Reefs for the Future - Nova Southeastern University

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and Nancy Baron, COMPASS
Ocean Science Outreach Director.
The discussion will be continued
afterwards over light hors d'oeuvres
and drinks. This will be the place to
meet and mingle with journalists
attending ICRS.
Special Sessions:
NOAA Coral Program Forum:
Translating Science into
Management
Friday, July 11, 2008
10:00 – 11:00AM
Floridian Ballroom D
Facilitator: David Kennedy,
manager of the NOAA Coral
Reef Conservation Program
The U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA)
Coral Reef Conservation Program
(CRCP) is a leader in the effort to
preserve reef ecosystems. In late
2007, the CRCP solicited an external
review to assess the program’s
effectiveness in achieving its mandates
and to provide recommendations
for improving its impact and
performance. In this forum, senior
NOAA officials and members of the
science, management and nongovernmental
organization communities
will hold a panel
discussion focused on one of the
largest challenges facing effective
reef conservation: how to better integrate
natural and social science
with effective coral reef management.
Improving the link between
coral reef science and management
is major element of the external review’s
recommendations and the
CRCP's plans for the future, and is
an issue that transcends the work
of any one organization. This forum
is an opportunity for the CRCP’s
current and potential future scientific
and management partners,
grantees, and stakeholders to interact
with NOAA leadership on the
direction of coral reef conservation
in the United States.
ITMEMS Special Session - The
Translation of Science into
Practical Actions and Strategies
for Management
Friday, July 11
11:00 – 11:45AM
Floridian Ballroom D
Facilitator: Kristian Teleski, Ph.D.,
ICRAN
An open, facilitated discussion
among those present. All are invited.
The goal of the International Tropical
Marine Ecosystems Management
Symposium (ITMEMS -
www.itmems.org) is to develop the
capacities of coastal and marine
managers to implement programs
and projects that support the conservation
and sustainable use of
coral reefs and related ecosystems
at the local, national, regional and
global levels. Integral to this is
good coral reef science and the
translation of this science into practical
actions and strategies for management.
ICRS is an important
opportunity to capture the current
coral reef and tropical marine
ecosystem thinking and science,
and feed this into the next IT-
MEMS. Likewise ITMEMS is an opportunity
for managers to make
recommendations for input from
the scientific community and identify
needs that should be filled by
science. ICRS delegates are encouraged
to consider how their work
could contribute to effective coral
reef management and how this can
be achieved over short time scales
for urgent issues (i.e. not constrained
by normal publication
timelines) and, over longer time
scales, to build time series to understand
change and management
of coral reefs and human pressures
that affect them.
11 th International Coral Reef Symposium ■ Reefs for the Future
Regional Workshop
Special Session -
Regional Workshops on
Scientific and Science
Information Needs for
Coral Reef Management
Friday, July 11
11:45AM-12:30PM
Floridian Ballroom D
Facilitator: John W. McManus,
Ph.D.
This will be an open, facilitated discussion
among those attending.
Given the rapid decline of the
world’s coral reefs, it is vital that
decision-makers, stakeholders, and
coral reef managers have ready access
to the best relevant scientific
information available, and that scientists
work to provide the answers
to questions critical to reef management.
As the world’s premier
gathering of coral reef scientists,
the ICRS is an ideal forum for identifying
how scientific investigations
and information systems can be
best focused to facilitate better
coral reef management. This session
will present the results of two
international pre-symposium workshops
on these topics, held in the
Caribbean and Indo-Pacific, respectively.
Following a brief presentation
of the workshop findings, a
facilitated discussion will provide
opportunities for session participants
to contribute to the identification
of priority needs. The results
will be made widely available via
the Internet to reef scientists, funding
agencies, and the public.
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