Event Calendar


Policy Week for Aldo Leopold Leadership Program September 8, 2011
Workshop: Marine conservation success through synthesis and story August 23, 2011 Success means very different things to different people. How are management goals defined in different cultural, political, and ecological contexts? What does success look like in particular coastal and marine ecosystems, and to the diverse human communitieis that are part of these places? To explore these issues, COMPASS hosted a retreat for 10 scholars and practitioners from academia, government, and non-governmental organizations at the...
Ocean acidification and dead zones: The science behind the headlines August 8, 2011 COMPASS hosted a field trip to the Oregon coast for state legislators and staff to learn more about the science behind the headlines of ocean acidification and low-oxygen, or "dead", zones, particularly the effects these have on Oregon's marine resources. The day featured five Oregon scientists speaking at the Whiskey Creek Hatchery and in Pacific City. At the Whiskey Creek Hatchery...
Communications Training for the Aldo Leopold Leadership Program June 19, 2011 Since 2000, Nancy Baron and the COMPASS team have been the lead trainers for the prestigious Aldo Leopold Leadership Program.This is our flagship training of each year. This year, we designed and led three days of the training program for the 2011 cohort, featuring journalists...
Congressional Briefing on Ocean Acidification: Focus on estuaries and nearshore waters June 12, 2011 On June 13, 2011 COMPASS and the National Research Council Ocean Studies Board hosted Congressional briefings on ocean acidification in both the House of Representatives and the Senate. Caused by increasing levels of CO2 in the ocean, acidification threatens a range of marine organisms and their ecosystems, including commercially valuable species such as shellfish and corals. Originally considered more of an “open ocean” problem...
Communications Training for UC Santa Cruz May 23, 2011
IMCC Workshop Session May 15, 2011 The Second International Marine Conservation Congress (IMCC2) - an interdisciplinary meeting designed to put conservation science back into practice by bringing together natural and social scientists, managers, policy-makers, and the public - was held May 14-18, 2011 at the Victoria Conference Centre in Victoria, British Columbia. COMPASS hosted a media fellowship for 12 journalists to attend the meeting, organized the...
Ocean Tapas: Small Bites of Big Ocean Issues at IMCC 2011 May 14, 2011 At this evening plenary for IMCC 2011, attendees enjoyed a sneak peek at the meeting's hottest issues. Five environmental journalists interviewed a panel of nine marine experts, diving to the bottom of some of the most pressing challenges and opportunities society faces in pursuit of sustainable ocean ecosystems. Nancy Baron of COMPASS, author of “Escape from the Ivory Tower: A Guide to Making Your Science Matter,” moderated this fast-paced discussion. The Journalists Jeff...
Marine GeoScientists Communications Workshop April 18, 2011 Science Outreach Specialist Matt Wright organized a Communicating Science workshop for 24 marine geoscientists at the Consortium for Ocean Leadership's Marine GeoScientists Leadership Symposium in Washington, DC. In the workshop, participants learned to distill their science into key message points using a tool called the Message Box, and used this message as the foundation for a networking...
Sacramento briefing: Healthy Predators, Healthy Ocean April 4, 2011 On April 4, 2011, COMPASS organized a luncheon briefing on the sometimes surprising roles in ocean ecosystems of top predators, such as sharks. Dr. Stuart Sandin from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and Dr. Francesco Ferretti from Hopkins Marine Station at Stanford University, presented their work to an audience of policymakers and others in Sacramento. Dr. Sandin discussed research that demonstrates the surprising ways in which predators help make fisheries more productive,...

Policy Week for Aldo Leopold Leadership Program

September 8, 2011

Workshop: Marine conservation success through synthesis and story

August 23, 2011

Success means very different things to different people. How are management goals defined in different cultural, political, and ecological contexts? What does success look like in particular coastal and marine ecosystems, and to the diverse human communitieis that are part of these places?

To explore these issues, COMPASS hosted a retreat for 10 scholars and practitioners from academia, government, and non-governmental organizations at the...

Ocean acidification and dead zones: The science behind the headlines

August 8, 2011

COMPASS hosted a field trip to the Oregon coast for state legislators and staff to learn more about the science behind the headlines of ocean acidification and low-oxygen, or "dead", zones, particularly the effects these have on Oregon's marine resources. The day featured five Oregon scientists speaking at the Whiskey Creek Hatchery and in Pacific City.

At the Whiskey Creek Hatchery...

Communications Training for the Aldo Leopold Leadership Program

June 19, 2011

Since 2000, Nancy Baron and the COMPASS team have been the lead trainers for the prestigious Aldo Leopold Leadership Program.This is our flagship training of each year.

This year, we designed and led three days of the training program for the 2011 cohort, featuring journalists...

Congressional Briefing on Ocean Acidification: Focus on estuaries and nearshore waters

June 12, 2011

On June 13, 2011 COMPASS and the National Research Council Ocean Studies Board hosted Congressional briefings on ocean acidification in both the House of Representatives and the Senate.

Caused by increasing levels of CO2 in the ocean, acidification threatens a range of marine organisms and their ecosystems, including commercially valuable species such as shellfish and corals. Originally considered more of an “open ocean” problem...

Communications Training for UC Santa Cruz

May 23, 2011

IMCC Workshop Session

May 15, 2011

The Second International Marine Conservation Congress (IMCC2) - an interdisciplinary meeting designed to put conservation science back into practice by bringing together natural and social scientists, managers, policy-makers, and the public - was held May 14-18, 2011 at the Victoria Conference Centre in Victoria, British Columbia. COMPASS hosted a media fellowship for 12 journalists to attend the meeting, organized the...

Ocean Tapas: Small Bites of Big Ocean Issues at IMCC 2011

May 14, 2011

At this evening plenary for IMCC 2011, attendees enjoyed a sneak peek at the meeting's hottest issues. Five environmental journalists interviewed a panel of nine marine experts, diving to the bottom of some of the most pressing challenges and opportunities society faces in pursuit of sustainable ocean ecosystems. Nancy Baron of COMPASS, author of “Escape from the Ivory Tower: A Guide to Making Your Science Matter,” moderated this fast-paced discussion.

The Journalists

Jeff...

Marine GeoScientists Communications Workshop

April 18, 2011

Science Outreach Specialist Matt Wright organized a Communicating Science workshop for 24 marine geoscientists at the Consortium for Ocean Leadership's Marine GeoScientists Leadership Symposium in Washington, DC. In the workshop, participants learned to distill their science into key message points using a tool called the Message Box, and used this message as the foundation for a networking...

Sacramento briefing: Healthy Predators, Healthy Ocean

April 4, 2011

On April 4, 2011, COMPASS organized a luncheon briefing on the sometimes surprising roles in ocean ecosystems of top predators, such as sharks. Dr. Stuart Sandin from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, and Dr. Francesco Ferretti from Hopkins Marine Station at Stanford University, presented their work to an audience of policymakers and others in Sacramento. Dr. Sandin discussed research that demonstrates the surprising ways in which predators help make fisheries more productive,...