Workshops

Science Commumication at Brown University

Communications Director Nancy Baron led a successful communications workshop for 13 enthusiastic Brown University scientists.  COMPASS invited journalist trainers - Cornelia Dean of the New York Times, Ari Daniel Shapiro, a freelance radio journalist, and Rhitu Chatterjee

Yukon Research Center hosts Science Communications Workshop

Communications Director Nancy Baron recently traveled to Whitehorse, Yukon to lead a science communications workshop with journalist trainers Cornelia Dean of the New York Times, Lisa Johnson of CBC News in Vancouver, and local reporters Cheryl Kawaja of CBC Television and Radio and Genesse Keevil of the Yukon News.  First Nations Elder Randall Tetlichi kicked off the workshop with his opening remarks; 21 local and Canadian government scientists as well as researchers from the

Workshop: Marine conservation success through synthesis and story

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?

Legal Standards for Marine Ecosystem-Based Management: California and Beyond

This two-day workshop, co-hosted by the Environmental and Natural Resources Law and Policy Program of Stanford Law School and COMPASS, challenged a select group of scientists and policy experts to articulate EBM in terms that can serve as standards suitable for inclusion in legislation. The group discussed how to develop concrete, measurable, enforceable indicators and standards for marine ecosystem health and how to retrofit existing laws or develop new statutes to enable comprehensive and integrated ocean management.

West Coast Ecosystem Services: Feasible Metrics and Tradeoffs

In 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?

Workshop: Communicating the Science of Ecosystem Services to Decision-Makers

As regions respond to the National Ocean Policy, what roles can ecosystem services play in shaping this dialogue? Can services provide an organizing framework for coastal and marine spatial planning? This 2-day workshop focused on identifying and developing consistent messages about ecosystem services that would resonate with decision makers.

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