MSP Workshop 2006 - UNESCO - IOC - Marine Spatial Management. Why a Workshop on marine spatial planning? From 8-10 November 2006, UNESCO held the first International Workshop on the use of marine spatial planning as a tool to implement ecosystem-based, sea use management. The workshop was a cooperative initiative between UNESCO’s Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) and the Man and the Biosphere Programme (MAB) of the Ecological and Earth Sciences Division. About 50 participants from over 20 countries attended because of their practical experience in sea use management, marine spatial planning, and ocean zoning. The purpose of the workshop was to review and document the state-of-the-art and good practices of marine spatial planning through a series of thematic presentations and discussions on the various elements of the management process, e.g., authorization, research, planning, analysis, implementation, monitoring and evaluation, institutional arrangements, and capacity building.
Presentations included: Publications from the workshop. Cove Guardians. ***Watch our livestream from the Front Lines*** In the small coastal town of Taiji, hundreds to thousands of dolphins and small whales are captured and killed each year during the annual dolphin drive hunt. For a staggering six months of every year - September 1st until March - a group of dolphin hunters herd wild dolphins from the ocean’s open waters into a hidden shallow bay, now infamously known around the world as the cove.
The hunters capture entire families, or pods, of various species of dolphins at a time in order to satisfy the international demand for captive dolphins in the entertainment industry. Those taken captive are sent to aquariums and marine parks worldwide. In 2010, Sea Shepherd launched its Operation Infinite Patience campaign. With your help, we will encourage Japan to end Taiji’s unnecessary hunt and capture of these incredibly intelligent, sentient beings. This may take time; this may not happen overnight, but this is Operation Infinite Patience.
Images from our trip — Gulf of California. » Aligning Marine Management Institutions with Key Ecological and Economic Linkages in the Gulf of California, Mexico Marine Conservation Science. Project Update, June 2013 Our project focuses on the coupled natural and human coastal marine systems of the Gulf of California, in northwest Mexico. By developing an interdisciplinary framework for understanding coastal marine environment-society connections in this region, we are generating information to help inform innovative marine management strategies in the Gulf and other coastal and marine areas worldwide. Guiding research questions include: What are the key ecological and economic linkages among the coupled natural and human systems of the region? What is the broader ecological, social, economic, and institutional context within which small scale fishermen in the Gulf of California, and particularly in the La Paz region, operate?
What are the implications of this emerging knowledge for policy and management? Read our field notes, from Cabo Pulmo, Sinaloa, and La Paz. For more images from the project, please see our project’s photo album. Current Activities Project Team. Blog « The #SciFund Challenge. Each day we are going to highlight one of the amazing research projects seeking funding in Round 4 of the #Scifund Challenge. Today we meet up with the talented Erin Eastwood (she paints and sciences!) And she discusses the importance of understanding the movement patterns of fish in protected habitats in Fiji.
Tell us about yourself, where you are from, and where you see yourself going. I was born and raised in Los Angeles, CA, and have been a total ocean nerd since the very beginning. How did you get involved in your research project? I went to Fiji two years ago to help a friend with her research on marine protected areas. From that trip on, I have focused on the benefits of scientific research to nature AND to people. Why is your research important to you? Because our oceans need to be protected! Do you have a favorite story that came from working on your research project?
Tell us something random. Funding « Of Dolphins & Fishers. Generous support has allowed me to pursue my research interests, and I am incredibly grateful for the faith that my funding sources have demonstrated in my research ideas. Currently, my fieldwork is being funded by the Fulbright U.S. Students Program (for the Philippines), the National Geographic Society-Waitt Grants Program, and the Friends of the UCSD International Center’s Ruth Newmark Scholarship.
Future research in Thailand and Indonesia will be supported by the Artisanal Fisheries Research Network‘s project, “Coordinating Research for Sustaining Artisanal Fisheries”, funded by the Waitt Foundation. Previous research during my PhD has been supported by the Mia J. Tegner Fellowship (Philippines, Indonesia), the Friends of the UCSD International Center (Philippines, Indonesia), the SIO Graduate Office (Philippines, Indonesia, Thailand), and the Mohamed bin Zayed Species Conservation Fund (MBZ) (through my collaboration with Dr. Like this: Like Loading...