National Science Foundation (NSF) Community Building Workshop

Message to Fishfolk headed "NSF Workshop-Top predators" (slightly edited):
:Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2006 10:28:59 -0700
:From: Kathleen Miller <kathleen@UCAR.EDU>
:Subject: Workshop Announcement
We would like to call your attention to an upcoming international
multi-disciplinary workshop on the management of oceanic top predator
species in the context of climate variability and other sources of
change and uncertainty.
*The Challenge of Change: Managing for Sustainability of Oceanic Top Predator Species*
:A National Science Foundation (NSF) – Community Building Workshop
April 12-14, 2007
Marine Science Institute – University of California, Santa Barbara
GLOBEC-CLIOTOP Working Group 5 (WG5) – Socioeconomic Aspects and
Management Strategies announces a workshop on The Challenge of Change:
Managing for Sustainability of Oceanic Top Predator Species. The purpose
of the workshop is to foster the development of a research community
capable of addressing the many sources of change and uncertainty
affecting the international management of marine top predator species.
Oceanic top predators, such as tuna and sharks and billfish, have been
intensively harvested in competitive fisheries, resulting in population
declines, damage to by-catch species, and associated impacts on ocean
ecosystems. The management of these highly-migratory species is
complicated by the fact that migratory patterns, recruitment, prey
availability, and other population dynamics are sensitive to imperfectly
predictable climate variability and change.
The CLIOTOP (Climate Impacts on Oceanic Top Predators) project aims to
contribute to sustainable management of these species by identifying and
modeling the key processes involved in the dynamics of oceanic pelagic
ecosystems in a context of both climate variability and change, and
intensive fishing of top predators. WG 5 seeks to foster research on
policy development and implementation under these dynamic circumstances.
Workshop Program:
The workshop will lay the foundation for a comprehensive research
program focusing on management of oceanic top predators in the context
of change by bringing together leading researchers in relevant areas of
fishery policy and science. The program will include a series of keynote
talks, panels, breakout discussions and a poster session. Panel and
breakout themes include but are not limited to:
• Coupling biophysical and socioeconomic understandings of change
• Interactions between climate and other types of change affecting
oceanic top predators and their exploitation
• Changes in values, ecosystem concerns, NGO participation, management
objectives and enforcement
• Regional fishery management regimes – comparisons of structure and
function
• Innovations in institutions
• Methodology
• Organizing interdisciplinary research
• Policy implications
The Workshop Organizing Committee invites submissions of poster proposals and requests to participate in the workshop. Limited travel
support is available. Awards of support will be based on merit, need for
support, and an expressed interest in future collaboration with CLIOTOP.
Please submit participation requests and poster proposals, together with
a statement of interest, and an estimate of any needed travel support to
Kathleen Miller at: kathleen@ucar.edu.
Submissions will be accepted until December 15, 2006, and will be
reviewed by members of the Workshop Organizing Committee. Decisions will
be made by February 28, 2007.
Information about CLIOTOP is available at the following website:
http://www.globec.org/structure/regional/cliotop/cliotop.htm, and a
description of WG 5 is available at:
http://www.isse.ucar.edu/hawaii/index.html. For further information
about GLOBEC, see: http://www.globec.org/ .
This conference is funded by NSF grant 0524073.
Workshop Organizing Committee:
Kathleen Miller
:National Center for Atmospheric Research
:kathleen@ucar.edu
Gail Osherenko
:Marine Science Institute
:University of California, Santa Barbara
Peter Jacques
:University of Central Florida
Robert McKelvey
:University of Montana
Rémi Mongruel
:Ifremer / DEM / Centre de Brest
:France
D.G. Webster
:University of Southern California
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