The Skimmer on Marine Ecosystems and Management
The EBM Toolbox: Achieving regional objectives, country by country: A Coral Triangle example
Editor's note: The goal of The EBM Toolbox is to promote awareness of tools and methods for facilitating EBM and MSP processes. It is brought to you by the EBM Tools Network (www.ebmtools.org), a voluntary alliance of tool users, developers, and training providers. EBM often involves coordinating the actions of…
Latest News and Resources for Ocean Planners
Massachusetts governor concerned that federal conservation actions could undermine regional ocean planning The Gloucester Daily Times newspaper reports that the governor of the US State of Massachusetts Charlie Baker has expressed concerns to US President Barack Obama about the potential designation of one or more national marine monuments off the…
From the Archives: Adaptive Management: What Does It Look Like in Practice? (MEAM December 2010-January 2011, Issue 4:3)
Editor’s Note: From the Archives calls attention to past MEAM articles whose perspectives and insight remain relevant. Article highlights: Getting the public to understand the “learning as we do it” philosophy Collecting the right level of monitoring data to support the decisions you need to make Practicing adaptive management amid…
From the Editor: MEAM’s new electronic format: What do you think?
Dear MEAM subscribers, In the past few months, we have relaunched MEAM as an all-electronic, monthly newsletter with more applied, practitioner-focused content. We have also set up a new website (https://meam.openchannels.org) with all the issues of MEAM dating back to our launch in 2007. We’d love to get your feedback…
Management on the Move: Making EBM and MSP More Dynamic
Ocean environments, ocean life, and ocean users are often highly mobile, but most ocean management techniques are not. This mismatch leads to ocean management that is, at times, ineffective, inefficient, or both. An emerging management approach – “dynamic ocean management” – could change that. Dynamic ocean management uses techniques that…
The EBM Toolbox: The Tools Behind Dynamic Ocean Management
By Daniel Dunn Editor's note: The goal of The EBM Toolbox is to promote awareness of tools for facilitating EBM and MSP processes. It is brought to you by the EBM Tools Network (www.ebmtools.org), a voluntary alliance of tool users, developers, and training providers. Dynamic ocean management aims to move…
Dispatches from the Field: 21 October 2015. Corsica, in ‘the sea at the center of the Earth’
By Tundi Agardy, Contributing Editor, MEAM. Email: tundiagardy@earthlink.net We’re in wild and rugged Corsica, smack dab in the middle of the Pelagos Marine Sanctuary, in what the ancients called ‘the sea at the center of the Earth’ – the Mediterranean. The sea is roiling, not only from being whipped by…
Notes & News: USD$100 million being raised to increase coastal resilience of SIDS ∙ Help from Hollywood for communicating science ∙ Database integrates global ocean currents ∙ US federal agencies employing EBM ∙ MSP quality management ∙ MSP Insights
Blue Guardians to provide technical and financial assistance to increase coastal resilience of SIDS Blue Guardians is a new international partnership of Small Island Developing State (SIDS) governments, private sector technology and data providers, philanthropic foundations, multi-lateral development organizations, and conservation NGOs. The partnership is committed to providing the geospatial…
From the Archives: How Conservationists, Industry, and Government All View Risk Differently, and What This Means for EBM (MEAM October-November 2009, Issue 3:2)
Editor’s Note: From the Archives calls attention to past MEAM articles whose perspectives and insight remain relevant. This article by Jake Rice, former senior national advisor for ecosystem sciences with Canada’s Department of Fisheries and Oceans, discusses how conservationists, industry, and government managers exhibit different types of risk aversion to…
From the Editor: New MEAM Website
Dear MEAM subscribers, We are very excited to announce that MEAM has a new and user-friendly website – https://meam.openchannels.org. On this website, you can find all issues of MEAM dating back to our launch in 2007. We encourage you to explore the past feature articles, Tundi’s Takes, and EBM Toolboxes…