Call for Abstracts for the 4th International Marine Conservation
Congress
The Call for Abstracts for the 4th International Marine Conservation
Congress is now open!
IMCC4 will be held from 31 July - 3 August 2016 at the Delta Conference
Centre, St. John's, Newfoundland & Labrador, Canada (YYT). We are now
accepting abstracts for oral (spoken), speed (short spoken), and poster
presentations, as well as proposals for OceansOnlinefacilitated discussions.
OceansOnline, held 4 August, is a full add-on day to IMCC4 focused on
communication and online tools for marinescience and conservation.
All abstracts must be submitted online by 5pm (GMT) on 7 March 2016.
Decisions will be made by the end of March 2016. Complete instructions for
submission are available at the meeting website:
http://conbio.org/mini-sites/imcc-2016/registration-participation/call-for-abstracts/.
The selection process is highly competitive.
The overall theme of the congress is Making Marine Science Matter. For
marine conservation to be effective, marine conservation science must matter
to stakeholders, policy makers, and practitioners. To accomplish this, the
congress will be organized around specific topics of interest for marine
conservation in general, as well as for the local area. This list is not
meant to be exhaustive, but merely a guide for proposers. Other topics of
interest are welcome.
* Fisheries, aquaculture and the oceans
* Marine food security
* Conservation and management of the Arctic and Antarctic
* Conservation engineering
* Ocean science technology
* Marine energy
* Climate, ocean acidification, and the changing oceans
* Culture and the marine environment
* Advancing marine conservation through international treaties
* Effective marine conservation planning
* Communicating marine conservation
* Participation in marine conservation science (e.g. citizen and
indigenous science)
* Marine tourism
* Marine policy
* Estuary and coastal restoration
* Conservation at the land-sea interface
In addition, the SCB Marine Section developed a list of 71 research
questions critical to the advancement of marine conservation
(http://conbio.org/mini-sites/imcc-2016/about/71-questions/). We encourage
proposals that address one or more of these questions but welcome all
abstracts related to marine conservation science and practice.
Thank you for helping IMCC Make Marine Science Matter!
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