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.
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
Green Fins: A tool for reducing the direct impacts of diving and tourism industries
This webinar originally aired on July 13, 2017. Presenter(s): Chloe Harvey of The Reef-World Foundation Click here to view on YouTube
PANORAMA – Solutions for a Healthy Planet webinar: Scaling community-led MPA management
This webinar originally aired on June 28, 2017. Presenter(s): Blue Solutions Click here to view on YouTube
A Coastal Conservation Leadership Program in Washington State
This webinar originally aired on June 8, 2017. Presenter(s): Casey Dennehy of the Surfrider Foundation Click here to view on YouTube
Using US Whistleblower Laws to Fight Illegal Fishing and Marine Pollution and Fund MPAs
This webinar originally aired on June 6, 2017. Presenter(s): Stephen Kohn of the National Whistleblower Center Click here to view on YouTube
Ecological Marine Units: A 3-D Mapping of the Ocean Based on NOAA’s World Ocean Atlas
This webinar originally aired on May 17, 2017. Presenter(s): Dawn Wright of Esri Click here to view on YouTube
The new He’eia National Estuarine Research Reserve
This webinar originally aired on May 11, 2017. Presenter(s): Matthew Chasse of NOAA and Robert Toonen of HIMB Click here to view on YouTube
Using the Ocean Health Index as an Integrated Tool for Implementing EBM and Coastal Management Approaches Globally
This webinar originally aired on May 2, 2017. Presenter(s): Julia Lowndes of NCEAS and Erich Pacheco of Conservation International Click here to view on YouTube
The SeaSketch Platform: Tools for Decision-Support and Managing Public Processes
This webinar originally aired on April 25, 2017. Presenter(s): Will McClintock and Grace Goldberg of UCSB Click here to view on YouTube
Capacity shortfalls hindering the performance of MPAs globally
This webinar originally aired on April 20, 2017. Presenter(s): David Gill of Conservation International and George Mason Univ Click here to view on YouTube
Microplastics: What we know and discussion of research needs
This webinar originally aired on April 13, 2017. Presenter(s): Carlie Herring, NOAA Click here to view on YouTube