NOAA's Center for Sponsored Coastal Ocean Research is hosting session
*S39: Regional Ecosystem Research Informing Management Decisions* at the
2011 ASLO Aquatic Sciences Conference in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
*Session Description: *Coastal resource management has traditionally
focused on individual resources and stressors. As resource managers
shift from single species to an ecosystem approach to management,
research-informing management must also shift to looking at ecosystems
at the regional scale. Such research takes into account multiple uses
and stressors, various habitat types, and differing levels of ecosystem
health to provide managers with a more complete picture of the resources
under their purview. Regional-scale ecosystem research utilizes
information from resource assessments, monitoring, and prediction of
ecosystem interactions (including human drivers and outcomes) to
evaluate alternative policy and management options. This session will
provide a forum to highlight regional ecosystem studies that have or
will result in management action. We are particularly interested in
studies that have 1) been successful in navigating across traditional
political and scientific boundaries, 2) set program priorities, goals,
and outcomes in collaboration with regional stakeholders and management
or political end-product users, 3) identified best practices for
translating program outputs to non-scientific ecosystem managers and
policy makers/politicians, and 4) improved management or policy
decisions resulting in significant environmental or societal benefit. We
also encourage presentations that explore the challenges and
opportunities that generally apply to such an integrative ecosystem
research approach.
The *deadline* for submitting coral and poster abstracts is *11 October
2010*
For information on this special session, please contact one of the
session conveners listed below. Details about the meeting can be found
at http://www.aslo.org/meetings/sanjuan2011/.
Thanks,
/The Session Conveners/
Kimberly Puglise, [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>
David Hilmer, [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
Michael Dowgiallo, [email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>
Larry Pugh, [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
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Felix A. Martinez, Ph.D.
Program Manager
Regional Ecosystems Research Branch
Center for Sponsored Coastal Ocean Research
National Centers for Coastal Ocean Science
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
N/SCI2, SSMC4 Rm. 8205 ph: 301-713-3338 x153
1305 East-West Hwy. fax: 301-713-4044
Silver Spring, MD 20910 email: [email protected]
On Temporary Assignment until February 2011 at:
NOAA/Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory
4840 South State Rd.
Ann Arbor, MI 48108
(734) 741-2254
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