Past Meetings
Alternative Ballast Water Exchange Areas Meeting, June 20-22, 2006
Ballast Water Exchange Zone Publications
- West Coast Oceanography: Implications for Ballast Water Exchange (Barth et al. 2002)
- Ecological and Oceanographic Criteria for Alternate Ballast Water Exchange Zones in the Pacific Region (Canada) (Levings and Foreman 2004)
- Ballast Water and Shipping Patterns in Puget Sound: Considerations for Siting of Alternative Ballast Water Exchange Zones (Gramling 2000)
- “Ballast Water Exchange: Exploring the Feasibility of Alternate Ballast Water Exchange zones in the North Atlantic (Pederson 2004)
Ballast Water Exchange Zone Exclusion Maps (PDF):
- About the Ballast Water Exchange Zone Exclusion Maps
- Ballast Water Retention Zone Poster Overview
- Ballast Water Retention Zone North
- Ballast Water Retention Zone South
- Ballast Water Retention Zone Central
Meeting Presentations (PowerPoint):
- Ballast Water and Shipping Patterns in Washington State, Kevin Anderson
- Vertical Distribution and Migration of Zooplankton, Stephen M. Bollens
- Ecological and Oceanographic Criteria for Alternate Ballast Water Exchange Areas in the Pacific Region, Robin Brown
- Wind-Driven Shelf Dynamics and Their Influence on River Plumes: Implications for Surface Parcel Transport, Ed Dever
- Distribution and Abundance of Pelagic Fish Resources, Robert Emmett
- Alternative Exchange Areas: Concepts, Federal and International Legislation, Regulation and Policy, Rich Everett
- State of California Alternate Ballast Water Exchange Areas Perspectives, Maurya Falkner
- Dispersal of Introduced Species in the Coastal Oceans, Ted Grosholz
- Groundfish Essential Fish Habitat (EFH) GIS Mapping, Van Hare
- Inferences for Biological Transport: Results from a West Coast Drift Card Study, Vanessa Howard
- Ocean-Coast Exchange Process and SeaSonde Mapping, Mike Kosro
- Off the Beaten Track: Invasion of Minimally Exposed Estuaries in the Columbian Biogeographic Province, Henry Lee
- Coastal Ballast Water Exchange on the West Coast of North America: Developing a Regional Plan (2001-2003), Karen McDowell
- The California Current System from a Lagrangian Perspective, Carter Ohlmann
- Ballast Water Exchange: Exploring the Feasibility of Alternative Exchange Zones in the North Atlantic, Judith Pederson
- Alternate Ballast Water Exchange Areas: Workshop on Physica and Biological Oceanographic Considerations, Stephen Phillips
- Ship Mediated Invasions and Geographic Spread Along the West Coast, Greg Ruiz
- Coastal Oceanography, Larval Behavior and the Cross-shelf Transport of Larvae, Alan Shanks
- Ocean Circulation Along the US West Coast: Big, Little and In Between, Kipp Shearman
- Application of the GNOME Oil Spill Trajectory Model, Glen Watabayashi