The Faculty and Students of the Marine Affairs Program invite you to a seminar:
“Environmental Consulting Along Canada’s Coastlines”
Marina Winterbottom, MMM 2007
Marine Biologist, Stantec
Wednesday October 14, 2009
1:00-2:00 PM
Room 309
Dalhousie Law School
6061 University Avenue, Dalhousie University Campus
For more information, contact the Marine Affairs Program,
Marine.Affairs@dal.ca
The Marine Affairs Program (MAP) at Dalhousie University offers the Master of Marine Management (MMM) degree program. The MMM is a 12-month, intensive non-thesis professional graduate degree with a minimum four-week internship at a host organization and major graduate research project, focusing on aspects of marine management of direct interest to the internship host.
MAP is exploring the offering of a thesis-based Master’s degree and would appreciate your input in this regard by answering the following short survey.
Thank you in advance for taking the time to provide your input.
Becky Field
Administrator
Marine Affairs Program
Dalhousie University
marineaffairsprogram.dal.ca
marine.affairs@dal.ca
Kenneth C. Rowe Management Building
6100 University Avenue, Suite 2127
Halifax, Nova Scotia
Canada B3H 3J5
phone 902-494-3555
FAX 902-494-1001
marine.affairs@dal.ca
National Geographic’s two-hour movie on Charles Darwin, partly filmed at Prescott House Museum, and Uniacke Estate Museum Park earlier this year (and using microscopes and other props from Acadia University) will be aired on PBS on Tuesday Oct 6. Called “Darwin’s Darkest Hour”, here’s a promo-clip of the film from Youtube
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In 1858 Charles Darwin received a letter from naturalist Alfred Wallace, explaining his own theory of evolution. This was the trigger event that led to the publication of Darwin’s seminal theory on the origin of species.
The Faculty and Students of the Marine Affairs Program invite you to a seminar:
Wednesday October 7, 2009
1:00-2:00 PM
Room 309
Dalhousie Law School
6061 University Avenue, Dalhousie University Campus
Abstract
Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are an important tool for achieving ecosystem-based management and conservation in the marine environment. However the actual implementation of MPAs worldwide has lagged behind international targets, and one reason for this is a lack of guidance on how to best govern their establishment and implementation. The “Governing MPAs” project co-led by Elizabeth De Santo (Marine Affairs Program) and Peter Jones (University College London) is examining the role of incentives in MPA establishment and will result in a UNEP-IUCN ‘best practice’ guidebook. These incentives include knowledge-based, legal, economic, interpretative and participatory factors. We are looking at how the balance between achieving meaningful stakeholder participation and fulfilling marine biodiversity conservation objectives has played out in 30 cases across the globe, and will be holding a workshop in Croatia in mid-October to bring practitioners from these sites together to explore their studies and share lessons learned. This seminar will discuss the premise of the project and some preliminary results.
For more information, contact the Marine Affairs Program, Marine.Affairs@dal.ca, 902-494-3555
Dr. Agardy was Lead Author for the coastal section of the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment and Senior Director for the Global Marine Program at Conservation International and, before that, Senior Scientist for WWF. She is an internationally renowned expert in marine biodiversity conservation. In this presentation she will provide a lively discussion on the state of coastal and oceanic ecosystems, based on her extensive global experience, and discuss potential solutions such as MPA networks, ocean zoning, and the development of ecosystem services markets.
Location: University of Victoria, SSM Building A120
October 1 2009
19:00:00 to 21:00:00
Contact: Diane Braithwaite, 250-721-7357
From the Marine Affairs Program at Dalhousie University, the most recent issue of the Marine Affairs Policy Forum is now available. The Forum provides perspectives on current and emerging issues of concern to the coastal and ocean policy community in the Atlantic Region. Kindly provide any feedback you might have to marine.affairs@dal.ca.
Please visit: http://www.omrn-rrgo.ca/smc/students.php to find out more about acting as a student rapporteur, participating in the conference sessions, or entering one of the student competitions. There is also NEW information on Student Travel Awards (if you are currently a student or a recent ’09 grad and are thinking of coming to the conference you are encouraged to apply for a travel award).
To register for the conference please visit: http://www.omrn-rrgo.ca/smc/registration.php. The student registration fee is $100.
The International Ocean Governance Working Group (IOG WG) is organizing a paper session at the 2009 OMRN National Conference on the broad theme of International Arctic Ocean Governance. With the renewed focus on the Arctic due to the effects of climate change in the region, increased interest in the development of northern resources, and announcements by the Canadian government of new initiatives to assert Canadian sovereignty in the region, there are numerous calls both inside and outside of Canada for strengthening international governance structures for the Arctic Ocean region. This session will consider perspectives on IOG in relation to marine shipping and future marine resource developments in the Canadian Arctic.
Programme and registration information will follow shortly. For more info, contact: marpac.wpns@forces.gc.ca
Retired Western Washington University professor Bert Webber has initiated an effort to rename the Puget Sound, Strait of Georgia and Strait of Juan de Fuca under one name – the Salish Sea.