Event Calendar
Climate Change Initiative WorkshopNovember 14, 2010The COMPASS Climate Change Initiative (CCI) brought together marine scientists across disciplines to synthesize existing research on the impacts of climate change on marine ecosystems. Previous assessments and syntheses have addressed the physical and chemical changes associated with climate change, such as temperature, winds and currents. At the time of the last Intergovernmental Panel on... |
Ransom Myers Memorial Lecture on Science and SocietySeptember 23, 2010Nancy Baron, our director of science outreach, gave the third annual lecture, titled "Escape from the Ivory Tower: The Risks and Rewards of Making Your Science Matter’ This Lecture Series commemorates Ransom (RAM) Myers, a world renowned fisheries scientists and advocate for marine conservation who taught and conducted research at Dalhousie University. He died in March 2007. The annual memorial lecture has been organized by his family, colleagues and... |
Marine Spatial Planning Is Coming: What Can Science Do For You?September 7, 2010At the 2010 California and the World Ocean Conference, COMPASS brought together scientists and decision makers for a breakfast dialogue to explore how innovative knowledge and tools can help inform Coastal and Marine Spatial Planning (CMSP) decision-making as one of the priorities of the National Ocean Policy (NOP). The discussion was shaped by some of the key challenges to CMSP:
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Greater Than the Sum of Their Parts: The Conservation and Economic Benefits of Marine ReservesApril 6, 2010 |
Climate Change and Our Coasts: Impacts and Adaptation OptionsNovember 9, 2009 |
The Pacific Ocean: Our Shared Resources in PerilOctober 29, 2009 |
Fishing for solutions: Getting fisheries rebuilding right?October 22, 2009 |
Coral Reefs: New Insights on Coral ConservationOctober 21, 2009 |
West Coast Ecosystem Services: Feasible Metrics and TradeoffsJuly 22, 2009In collaboration with the Natural Capital Project, this workshop convened ecologists, economists, and practitioners to adddress: (1) How do we measure key marine and coastal ecosystem services for the US west coast? and (2) How do we apply these metrics to assess important ecosystem service tradeoffs? The group developed a new, 3-step approach that provides the tools to measure and track the condition of the system (supply), the... |
Climate Change Impacts on Coastal California: What Lies AheadMarch 25, 2009 |
