Webinars
Upcoming Webinars
Blue Parks: Accelerating Effective Ocean Conservation
Wednesday, July 15, Noon US EDT/9am US PDT/10 am CST/4 pm UTC/5 pm BST/6 pm CEST. Presented by: Sarah Hameed, Jessica MacCarthy, and Leticia de Bonilla of the Marine Conservation Institute; Ratana Chuenpagdee of Memorial University of Newfoundland; Rodolphe Devillers of the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD); and Maylin Mora Arias and Yareth Ledezma of Cahuita National Park. Description: The Blue Park Standard sets a global benchmark for what effective marine protection requires: strategic design, equitable governance, strong protection, evidence-based management, compliance, and capacity. The reality is that most marine protected areas (MPAs) fall short of that bar. Blue Parks is a global initiative working to improve conservation quality alongside quantity, building a representative, connected network of protection that revitalizes ecosystems and recovers wildlife. The Blue Park Awards uses the Standard to encourage decision-makers to raise the bar, while celebrating and elevating successful conservation efforts worldwide. Join Marine Conservation Institute, members of the Blue Parks Science Council, and awarded Blue Park managers for an in-depth discussion of how this initiative is driving meaningful progress toward strategically protecting at least 30% of the ocean.
Past Webinars
Planning Ocean Uses in 3D
This webinar originally aired on 3 March 2021. Presented by: Mimi D’Iorio of the NOAA National Marine Protected Areas Center and Charles Wahle of the NOAA…
Coral reef Eco-evolutionary dynamics: Adaptation and connectivity in MPA networks under future climate change
This webinar originally aired on 25 February 2021. Presented by: Helen Fox of Coral Reef Alliance, Lisa McManus of University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, and…
Building a State Plan to Monitor and Assess Marine Litter: Lessons Learned
This webinar originally aired on 9 February 2021. Presented by: Carla Elliff, Mariana M. de Andrade, Natalia M. Grilli, and Vitória Scrich of the Oceanographic Institute of the University of São Paulo, Brazil. Marine litter monitoring programs are essential to determining and promoting feasible and effective actions to combat marine litter.
How to do science so it influences marine policy and management: A panel discussion
This webinar originally aired on 28 January 2021. Moderator/panelists: Jon Fisher of The Pew Charitable Trusts (moderator), Yoshitaka Ota of the University of Washington (panelist),…
Addressing marine debris in protected areas: Best practices and examples
This webinar originally aired on 14 January 2021. Marine debris encompasses a wide range of materials of diverse origin, including derelict vessels, fishing gear, plastic…
Developing a financial sustainability assessment tool for Marine Protected Areas
This webinar originally aired on 8 December 2020. Lack of financial resources and staff capacity may limit the effectiveness of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) in…
Revolutionizing ocean data to mitigate climate change, overfishing, and pollution
This webinar originally aired on 1 December 2020. Presented by: Annie Brett, University of Florida Levin School of Law Ocean management is often undermined by…
The Clean Currents Coalition: A global collaborative solution to the complex plastics problem
This webinar originally aired on 20 October 2020. Research shows that 80% of the plastic waste that ends up in the ocean comes from land,…
Connecting Our Blue Planet: Building Ecologically Connected Marine Protected Area Networks
This webinar originally aired on 14 October 2020. The interconnectedness of the ocean is one of its defining characteristics. This ability of species and processes…
The effects of climate change in marine spatial planning: pathways and solutions
This webinar originally aired on 1 October 2020. As marine spatial planning (MSP) operates in a changing ocean, properly addressing and integrating climate effects is…