She spoke as a representative of the Ecosystem Management end-user group, discussing Pacific Northwest applications of NOAA data for estuarine wetland conservation, restoration and strategic planning. Laura's presentation focused on collaboration between Estuary Technical Group members and NOAA's NOAA/Center for Operational Oceanographic Products and Services (CO-OPS) and NOAA/National Geodetic Survey (NGS). This recent collaboration has been supported by the Cooperative Institute for Coastal and Estuarine Environmental Technology (CICEET, http://ciceet.unh.edu/). The CICEET project team includes ETG members Craig Cornu as Principal Investigator, Brophy as technical lead, and Paul Adamus and John Christy as co-investigators; the project abstract is available at http://rfp.ciceet.unh.edu/projects/abstract.php?chosen=199 and all project reports are available at http://www.ciceet.unh.edu.