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Marine Section Board of Directors News Update
The Marine Section Board of Directors met in St. Petersburg , FL November 16-19 and will meet at the SCB Annual Meeting in Chattanooga, TN, and San Francisco from September 20-21 to discuss our exciting year ahead. We are actively planning our first section meeting! The Marine Section of the Society for Conservation Biology will be hosting its first stand-alone meeting, the International Marine Conservation Congress, from 20-24 May 2009 at George Mason University near Washington D.C.
This will be an interdisciplinary meeting that will engage natural and social scientists, managers, policy-makers, and the public. The goal of the IMCC is to put conservation science into practice through public and media outreach and the development concrete products (e.g., policy briefs, blue ribbon position papers) that will be used to drive policy change and implementation. Major themes that will be addressed include Global Climate Change, the Land-Sea Interface, Ecosystem-based Management, and Poverty and Globalization.
In an attempt to tackle the most pressing issues currently facing marine conservation, IMCC will host exciting plenary talks and soliciting creative submissions for interactive symposia and workshops. The conservation community will be challenged to go beyond the typical communication of data and propose symposia and/or workshops where talks will be followed by lively, participatory discussions to address a controversial topic or develop innovative solutions to a current conservation challenge. Symposia organizers will be encouraged to invite a select group of speakers and to devise creative ways to facilitate discussion. Smaller workshops will be held to bring together people with diverse expertise with the goal of developing a list of recommendations, policy briefing or white paper on a specific topic. Workshops can be held over 3 consecutive days.
Confirmed plenary speakers include Daniel Pauly, Callum Roberts and Rod Fujita! So, check the marine section's website regularly for updated information and volunteer opportunities. In the meantime, please keep 20-24 May 2009 open and plan to attend and participate!
Visit www.conbio.org/imcc for more information!
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