Making Marine Science Matter
The IMCC will be an interdisciplinary
meeting that will engage
natural and social scientists, managers, policy-makers, and the public.
The goal of the IMCC is to put conservation science into
practice through public and media outreach and the development
of science-based deliverables (e.g., policy briefs, blue ribbon
position papers) that will be used to drive policy change and
implementation.
Major themes and cross-cutting
issues that will be addressed include:
Major Themes
- Global Climate Change
- The Land-Sea Interface
- Ecosystem-based Management
- Poverty and Globalization
Cross-cutting issues
encompass topics of global relevance and
importance to marine conservation that relate to the major themes.
Cross-cutting issues
- Marine Protected
Areas
- Education, Outreach and Capacity Building
- Governance Arrangements
- Fisheries and Aquaculture
- Economics
We
anticipate that cross-cut issues will result in proposals on
a variety of sub-topics. Potential topics include but are not
limited to: networks and system development, MPA and MPA network
monitoring and evaluation, high seas impacts, ocean resource use and
planning, international instruments and trans-boundary relations,
human/animal impacts, ecological impacts of ocean acidification,
technology, stakeholder involvement, indigenous issues, improving
public ocean knowledge, incorporating traditional and local knowledge
into decision making, and valuing marine ecosystem services.
This
meeting will serve as the 2nd
International Marine Protected Areas Congress (IMPAC2) and will
maintain the scope and vision of IMPAC1 (held in Geelong, Australia in
October 2005).
Confirmed Plenary Talks:
May 20: Dr. Daniel Pauly: Professor
and Director, Fisheries Centre,
University of British Columbia
May 21: Dr. Ratana Cheunpagdee: Canada
Research Chair in Natural
Resource Sustainability and Community Development, Memorial University
May 22: Dr. Rod Fujita: Senior
Scientist at Environmental Defense in
Oakland, California
May 23: Dorothy Childers: Program
Director, Alaska Marine
Conservation Council
Dr. Ransom A. Myers Memorial Lecture:
Will be held at the evening final
banquet:
Dr. Callum Roberts, Environment
Department, University of York
