Webinars
Upcoming Webinars
Tracking Global MPA Effectiveness: MPAtlas Tools and Tips
Thursday, March 26 at 10 am US EDT/7 am US PDT/2 pm UTC/3 pm CET. Presented by: Beth Pike, Jessica MacCarthy, and Nikki Harasta of the Marine Conservation Institute. Description: Where does the “3% of MPAs are effective” statistic come from? Would your work benefit from being able to see the number of fully and highly protected MPAs in different countries? Do you wish there was a platform for viewing High Seas MPAs? Maybe you want to see how many MPAs are protected from anchoring and aquaculture in addition to fishing, or maybe you want to view global MPAs by size class. Do you want to download the list of countries and the amount of EEZ that is fully or highly protected? Or do you want that list aggregated by sovereignty? The Marine Protection Atlas (MPAtlas) website has been tracking MPA effectiveness since 2012, but many folks do not know that it can do all this and more! Join this webinar to learn how to leverage this open access downloadable data for your conservation needs.
Valuing Marine Ecosystem Services for Better Decisions
Wednesday, April 8, 1 pm US EDT/10 am US PDT/5 pm UTC/6 pm BST. Presented by: Angela Fletcher and Glen Delaney of Earth Economics. Description: Marine and coastal ecosystems provide many ecosystem services that are essential to human communities, including food, recreational opportunities, and protection of infrastructure from natural disasters. These benefits are not often framed in economic terms, which can lead to them being overlooked in decision-making. Communicating ecosystem services in economic terms can support more holistic decision-making that accounts for the full range of benefits these systems provide. In this webinar, Angela Fletcher and Glen Delaney of Earth Economics will introduce the fundamentals of ecosystem service valuation and demonstrate how they have applied these methods in marine and coastal contexts. Earth Economics is a nonprofit economic consultancy with 26 years of experience applying valuation techniques in decision-making, policy, and project implementation. They will begin with a brief overview of ecosystem services and valuation basics, then walk through three real-world case studies that illustrate how valuation can inform conservation, restoration, and policy decisions: a valuation study of kelp forests along the California coast; the use of valuation to inform a National Marine Sanctuary application for the St. George Unangan Heritage site; and how valuation can support funding for salmon habitat restoration in the Duckabush Estuary in Washington State.
Past Webinars
Resist, Accept, or Direct? A decision framework for navigating climate-driven ecological transformations
This webinar originally aired on 14 November, 2019. In this world of rapid global change, managers often have limited ability to control the ultimate drivers…
Making Marine and Coastal Protected Areas Climate Savvy
This webinar originally aired on 7 November, 2019. Making climate change adaptation planning simple and feasible for managers, The Climate Adaptation Toolkit for Marine and…
EcoCast: A dynamic ocean management tool to reduce bycatch and support sustainable fisheries
This webinar originally aired on 31 October, 2019. Dynamic ocean management (DOM) is emerging as a solution to the challenge of spatially managing species and…
Engaging Diverse Audiences in Marine and Coastal Protection
This webinar originally aired on 17 October, 2019. Managers of coastal and marine protected areas are responsible for places that are important for a wide…
Financing Coral Reef Conservation and Management: Conservation Trust Funds and Impact Investing
This webinar originally aired on 2 October, 2019. Description: Coral reefs provide enormous economic value to humanity and are gaining increasing attention from donors, philanthropists,…
We’ve Got Chemistry! Leveraging Partnerships and the Ocean Acidification Information Exchange to Advance Ocean Acidification and MPA Science
This webinar originally aired on 25 September, 2019. Marine protected areas (MPAs), sanctuaries, and reserves offer refuge to a wide variety of marine species, but…
Guidelines for Valuing Coastal Protection Services from Mangroves and Reefs
This webinar originally aired on 17 September, 2019. This webinar will provide an overview of new research on how natural defenses can reduce coastal risk….
Designing and Managing MPAs for Sharks and Rays
This webinar originally aired on 4 September, 2019. Overfishing is a major threat to the world’s 1,200+ species of sharks and rays, and many elasmobranch…
Sargassum Watch from Space
This webinar originally aired on 27 August, 2019 The Sargassum Watch System (SaWS) uses satellite data and numerical models to detect and track pelagic Sargassum…
New technologies to revolutionize sustainable fishing in the digital age: EDF’s Smart Boat Initiative
This webinar originally aired on 22 August, 2019. Pioneering technologies and new platforms can turn fishing vessels into “smart boats” and redefine fishing and how…