Maritime Awards Society of Canada

The OMRN is pleased to support the initiative of fellow OMRN researcher, Dr. Murray Rudd, described below:We would be grateful for your assistance in promoting a web-based solicitation of research questions that, if answered, would advance the development of effective policies and management strategies for species, ecosystems, and ecological processes in Canada.
Please click on the link below to access the solicitation. Please also forward the link and information about the solicitation to colleagues in your organization and encourage them to submit their questions. In most cases, the submission will require no more than 10 minutes to complete.

In English: http://www.40q.org/English/cgi-bin/ciwweb.pl?studyname=CA_E&ac=970795

We seek input from policymakers and their advisors in the governmental sector, policy specialists in the nongovernmental and private sectors, researchers in the natural and social sciences, and the philanthropic community.

Participants in an upcoming April 2010 Ottawa workshop will reduce the pool of submitted questions to a core set of 40 research questions –  ‘Canada’s Top 40’ –  that collectively will constitute an agenda for scientific inquiry that serves the needs of decision makers. We will disseminate these research priorities to policymakers, funders of research, and the scientific community.

All responses to the solicitation will be strictly confidential. Providing a name and contact information is optional. The website provides information on criteria for submitted questions and examples of well-defined questions. It also provides information about next steps in the effort, anticipated deliverables and dissemination, and organization and financial support.

If you have any questions about the solicitation or development of Canada’s Top 40, please contact Murray Rudd (mr642@york.ac.uk).

Thanks very much for your assistance on behalf of our research team.