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The Marine Section of SCB provides a home for Marine Conservation Biology in order to further marine conservation science, research and public policy. Unlike other SCB Sections, the Marine Section does not have a specifically regional focus as marine issues are global.
The Marine Section of the Society for Conservation Biology will be hosting the Second International Marine Conservation Congress (IMCC2) from 14-18 May 2011 at the Victoria Convention Centre, British Columbia, Canada.
New themes for this conference include:
- Innovative techniques and technology for marine conservation;
- The Human dimension for marine conservation;
- Advancing marine conservation through International treaties;
- The changing Arctic;
- Marine conservation awareness and outreach;
- Climate and the changing oceans;
- Sustainable fisheries and aquaculture;
- Conservation at the land/sea interface; and
- Effective Marine Spatial Planning.
During interactive symposia and workshops, we will challenge participants to go beyond one-way communication. Each of these sessions will address specific topics within major themes and develop innovative solutions to current conservation challenges. Symposium organizers will invite a select group of speakers and devise creative ways to facilitate discussion. Workshops will consist of multi-disciplinary teams focused on crafting policy and management recommendations, briefings, conservation action plans, white papers or peer-reviewed publications.
The Congress organizers can also assist agencies, NGOs and other groups to organize receptions and academic or social events with a variety of venues available, including rooms at the conference center, at the adjacent Empress Hotel or the nearby Maritime Museum.
The Congress will open on 14th May with an IMCC & COMPASS Reception where you will get a taste for what’s to come at IMCC. Leading scientists will kick off the conference with insightful overviews of the new science and big ideas we’ll be exploring. An opening reception will follow. The event will conclude on the evening of 18th May with a closing party at the Strathcona Hotel located a block from the Conference Center.
The first International Marine Conservation Congress was held on 20-24 May 2009 at George Mason University near Washington D.C. The meeting brought over 1,200 scientists, managers and policy-makers together, with over 16 simultaneous conference sessions, symposia and workshops, and over a twenty associated events, training sessions and activities, making it one of the largest academic marine conservation conferences ever held.
Don’t miss the opportunity to be a part of the next step in this critical process!
For more information, visit the IMCC 2011 website or email the conference chair at imcc2chair@gmail.com.
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Upcoming Events
The 1st International Marine Conservation Think Tank
2-5 December 2011
The Marine Section will be hosting a special set of marine themed focus groups, designed to address specific problems and hopefully come up with concrete plans and solutions, on marine conservation issues of special concern for the southern hemisphere. These meetings will be held immediately prior to the SCB global meeting in Auckland, New Zealand
Reviews for IMCTT workshops and activities have now been completed and the following 14 meetings have been accepted:
Antarctic issues
- Predicting ecosystem change in Antarctic ecosystems
Reefs in crisis
- Social resilience and adaptation in coral reef communities
MPA effectiveness
- The role of prioritisation in Marine Protected Area designation
- Quantifying the effectiveness of community-managed marine protected areas in Oceania
- Big Ocean Network: A research agenda and science dissemination strategy for large scale MPAs
- Sea change: a campaign to increase support and activism for marine protected areas
- Pelagic ecosystems and the management of MPAs
Deep sea ecosystems
- Deep-sea coral research to enhance conservation
Marine wildlife tourism and Small, isolated populations
- Steps to success in research and management of by-catch and other marine conservation issues
- Marine mammal/tourism interactions
High seas governance
- Science requirements for effective High Seas governance
Sustainable fisheries
- Fisheries management: the science, conservation and management
Other
- Improving global marine biodiversity assessments
- Ocean governance in Aotearoa New Zealand
Recent Publications
Doukakis, P., E. C. M. Parsons, W. C. G. Burns, A. K. Salomon, E. Hines, and J. A. Cigliano. 2009. Gaining traction: retreading the whales of marine conservation. Conservation Biology. 23(4): 841-846.
Sutherland, W. J. W. M. Adams, R. B. Aronson, R. Aveling, T. M. Blackburn, S. Broad, G. Ceballos, I. M. Côté, R. M. Cowling, G. A. B. Da Fonseca, E. Dinerstein, P. J. Ferraro, E. Fleishman, C. Gascon, M. Hunter, JR.,J. Hutton, P. Kareiva, A. Kuria, D. W. Macdonald, K. Mackinnon, F. J. Madgwick, M. B. Mascia, J. McNeely, E. J. Milner-Gulland, S. Moon, C. G. Morley, S. Nelson, D. Osborn, M. Pai, E. C. M. Parsons, L. S. Peck, H. Possingham, S. V. Prior, A. S. Pullin, M. R. W. Rands, J. Ranganathan, K. H. Redford, J. P. Rodriguez, F. Seymour, J. Sobel, N. S. Sodhi, A. Stott, K. Vance-Borland, and D A. R. Watkinson. 2009. One hundred questions of importance to the conservation of global biological diversity. Conservation Biology. 23(3):557-567.
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Parson, E. C. M. and L. A. Cornick. 2011. Sweeping scientific data under a polar bear skin rug: The IUCN and the proposed listing of polar bears under CITES Appendix I. Marine Policy. 35:729-731.
Special Issue of Bulletin of Marine Science. April 2011. 87(2): 159-274.
Making Marine Science Matter – A Special Issue Highlighting the First International Marine Conservation Congress 19-24 May 2009, Washington, D.C.
Featured Sea Star
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Alexandra Morton will give the 2nd Dr. Ransom A. Myers Memorial lecture at IMCC 2011. She moved to a remote archipelago in British Columbia in 1984 to begin a year-round study of killer whales. Ten years later her study area began to flash classic warning signals that the salmon feedlot industry was over-loading the ecosystem: toxic algae blooms, displacement of the whales, loss of salmon, massive parasite outbreaks and decay of the local community. As the only biologist on scene Morton began doing the science government required. Her remote home is now the Salmon Coast Field Station and Simon Fraser University gave her an honorary doctorate for her work on impact of salmon feedlot-origin sea lice on wild salmon. Her work continues. |
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We feature a SCB Marine Section member doing exciting work in the field of marine conservation on a quarterly basis. We invite our members to nominate themselves or others for this honor, requesting them to submit a short paragraph about themselves and link to their personal web site by December 10th, March 10th, June 10th or September 10th in order to be featured the following quarter. Nominations can be sent to marine@conbio.org. Nominations sent after the dates listed will be considered for the following quarter.
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