May 2018 (11:7) | OCTO: Open Communications for the Ocean

Mining social media: The new world of abundant, ‘messy’ data and what marine conservation and management can learn from it

by Sarah Carr, Ph.D. | May 8, 2018

“Most of us grew up in a world where data were rare and expensive to collect. In contrast, culturomics is firmly situated in the 21st-century world of abundant, ‘messy’ data, produced from the interactions between humans and the digital world.”...

MEAM and you, an infographic: What readers want from MEAM and how it is helping their work

by Sarah Carr, Ph.D. | May 7, 2018

MEAM and you, an infographic

Latest News and Resources for Ocean Planners and Managers

by Sarah Carr, Ph.D. | May 7, 2018

Commonwealth nations agree on coordinated actions to protect oceans UN begins negotiations for treaty to protect high seas biodiversity Sweden developing marine spatial plans for its territorial waters and EEZ Northern Ireland soliciting public comment on draft marine...

Metaphors for marine conservation and management: The good, the bad, and the inaccurate

by Sarah Carr, Ph.D. | May 7, 2018

A new paper in Marine Policy (pre-print available for free in the MarXiv research repository) discusses the importance of effective metaphors for marine conservation and policy. Metaphors are figures of speech that describe something in terms more familiar to...

Mining social media: The new world of abundant, ‘messy’ data and what marine conservation and management can learn from it

MEAM and you, an infographic: What readers want from MEAM and how it is helping their work

Latest News and Resources for Ocean Planners and Managers

Metaphors for marine conservation and management: The good, the bad, and the inaccurate

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