Webinars
Upcoming Webinars
Recent developments in the sustainable management of marine resources
Tuesday, July 8, 11 am US EDT/8 am US PDT/3 pm UTC/4 pm BST/5 pm CEST. Presented by: Mike Elliott of International Estuarine & Coastal Specialists (IECS) Ltd., and the School of Environmental and Life Sciences, The University of Hull (Emeritus Professor). Description: This webinar will present and explain cause-consequence-response frameworks and the way these relate to managing marine, coastal and estuarine areas. It will then show the importance of determining the footprints of activities, pressures, and natural and human effects and assessing cumulative effects. Following this, it will consider the footprints of management responses and will demonstrate horizontal management across sectors and vertical management from the local to the global and vice versa. It will look at the importance of transboundary implications of marine management, considering connectivity, coherence, and equivalence. Finally, it will consider the way in which success in marine management is measured, including indicators of success. Examples from Europe and North America will be used, but the topics are relevant to marine areas worldwide.
Identifying and Prioritizing a Portfolio of Marine and Coastal Conservation Finance Solutions
Wednesday, August 20, 1 pm US EDT/10 am US PDT/5 pm UTC. Presenters: David Meyers of the Conservation Finance Alliance, John Bohorquez of the Blue Economy Solutions Lab and the Conservation Finance Alliance, and Jos Hill of the Conservation Finance Alliance Marine & Coastal Working Group. Description: Coastal and marine ecosystem management and governance institutions face a wide array of choices when it comes to conservation finance mechanisms. A new tool provides a systematic method for brainstorming, defining, and prioritizing suitable finance solutions. This approach is rooted in the definition of conservation finance as “mechanisms and strategies that generate, manage, and deploy financial resources and align incentives to achieve nature conservation outcomes.” In most cases, consistent and adequate funding is a critical but insufficient component of a project’s conservation finance portfolio. This approach seeks to take the practitioner through a range of perspectives to generate ideas on how to solve their conservation challenges and respond to opportunities. The idea generation phase is followed by a prioritization approach adapted from the Biodiversity Finance Initiative (BIOFIN). This webinar will walk attendees through the tool approach and its use.
Chronic oil pollution in the world’s ocean: New insights, enhanced tools, and emerging solutions
Thursday, August 21, 11 am US EDT/8 am US PDT/3 pm UTC/4 pm BST/5 pm CEST. Presented by: Eric Teller and Christian Thomas of SkyTruth. Description: SkyTruth is working to make the hidden crisis of chronic, repeat oil pollution in the world’s ocean visible, measurable, and actionable. Cerulean, the world’s first free, global oil pollution detection platform, has made great strides since its 2023 beta launch. With increasingly advanced AI and more data at its disposal, the world is closer than ever to reliably detecting intentional oil pollution events from both vessels and oil and gas infrastructure, and to holding those polluters accountable. In April, SkyTruth published the names and locations of the world’s most polluting offshore oil and gas infrastructure, enabled by significant improvements to Cerulean’s source detection algorithm. Now, Cerulean includes new features like dark vessel source identification and source profiles that enable users to access more information than ever before about marine oil slicks and their likely sources. These new insights and tools are being used by advocacy organizations, government agencies, journalists, and more to address this persistent form of pollution.
Changing human behavior to secure conservation outcomes
Tuesday, September 16, 10 am US EDT/7 am US PDT/2 pm UTC/3 pm BST/4 pm CEST. Presented by: Laura Perry of Castlerock Conservation and the IUCN SSC CEC Behavior Change Task Force. Description: Conservation behavior change is a nascent discipline, but one which has great applicability to many of today’s conservation challenges. By using lessons drawn from social psychology, behavioral economics, and healthcare interventions, this approach has huge potential to shape human behavior and ultimately secure conservation outcomes. In this talk, we will explore the fundamentals of behavior change and how an array of techniques can be used to change human behavior. Touching on examples from across conservation, we will discuss how these approaches can add value to a conservation program, how practitioners can go about involving behavior change in their work, and the relevance of behavior change approaches to conservation translocations.
Past Webinars
Tipping Points: Resources and Guidance for Managing a Changing Ocean
This webinar originally aired on October 19, 2017. presenter(s): Ocean Tipping Points Collaborative Click to view on YouTube
Product circularity and the hidden economic opportunities of discarded fishing nets and ropes
This webinar originally aired on October 5, 2017. Presenter(s): Martin Charter, Centre for Sustainable Design at the University for the Creative Arts Click here to…
Accelerating the solutions to ocean plastic – Trends and lessons from five years of the Marine Plastics Innovation Challenge
This webinar originally aired on September 28, 2017. Presenter(s): Anne Warner and Daniella Russo, Think Beyond Plastic Click here to view on YouTube
A General Approach and Tool to Evaluate the Effectiveness of No-Take Marine Reserves
This webinar originally aired on September 20, 2017. Presenter(s): Juan Carlos Villasenor-Derbez, UCSB Click here to view on YouTube
Satellite tracking sharks and fishing vessels to assess a remote MPA
This webinar originally aired on September 14, 2017. Presenter(s): Tim White of Stanford University Click here to view on YouTube
Identification of Gulf of Mexico Ecosystem Indicators Using an Ecological Resilience Framework
This webinar originally aired on August 29, 2017. Presenter(s): Kathy Goodin of NatureServe Click here to view on YouTube
PANORAMA – Solutions for a Healthy Planet webinar: Do Data or Desires Drive Marine Spatial Planning?
This webinar originally aired on August 28, 2017. Presenter(s): Tundi Agardy, Jon Day, Michelle Portman Click here to view on YouTube
Completing and Using Ecosystem Service Assessment for Decision-Making: An Interdisciplinary Toolkit for Managers
This webinar originally aired on August 15, 2017. Presenter(s): Susan Preston, Environment and Climate Change Canada Click here to view on YouTube
Certification of small-scale fisheries in developing countries: Opportunities and challenges
This webinar originally aired on July 27, 2017. Presenter(s): Blue Solutions Click here to view on YouTube
Bringing finance and conservation together: the Coalition for Private Investment in Conservation
This webinar originally aired on July 25, 2017. Presenter(s): John Tobin-de la Puente, Cornell University Click here to view on YouTube