The Skimmer on Marine Ecosystems and Management
Latest News and Resources for Ocean Planners, Part II: High Seas/Deep Sea
UN Prep Committee recommends start of treaty negotiations to protect high seas marine life; new treaty would update UN Convention on Law of the Sea with provisions for creating marine protected areas in areas beyond national jurisdictions [Learn more here and here] Free new monthly newsletter tracks deep sea mining…
EBM Toolbox: Avoiding tipping points for ocean ecosystems
Avoiding tipping points for ocean ecosystems
Can optimism help your ocean conservation and management work?
Benefits of "ocean optimism" for marine conservation and management
Can pessimism have a positive impact? Interview with Rowan Jacobsen about the recent obituary of the Great Barrier Reef
How the 2016 Great Barrier Reef "obituary" came to be
Tundi’s Take: In Praise of Pessimism
Is pessimism needed for the radical governance changes the oceans need? Tundi Agardy, Contributing Editor for MEAM, explains.
Latest News and Resources for Ocean Planners
Latest News and Resources for Ocean Planners for the months of July and August 2017.
Need to get up to speed quickly on a marine conservation or management topic? Check out the new Top Lists!
MEAM’s sister organization OpenChannels.org is currently creating “Top Lists”, concise selections of resources on specific topics in marine conservation and management. These top lists include journal articles, reports, webinar recordings, newsletter articles, and blogs. They provide an easy way for practitioners to access a variety of sources of information on a topic quickly.
How much data is enough? Scoping your ocean and coastal data collection so you can move on to next steps
In this issue of MEAM, we hear from a variety of ocean management experts that have experience using and/or building web atlases and data portals about how to scope atlas/portal development appropriately in the context of a larger planning and management process. We also learn from a data portal developer about how that data portal is being used for regional ocean management.
An ocean data portal in action: An interview with Nick Napoli about how the Northeast Ocean Data portal is being used
The Northeast Ocean Plan was certified by the National Ocean Council in December 2016, and we now catch up with Napoli, who currently leads development of the Northeast Ocean Data portal and the implementation of the Northeast Ocean Plan under the auspices of the Northeast Region Planning Body, about how the portal is being used and next steps.
Dispatches from the Field: How long will the Eastern Tropical Pacific be brimming with life?
Tundi Agardy, Contributing Editor of MEAM, discusses ocean management in the Eastern Tropical Pacific