Dr Heather Koldewey Head of Global Conservation Programmes, Zoological Society of London, Regent’s Park, London, NW1 4RY E: heather.koldewey@zsl.org Twitter: @heatherkoldewey Outline If marine conservation is truly important then why is it such a low priority for most people and bottom of the political agenda? Is the conservation community failing in selling the conservation message …
Category: Delegate Notes – Day 1, Session 3
Feb 04
Reports from the front line of the current mass extinction: ocean acidification, fisheries and ecocide
Jason Hall-Spencer Professor of Marine Biology and Editor-in-Chief of Regional Studies in Marine Science, Plymouth University, PL4 8AA T: +44 1752887075 E: jhall-spencer@plymouth.ac.uk W: www.plymouth.ac.uk/staff/jason-hall-spencer We are now well into the Anthropocene. Since the 1950s there has been a human population explosion with widespread coastal habitat damage exacerbated by our ever increasing use of hydrocarbon …
Feb 04
Marine Data & Information – ‘Revolution and Evolution’
John Pepper Marketing Director, OceanWise Limited T: +44 (0)1420 768262 E: john.pepper@oceanwise.eu Mike Osborne OceanWise Limited E: mike.osborne@oceanwise.eu The key message that this presentation seeks to impart is that it is time to turn the way we think about data upside down. This is the revolution element. The evolution (or innovative – it’s so much …
Feb 04
Ecosystems Goods and Services in the Marine Environment: Indicators and Monitoring
Mel Austen Head of Science: Sea and Society, Plymouth Marine Laboratory E: mcva@pml.ac.uk W: http://www.pml.ac.uk/People/Heads-of-Science/Dr-Melanie-Austen Quantifying the provision of marine ecosystem services, how they have changed and how they might change in the future under different scenarios can help policy makers, regulators and other stakeholders to understand the societal importance of biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. …
