County of Wheeling, WV	White Paper	1991

Workshops & Specialty Training

EPA’s Community Profiling
Workshop
Ms. L. Trainor, EPA. July 2000,
Portland, OR

Coral Reef Tissue Histology

Dr. Peters, George Washington University. March 2000,
Washington, DC

Marine Resource Management for Dive
Professionals Seminar
Mr. Alan Brylske.
October 1999, Washington, DC

Negotiating to Win Seminar

American Management Association.September 1998, Washington,
DC

Effective Public Speaking
Seminar
American Management Association.June
1997, Washington, DC

Specialty Conferences

• Hawaii Congress of Planners 2004
• Watershed 1996 & 1998
• Benchmarking Wastewater Utilities
• Agricultural Runoff and Nutrification of the Chesapeake
  Bay
• Biosolids Management