1. WP6: Coastal Transects 3 rd Steering Committee Meeting Los Banos, 12 March 2007 Ratana Chuenpagdee, Coastal Development Centre, Thailand Kungwan Juntarashote, Coastal Development Centre, Thailand Suphakarn Traesupap, Coastal Development Centre, Thailand Robert Kay, International Governance Solutions, UK Graham Pierce, University of Aberdeen, UK Cristina Pita, University of Aberdeen, UK Jianjun Wong, University of Aberdeen, UK

2. WP6 Overall goals To develop a framework for compilation and analysis of data for the understanding of interactions and flows in the coastal zone; To provide coastal managers with a decision-making framework and communication tool for integrated management plan for coastal areas.

3. Key activities and achievements since the last meeting Development of CTAM (Coastal Transects Analysis Model) Visualization (2D-complete, 2.5D in progress) Classification (done) (D6.2) Interactions and flow (first draft done) (D6.3) Manuscripts (drafted and revised) Paper # 1, based on D6.1 (stakeholder engagement tools) Papers # 2 & 3, based on D6.2

4. CTAM Phase I

5. CTAM Phase II

6. Dissemination Launching of CTAM Phase I at the 3 rd Coastal Zone Asia-Pacific (CZAP), Batam, Indonesia, August 2006; Panel presentation at Coastal Zone’07 Conference, Portland, July 2007 (together with WP8); Keynote presentation at CHARM Project Conference, Krabi, Thailand, August 2007.

7. Issues and challenges What’s going for us: Team members’ interests; Great help from FishBase team! Difficulties: Getting people to use CTAM

8. Next steps Finalization of CTAM Phase II; Model testing and decision-making scenarios (D6.4); Collaboration with other WPs WP8 WP5 WP9 Two more papers, based on D6.3 and D6.4

9. http://fishbase.sinica.edu.tw/report/t/page1/default.htm