Webinars
Upcoming Webinars
2025 Ocean Innovator Awards
Thursday, May 29, 1 pm US EDT/10 am US PDT/5 pm UTC. Presented by: Patrick Nichols of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Elizabeth Farquhar of North Carolina State University, and Jessi Florendo of the Puget Sound Restoration Fund. Description: Join us to hear from the winners of the 2025 Ocean Innovator Award opportunity, which recognizes and promotes innovative ocean-related research and applied solutions. Early career professionals from around the globe submitted creative presentations about their innovative projects related to coastal, ocean, and estuarine environments. The three winners were selected by a team of expert reviewers across several dimensions of the ocean and coastal career field. Winners include: 1st Place: Patrick Nichols, “Harnessing Environmental DNA to Track a Cryptogenic Nuisance Alga (Chondria tumulosa) that is Threatening Pacific Coral Reefs”; 2nd Place: Elizabeth Farquhar, “Developing a Low-Cost, IoT Device for Estimating Air–Water ΔpCO2 in Coastal Environments”; and 3rd Place: Jessi Florendo, “Bull Kelp Restoration through Kelp Community Gardening”. The next award cycle will open in February, 2026. To learn more about the Ocean Innovators Award, please visit www.sea-shoresolutions.com/oia.
OceanMind: Advanced technology for marine monitoring and enforcement
Wednesday, June 18, 11 am US EDT/8 am US PDT/3 pm UTC/4 pm BST/5 pm CEST. Presented by: Nick Wise of OceanMind. Description: OceanMind uses satellites, artificial intelligence (AI), and extensive marine enforcement expertise to help authorities monitor and enforce their MPAs; detect, deter, and prevent illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing; and support Port State Measure Agreement implementation. OceanMind also provides tailored capacity building and enforcement training for fisheries authorities. This webinar will provide an overview of how advanced technology can be used for effective enforcement of marine regulation, including case studies from the UK’s network of MPAs that cover almost 4.5 million square kilometres in some of the most remote locations on the planet, drawing comparisons to the enforcement needs of high seas MPAs.
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
Valuing Ecosystem Services in the Face of Climate Change in North Carolina and Hawaii
To correctly value ecosystem services both today and when considering future climate change and adaptation strategies…
Coastal Resilience 2.0
Coastal Resilience 2.0 is a suite of interactive tools to help decision-makers assess risk and identify nature-based solutions to reduce socio-economic vulnerability to coastal hazards…
MPAs as Sentinel Sites
“Sentinel sites” are areas with the capacity for sustained ocean observations to track environmental change. Within national marine sanctuaries…
Assessing Habitat and Community Sensitivity to Climate Change Impacts
The National Estuarine Research Reserves (NERRS) are uniquely positioned across the U.S. to assess climate change impacts and the sensitivity…
Demonstration of Marin Explore
Making sense of the increasing volume of complex ocean data is a difficult and time-consuming task. Marin explore is a “big data platform” to help offshore industry…
Impacts of Sea Level Rise on National Parks
Climate change and sea level rise will challenge National Park efforts to protect natural and cultural resources and to provide visitor access and recreational opportunities.
Webinar on Apps for Marine Conservation
Understanding changes to animal and plant species and their environments is crucial to the long-term well-being of our planet, but current methods for..
New Global Seafloor Geomorphology Map and the Management of Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction
This webinar originally aired on October 23, 2013. Presenter(s): Peter Harris of GeoScience Australia, and Jonas Rupp of Conservation International
From Alaska to Patagonia: IUCN Red List of the Continental Ecosystems of the Americas
In 2008, IUCN launched a process for establishing an IUCN Red List of Ecosystems that uses quantitative criteria to categorizing ecosystems..
What Will Adaptation Cost? An Economic Framework for Coastal Community Infrastructure
The new report “What Will Adaptation Cost? An Economic Framework for Coastal Community Infrastructure” provides a framework …