Marine Protected Areas Workshop
Understanding DSEWPaC’s research needs for managing the Commonwealth marine reserve estate
16 November 2010, Canberra

The Marine Biodiversity Hub hosted a workshop with the Department  of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities (DSEWPaC) to bring together policy-makers, managers and researchers in protected area management. The goal of the workshop was to foster understanding about the future legislative, policy, program and operational challenges in managing the Commonwealth marine reserve estate, and to identify opportunities for science to contribute to meeting those challenges.

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Estimating costs of MPA management
Cost effective survey and monitoring of biota and habitats in shelf based MPAs
Marine Biodiversity Hub & Future Research - MPAs
Spatial Context for MPA Management
Great Barrier Reef Marine Park: Lessons learnt in managing a large multiple use, ecosystem-based MPA
Ecosystem health monitoring
Defining management objectives: lessons from fisheries
 

Market Based Instruments Workshop
Understanding DSEWPaC’s research needs on the application of market-based instruments to achieve marine conservation outcomes

4 November 2010, Canberra

The Marine Biodiversity Hub hosted a workshop with Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water, Population and Communities (DSEWPaC) to bring together policy-makers, managers and researchers in marine management and incentive-based measures. The goal of the workshop was to foster understanding about the future policy and program challenges in managing the marine environment, and to identify potential opportunities for market-based instruments to contribute to improved and cost-effective conservation outcomes.

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Marine Biodiversity Hub & Future Research - MBIs
Beware of mathematicians bearing gifts
Marine Fisheries: MBIs for environmental and fisheries outcomes
How can incentives be used in managing biodiversity?

 

Nationally Relevant Environmental Monitoring Workshop
Existing approaches and future opportunities
20 and 21 October 2009, Canberra

CSIRO and the Marine Biodiversity Hub are hosting a workshop in Canberra on 20–21 October to bring together policy makers, practitioners and researchers in environmental monitoring. Our goal is to foster an ongoing national dialogue.

The environment’s capacity to service human needs and absorb human impacts is limited. The need to quantify, record and report on this capacity is firmly on the national policy agenda. A key impediment here is the lack of consistent, nationally relevant data, collected and analysed in a policy suitable format. The workshop will improve our joint understanding of the policy environment in which environmental monitoring occurs, and how different jurisdictions approach monitoring. It also will address new opportunities in monitoring programme design and implementation. This is the first stage in what we hope will become an ongoing process to advance environmental monitoring and improve its impact and relevance to local, regional and national decision-making.
The first day focuses on the technical challenges in achieving nationally relevant environmental monitoring and considers approaches that are currently in place. The second day focuses on frontiers in environmental monitoring and explores the opportunities of new methodological and technological developments.

Species Prediction Workshop
Improving DEWHA’s capacity to predict the distribution of marine species
9 March 2010, Canberra

The Marine Biodiversity Hub convened a workshop with the Department of Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts (DEWHA) to foster understanding between marine scientists and the Environmental Resources Information Network (ERIN), DEWHA about the current practices, challenges and objectives for predicting species distributions within ERIN. The workshop provided an opportunity for the CERF Marine Hub and other researchers to outline recent methodological and technical developments in predicting marine species distributions and potential advantages and limitations of alternative approaches. The workshop highlighted opportunities to improve ERIN’s capacity to predict and maintain species distributions through use or adoption of new surfaces, methods and techniques.

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