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The ACZISC Coastal Update has been published by the ACZISC since 1997. The e-newsletter highlights research, documents, resources, events, and opportunities related to integrated coastal and ocean management, coastal mapping and geomatics, and other coastal and marine issues. The Coastal Update is also distributed mid-month to over 5400 people worldwide via email; to subscribe, contact the ACZISC Secretariat. Note: The links to articles were active and accurate at the time of posting. Feedback is requested from subscribers re the usefulness, format, content, etc. of the Coastal Update. The comments, together with the respondent's name and affiliation, are posted at http://aczisc.dal.ca/update-feedback.htm. Please email brief comments to the ACZISC Secretariat. Please note that the inclusion of items in the Coastal Update does not imply endorsement by the member agencies of the ACZISC. Hyperlinks to non-ACZISC websites and resources do not imply any official endorsement of, or responsibility for, the opinions, ideas, data or products presented at these locations, or guarantee the validity of the information provided. The sole purpose of links to non-ACZISC websites is to indicate information available on topics related to the ACZISC mandate. ACZISC COASTAL UPDATE - MARCH 2011  UPCOMING ACZISC MEETINGS- 18-19 May 2011: ACZISC Meeting #63, Fredericton, NB - 14-15 September 2011: ACZISC Meeting #64, Halifax, NS - 25-26 January 2012: ACZISC Meeting #65, Charlottetown, PEI - 16-17 May 2012: ACZISC Meeting #66, St. John's, NL For information on the meetings, email the ACZISC Secretariat at aczisc@dal.ca. COASTAL MANAGEMENT STUDY RECRUITING PARTICIPANTSAre you a coastal manager? What kind of information do you need to do your job? A research group at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova Scotia is developing an online tool to help managers find coastal and marine information efficiently. Please help the researchers by completing an online survey about the types of coastal information you use - https://surveys.dal.ca/opinio/s?s=11000. ATLANTIC ZONE MONITORINGThe AZMP (Atlantic Zone Monitoring Program) Bulletin presents an annual review of the general oceanographic conditions in the Northwest Atlantic region, including the Gulf of St. Lawrence, as well as articles concerning particular events, studies, or activities that took place in the Canadian Atlantic Zone during the previous year. The AZMP Bulletin No 9 (December 2010) is available at http://www.meds-sdmm.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/isdm-gdsi/azmp-pmza/docs/bulletin_9_2010.pdf. ECOLOGICAL AND HUMAN USE INFORMATION IN SUPPORT OF CONSERVATION PLANNINGThe Canadian Technical Report of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences titled “Ecological and Human Use Information for Twenty Areas on the Atlantic Coast of Nova Scotia in Support of Conservation Planning” is now available. Authored by staff in Fisheries and Oceans Canada's Oceans and Coastal Management Division, Maritime Region and the Canadian Wildlife Service, the report provides baseline information for coastal management initiatives on the Atlantic coast of Nova Scotia, with particular relevance to DFO’s Integrated Management and Marine Protected Area and Conservation Planning Programs. The report is available online: http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/libraries-bibliotheques/toc-tdm/342508-eng.htm. COASTGIS 2011: CALL FOR PAPERS30 April 2011 is the deadline for submitting abstracts to "CoastGIS 2011", the 10th International Symposium on GIS and Computer Cartography for Coastal Zone Management. The conference is scheduled for 5-8 September 2011 in Oostende, Belgium. The main theme is `Marine and Coastal Spatial Planning' - http://www.coastgis.info. MAPPING HUMAN USES OF THE OCEANThe MPA Center in the US has published a best practices manual titled "Mapping Human Uses of the Ocean: Informing Marine Spatial Planning Through Participatory GIS". The report provides detailed lessons learned from various participatory mapping projects and insight to the successful planning and implementation of mapping efforts - http://www.mpa.gov/resources/publications/reports. CLIMATE CHANGE INDICATORS IN THE GULF OF MAINEThe EcoSystem Indicator Partnership (ESIP) of the Gulf of Maine Council on the Marine Environment has released "Climate Change in the Gulf of Maine", the second of seven indicator-specific fact sheets. The fact sheet summarizes data for three key indicators: sea level, air temperature and precipitation. It introduces the concept of indicators for tracking change and demonstrates their value in better understanding the wide-ranging effects being seen in the region - http://www.gulfofmaine.org/esip. STATE OF MARINE AND COASTAL ADAPTATION IN NORTH AMERICAEcoAdapt was founded to offer support, training, and assistance to make conservation and management less vulnerable by providing support for climate change adaptation. EcoAdapt has released a report titled "The State of Marine and Coastal Adaptation in North America: A Synthesis of Emerging Ideas". The report provides a brief overview of climate change impacts on the natural and built environments in marine and coastal North America and a review of adaptation options available to (and in use by) marine and coastal managers - http://www.cakex.org/virtual-library/1615. CORAL REEFS AT RISKThe UN Environment Programme (UNEP) - World Conservation Monitoring Center, together with the World Resources Institute, the Nature Conservancy, the World Fish Center, the International Coral Reef Action Network and the Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network, have released a report titled "Reefs at Risk Revisited". The report highlights that 75% of the world's coral reefs are currently threatened by local and global pressures - http://www.wri.org/publication/reefs-at-risk-revisited. OTHER DOCUMENTS, NEWSLETTERS AND WEB RESOURCES- The Centre for Marine Biodiversity has launched its annual essay contest open to all grade 12 students in Atlantic Canada. The contest is intended to increase awareness of the biological diversity within Canada's vast ocean territories. Submissions are due by 15 April 2011 - http://www.marinebiodiversity.ca/cmb/atlantic-canada-marinebiodiversity-essay-contest/2011-essay-contest. - A feature story in NASA's Earth Observatory website addresses the relationship between ocean currents, temperatures, and the health of phytoplankton in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean. Images show the concentration of chlorophyll and sea surface temperatures - http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=49492&src=eoaiotd. - Issue no. 1, 2011 of 'Inside Out', the newsletter of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), provides updates on ICES activities - http://www.ices.dk/products/icesinsideout.asp. - A new version of the Massachusetts Ocean Resource Information System "MORIS" has been released. This web-based coastal mapping tool can be used to search, display and query a broad range of types of spatial data pertaining to the Massachusetts coastal zone - http://www.mass.gov/czm/mapping/index.htm. - "Scotland's Marine Atlas - Information for the National Marine Plan" is an assessment of the condition of Scotland's seas, based on scientific evidence from data and analysis. It features maps, graphics and information about Scotland's seas. - http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2011/03/16182005/0. - The winter 2011 issue of 'Hook, Line and Thinker', the Newsletter of the Fishermen and Scientists Research Society (FSRS), includes an article on the 2010 4VsW Sentinel Survey, a groundfish survey executed fully by fishermen - http://fsrs.ns.ca. - OURCOAST is a three-year project commissioned by the Directorate General Environment of the European Commission to support and ensure the exchange of experiences and best practices in coastal planning and management. The March 2011 issue of the OURCOAST newsletter is available at http://ec.europa.eu/ourcoast/download.cfm?fileID=1671. - The OURCOAST ICZM database with 350 case studies is now online. Experiences and practices described in the case studies cover a wide range of topics, themes, key approaches, and offer various ICZM tools - http://ec.europa.eu/ourcoast. - NOAA's Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management (OCRM) has launched a new interactive website called "OCRM in Your State". Using the latest GIS/web technology, the website shows the scope of coastal program investments and successes in NOAA's 34 partner states and territories - http://coastalmanagement.noaa.gov/inyourstate. - The impacts of fertilizer and plastic pollution in the oceans are identified as this year's priority issues in the "UNEP Year Book 2011: Emerging Issues in Our Global Environment" - http://www.unep.org/yearbook/2011. - NOAA's Coastal Services Magazine is a bi-monthly publication that profiles the efforts of state, community, and non-profit coastal programs. The March/April 2011 issue includes articles on: preparing coastal communities for future floods; tracking septic systems; and creating a framework to adapt to climate change - http://www.csc.noaa.gov/magazine/2011/02/index.html. - IOInforma is the news and information bulletin of the International Ocean Institute (IOI). The March 2011 issue includes information on the IOI-KIDS initiative, and the Women, Youth and the Sea Programme - http://www.ioinst.org. - The EUCC Coastal & MarinE-News, the international newsletter of the Coastal & Marine Union (EUCC), focuses on EUCC news, climate change, fisheries and aquaculture, coastal management and research, and maritime policy and spatial planning. The February 2011 issue (no 1) is available at http://www.eucc.net/en/news/CMN2010-06.pdf. - The 2nd edition of "Coastal Erosion and Solutions - A Primer" has been published by Coastal Science & Engineering. The updated version includes an expanded discussion of: sea-level rise; the limits of the littoral zone; hurricane impacts and recovery; measurement of erosion; and soft-engineering solutions - http://www.coastalscience.com. - The Massachusetts Bays Program (MBP) has released the December 2010 State of the Bays, a report that summarizes the status of 17 indicators of the health of Massachusetts and Cape Cod Bays.- http://www.mass.gov/envir/massbays/bays.htm. - The proceedings of the "32nd International Conference on Coastal Engineering", held from 30 June to 5 July 2010 in Shanghai, China, are available at https://journals.tdl.org/ICCE/issue/current. - An article in the Journal Nature Geoscience (Vol. 4) titled "Magnitude and oxidation potential of hydrocarbon gases released from the BP oil well blowout" estimates that the spill injected up to 500,000t of gaseous hydrocarbons into the deep ocean and that these gaseous emissions comprised 40% of the total hydrocarbon discharge - http://www.nature.com/ngeo/journal/v4/n3/full/ngeo1067.html. - An article in the Journal Nature (Vol. 470) examines 130 comanaged fisheries in a wide range of countries with different degrees of development, ecosystems, fishing sectors and type of resources. The authors identify strong leadership as the most important attribute contributing to success - http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v470/n7334/full/nature09689.html. - An article in the Journal Nature (Vol. 470) concludes that human-induced increases in greenhouse gases have contributed to the observed intensification of heavy precipitation events found over approximately two-thirds of data-covered parts of Northern Hemisphere land areas - http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v470/n7334/full/nature09763.html. OTHER DEADLINES- 16 March is the deadline for submitting applications to the Gulf of Maine Council on the Marine Environment - NOAA Habitat Restoration Grants Program - http://restoration.gulfofmaine.org. - 25 March is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the "Institute of Australian Geographers Conference", scheduled for 3-6 July 2011 in Wollongong, Australia - http://www.uow.edu.au/conferences/2011/iag/index.htm. - 31 March is the deadline for submissions to Volume 26 of the Ocean Yearbook. Topics include governance, environment and coastal management, living and non-living resources, transportation and communications, maritime security, etc. - http://law.dal.ca/Files/MEL_Institute/OYB/OYB_2010/OYB_Call_For_Papers_Volume_26-2011.pdf. - 1 April is the deadline for submitting poster abstracts to the "Young LOICZ Forum (YLF 2011)", scheduled for 8-15 September 2011 in Yantai, China - http://www.loicz.org/calender/ylf2011. - 15 April is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the "10th International Conference on the Mediterranean Coastal Environment - MEDCOAST 11", scheduled for 25-29 October 2011 in Rhodes, Greece - http://www.medcoast.org.tr/MC11/Call_for_Papers_MEDCOAST%2011.pdf. - 15 April is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the "ICES Annual Science Conference 2011", scheduled for 19-23 September 2011 in Gdansk, Poland - http://www.ices.dk/iceswork/asc/2011/index.asp. - 30 April is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the "5th European Coastal Lagoon Symposium (EUROLAG)", scheduled for 2530 July 2011 in Aveiro, Portugal - http://eurolag.web.ua.pt. - 1 May is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the "Land-Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone (LOICZ) Open Science Conference 2011", scheduled for 12-15 September 2011 in Yantai, China - http://www.loicz-osc2011.org. - 13 May is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the "American Shore & Beach Preservation Association (ASBPA) 2011 National Coastal Conference", scheduled for 19-21 October 2011 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA - http://www.asbpa.org. - 15 May is the deadline for submissions by students to Volume 26 of the Ocean Yearbook's annual competition for research papers on marine affairs subjects - http://law.dal.ca/Files/MEL_Institute/OYB/OYB_2010/Student_Prize_2011.pdf. - 15 May is the deadline for submitting abstracts to "SER2011", the 4th World Conference on Ecological Restoration, scheduled for 21-25 August 2011 in Mérida, Mexico - http://www.ser2011.org. - 15 May is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the "12th International Conference on Estuarine and Coastal Modeling", scheduled for 7-9 November 2011 in St Augustine, Florida, USA - http://www.oce.uri.edu/ecm12. - 30 May 2011 is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the "5th International Symposium on GIS/Spatial Analyses in Fishery and Aquatic Sciences", scheduled for 22-26 August 2011 in Wellington, New Zealand - http://www.fao.org/fishery/gisfish/servlet/BinaryDownloaderServlet/6110_Fifth_International_.pdf?filename=1273736272598_first_announcement.pdf&refID=6110. OTHER UPCOMING CONFERENCES AND EVENTS- For a complete list of upcoming conferences and workshops up to July 2012, access http://aczisc.dal.ca/conf.htm. - 20 March 2011 - 2:00 PM: Sandra Farwell will make a presentation entitled "Nova Scotia's Cleaner Energy Strategy" at the BIO-Oceans Association event "INTO SPRING CELEBRATION & SPECIAL SEMINAR" at the Bedford Institute of Oceanography. For additional information on the BIO Oceans Association go to: http://www.bio-oa.ca. - 21-24 March 2011: Coastal Geotools 2011, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, USA - http://geotools.csc.noaa.gov/default.aspx. - 23 March 2011: 2011 FSRS-GOMLF-UNBSJ Collaborative Lobster Science Workshop, Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada - http://www.fsrs.ns.ca/events/lobster_workshop2011.html. - 24-25 March 2011: 18th Annual Conference of the Fishermen and Scientists Research Society (FSRS), Truro, Nova Scotia - http://www.fsrs.ns.ca/events/ac2011.html. - 30 March 2011 - 7 to 9:30 PM: The Sable Island Update, the 7th Annual Public Meeting of the Sable Island Green Horse Society, Halifax, Nova Scotia - http://greenhorsesociety.com. - 3-8 April 2011: European Geosciences Union General Assembly, Vienna, Austria - http://meetings.copernicus.org/egu2011/home.html. - 4-5 April 2011: International Conference on the Social and Cultural Perspectives of Sustainable Marine Fisheries, London, UK - http://www.gre.ac.uk/sci/conf/fisheries. - 4-5 April 2011: 1st International Conference on Marine and Maritime Affairs, Plymouth, UK - http://www.icmma.info. - 5-8 April 2011: ECCLima, Estuaries in a Changing Climate, Porto, Portugal - http://www.cimar.org/ECClima/index.htm. - 13 April 2011: Deepwater Horizon Conference, Bristol, Rhode Island, USA - http://law.rwu.edu/academics/institutes-programs/marine-affairs-institute/symposia/april-2011-deepwater-horizon-catastr. - 27-29 April 2011: 2nd International Conference on Physical Coastal Processes, Management and Engineering, Naples, Italy - http://www.wessex.ac.uk/11-conferences/coastalprocesses-2011.html. - 27-30 April 2011: International Conference - 50 Years of Education and Awareness Raising for Shaping the Future of the Oceans and Coasts, St. Petersburg, Russia - http://www.ioc50.ru. - 2-6 May 2011: Coastal Sediments 2011, Miami, Florida, USA - http://coastalsediments.cas.usf.edu/index.html. - 3-5 May 2011: GeoHab 2011 Conference, 3-5 May 2011, Helsinki, Finland - http://projects.gtk.fi/GeoHab2011/index.html. - 8-11 May 2011: Aquaculture Canada 2011, Québec City, Québec - http://www.aquacultureassociation.ca/meeting/aquaculture-canada-2011. - 9-14 May 2011: 11th International Coastal Symposium (ICS), Szczecin, Poland - http://www.ics2011.pl. - 10-13 May 2011: Safer Seas 2011, Brest, France - http://www.saferseas-brest.org/Home-519-0-0-0.html. - 11-13 May 2011: CARICOSTAS 2011, the IV International Conference on Integrated Management of Coastal Zones, Santiago de Cuba - http://www.cemzoc.uo.edu.cu/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=56&Itemid=69. - 14-18 May 2011: 2nd International Marine Conservation Congress/Making Marine Science Matter, Victoria, British Columbia - http://www.conbio.org/IMCC2011. - 15-18 May 2011: International Symposium on Outfall Systems, Mar del Plata, Argentina - http://www.osmgp.gov.ar/symposium2011. - 24-26 May 2011: Headwaters to Ocean (H2O) Conference, San Diego, California, USA - http://www.coastalconference.org/h20_2011/2011_h20_conference.php. - 8-9 June 2011: Annual Meeting of the Northeast Coastal and Ocean Data Partnership and Metadata Workshop, Rye, New Hampshire, USA - http://www.necodp.org/workshops/metadata-workshop. 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ACZISC COASTAL UPDATE - FEBRUARY 2011 UPCOMING ACZISC MEETINGS- 18-19 May 2011: ACZISC Meeting #63, Fredericton, NB - 14-15 September 2011: ACZISC Meeting #64, Halifax, NS - 25-26 January 2012: ACZISC Meeting #65, Charlottetown, PEI - 16-17 May 2012: ACZISC Meeting #66, St. John's, NL For information on the meetings, email the ACZISC Secretariat at aczisc@dal.ca. CLIMATE CHANGE GUIDES FOR DEVELOPERS IN NOVA SCOTIAThe Government of Nova Scotia has released two guidebooks designed to help project developers navigate climate change issues: "Guide to Considering Climate Change in Project Development in Nova Scotia" and "Guide to Considering Climate Change in Environmental Assessments in Nova Scotia" - http://www.gov.ns.ca/nse/ea/pubs.asp. COASTAL AND OCEAN MANAGEMENT IN CANADACoastal Management is the official journal of The Coastal Society. Volume 39 Issue 1 2011 is titled "Coastal and Ocean Management in Canada: Progress, Challenges and Opportunities". For information, including abstracts and purchase information, access http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=t713626371. CLIMATE CHANGE AND CANADIAN MUNICIPALITIES"Adapting to Climate Change: An Introduction for Canadian Municipalities", published by Natural Resources Canada, provides information on the need for climate change adaptation and how to put adaptation measures in place. The guide also includes case studies that illustrate how municipalities of varying sizes from across the country are taking action - http://www.adaptation.nrcan.gc.ca/mun/index_e.php. WETLAND RESTORATION INVENTORY, SAINT JOHN, NBThe New Brunswick Government Department of Environment will partner with the Atlantic Coastal Action Program (ACAP) of Saint John to establish a Wetland Restoration Inventory that will identify wetlands in need of restoration in the Greater Saint John region. The inventory will be used when wetland compensation is required under the Watercourse and Wetland Alteration Regulation and the Environmental Impact Assessment Regulation. Landowners interested in taking part in the inventory can contact ACAP Saint John. - http://www2.gnb.ca/content/gnb/en/news/news_release.2011.01.0048.html. CANADA-US CLIMATE POLICY CHOICESCanada's National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy (NRTEE) has released a report titled "Parallel Paths: Canada-US Climate Policy Choices" which examines the climate change policy relationship between Canada and the United States. The NRTEE's report offers new analysis, insight and advice on the implications of harmonizing climate policies in Canada with policies in the United States - http://www.climateprosperity.ca/eng/studies/canada-us/report/canada-us-report-eng.php. MARINE AND COASTAL ADAPTATION IN NORTH AMERICAThe report titled "State of Marine and Coastal Adaptation in North America: A Synthesis of Emerging Ideas" provides a brief overview of key climate change impacts on the natural and built environments in marine and coastal North America and a review of adaptation options available. It is the result of EcoAdapt's efforts to survey adaptation projects, programs, and activities in the marine and coastal areas of the United States, Canada, and Mexico - http://www.cakex.org/virtual-library/1615. SCIENTIFIC SUMMARY FOR POLICYMAKERS ON OCEAN FERTILIZATIONThe Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has released "Scientific Summary for Policymakers on Ocean Fertilization". The summary considers the practicalities, opportunities and threats associated with large-scale ocean fertilization as a climate change mitigation measure - http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0019/001906/190674e.pdf. STATE OF WORLD FISHERIES AND AQUACULTURE 2010The report, released by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations, stresses that the contribution of fish to global diets has increased and that the status of global fish stocks has not improved. It also highlights that approximately 32% of the world's fish stocks are estimated to be over-exploited, depleted or recovering, while only 15% of the FAO-monitored stocks are under-exploited or moderately exploited - http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/50260/icode. GOVERNORS' SOUTH ATLANTIC ALLIANCE ACTION PLANOn January 25th, the Governors' South Atlantic Alliance in the US released a final Action Plan that will guide efforts to address key environmental, economic and cultural issues facing the region's coastal and ocean areas. The Action Plan focuses on four priority topic areas: healthy ecosystems, working waterfronts, clean coastal and ocean waters, and disaster-resilient communities - http://www.southatlanticalliance.org. RECENT IUCN PUBLICATIONS- "Global Ocean Protection: Present Status and Future Possibilities" reports that although the total ocean area protected has risen by over 150% since 2003, MPA coverage is very uneven and does not adequately represent all ecoregions and habitats important for conservation - http://data.iucn.org/dbtw-wpd/edocs/2010-053.pdf. - "Sustainable Development of the World's Large Marine Ecosystems during Climate Change" describes actions underway in a global movement to restore and sustain the world's Large Marine Ecosystems (LMEs) and their multi-trillion dollar annual contribution to the world economy - http://data.iucn.org/dbtw-wpd/edocs/2010-079.pdf. OTHER DOCUMENTS, NEWSLETTERS AND WEB RESOURCES- The Centre for Marine Biodiversity has launched its annual essay contest open to all grade 12 students in Atlantic Canada. The contest is intended to increase awareness of the biological diversity within Canada's vast ocean territories. Submissions are due 15 April 2011 - http://www.marinebiodiversity.ca/cmb/atlantic-canada-marine-biodiversity-essay-contest/2011-essay-contest. - Marine Ecosystems and Management (MEAM) is the quarterly information service on marine ecosystem-based management (EBM). Topics discussed in the current edition of MEAM (Vol. 4, No.4) include: viewpoints from the EU, US, and China on the role ocean zoning plays in marine spatial planning; implementing integrated EBM at the interface with indigenous knowledge; and EBM and traditional resource management in coastal Canada - http://www.meam.net. - The Science-to-Action partnership fosters networks of scientists and conservationists worldwide to ensure that high-quality science is the basis for conservation decision-making. Documents published by the partnership include: "Managing Marine Areas for Human Well-being"; "Economic Incentives for Marine Conservation"; and "Case Studies of Three Economic Incentive Approaches in Marine Conservation" - http://www.science2action.org/component/content/article/143. - OSPAR is the mechanism by which fifteen Governments of the western coasts and catchments of Europe, together with the European Community, cooperate to protect the marine environment of the North-East Atlantic. Issue 5 of the OSPAR Commission's e-newsletter is available at http://www.ospar.org/html_documents/ospar/html/ospar_enewsletter_issue5_010211.pdf. - IOInforma is the news and information bulletin of the International Ocean Institute (IOI). The February 2011 issue includes links to the reports of the Pacem in Maribus XXXIII - International Conference on Oceans, Climate Change and Sustainable Development, held on 2-4 September 2010 in Beijing, China, and the International Conference on the Future Challenges to Coastal Cities held on 6-7 September 2010 in Shanghai, China - http://www.ioinst.org. -A feature article from the Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) website describes the discovery of Porbeagle Shark birthing grounds. Over the past 15 years, researchers at DFO's Bedford Institute of Oceanography (BIO) have been unravelling the life history of Porbeagle Sharks. Until recently where Porbeagles give birth had remained a mystery. - http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/science/publications/article/2011/01-24-11-eng.html. - An article published in the journal Environmental Science & Technology titled "Fate of Dispersants Associated with the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill" summarizes peer-reviewed research on the dispersants applied to the Gulf of Mexico spill and the environmental fate of dispersants in deepwater- http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/es103838p. - "Our Changing Oceans", the 11th US National Conference for Science, Policy and the Environment, was held on 19-21 January 2011 in Washington, DC, USA. Participants developed recommendations to governments and academe on a wide range of themes. The draft recommendations, related articles and video coverage of the conference are available at http://ncseonline.org/conference/Oceans. - NOAA's Coastal Services Magazine is a bi-monthly publication that profiles the efforts of state, community, and non-profit coastal programs. The January/February 2011 issue includes articles on: Marine Spatial Planning in Rhode Island; Creating More Resilient Coral Reefs with an Online Toolkit; and Geocaching around the Great Lakes - http://www.csc.noaa.gov/magazine/2011/01/index.html. - NOAA's Coastal Services Center recently released the Sea Level Rise Impacts Viewer, a new tool for visualizing sea level rise and coastal flooding - http://csc.noaa.gov/digitalcoast/tools/slrviewer. - Results of the Coastal Resource Management Customer Survey conducted by NOAA's Coastal Services Center are now available. The Centre conducts the surveys periodically to better understand the issues facing their clients and the type of assistance their clients would find most beneficial - http://www.csc.noaa.gov/survey. - The report titled "Climate uncertainty and policymaking: A policy maker's view", released by the Global Commons Institute, examines the risks and uncertainties associated with the science of climate change, the scientists' tools and methods and the policy making process. It also considers how these might be integrated and communicated to policy makers - http://www.gci.org.uk/Documents/Uncertainty_Paper.pdf. - "Scanning the Conservation Horizon: A Guide to Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment" has been released by the National Wildlife Federation, NOAA and other partners. The peer-reviewed guide describes the impact of climate change on species and ecosystems and efforts to safeguard these valuable natural resources - http://www.nwf.org/vulnerabilityguide. - WaterLife is a series of educational games about ocean and coastal resources produced by NOAA and Montgomery College. The games provide challenges for students at the fourth through seventh grade levels to learn science content about human impacts on ecosystems and marine species - http://games.noaa.gov/waterlife.html. - The International Conference "Oceans Past III: Stories from the Sea", covering the history of marine animal populations and their exploitation, was held on 18-20 November 2010 in Dublin, Ireland. Videos of several presentations are available at http://www.hmapcoml.org/oceanspast. - Articles in the January 2011 issue of the Canadian Ocean Science newsletter include reports and updates from the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR) Working Groups on topics such as: the role of viruses in marine ecosystems; and land-based nutrient pollution and the relationship to coastal harmful algal blooms - http://www.cmos.ca/scor/newsletters.htm. - The results of the "International Conference on Deltas in Times of Climate Change", held from 29 September to 2 October 2010 in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, are now available. These include videos, presentations, and meeting reports - http://www.climatedeltaconference.org. DEADLINES- 15 February is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the "10th International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant", scheduled for 24-29 July 2011 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada - http://www.mercury2011.org. - 15 February is the extended deadline for submitting abstracts to "People in Places: Engaging Together in Integrated Resource Management", scheduled for 26-29 June 2011 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada - http://www.coastalcura.ca/peopleinplaces2011.html. - 25 February is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the "Coasts and Ports 2011 Conference", scheduled for 28-30 September 2011 in Perth, Western Australia - http://www.coastsandports2011.com.au. - 25 February is the extended deadline for submitting abstracts to "Environmental Management for Enclosed Coastal Seas 9: Global Summit on Coastal Seas", scheduled for 28-31 August 2011 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA - http://www.conference.ifas.ufl.edu/EMECS9. - 28 February is the deadline for submitting abstracts to "Aquaculture Canada 2011", scheduled for 8-11 May 2011 in Québec City, Québec, Canada - http://www.aquacultureassociation.ca/meeting/aquaculture-canada-2011. - 28 February is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the "GeoHab 2011 Conference", scheduled for 3-5 May 2011 in Helsinki, Finland - http://projects.gtk.fi/GeoHab2011/index.html. -28 February 2011 is the extended deadline for submitting abstracts to the "5th EARSeL (European Association of Remote Sensing Laboratories) Workshop on Remote Sensing of the Coastal Zone", scheduled for 1-3 June 2011 in Prague, Czech Republic - http://www.earsel.org/SIG/CZ/5th-workshop/index.php. - 1 March is the deadline for submitting applications for posters and displays to the "18th Annual Conference of the Fishermen and Scientists Research Society", scheduled for 24-25 March 2011 in Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada - http://www.fsrs.ns.ca/events/ac2011.html. - 16 March is the deadline for submitting applications to the Gulf of Maine Council on the Marine Environment - NOAA Habitat Restoration Grants Program - http://restoration.gulfofmaine.org. - 31 March is the deadline for submissions to Volume 26 of the Ocean Yearbook. Topics include governance, environment and coastal management, living and non-living resources, transportation and communications, maritime security, etc. - http://law.dal.ca/Files/MEL_Institute/OYB/OYB_2010/OYB_Call_For_Papers_Volume_26-2011.pdf. - 1 April is the deadline for submitting abstracts to "CoastGIS 2011", scheduled for 5-8 September 2011 in Oostende, Belgium - http://www.coastgis.info. - 1 April is the deadline for submitting poster abstracts to the "Young LOICZ Forum (YLF 2011)", scheduled for 8-15 September, 2011 in Yantai, China - http://www.loicz.org/calender/ylf2011. - 15 April is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the "10th International Conference on the Mediterranean Coastal Environment - MEDCOAST 11", scheduled for 25-29 October 2011 in Rhodes, Greece - http://www.medcoast.org.tr/MC11/Call_for_Papers_MEDCOAST%2011.pdf. - 15 April is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the "ICES Annual Science Conference 2011", scheduled for 19-23 September 2011 in Gdansk, Poland - http://www.ices.dk/iceswork/asc/2011/index.asp. - 30 April is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the "5th European Coastal Lagoon Symposium (EUROLAG)", scheduled for 25-30 July 2011 in Aveiro, Portugal - http://eurolag.web.ua.pt. - 1 May is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the "Land-Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone (LOICZ) Open Science Conference 2011", scheduled for 12-15 September 2011 in Yantai, China - http://www.loicz-osc2011.org. - 15 May is the deadline for submissions by students to Volume 26 of the Ocean Yearbook's annual competition for research papers on marine affairs subjects - http://law.dal.ca/Files/MEL_Institute/OYB/OYB_2010/Student_Prize_2011.pdf. - 15 May is the deadline for submitting abstracts to "SER2011", the 4th World Conference on Ecological Restoration, scheduled for 21-25 August 2011 in Mérida, Mexico - http://www.ser2011.org. OTHER UPCOMING CONFERENCES AND EVENTS- For a complete list of upcoming conferences and workshops up to July 2012, access http://aczisc.dal.ca/conf.htm. - 28 February - 3 March 2011: Aquaculture America, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA - https://www.was.org/WasMeetings/meetings/Default.aspx?code=AA2011. - 1-3 March 2011: ASBPA Coastal Summit 2011, Washington, DC, USA - http://www.asbpa.org/conferences/sum_11.htm. - 14-18 March 2011: George Wright Society Conference on Parks, Protected Areas, and Cultural Sites, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA - http://www.georgewright.org/gws2011. - 21-24 March 2011: Coastal Geotools 2011, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, USA - http://geotools.csc.noaa.gov/default.aspx. - 23 March 2011: 2011 FSRS-GOMLF-UNBSJ Collaborative Lobster Science Workshop, Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada - http://www.fsrs.ns.ca/events/lobster_workshop2011.html. - 3-8 April 2011: European Geosciences Union General Assembly, Vienna, Austria - http://meetings.copernicus.org/egu2011/home.html. - 4-5 April 2011: International Conference on the Social and Cultural Perspectives of Sustainable Marine Fisheries, London, UK - http://www.gre.ac.uk/sci/conf/fisheries. - 4-5 April 2011: 1st International Conference on Marine and Maritime Affairs, Plymouth, UK - http://www.icmma.info. - 5-8 April 2011: ECCLima, Estuaries in a Changing Climate, Porto, Portugal - http://www.cimar.org/ECClima/index.htm. - 27-29 April 2011: 2nd International Conference on Physical Coastal Processes, Management and Engineering, Naples, Italy - http://www.wessex.ac.uk/11-conferences/coastalprocesses-2011.html. - 27-30 April 2011: International Conference - 50 Years of Education and Awareness Raising for Shaping the Future of the Oceans and Coasts, St. Petersburg, Russia - http://www.ioc50.ru. - 2-6 May 2011: Coastal Sediments 2011, Miami, Florida, USA - http://coastalsediments.cas.usf.edu/index.html. - 8-11 May 2011: Aquaculture Canada 2011, Québec City, Québec, Canada - http://www.aquacultureassociation.ca/meeting/aquaculture-canada-2011. - 10-13 May 2011: Safer Seas 2011, Brest, France - http://www.saferseas-brest.org/Home-519-0-0-0.html. - 9-14 May 2011: 11th International Coastal Symposium (ICS), Szczecin, Poland - http://www.ics2011.pl. 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ACZISC COASTAL UPDATE - JANUARY 2011 UPCOMING ACZISC MEETINGS- 26-27 January 2011: ACZISC Meeting #62, St. John's, NL - 18-19 May 2011: ACZISC Meeting #63, Fredericton, NB - 14-15 September 2011: ACZISC Meeting #64, Halifax, NS - 25-26 January 2012: ACZISC Meeting #65, Charlottetown, PEI For information on the meetings, email the ACZISC Secretariat at aczisc@dal.ca. MAPPING WETLANDS IN NEW BRUNSWICKGeoNB is a free Internet-based application for viewing maps and aerial photos of New Brunswick. GeoNB has launched an application which enables users to search for wetlands or potential wetlands; analyze their proximity to other locations on the map; and determine whether a prospective development is potentially within or close to a wetland - http://geonb.snb.ca. NOVA SCOTIA'S WATER STRATEGY"Water for Life: Nova Scotia's water resource management strategy" was released on 16 December 2010. The strategy provides a 10-year road map for water management and proposes actions for Integrated Water Management (IWM); understanding and protecting the quality and quantity of the Province's water; and engaging the public in caring for the water - http://www.gov.ns.ca/nse/water.strategy. AQUACULTURE INDICATORS IN THE GULF OF MAINEThe EcoSystem Indicator Partnership (ESIP) of the Gulf of Maine Council on the Marine Environment has released "Aquaculture in the Gulf of Maine", the first of seven indicator-specific fact sheets. The fact sheet and related indicator data are available through the online ESIP Indicator Reporting Tool where it can be mapped with other indicators or graphed to show trends - http://www.gulfofmaine.org/esip. CANADIAN BIODIVERSITY"Canadian Biodiversity: Ecosystem Status and Trends 2010" is a collaborative project of the Canadian federal, provincial and territorial governments and is published by the Canadian Council of Resource Ministers. The assessment forms part of Canada's commitment to the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity. The report and other related information are available at http://www.biodivcanada.ca/default.asp?lang=En&n=83A35E06-1. NORTH AMERICAN ENVIRONMENTAL OUTLOOKThe "North American Environmental Outlook to 2030" was recently released by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC). The report examines the major forces and underlying trends likely to shape the environment of North America in 2030 and outlines nine areas where decisions today will affect the environmental future in varying degrees - http://www.cec.org/Page.asp?PageID=122&ContentID=5605. MARINE ECOSYSTEM-BASED MANAGEMENT PRINCIPLESPacMARA (Pacific Marine Analysis and Research Association) held a Marine Ecosystem-based Management (EBM) Workshop for Canada's Pacific coast and ocean in March 2010. A working group subsequently completed the Marine EBM principles called "The Sidney Consensus". The principles provide a basis for consistent legislation, planning, regulation, enforcement, monitoring, and adaptive management of human activities - http://pacmara.org/ebm_dialogue. STATE OF THE WORLD'S OCEANS REPORTThe first "World Ocean Review", published by Maribus in cooperation with the Future Ocean, the International Ocean Institute and Mare, is now available in English. The Review reports on the state of the world's oceans and their interplay with ecological, economic and socio-political conditions. Topics include global climate drivers, chemistry, the coasts, pollution, ecosystems, minerals and energy, global trade, medical knowledge, and the Law of the Sea. The Review is available at http://worldoceanreview.com/en. MOSAICS OF RADARSAT-1 IMAGES ONLINERADARSAT-1 images have been collected for the past 15 years and can be used for studying coastal features, wetlands, terrestrial geology, geomorphology, vegetation, urbanization and ice dynamics. Mosaics of Canada, the United States, Africa, Australia and Antarctica are now available to the general public and can downloaded (without restriction) on the Canadian Space Agency website - http://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/satellites/radarsat1/mosaic.asp. US COMMISSION ON THE GULF OF MEXICO BLOW-OUTOn 22 May 2010 US President Obama established the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling. On 11 January 2011 the Commission published its full report into the causes of the blow-out. The Commission has concluded that systemic management failure at BP, Transocean, and Halliburton caused the blow-out in the Gulf of Mexico - http://www.oilspillcommission.gov. SUSTAINABLE NUTRIENT MANAGEMENTThe United Nations Environment Programme has published the booklet entitled "Building the Foundations for Sustainable Nutrient Management" on behalf of the Global Partnership on Nutrient Management (GPNM). The booklet focuses on the use, effects and management of two key nutrients: nitrogen and phosphorous - http://www.gpa.unep.org/documents/building_the_foundations_for_english.pdf. MARINE SPATIAL PLANNING IN THE EUThe European Commission has published a Communication entitled "Maritime Spatial Planning in the EU - Achievements and future development". The report concludes that action is now needed at EU level to ensure that Maritime Spatial Planning is deployed in the most coherent and effective way possible - http://ec.europa.eu/maritimeaffairs/spatial_planning_en.html. ICES ICZM WORKING GROUP REPORT - 2010The Integrated Coastal Zone Management Working Group of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) met on 9-11 March 2010 in Mallorca, Spain. The Working Group discussed how it can respond to current trends within the field of ICZM and Marine/Maritime Spatial Planning (MSP). The meeting report is available at http://www.ices.dk/workinggroups/ViewWorkingGroup.aspx?ID=108. OTHER DOCUMENTS, NEWSLETTERS AND WEB RESOURCES- Netawek Ikjikum (Voice of the Ocean), the newsletter of the Maritime Aboriginal Aquatic Resources Secretariat (MAARS), includes articles on: Aboriginal Traditional Knowledge in Species at Risk Act implementation; international negotiations on regulating mercury; and the Petitcodiac River 'the river that bends like a bow' - http://www.mapcmaars.ca/communique.php. - MPA News features international news and analysis on Marine Protected Areas. The January/February 2011 issue compares two Methods of building MPA networks: one site at a time vs. all at once - http://depts.washington.edu/mpanews/issues.html. - The "Working Waterways and Waterfronts National Symposium on Water Access" was held on 27-30 September 2010 in Portland, Maine. Presentations and a 'Sense of the Symposium' are available at http://www.wateraccessus.com. - The fall 2010 issue of Hook, Line and Thinker (issue 2010-4), the newsletter of the Fishermen and Scientists Research Society (FSRS), is now available. This issue includes articles on lobster research, grey seals, and a mackerel tagging project - http://fsrs.ns.ca. - The EUCC Coastal & MarinE-News, the international newsletter of the Coastal & Marine Union (EUCC), focuses on EUCC news, climate change, fisheries and aquaculture, coastal management and research, and maritime policy and spatial planning. The December 2010 issue (no 6) is available at http://www.eucc.net/en/news/CMN2010-06.pdf. -'Inside Out' (issue no. 6, 2010), the newsletter of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), provides updates on ICES activities - http://www.ices.dk/InSideOut/No6%202010/Insideout2010-No.6combined.pdf. - The Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management has prepared a summary of their CZ-MAIL called "CZ-MAIL Year in Review 2010" which provides news and information about the Office's programs and regions, and discusses the notable achievements of 2010 - http://www.mass.gov/czm/czmail/2011/year_in_review_2010.htm. - In the December 16 issue of the journal Nature, researchers argue in the article "The Arctic melting pot" that global warming is encouraging the formation of hybrid offspring among Arctic mammals, e.g., narwhal-beluga; bowhead-right-whale; and Dall's porpoise-harbour porpoise hybrids - http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v468/n7326/full/468891a.html. - The Pew Environment Group issued a briefing and recommendations to the First Intersessional Meeting of the United Nations Commission for Sustainable Development (Rio+20), held on 10-11 January 2011. The document is titled "Bringing the Ocean Back into the Earth Summit". The report calls for an overhaul in international environmental governance, particularly where it pertains to the marine environment - http://uncsd.iisd.org/news/oceans-briefing-submitted-to-uncsd-intersessional /?referrer=uncsd-update. - The US National Marine Sanctuaries Conservation Series report "N-Control Seagrass Restoration Monitoring Report, Monitoring Events 2003-2008" documents a five-year effort to repair seagrass damaged in a boat grounding incident in State of Florida waters. It suggests that restoration techniques such as replanting seagrass can speed recovery time - http://sanctuaries.noaa.gov/science/conservation/ncontrol.html. - The World Ocean Observatory (W2O) has launched "Our Ocean Space", a web-based network for the exchange of ocean-related projects, art, and audio-visual presentations. The intent is for youth to share their projects with their counterparts worldwide for educational purposes - http://www.thew2o.net/newsletter/w2o-announces-our-ocean-space. - A study described in the article "A blooming jellyfish in the northeast Atlantic and Mediterranean" in the journal Biology Letters examined over 50 years of jellyfish data. The study indicates an increase in the size and intensity of proliferations of the jellyfish Pelagia noctiluca due to over-fishing and increasing sea water temperatures - http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/6/5/688.full. - "Roots in the Water: Legal Frameworks for Mangrove PES in Vietnam" is a report on legal and regulatory frameworks for mangrove management and payments for ecosystem services (PES) in Vietnam. The research recommends that an inclusive, ecosystem-based, cross-sectoral approach to mangrove management is needed - http://forest-trends.org/publication_details.php?publicationID=2561. OTHER DEADLINES- 31 January is the deadline for submitting abstracts to "People in Places: Engaging Together in Integrated Resource Management", 26-29 June 2011, Halifax, Nova Scotia - http://www.coastalcura.ca/peopleinplaces2011.html. - 31 January is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the "World Conference on Marine Biodiversity", 26-30 September 2011, Aberdeen, Scotland - http://www.marine-biodiversity.org. - 31 January is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the "64th National Conference of the Canadian Water Resources Association", 27-30 June 2011, St. John's, Newfoundland - for information, email contactus@cwra2011nl.ca. - 1 February is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the "6th International Conference on Environmental Future", 18-22 July 2011, Newcastle, UK - http://www.icef.org.uk. - 3 February is the deadline to comment on the draft National Framework for Canada's Network of Marine Protected Areas. The Framework provides strategic direction for the establishment of a national network of MPAs - http://www.isdm-gdsi.gc.ca/oceans/publications/dmpaf-eczpm/form-eng.asp. - 5 February is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the "5th EARSeL (European Association of Remote Sensing Laboratories) Workshop on Remote Sensing of the Coastal Zone", 1-3 June 2011, Prague, Czech Republic - http://www.earsel.org/SIG/CZ/5th-workshop/index.php. - 11 February is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the "45th Congress of the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (CMOS)", 5-9 June 2011, Victoria, British Columbia - http://www.cmos.ca/congress2011. - 11 February is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the "2011 "Headwaters to Ocean (H2O) Conference", 24-26 May, 2011, San Diego, California - http://www.coastalconference.org/h20_2011/2011_h20_conference.php. - 15 February is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the "10th International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant", 24-29 July 2011, Halifax, Nova Scotia - http://www.mercury2011.org. - 25 February is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the "Coasts and Ports 2011 Conference", 28-30 September 2011, Perth, Western Australia - http://www.coastsandports2011.com.au. - 25 February is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the "21st Annual APICS Aquaculture and Fisheries, the 41st Annual APICS Biology, and the 8th Annual APICS Environmental Studies Conferences", 11-13 March 2011, Halifax, Nova Scotia - http://emaychair.dal.ca/apics. - 28 February is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the "Aquaculture Canada 2011 Conference", 8-11 May 2011, Québec City, Québec - http://www.aquacultureassociation.ca/meeting/aquaculture-canada-2011. - 28 February is the deadline for submitting abstracts to "GeoHab 2011", Helsinki, Finland - http://projects.gtk.fi/GeoHab2011/index.html. - 31 March is the deadline for submissions to Volume 26 of the Ocean Yearbook. Topics include governance, environment and coastal management, living and non-living resources, transportation and communications, maritime security, etc. - http://law.dal.ca/Files/MEL_Institute/OYB/OYB_2010/OYB_Call_For_Papers_Volum e_26-2011.pdf. - 1 April is the deadline for submitting abstracts to "CoastGIS 2011", 5-8 September 2011, Oostende, Belgium - http://www.coastgis.info. - 1 April 2011 is the deadline for applications to the Young Land-Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone (LOICZ) Forum (YLF 2011), 8-15 September, 2011, in Yantai, China - http://www.loicz.org/calender/ylf2011. - 15 April is the deadline for submitting abstracts to "MEDCOAST 11", the 10th International Conference on the Mediterranean Coastal Environment, 25-29 October 2011, Rhodes, Greece - http://www.medcoast.org.tr. - 20 April is the deadline for submitting abstracts to "CARICOSTAS 2011", the IV International Conference on Integrated Management of Coastal Zones, 11-13 May 2011, Santiago de Cuba - http://www.cemzoc.uo.edu.cu/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=25&Ite mid=1. - 30 April is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the "5th European Coastal Lagoon Symposium (5th EUROLAG)", 25-30 July 2011, Aveiro, Portugal - http://eurolag.web.ua.pt. - 15 May is the deadline for submissions by students to Volume 26 of the Ocean Yearbook's annual competition for research papers on marine affairs subjects - http://law.dal.ca/Files/MEL_Institute/OYB/OYB_2010/Student_Prize_2011.pdf. OTHER UPCOMING CONFERENCES AND EVENTS- For a complete list of upcoming conferences and workshops up to July 2012, access http://aczisc.dal.ca/conf.htm. - 19-21 January 2011: "11th US National Conference for Science, Policy and the Environment", Washington, DC - http://ncseonline.org/conference/Oceans. - 7-9 February 2011: "International LIDAR Mapping Forum", New Orleans, Louisiana - http://www.lidarmap.org/conference. - 7-10 February 2011: "6th International Conference on Remediation of Contaminated Sediments", New Orleans, Louisiana - http://www.battelle.org/conferences/sediments. - 9-11 February 2011: "National Conference on Beach Preservation Technology", Jacksonville, Florida - http://www.fsbpa.com/techcall.htm. - 28 February - 3 March 2011: "Aquaculture America", New Orleans, Louisiana - https://www.was.org/WasMeetings/meetings/Default.aspx?code=AA2011. - 1-3 March 2011: "ASBPA Coastal Summit 2011", Washington, DC - http://www.asbpa.org/conferences/sum_11.htm. - 14-18 March 2011: "George Wright Society Conference on Parks, Protected Areas, and Cultural Sites", New Orleans, Louisiana - http://www.georgewright.org/gws2011. - 21-24 March 2011: "Coastal Geotools 2011", Myrtle Beach, South Carolina - http://geotools.csc.noaa.gov/default.aspx. - 24-25 March 2011: "18th Annual Conference of the Fishermen and Scientists Research Society (FSRS)", Truro, Nova Scotia - http://fsrs.ns.ca/events/conferenceRegForm2011.php. - 3-8 April 2011: "European Geosciences Union General Assembly", Vienna, Austria - http://meetings.copernicus.org/egu2011/home.html. - 4-5 April 2011: "International Conference on the Social and Cultural Perspectives of Sustainable Marine Fisheries", London, UK - http://www.gre.ac.uk/sci/conf/fisheries. - 4-5 April 2011: "1st International Conference on Marine and Maritime Affairs", Plymouth, UK - http://www.icmma.info. - 5-8 April 2011: "ECCLima, Estuaries in a Changing Climate", Porto, Portugal - http://www.cimar.org/ECClima/index.htm. - 27-29 April 2011: "2nd International Conference on Physical Coastal Processes, Management and Engineering", Naples, Italy. - http://www.wessex.ac.uk/11-conferences/coastalprocesses-2011.html. 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ACZISC COASTAL UPDATE - DECEMBER 2010 UPCOMING ACZISC MEETINGS- 26-27 January 2011: ACZISC Meeting #62, St. John's, NL - 18-19 May 2011: ACZISC Meeting #63, Fredericton, NB - 14-15 September 2011: ACZISC Meeting #64, Halifax, NS - 25-26 January 2012: ACZISC Meeting #65, Charlottetown, PEI For information on the meetings, email the ACZISC Secretariat at aczisc@dal.ca. NOVA SCOTIA'S COASTAL CONSULTATION REPORTThe report entitled "What We Heard 2010: Nova Scotia's Coastal Consultation" summarizes public input received from May to July 2010 on the State of Nova Scotia's Coast Report and on priorities and ideas for the Province's future Coastal Strategy. Additional consultation sessions on a draft Coastal Strategy are being planned for early 2011 - http://www.gov.ns.ca/coast/2010consultationreport.htm. DRAFT NATIONAL FRAMEWORK FOR CANADA'S NETWORK OF MPAs3 February is the deadline to comment on the draft National Framework for Canada's Network of Marine Protected Areas. The Framework provides strategic direction for the establishment of a national network of MPAs that conforms to international best practices and integrates conservation objectives identified through Integrated Oceans Management and other marine spatial planning processes - http://www.isdm-gdsi.gc.ca/oceans/publications/dmpaf-eczpm/form-eng.asp. ENVIRONMENT AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN CANADAThe 2010 Fall Report of Canada's Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development includes chapters on: oil spills from ships; monitoring water resources; adapting to climate impacts; and environmental petitions. The report is available at http://www.oag-bvg.gc.ca/internet/English/parl_cesd_201012_e_34435.html. SPATIAL PLANNING IN COASTAL REGIONS"Spatial Planning in Coastal Regions: Facing the Impact of Climate Change" is a new publication of a Working Group of the International Federation of Surveyors. The report highlights the core issues of coastal adaptation to climate change and discusses the impacts of climate change on spatial planning in coastal regions - http://www.fig.net/pub/figpub/pub55/figpub55.pdf. DESIGNING CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION INITIATIVESThe UNDP has released "Designing Climate Change Adaptation Initiatives: A Toolkit for Practitioners". The Toolkit provides step-by-step guidance on key elements to be considered when developing and designing adaptation initiatives. It also differentiates between adaptation and traditional development initiatives, and outlines fundamental components of the design process, the approach to building stakeholder consensus, and key tools and methodologies - http://www.uncclearn.org/undp_launches_toolkit_support_countries_designing_. OCEANS DAY AT CANCUN4 December was Oceans Day at the 16th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, held from 29 November to 10 December 2010 in Cancun, Mexico. The focus of Oceans Day was on developing an integrated approach to climate and oceans and preparation for Rio+20. The website of the International Institute for Sustainable Development features a summary of Oceans Day (http://www.iisd.ca/CLIMATE/COP16/OD/) and provides daily Conference reports - http://www.iisd.ca/climate/cop16. CANADA AND ILLEGAL, UNREPORTED AND UNREGULATED FISHINGCanada has signed the UN Agreement on Port State Measures to Prevent, Deter and Eliminate Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing. Measures in the Agreement include standardizing requirements for the information provided by vessels seeking entry to port, denying port entry and services to vessels implicated in IUU fishing, and setting minimum standards for vessel inspections and the training of inspectors - http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/media/npress-communique/2010/hq-ac56-eng.htm. OCEANS AND THE LAW OF THE SEAThe UN Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea has released the report of the UN Secretary-General on 'Oceans and the Law of the Sea'. The report includes sections on: the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) and its implementing agreements, marine science and technology, conservation and management of marine living resources, marine biological diversity, protection and preservation of the marine environment and sustainable development, and climate change and oceans (Document Symbol: A/65/69/Add.2) - http://www.un.org/Depts/los/general_assembly/general_assembly_reports.htm. OCEAN ACIDIFICATION: THREAT TO FOOD SECURITYThe UN Environment Programme (UNEP) has launched the report entitled "Environmental Consequences of Ocean Acidification: A Threat to Food Security". The report details how rising carbon dioxide emissions are altering the chemical balance of oceans. It outlines the consequences of this emerging issue on marine food chains and ecosystems, as well as human activities such as tourism and fishing - http://www.unep.org/Documents.Multilingual/Default.asp?DocumentID=653&ArticleID=6849&l=en&t=long. HORIZON EXPLOSION: PRELIMINARY FINDINGSA committee of the National Academy of Engineering and National Research Council has released an interim report of preliminary findings entitled "Analysis of Causes of Deepwater Horizon Explosion, Fire, and Oil Spill to Identify Measures to Prevent Similar Accidents in the Future". The final report is expected during the summer of 2011 - http://www.nae.edu/Activities/Projects20676/deepwater-horizon-analysis.aspx. OTHER DOCUMENTS, NEWSLETTERS AND WEB RESOURCES- A Tidal Energy Workshop was held on 13-14 October 2010 in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. Topics included the status of research relating to tidal energy and research findings; environmental effects monitoring, resource assessment and extraction potential; and near and far-field effects. The workshop report and presentations are available at http://www.offshoreenergyresearch.ca/Home/TidalEnergyResearch/WorkshopsandMeetings/101310OEERFORCETidalEnergyWorkshop/tabid/444/Default.aspx. - The US Secretary of the Interior has launched an initiative to speed offshore wind energy development off the Atlantic Coast. The Initiative will identify priority wind energy areas for potential development, improve coordination, and accelerate the leasing process - http://www.doi.gov/news/pressreleases/Salazar-Launches-Smart-from-the-Start-Initiative-to-Speed-Offshore-Wind-Energy-Development-off-the-Atlantic-Coast.cfm. - The "29th International Submerged Lands Management Conference" was held via a webinar series from September to December 2010. Session overviews and recordings are available at http://www.submergedlandsconference.com. - The current issue of The George Wright Forum, the journal of the George Wright Society, includes the article "National Marine Conservation Areas - Extending Parks Canada's Reach into Canada's Oceans and Great Lakes" - http://www.georgewright.org/forumcurrent. - Articles in the December 2010 issue of the Canadian Ocean Science newsletter include the NorthEast Pacific Time-Series Undersea Networked Experiments (NEPTUNE) Canada, and a scientific cruise to explore deep-sea coral and sponge habitats in two large areas in international waters east of Newfoundland - http://www.cmos.ca/scor/newsletters.htm. - Marine Ecosystems and Management (MEAM) is the bimonthly information service on marine ecosystem-based management (EBM). The current issue of MEAM (Vol. 4, No. 3) includes articles on: adaptive management; a debate on mixing science with advocacy; environmental monitoring; and EBM tools. MEAM is available at http://www.meam.net. - NOAA's Coastal Services Magazine is a bi-monthly publication that profiles the efforts of state, community, and non-profit coastal programs. The November/December 2010 issue includes articles on: the Smart Growth concept; the 'StormSmart Coasts' website; and 'Sharing Shoreland' information in Minnesota - http://www.csc.noaa.gov/magazine/2010/06/index.html. - The current issue (December 2010) of Oceanography, the magazine of the Oceanography Society, is a special issue on the Future of Oceanography from Space - http://tos.org/oceanography/issues/current.html. - The Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) has posted information from the inaugural "Rio Conventions Ecosystems and Climate Change Pavilion", held on 18-28 October 2010 on the margins of the 10th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP 10) to the CBD in Nagoya, Japan - http://ecosystemspavilion.org. - The International Coastal Atlas Network (ICAN) has released a compilation of the results of four international workshops entitled "Coastal Informatics: Web Atlas Design and Implementation". This publication presents the emerging development of coastal web atlases through a series of case studies - http://icoastalatlas.net/handbook. - A lecture on oceans governance entitled "Making law on the high seas" by Kristina Gjerde, the high-seas policy advisor for the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), explores the law of the high seas - http://www.ted.com/talks/kristina_gjerde_making_law_on_the_high_seas.html. - The International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) held its 17th Special Meeting on 17 -27 November in Paris, France. ICCAT adopted new management measures for Bigeye and Bluefin tunas and North Atlantic swordfish and for the conservation of sharks and sea turtles that are taken as by-catch. New measures for monitoring, surveillance and control were also adopted - http://www.iccat.int/en. - Findings described in an article entitled "The trophic fingerprint of marine fisheries" in the journal 'Nature' lead to questions regarding the reliability of a widely adopted indicator of fisheries health - mean trophic level (MTL) from catches. The authors recommend greater efforts to measure true abundance trends for marine species for detecting fishing impacts on marine biodiversity - http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v468/n7322/full/nature09528.html. - Fisheries and Oceans Canada and the Province of British Columbia have signed a new agreement on Aquaculture Management. After 18 December 2010, the federal government will assume the primary responsibility for the regulation and management of aquaculture in the Province - http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/media/npress-communique/2010/np-pr11-eng.htm. - Technical Guidelines on the Ecosystem Approach to Aquaculture have been developed to support the FAO Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries. Their main objective is to assist in the development and implementation of a strategy to ensure the sustainability of the aquaculture sector, the integration of aquaculture with other sectors and its contribution to social and economic development - http://www.fao.org/docrep/013/i1750e/i1750e.pdf. - The Twin2Go project reviews, consolidates, and synthesises research on integrated water resources management in (transboundary) basins around the world. The focus of the third issue of the Twin2Go newsletter is to inform readers about the Twin2Go methodological framework for comparative analyses of water governance systems - http://www.twin2go.uos.de/downloads/37-newsletters. - The European Environment Agency has released its fourth Environment State and Outlook report entitled "SOER 2010". The report consists of: thematic assessments on key environmental issues; an assessment of global megatrends relevant for Europe's environment; country assessments; and an integrated synthesis report - http://www.eea.europa.eu/pressroom/newsreleases/butterflies-or-business-europe-can. - A study of public attitudes and use of the sea has been carried out in the nine littoral countries of the Baltic Sea. The report provides information on how the general public in these countries uses the sea, and the attitudes that they have towards the marine environment and various measures for improving the environment - http://www.stockholmresilience.org/download/18.5004bd9712b572e3de6800014154/BalticSurvey_bakgrundsrapport_webb.pdf. OTHER DEADLINES- 16 December is the extended deadline for submitting abstracts to the "2011 Conference on Coastal Engineering Practice", 21-24 August 2011, San Diego, California - http://content.asce.org/conferences/copricoastal2011. - 12 January is the deadline for submitting abstracts to "World Aquaculture 2011", 6-10 June 2011, Natal, Brazil - https://www.was.org/WasMeetings/meetings/Default.aspx?code=WA2011. - 14 January is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the "Environmental Management for Enclosed Coastal Seas 9: Global Summit on Coastal Seas", 28-31 August 2011, Baltimore, Maryland - http://www.conference.ifas.ufl.edu/EMECS9. - 15 January is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the "8th International Conference on Molluscan Shellfish Safety", 12-17 June 2011, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island - http://www.gov.pe.ca/icmss2011. - 15 January is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the "2nd International Symposium on Integrated Coastal Zone Management", 3-7 July 2011, Arendal, Norway - http://www.imr.no/om_havforskningsinstituttet/arrangementer/konferanser/ICZM_2011/en. - 15 January is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the "5th International Short Conference on Applied Coastal Research", 6-9 June 2011, Aachen, Germany - http://www.iww.rwth-aachen.de/scacr. - 31 January is the deadline for submitting abstracts to "People in Places: Engaging Together in Integrated Resource Management", 26-29 June 2011, Halifax, Nova Scotia - http://www.coastalcura.ca/peopleinplaces2011.html. - 31 January is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the "World Conference on Marine Biodiversity", 26-30 September 2011, Aberdeen, Scotland - http://www.marine-biodiversity.org. - 31 January is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the "7th IAHR Symposium on River, Coastal and Estuarine Morphodynamics", 6-8 September 2011, Beijing, China - http://sklhse.tsinghua.edu.cn/rcem2011/images/RCEM2011BulletinOne.pdf. - 5 February is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the "5th EARSeL (European Association of Remote Sensing Laboratories) Workshop on Remote Sensing of the Coastal Zone", 1-3 June 2011, Prague, Czech Republic - http://www.earsel.org/SIG/CZ/5th-workshop/index.php. - 11 February is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the "45th Congress of the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society", 5-9 June 2011, Victoria, British Columbia - http://www.cmos.ca/congress2011. - 15 February is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the "10th International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant", 24-29 July 2011, Halifax, Nova Scotia - http://www.mercury2011.org. - 25 February is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the "Coasts and Ports 2011 Conference", 28-30 September 2011, Perth, Western Australia - http://www.coastsandports2011.com.au. - 28 February is the deadline for submitting abstracts to "Aquaculture Canada 2011", 8-11 May 2011, Québec City, Québec - http://www.aquacultureassociation.ca/meeting/aquaculture-canada-2011. - 31 March is the deadline for submissions to Volume 26 of the Ocean Yearbook. Topics include governance, environment and coastal management, living and non-living resources, transportation and communications, maritime security, etc. - http://law.dal.ca/Files/MEL_Institute/OYB/OYB_2010/OYB_Call_For_Papers_Volume_26-2011.pdf. - 15 May is the deadline for submissions by students to Volume 26 of the Ocean Yearbook's annual competition for research papers on marine affairs subjects - http://law.dal.ca/Files/MEL_Institute/OYB/OYB_2010/Student_Prize_2011.pdf. OTHER UPCOMING CONFERENCES AND EVENTS- For a complete list of upcoming conferences and workshops up to November 2011, access http://aczisc.dal.ca/conf.htm. - 8-10 January 2011: "3rd International Conference on Water and Flood Management", Dhaka, Bangladesh - http://www.buet.ac.bd/iwfm/icwfm2011. - 19-21 January 2011: "Our Changing Oceans", the 11th US National Conference for Science, Policy and the Environment, Washington, DC - http://ncseonline.org/conference/Oceans. - 7-9 February 2011: "International LIDAR Mapping Forum", New Orleans, Louisiana - http://www.lidarmap.org/conference. - 7-10 February 2011: "6th International Conference on Remediation of Contaminated Sediments", Louisiana, New Orleans - http://www.battelle.org/conferences/sediments. - 9-11 February 2011: "National Conference on Beach Preservation Technology", Jacksonville, Florida - http://www.fsbpa.com/techcall.htm. - 28 February - 3 March 2011: Aquaculture America, New Orleans, Louisiana - https://www.was.org/WasMeetings/meetings/Default.aspx?code=AA2011. - 14-18 March 2011: "George Wright Society Conference on Parks, Protected Areas, and Cultural Sites", New Orleans, Louisiana - http://www.georgewright.org/gws2011. - 21-24 March 2011: "Coastal Geotools 2011", Myrtle Beach, South Carolina - http://geotools.csc.noaa.gov/default.aspx. - 24-25 March 2011: "18th Annual Conference of the Fishermen and Scientists Research Society (FSRS)", Truro, Nova Scotia - http://fsrs.ns.ca/events/conferenceRegForm2011.php. - 4-5 April 2011: "1st International Conference on Marine and Maritime Affairs", Plymouth, UK - http://www.icmma.info. - 4-5 April 2011: "International Conference on the Social and cultural perspectives of sustainable marine fisheries", London, UK - http://www.gre.ac.uk/sci/conf/fisheries. - 27-29 April 2011: "2nd International Conference on Physical Coastal Processes, Management and Engineering", Naples, Italy - http://www.wessex.ac.uk/11-conferences/coastalprocesses-2011.html. 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ACZISC COASTAL UPDATE - NOVEMBER 2010 UPCOMING ACZISC MEETINGS- 26-27 January 2011: ACZISC Meeting #62, St. John's, NL - 18-19 May 2011: ACZISC Meeting #63, Fredericton, NB - 14-15 September 2011: ACZISC Meeting #64, Halifax, NS - 25-26 January 2012: ACZISC Meeting #65, Charlottetown, PEI For information on the meetings, email the ACZISC Secretariat at aczisc@dal.ca. OCEANS AND COASTS NETWORK CANADAIn March 2010 representatives of organizations with mandates related to research and the monitoring of policy initiatives regarding Canada's oceans and coasts met in Ottawa, Ontario. The meeting resulted in the formation of the Oceans and Coasts Network Canada (OCN-Canada). A Policy Brief Program has been initiated by OCN-Canada for which contributors and reviewers are being recruited. For information, including the OCN-Canada vision statement, access http://www.omrn-rrgo.ca/smc/home.php. PROTECTING ARCTIC BIODIVERSITYThe UN Environment Programme report entitled "Protecting Arctic Biodiversity: Limitations and strengths of environmental agreements" stresses that more global, cross-sectoral and interdisciplinary thinking will be necessary to deal with increasing pressures on Arctic biodiversity. It states that existing multilateral agreements might be effective against threats caused by local, national, or regional activities if adequately implemented - http://www.grida.no/news/press/4402.aspx. MARINE BIODIVERSITY ASSESSMENT AND OUTLOOKThe UN Environment Programme "Marine Biodiversity Assessment and Outlook Reports" provide a systematic overview at a sub-global scale of the state of knowledge of marine biodiversity, the pressures it currently faces and the management frameworks in place for addressing those pressures. A Synthesis of the reports is available at http://marinebiodiversityseries.org/reports/2-global-synthesis-report.html. OCEANS DAY AT NAGOYAOceans Day was held on 23 October during the Tenth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity, 18-29 October 2010 in Nagoya, Japan. Oceans Day addressed the status and trends in biodiversity loss and progress made in achieving biodiversity targets, examined various tools and approaches to conserving and sustainably utilizing marine and coastal biodiversity, and discussed potential next steps in advancing the global oceans agenda - http://globaloceans.org/content/news#Nagoya_Section. ICZM PARTICIPATION PRACTICES IN EUROPEOURCOAST is a three-year project commissioned by the European Commission to support the exchange of experiences and best practices in coastal planning and management. OURCOAST produced its first brochure on Participation practices in Europe. The brochure describes mechanisms of participation, and provides a selection of case studies and practical examples of how participation can be put into practice - http://ec.europa.eu/environment/iczm/ourcoast.htm. COASTGIS 2011CoastGIS 2011, the 10th International Symposium on GIS and Computer Cartography for Coastal Zone Management, is scheduled for 5-8 September 2011 in Oostende Belgium. The main theme of CoastGIS 2011 is "Marine and Coastal Spatial Planning". 1 April 2011 is the deadline for abstracts and workshop proposals - http://www.coastgis.info. UPDATED VERSION OF GEBCO GRIDThe General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (GEBCO) aims to provide the most authoritative, publicly-available bathymetry data sets for the world's oceans. The GEBCO_08 Grid is a continuous terrain model for ocean and land. The latest release of the grid (version 20100927) is available at http://www.gebco.net/about_us/news_and_events/updated_gebco_08_oct2010.html. ECOSYSTEM-BASED ADAPTATION TO CLIMATE CHANGEThe IUCN publication entitled "Building resilience to climate change: ecosystem-based adaptation and lessons from the field" contains eleven case studies covering different ecosystems and regions around the world. Its aim is to summarize some current applications of the Ecosystem-based Adaptation concept and its tools used around the world, and also to draw lessons from experiences in conservation adaptation - http://www.iucn.org/knowledge/publications_doc/publications/?6297. MARINE RESERVESThe October 26 Issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Volume 107, Issue 43) includes a Marine Reserves Special Feature (free online). This Special Feature documents recent advances in marine reserve research, and provides insights gained from studies of reserve networks, long-term changes within reserves, integration of social and ecological science research, and balance between reserve design for conservation as well as fishery and other commercial objectives - http://www.pnas.org/content/107/43#MarineReservesSpecialFeature. CLIMATE CHANGE AND CORAL REEFSThe World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) have released a report entitled "Climate, Carbon and Coral Reefs". The report outlines the threat to coral reefs caused by climate change and subsequent coral bleaching, as well as by ocean acidification - http://www.wmo.int/pages/prog/wcp/agm/publications/documents/Climate_Carbon_CoralReefs.pdf. OTHER DOCUMENTS, NEWSLETTERS AND WEB RESOURCES- The 7th annual survey by National Geographic's Traveler Magazine rated 99 coastal destinations worldwide. Three locations in Atlantic Canada are in the 'top rated' category: Newfoundland's Avalon Peninsula, Nova Scotia's South Shore, and Prince Edward Island's Coastal Areas - http://travel.nationalgeographic.com/travel/coastal-destinations-rated. - Nova Scotia has introduced legislation, extending indefinitely, a moratorium on oil and gas exploration on the Canadian portion of George's Bank, a sensitive marine ecosystem off the south coast of the Province - http://www.gov.ns.ca/news/details.asp?id=20101103005. - Environment Canada, in collaboration with the Canadian Space Agency, is developing a project entitled "The National SAR Wind Project for High Resolution Marine Wind". The project utilizes SAR satellite space-based monitoring for improving wind analysis and short-range prediction over large marine areas, and especially in the coastal zones - http://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/programs/grip/archive_101021.asp. - The "2010 Atlantic Reclamation Conference" was held on 27-29 October 2010 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Topics included Marine and Coastal Protection Planning and Reclamation. The presentations are available at http://www.atlanticclra.ca/arc2010. - Dalhousie University's Marine Affairs Policy Forum provides perspectives on current and emerging issues of concern to the coastal and ocean policy community in the Atlantic Region. The current issue focuses on Addressing Sensitive Coastal ecosystems and Habitats as a Priority Coastal Issue in Nova Scotia - http://marineaffairsprogram.dal.ca/Files/MAP_Policy_Forum__Nov_2010_Sensitive_Ecosystems_%26_Habitats.pdf. - The Fundy Energy Research Network (FERN) began operations in the spring of 2010. FERN is a non-profit organization created by academic and government researchers as a forum for fostering collaboration, capacity and information exchange in tidal energy-related research in the Bay of Fundy - http://fern.acadiau.ca. - The Fall 2010 edition of the Gulf of Maine Times includes news on efforts to protect seaside national parks, reduce stormwater runoff, and the work of students to educate the public about climate change effects - http://www.gulfofmaine.org/gomt. - The November 2010 issue of the Island Studies Journal includes an article on "Mariculture and Marine Spatial Planning: Integrating Local Ecological Knowledge at Kaledupa Island, Indonesia" - http://www.islandstudies.ca/node/288. - Marxan is free software designed to provide decision support for conservation planning, including the design of reserve systems. To download Marxan and related information, including an update of the Marxan Good Practices Handbook, access http://www.pacmara.org/tikiwiki/tiki-index.php?page=Marxan+Resources+and+Training. - Land-Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone (LOICZ) is a core project of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme and the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change. The current issue of the LOICZ INPRINT newsletter is available at http://www.loicz.org/imperia/md/content/loicz/print/newsletter/inprint_online_2010_3.pdf. - MPA News features international news and analysis on Marine Protected Areas. The November-December 2010 issue focuses on the extension of the target set in 2005 for 10% global MPA coverage - http://depts.washington.edu/mpanews/MPA117.pdf. - The UK's Marine Climate Change Impacts Partnership (MCCIP) Annual Report Card provides updates on how climate change is affecting its seas. New topics in the 2010-2011 edition include air-sea carbon exchanges, deep sea habitats, waterbirds and human health, along with a UK regional seas impact map - http://www.mccip.org.uk/annual-report-card/2010-2011.aspx. - The UN Development Programme (UNDP) has released the fourth issue of its Climate Change Adaptation Bulletin, a quarterly publication that includes updates on a range of topics including the status of ongoing projects, new project approvals, performance indicators, project impacts and results - http://www.undp.org/gef/documents/newsletters/UNDP_AdaptationBulletin-Issue4.pdf. - NOAA's Coastal Services Center has released "Local Strategies for Addressing Climate Change: Volume Two". This special edition of the Coastal Services magazine focuses on the activities of coastal resource managers in the US that directly and indirectly address the impacts of climate change - http://www.csc.noaa.gov/publications.html. - The Cooperative Institute for Coastal and Estuarine Environmental Technology (CICEET) fall 2010 progress reports for active projects, and final reports for completed projects, are available at http://ciceet.unh.edu/news/releases/fall10_reports/index.html. - The October 2010 issue of the "Ship & Ocean Newsletter", published by the Ocean Policy Research Foundation, contains English-language versions of papers from the Japanese edition of the newsletter, published between May 2009 and March 2010 - http://www.sof.or.jp/en/news/pdf/ssp13.pdf. - The World Bank has announced a new global partnership that will give developing countries the tools they need to integrate the economic benefits that ecosystems such as forests, wetlands and coral reefs provide, into national accounting systems - http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/NEWS/0,,contentMDK:22746592~pagePK:34370~piPK:34424~theSitePK:4607,00.html. OTHER DEADLINES- 18 November is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the "34th IAHR World Congress", 26 June to 1 July 2011, Brisbane, Australia - http://www.iahr2011.org. - 22 November is the deadline for submissions by youth on their vision for the oceans over the next 20 years. The "Oceans 2030: Youth Outlook Contest" is part of the National Council for Science and the Environment Conference (19-21 January 2011, Washington, DC) - http://www.ncseonline.org/conference/Oceans/cms.cfm?id=4031. - 29 November is the deadline for submitting optional letters of intent in response to a request for project proposals and Habitat Restoration Grants in the jurisdictions of the Gulf of Maine: Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia - http://restoration.gulfofmaine.org. - 29 November is the deadline to comment on the draft "US Gulf of Maine Habitat Restoration and Conservation Plan: A Needs Assessment for Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts" - http://www.gulfofmaine.org/documents/USGulfofMaineHabitatRestorationandConservationPlan-DRAFT-10-27-2010.pdf. - 30 November is the deadline to submit case studies on integrated marine and coastal area management (IMCAM) for inclusion in a database being complied by the Convention on Biological Diversity Secretariat - http://www.cbd.int/doc/notifications/2010/ntf-2010-163-imcam-en.pdf. - 1 December is the deadline for submitting proposals to the "4th World Conference on Ecological Restoration", 21-25 August 2011, Mérida, Mexico - http://www.ser2011.org. - 13 December is the deadline to comment on the draft "Coastal and Marine Ecological Classification Standard (CMECS)", developed by the Coastal and Marine Spatial Data Subcommittee of the US Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC). The CMECS provides a uniform protocol for identifying, characterizing and naming ecological units in support of monitoring, protection, and restoration - http://www.fgdc.gov/standards/projects/FGDC-standards-projects/cmecs-folder/cmecs-index-page. - 10 January is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the "2011 European Geosciences Union General Assembly", 3-8 April 2011, Vienna, Austria - http://meetings.copernicus.org/egu2011/home.html. - 14 January is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the "Environmental Management for Enclosed Coastal Seas 9: Global Summit on Coastal Seas", 28-31 August 2011, Baltimore, Maryland - http://www.conference.ifas.ufl.edu/EMECS9. - 15 January is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the "8th International Conference on Molluscan Shellfish Safety", 12-17 June 2011, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island - http://www.gov.pe.ca/icmss2011. - 15 January is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the "2nd International Symposium on Integrated Coastal Zone Management", 3-7 July 2011, Arendal, Norway - http://www.imr.no/om_havforskningsinstituttet/arrangementer/konferanser/ICZM_2011/en. - 31 January is the deadline for submitting abstracts to "People in Places: Engaging Together in Integrated Resource Management", 26-29 June 2011, Halifax, Nova Scotia - http://www.coastalcura.ca/peopleinplaces2011.html. - 31 January is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the "World Conference on Marine Biodiversity", 26-30 September 2011, Aberdeen, Scotland - http://www.marine-biodiversity.org. - 5 February is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the "5th EARSeL (European Association of Remote Sensing Laboratories) Workshop on Remote Sensing of the Coastal Zone", 1-3 June 2011, Prague, Czech Republic - http://www.earsel.org/SIG/CZ/5th-workshop/index.php. - 25 February is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the "Coasts and Ports 2011 Conference", 28-30 September 2011, Perth, Western Australia - http://www.coastsandports2011.com.au. - 31 March is the deadline for submissions to Volume 26 of the Ocean Yearbook. Topics include governance, environment and coastal management, living and non-living resources, transportation and communications, maritime security, etc. - http://law.dal.ca/Files/MEL_Institute/OYB/OYB_2010/OYB_Call_For_Papers_Volume_26-2011.pdf. - 15 May is the deadline for submissions by students to Volume 26 of the Ocean Yearbook's annual competition for research papers on marine affairs subjects - http://law.dal.ca/Files/MEL_Institute/OYB/OYB_2010/Student_Prize_2011.pdf. OTHER UPCOMING CONFERENCES AND EVENTS- For a complete list of upcoming conferences and workshops up to November 2011, access http://aczisc.dal.ca/conf.htm. - 13-17 November 2010: "5th US National Conference on Coastal and Estuarine Habitat Restoration", Galveston, Texas - http://www.estuaries.org/conference. - 24-26 November 2010: "International Seminar on Adapting to Change: Management of Tidal Systems in NW Europe", Texel, Netherlands has been cancelled - http://www.eucc.net/texel2010. - 29 November - 1 December 2010: "9th International Conference on Coasts, Ports and Marine Structures", Tehran, Iran - http://icopmas.pmo.ir/en/pages/default.aspx. - 30 November - 2 December 2010: "2nd Canada - United States Northern Oil and Gas Research Forum", Calgary, Alberta - http://www.ainc-inac.gc.ca/nth/og/sci/forum-eng.asp. - 8-10 January 2011: "3rd International Conference on Water and Flood Management", Dhaka, Bangladesh - http://www.buet.ac.bd/iwfm/icwfm2011. - 19-21 January 2011: "11th US National Conference for Science, Policy and the Environment", Washington, DC - http://ncseonline.org/conference/Oceans. - 7-10 February 2011: "6th International Conference on Remediation of Contaminated Sediments", Louisiana, New Orleans - http://www.battelle.org/conferences/sediments. - 9-11 February 2011: "National Conference on Beach Preservation Technology", Jacksonville, Florida - http://www.fsbpa.com/techcall.htm. 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ACZISC COASTAL UPDATE - OCTOBER 2010 NEWS FROM THE ACZISC SECRETARIAT- The Coastal Update is now being distributed through a listserv - ACZISC-COASTAL-UPDATE@KIL-LSV-1.UCIS.DAL.CA. A reply to this email address will be directed to the ACZISC Secretariat. - Claudette LeBlanc recently retired as the ACZISC Project Officer. Alexi Westcott has assumed that position - http://aczisc.dal.ca/contact.htm. UPCOMING ACZISC MEETINGS- 26-27 January 2011: ACZISC Meeting #62, St. John's, NL - 18-19 May 2011: ACZISC Meeting #63, Fredericton, NB - 14-15 September 2011: ACZISC Meeting #64, Halifax, NS - 25-26 January 2012: ACZISC Meeting #65, Charlottetown, PEI. New! For information on the meetings, email the ACZISC Secretariat: aczisc@dal.ca. 2010 CANADIAN MARINE ECOSYSTEM STATUS AND TRENDS REPORT The ESTR, prepared by the Science Advisory Secretariat of Fisheries and Oceans Canada, reports on the condition, trends, drivers, and stressors of 25 Canadian ecozones - 15 terrestrial, 1 freshwater, and 9 marine. It includes key findings and identifies emerging issues related to: climate and oceanography; species; contaminants; industrial impacts and development; coastal zone cumulative impacts; and biological and ecological effects - http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/CSAS/Csas/publications/sar-as/2010/2010_030_e.pdf. CONSULTATION: NOVA SCOTIA'S MARINE RENEWABLE ENERGY LEGISLATIONNova Scotia is preparing legislation for the development of its offshore wind, tidal and wave energy, as part of the Province's renewable electricity targets. Public comment is being sought; 15 November is the deadline for input. A discussion paper entitled "Marine Renewable Energy Legislation for Nova Scotia" and contact information is available at - http://www.gov.ns.ca/energy/public-consultation/marine-renewable-energy.asp. BIO IN REVIEWThe Bedford Institute of Oceanography (BIO), Canada's premier oceanographic research facility, was established in 1962 by the Government of Canada and is located in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia. "Bedford Institute of Oceanography 2009 in Review" highlights research activities at the Institute, as well as activities associated with ocean-use management - http://www.bio.gc.ca/publications/documents/BIO2009english.pdf. DEGREES OF CHANGE - CLIMATE IMPACTS IN CANADA "Degrees of Change" is a comprehensive graphic illustration of expected climate impacts published for Canada. The diagram results from a large body of published scientific information, and is a joint initiative of the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy and the Royal Canadian Geographical Society - http://www.climateprosperity.ca/eng/media/media-climate-prosperity-eng.php. FIRST CENSUS OF MARINE LIFEThe "First Census of Marine Life 2010: Highlights of a Decade of Discovery" was released in September 2010. The Census was a 10-year international effort undertaken to assess the diversity, distribution, and abundance of marine life. The Census addressed these issues globally, and engaged over 2,700 scientists from around the globe. The report includes a description of the Census research projects and organizational structure - http://www.coml.org/highlights-2010. MANAGING LARGE MARINE AREASThe report entitled "Comparison of Approaches to Management of Large Marine Areas" was published by Conservation International and Fauna & Flora International. The study examines the strengths and weaknesses of five approaches to the management of large marine areas: Marine Ecoregions; Seascapes; Large Marine Ecosystems; Regional Seas Programmes; and Integrated Coastal Management - http://www.conservation.org/publications/Pages/Comparison_of_Approaches_to_Management_of_Large_Marine_Areas.aspx. APPLYING GEOTECHNOLOGIES TO MSP AND ICZM The international summer school "GIslands 2010" was held on 7-12 August 2010 at the University of the Azores in São Miguel Island, The Azores. The curriculum focussed on the application of geographic technologies to Marine Spatial Planning and Integrated Coastal Zone Management. The lecturers’ presentations and other documents are available at - http://www.gislands.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=20&Itemid=20. OTHER DOCUMENTS, NEWSLETTERS AND WEB RESOURCES- The October 2010 issue of the Canadian Ocean Science newsletter features an article on Dalhousie University's Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in Ocean Science and Technology - http://www.cmos.ca/scor/newsletters.htm. - The 5th Annual Ocean Management Research Network (OMRN) National Conference was held in October 2009 in Ottawa, Ontario. The theme was Canada's Oceans: Research, Management and the Human Dimension. Conference related documents, including a post-conference synthesis, are available at http://www.omrn-rrgo.ca/smc/home.php. - The 12th Global Meeting of the Regional Seas Conventions and Action Plans was held on 20-22 September 2010 in Bergen, Norway. Participants discussed the implementation of the Global Programme of Action for the Protection of the Marine Environment from Land-Based Activities (GPA) and the Regional Seas Programmes (RSPs). The Meeting documents are available at http://www.unep.org/regionalseas/globalmeetings/default_ns.asp. - Marine Ecosystems and Management (MEAM) is the quarterly information service on marine ecosystem-based management (EBM). The current issue of MEAM (Oct - Nov 2010) continues discussion on the role of science in EBM and includes an article on the precautionary principle, and shifting the burden of proof. MEAM is available at http://www.meam.net. - NOAA's Office of National Marine Sanctuaries has released the report entitled "Examples of Ecosystem-Based Management in National Marine Sanctuaries: From Theory to Practice". The report describes the various methods that sanctuary managers use to encourage stakeholder engagement and to protect marine habitats and biodiversity - http://sanctuaries.noaa.gov/science/conservation/nceas.html. - MPA News features international news and analysis on Marine Protected Areas. The September/October 2010 issue focuses on MPAs and Indigenous Peoples: Co-Management as a Means of Respecting Traditional Culture and Strengthening Conservation - http://depts.washington.edu/mpanews/issues.html. - The Coastal Connections Newsletter is a bimonthly publication from NOAA on tools for coastal resource managers. The October/November issue focuses on how to advance community dialogue on climate change adaptation without alienating the audience - http://www.csc.noaa.gov/newsletter. - The National Trust in the UK has prepared a short film on how it is adapting to, and dealing with, climate change and sea level rise issues on some of its vulnerable coastal properties - http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/coastline. - A report from the US National Research Council provides 71 metrics or observations - such as sea-level rise, seasonal snow cover, and air quality - that when taken together may give advance warning of climate-related changes and their impacts across a range of both local and global scales - http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12965. - The United Nations Environment Programme "Climate Pledges Site" presents the current pledges by country and the remaining gap to reach global climate change mitigation goals. The site and graphics are continuously updated with new pledges, mitigation commitments and country information - http://www.unep.org/climatepledges. - The report entitled "Scientific Assessment of Hypoxia in U.S. Coastal Waters" documents the increasing prevalence of low-oxygen "dead zones" in coastal waters and outlines a series of research and policy steps that could help reverse the decades-long trend - http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/hypoxia-pressrelease.pdf. - The outcomes of the recent OSPAR Commission (Commission for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic) Ministerial meeting in Norway include the launch of the Quality Status report (QSR 2010) on the state of the North-east Atlantic and the establishment of six marine protected areas - http://www.ospar.org/content/news_detail.asp?menu=00600725000000_000013_000000. - The edited proceedings of the "Summit on Fraser River Sockeye Salmon: Understanding Stock Declines and Prospects for the Future" is a synthesis of the presentations and dialogue captured at the Summit. Participants examined the issues from a life cycle approach to gain an understanding of the challenges salmon face, and what can and should be done to ensure their survival - http://www.sfu.ca/cstudies/science/salmon.php. - "Scientifically Speaking", a booklet published by The Oceanography Society, is intended to improve the flow of information among scientists by providing advice and observations on the preparation and delivery of a scientific talk and the use of visual aids - http://www.tos.org/resources/publications/sci_speaking.html. OTHER DEADLINES- 21 October is the extended deadline for submitting abstracts to Coastal Zone 2011, 17-21 July 2011, Chicago, Illinois - http://www.doi.gov/initiatives/CZ11/index.htm. - 1 November is the extended deadline for submitting abstracts to the 30th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering, 19-24 June 2011, Rotterdam, Netherlands - http://www.asmeconferences.org/OMAE2011/index.cfm. - 4 November is the deadline to submit comments on the draft Maine Coastal Plan. The Plan addresses: public access, coastal hazards, ocean resources, wetlands, cumulative and secondary impacts, marine debris, special area management planning, energy and government facilities siting, and aquaculture - http://www.maine.gov/spo/coastal. - 15 November is the deadline for submitting abstracts to Coastal Management 2011, 15-16 November 2011, Belfast, UK - http://www.ice-coastalmanagement.com. - 22 November is the deadline for submissions by youth on their vision for the oceans over the next 20 years. The Oceans 2030: Youth Outlook Contest is part of the National Council for Science and the Environment Conference (19-21 January 2011, Washington, DC) - http://www.ncseonline.org/conference/Oceans/cms.cfm?id=4031. - 29 November is the deadline for submitting optional letters of intent in response to a request for project proposals and Habitat Restoration Grants in the jurisdictions of the Gulf of Maine, including Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Brunswick and Nova Scotia - http://restoration.gulfofmaine.org. - 30 November is the deadline to submit case studies on integrated marine and coastal area management (IMCAM) for inclusion in a database being complied by the Convention on Biological Diversity Secretariat - http://www.cbd.int/doc/notifications/2010/ntf-2010-163-imcam-en.pdf. - 1 December is the deadline for submitting proposals to the 4th World Conference on Ecological Restoration, 21-25 August 2011, Mérida, Mexico - http://www.ser2011.org. - 13 December is the deadline to comment on the draft Coastal and Marine Ecological Classification Standard (CMECS), developed by the Coastal and Marine Spatial Data Subcommittee of the US Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC). The CMECS provides a uniform protocol for identifying, characterizing and naming ecological units in support of monitoring, protection, and restoration - http://www.fgdc.gov. - 14 January is the deadline for submitting abstracts to Environmental Management for Enclosed Coastal Seas 9: Global Summit on Coastal Seas, 28-31 August 2011, Baltimore, Maryland - http://www.conference.ifas.ufl.edu/EMECS9/. - 15 January is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the 2nd International Symposium on Integrated Coastal Zone Management, 3-7 July 2011, Arendal, Norway - http://www.imr.no/om_havforskningsinstituttet/arrangementer/konferanser/ICZM_2011/en. - 15 January is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the 8th International Conference on Molluscan Shellfish Safety, 12-17 June 2011, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island - http://www.gov.pe.ca/icmss2011. - 31 January is the deadline for submitting abstracts to People in Places: Engaging Together in Integrated Resource Management, 26-29 June 2011, Halifax, Nova Scotia - http://www.coastalcura.ca/peopleinplaces2011.html. OTHER UPCOMING CONFERENCES AND EVENTS- For a complete list of upcoming conferences and workshops, access http://aczisc.dal.ca/conf.htm. - September - December 2010: 29th International Submerged Lands Management Conference Webinar Series - http://www.submergedlandsconference.com. - 17-22 October 2010: Coastal Zone Asia-Pacific 2010 Conference, Bangkok, Thailand - http://cdc.fish.ku.ac.th/czap2010/index.html. - 18-22 October 2010: 1st World Small-Scale Fisheries Congress, Bangkok, Thailand - http://www.seafdec.or.th/wsfc2010/index.html. - 22-31 October 2010: Annual Meeting of the North Pacific Marine Science Organization (PICES), Portland, Oregon - http://www.pices.int/meetings/annual/PICES-2010/2010-background.aspx. - 25-29 October 2010: 6th International Conference on Marine Waste Water Discharges and Coastal Environment, Langkawi, Malaysia - http://www.mwwd.org. - 27-28 October 2010: Ocean Renewable Energy Group (OREG) 2010 Annual Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia - http://www.oreg.ca/index.php?p=1_41. - 27-29 October 2010: 7th Canadian Risk and Hazards Network (CRHNet) Symposium, Fredericton, New Brunswick - http://www.crhnet.ca. - 27-30 October 2010: 3rd International Conference on the Management of Coastal Recreational Resources, Grosseto, Southern Tuscany, Italy - http://www.um.edu.mt/iei/mcrr3-2010. - 28-29 October 2010: Geomatics Atlantic 2010, Fredericton, New Brunswick - http://www.geomaticsatlantic.com. - 3-5 November 2010: Renewable Ocean Energy & the Marine Environment, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida - http://www.ces.fau.edu/coet. - 4-5 November 2010: 8th Marine Law Symposium, Bristol, Rhode Island - http://law.rwu.edu/academics/institutes-programs/marine-affairs-institute/symposia. - 8-11 November 2010: Ecosystems 2010: Global Progress on Ecosystem-based Fisheries Management, Anchorage, Alaska - http://seagrant.uaf.edu/conferences/2010/wakefield-ecosystems/index.php. - 13-17 November 2010: 5th US National Conference on Coastal and Estuarine Habitat Restoration, Galveston, Texas - http://www.estuaries.org/conference. - 18-19 November 2010: PEI Environmental Law Workshop, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island - http://www.ecelaw.ca/eventlist.html. - 24-26 November 2010: International Seminar on Adapting to Change: Management of Tidal Systems in NW Europe/, Texel, Netherlands. Seminar has been cancelled - http://www.eucc.net/texel2010. - 27 November 2010: NB Environmental Law Workshop, Moncton, New Brunswick - http://www.ecelaw.ca/eventlist.html. - 29 November - 1 December 2010: 9th International Conference on Coasts, Ports and Marine Structures, Tehran, Iran - http://icopmas.pmo.ir/en/pages/default.aspx. - 30 November - 2 December 2010: 2nd Canada - United States Northern Oil and Gas Research Forum, Calgary, Alberta - http://www.ainc-inac.gc.ca/nth/og/sci/forum-eng.asp. Top of Page
ACZISC COASTAL UPDATE - SEPTEMBER 2010 UPCOMING ACZISC MEETINGS- 7 October 2010 (revised date): ACZISC Meeting #61, Charlottetown, PEI - 26-27 January 2011: ACZISC Meeting #62, St. John's, NL - 18-19 May 2011: ACZISC Meeting #63, Fredericton, NB - 14-15 September 2011: ACZISC Meeting #64, Halifax, NS For information on the meetings, email the ACZISC Secretariat. PRESENTATIONS ONLINE: COASTAL ZONE CANADA 2010The Coastal Zone Canada 2010 Conference was held on 25-29 July 2010 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. The Conference focused on the challenges and opportunities of coastal management; linking land and ocean planning and management; strengthening coastal communities; and planning for the impacts of climate change. The Conference Statement and several of the paper presentations, including a keynote address on oil spills and the offshore and coastal environments, are available at http://www.gov.pe.ca/czc2010. CAPACITY FOR CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION IN NEW BRUNSWICK MUNICIPALITIESThe study aimed to determine: the current state of knowledge related to climate change; the concerns of officials and/or staff about climate change and its effects; the capacities that municipalities have to deal with climate change issues; the plans, resources etc. that have been put in place; and what needs to be done to build more capacity and resources to deal with a changing climate at the local government level - http://www.mta.ca/rstp/etf_rstp_%20municipal_cc_adaptation_final.pdf. CLEANING THE SHORELINEThe 2010 Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup is scheduled for 18-26 September - see http://shorelinecleanup.ca. for more information, including the results of the 2009 Cleanup. Data will be collected from the cleanup sites to determine the major (and minor) causes of shoreline litter in each region. The Canadian initiative is a contributor to the Ocean Conservancy's International Coastal Cleanup. Every year, more than half-a-million people in 100 countries remove millions of pounds of trash from beaches and waterways all over the world - http://www.coastalcleanup.org. CONSULTATIONS: MARINE PLANNING IN THE UKThe UK Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs has published public consultations for the Marine Policy Statement, the overarching policy framework for the UK marine area; and the Marine Planning System (England) which will provide a context for the Marine Policy Statement by outlining the planning system in England as a whole. 13 October is the deadline for comments - see http://www.defra.gov.uk/corporate/consult/index.htm. for details. The responses to the Marine Plan area consultation are summarized at http://www.defra.gov.uk/corporate/consult/marine-plan/index.htm. ADAPTING TO CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE USAdapting to Climate Change: A Planning Guide for State Coastal Managers was developed by NOAA's Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management to help coastal managers develop and implement adaptation plans to reduce the risks associated with climate change impacts. The guide provides the context for adaptation planning and includes steps for setting up a planning process, assessing vulnerability, devising a strategy, and implementing the plan - http://coastalmanagement.noaa.gov/climate/adaptation.html. RESTORING THE GULF OF MEXICOThe Nature Conservancy's Gulf 20/20 report outlines key actions needed to restore the health and productivity of the Gulf of Mexico. Actions include: restoring key bays, estuaries and rivers considered critical to the Gulf's survival; ensuring any future oil and gas development is carried out in a safe and sustainable manner; investing in science and research to inform decision-making and restoration plans; and establishing a coalition to seek a sustainable future for the Gulf - http://www.nature.org/pressroom/press/press4579.html. OTHER DOCUMENTS, NEWSLETTERS AND WEB RESOURCES- In July 2010, the East Coast Environmental Law Association held a series of workshops in Nova Scotia entitled "Who Owns the Coast?" The workshop presentations are available at http://www.ecelaw.ca/Our-Services/current-workshops.html. - Canadian scientists have developed a new method called LC PCOX (liquid chromatographic post-column oxidation) for detecting paralytic shellfish poisoning (PSP) toxins - the most common cause of shellfish-related illness in coastal nations - http://www.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/eng/news/nrc/2010/07/01/shellfish.html. - The abstracts and other details associated with the 1st World Seabird Conference, held on 7-11 September 2010 in Victoria, British Columbia, are available at https://www.confmanager.com/main.cfm?cid=1813&nid=12723. - The abstracts and other details associated with the International California and the World Ocean Conference, held on 7-10 September 2010 in San Francisco, California, are available at http://www.cce.csus.edu/conferences/cnra/cwo2010. - The Institute for Energy and the Environment at the Vermont Law School has published a series of white papers on Implementing the Arctic Offshore Oil and Gas Guidelines in the United States and Canada. The series focuses on the western Arctic. The four White Papers are available at http://www.vermontlaw.edu/x3706.xml. - Louisiana's Office of Coastal Management has released a science-based study on the inland boundary of the State's coastal zone. Key recommendations include supplementing the Coastal Use Permit method of managing the Coastal Management Zone with an Intergovernmental Coordination Zone. This would require governmental projects or actions involving major changes to water flow or management to obtain a determination that they are consistent with the Louisiana Master Plan for a Sustainable Coast - http://dnr.louisiana.gov/sec/execdiv/pubinfo/newsr/2010/0818ocm-coastal-zone-bound-study.asp. - The Rhode Island Ocean Special Area Management Plan (Ocean SAMP) will serve as a federally recognized coastal management and regulatory tool. It will provide a balanced approach to the development and protection of Rhode Island's ocean-based resources. The Ocean SAMP is undergoing public review prior to adoption by the RI Coastal Resources Management Council, the State's coastal management agency. The draft Ocean SAMP is available at http://seagrant.gso.uri.edu/oceansamp. - Restore America's Estuaries has released the Findings of the National Blue Ribbon Panel on the Development of a Greenhouse Gas Offset Protocol for Tidal Wetlands Restoration and Management: Action Plan to Guide Protocol Development - https://www.estuaries.org/climate-change.html. - Marine Ecosystems and Management (MEAM) is the quarterly information service on marine ecosystem-based management (EBM). The current issue of MEAM (Vol. 4, No. 1) includes articles on the role of science in EBM and how marine spatial planning can be used to lower costs for management and industry. MEAM is available at http://www.meam.net. - The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC)) and the Smart Ocean Sensor Consortium (SOSC) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to advance sensor observing systems for the oceans community - http://www.opengeospatial.org/pressroom/pressreleases/1271. - The current issue (September 2010) of Oceanography, the magazine of the Oceanography Society, is a special issue celebrating 50 Years of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) - http://tos.org/oceanography/issues.html. - The European Community and all of the EU Mediterranean Member States are contracting parties to the Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment and the Coastal Region of the Mediterranean (Barcelona Convention). On 13 September, the Council of the European Union adopted the decision to ratify the ICZM Protocol to the Barcelona Convention. The ICZM Protocol is available at http://ec.europa.eu/environment/iczm/barcelona.htm. - Land-Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone (LOICZ) is a core project of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme and the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change. The current issue of the LOICZ INPRINT newsletter is available at http://www.loicz.org/products/publication/inprint_latest/index.html.en. - Marine News is the e-newsletter of the IUCN Global Marine and Polar Programme. The current issue (August 2010) focuses on climate change mitigation and adaptation; conserving threatened species; energy and industry; marine protected areas; managing marine invasive species; and other marine-related issues - http://www.iucn.org/about/work/programmes/marine/gmp_newsletter. - NOAA's Coastal Services Magazine is a bi-monthly publication that profiles the efforts of state, community, and non-profit coastal programs. The September/October 2010 issue includes articles on planning for coastal hazards; planning to adapt to climate change in Florida; and lessons from Alaska and Oregon on dealing with oil spills - http://www.csc.noaa.gov/magazine/2010/05/index.html. - UNEP has published Factsheets on each of its six priority areas: Climate change; Resource efficiency; Disasters and conflicts; Environmental governance; Harmful substances and hazardous waste; and Ecosystem management - http://www.unep.org/publications/contents/relatedlinks.asp. - The book entitled Introduction to Coastal Processes and Geomorphology, by Robin Davidson-Arnott, University of Guelph, is a complete guide to the processes at work on coastlines and the features seen in coastal systems across the world. Ordering information is available from online bookstores, including http://www.chapters.indigo.ca. OTHER DEADLINES- 19 September is the extended deadline for submitting abstracts to Solutions to Coastal Disasters, 25-29 June 2011, Anchorage, Alaska - http://content.asce.org/conferences/cd2011. - 21 September is the deadline to provide comments to the Integrated Ocean Drilling Program on the draft of a new science plan that will guide scientific ocean drilling and related observatory science for a decade starting by late 2013 - http://campanian.iodp.org/NewSciencePlan. - 1 October is the deadline for submitting abstracts to Coastal Geotools 2011, 21-24 March 2011, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina - http://geotools.csc.noaa.gov. - 8 October is the deadline for submitting abstracts to Coastal Zone 11, 17-21 July 2011, Chicago, Illinois - http://www.doi.gov/initiatives/CZ11/index.htm. - 8 October is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the 24th Annual National Conference on Beach Preservation Technology, 9-11 February 2011, Jacksonville, Florida - http://www.fsbpa.com/techconference.htm. - 31 October is the deadline for submitting proposals to the Robin Rigby Trust to undertake coastal research that involves collaboration with appropriate coastal communities, coastal research organizations, and/or coastal-focused non-governmental organizations - http://maritimeawards.wordpress.com/2010/04/12/the-robin-rigby-trust-call-for-proposals. - 1 November is the deadline for submitting abstracts to SAMPAA 7 - the Conference of the Science & Management of Protected Areas Association, 17-22 April 2011, Banff, Alberta - http://www.sampaa.org/meetings/conference-2011. - 15 November is the deadline for submitting abstracts to Coastal Management 2011, 15-16 November 2011, Belfast, UK - http://www.ice-coastalmanagement.com. - 30 November is the deadline to submit case studies on integrated marine and coastal area management (IMCAM) for inclusion in a database being compiled by the Convention on Biological Diversity Secretariat - http://www.cbd.int/doc/notifications/2010/ntf-2010-163-imcam-en.pdf. - 1 December is the deadline for submitting proposals to the 4th World Conference on Ecological Restoration, 21-25 August 2011, Mérida, Mexico - http://www.ser2011.org. - 13 December is the deadline to comment on the draft Coastal and Marine Ecological Classification Standard (CMECS), developed by the Coastal and Marine Spatial Data Subcommittee of the US Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC). The CMECS provides a uniform protocol for identifying, characterizing and naming ecological units in support of monitoring, protection, and restoration - http://www.fgdc.gov. OTHER UPCOMING CONFERENCES AND EVENTS- For a complete list of upcoming conferences and workshops, access http://aczisc.dal.ca/conf.htm. - September - December 2010: 29th International Submerged Lands Management Conference Webinar Series - http://www.submergedlandsconference.com. - 20-23 September 2010: Oceans 2010 MTS/IEEE, Seattle, Washington - http://www.oceans10mtsieeeseattle.org/index.cfm. - 20-24 September 2010: Annual Science Conference of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), Nantes, France - http://www.ices.dk/iceswork/asc/2010/index.asp. - 20-24 September 2010: Coast to Coast Conference, Adelaide, Australia - http://www.coast2coast.org.au. - 21-23 September 2010: 10th Littoral Conference, London, UK - http://www.coastnet.org.uk/Littoral2010. - 22-25 September 2010: Global Conference on Aquaculture 2010, Phuket, Thailand - http://www.aqua-conference2010.org. - 27-30 September 2010: Working Waterways & Waterfronts National Symposium on Water Access 2010, Portland, Maine - http://www.wateraccessus.com. - 27 September to 1 October 2010: 3rd RADARSAT-2 Workshop, Canadian Space Agency, Saint-Hubert, Québec - http://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/events/2010/radarsat2.asp. - 28 September to 1 October 2010: 3rd International Conference Coastlab dealing with the Application of Physical Modelling to Port and Coastal Protection, Barcelona, Spain - http://www.coastlab10.com. - 29-30 September 2010: Atlantic Agricultural Riparian Health Workshop, Moncton, New Brunswick - for information, email bonnie.robertson@gnb.ca">. - 29 September to 2 October 2010: International Conference on Deltas in Times of Climate Change, Rotterdam, The Netherlands - http://www.climatedeltaconference.org. - 5-9 October 2010: XXIII International Coastal Conference - Coastal Evolution Studies: Traditions and Modern Concepts, St. Petersburg, Russia - http://www.seacoasts.ru/eng/about. - 6 October 2010: Annual Science Meeting of the Regional Association for Research on the Gulf of Maine (RARGOM), Portsmouth, New Hampshire - http://www.rargom.org/SciMeeting2010.html. - 13-15 October 2010: National Coastal Conference of the American Shore & Beach Preservation Association, Charleston, South Carolina - http://www.asbpa.org/conferences/conf_fall_10.htm. - 17-22 October 2010: Coastal Zone Asia-Pacific 2010 Conference, Bangkok, Thailand - http://cdc.fish.ku.ac.th/czap2010/index.html. - 18-22 October 2010: 1st World Small-Scale Fisheries Congress, Bangkok, Thailand - http://www.seafdec.or.th/wsfc2010/index.html. - 22-31 October 2010: Annual Meeting of the North Pacific Marine Science Organization (PICES), Portland, Oregon - http://www.pices.int/meetings/annual/PICES-2010/2010-background.aspx. - 25-29 October 2010: 6th International Conference on Marine Waste Water Discharges and Coastal Environment, Langkawi, Malaysia - "http://www.mwwd.org. - 27-28 October 2010: Ocean Renewable Energy Group (OREG) 2010 Annual Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia - http://www.oreg.ca/index.php?p=1_41. - 27-29 October 2010: 7th Canadian Risk and Hazards Network (CRHNet) Symposium, Fredericton, New Brunswick - . - 27-30 October 2010: 3rd International Conference on the Management of Coastal Recreational Resources, Grosseto, Southern Tuscany, Italy - http://www.um.edu.mt/iei/mcrr3-2010. - 28-29 October 2010: Geomatics Atlantic 2010, Fredericton, New Brunswick - http://www.geomaticsatlantic.com. - 3-5 November 2010: Renewable Ocean Energy & the Marine Environment, Palm Beach Gardens, Florida - http://www.ces.fau.edu/coet. - 4-5 November 2010: 8th Marine Law Symposium, Bristol, Rhode Island - http://law.rwu.edu/academics/institutes-programs/marine-affairs-institute/symposia. - 8-11 November 2010: Ecosystems 2010: Global Progress on Ecosystem-based Fisheries Management, Anchorage, Alaska - http://seagrant.uaf.edu/conferences/2010/wakefield-ecosystems/index.php. - 13-17 November 2010: 5th US National Conference on Coastal and Estuarine Habitat Restoration, Galveston, Texas - http://www.estuaries.org/conference. 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ACZISC COASTAL UPDATE - JULY / AUGUST 2010 UPCOMING ACZISC MEETINGS- 6-7 October 2010 (revised dates): ACZISC Meeting #61, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island - 26-27 January 2011: ACZISC Meeting #62, St. John's, Newfoundland - 18-19 May 2011: ACZISC Meeting #63, Fredericton, New Brunswick - 14-15 September 2011: ACZISC Meeting #64, Halifax, Nova Scotia For information on the meetings, email the ACZISC Secretariat. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: COASTAL ZONE CANADA 2010The Coastal Zone Canada 2010 Conference is scheduled for 25-29 July 2010 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. Keynote speakers include: Alanna Mitchell, the author of the book Sea Sick: The Global Ocean in Crisis (2009) and the recent winner of the 2010 US Grantham Prize for excellence in environmental journalism; and Mervin Fingas, a scientist focusing on oil and chemical spill research and the author of Basics of Oil Spill Cleanup. For information, including the Conference Program, access http://www.gov.pe.ca/czc2010. COASTAL AND OCEANS MANAGEMENT IN
NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADORInput is being sought on a Discussion Paper released by the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador on the development of a strategy for coastal and oceans management in the Province. The strategy will formalize the vision, goals and principles that will guide how coastal and ocean resources are developed in a sustainable manner. The Discussion Paper includes a draft policy framework that defines and provides an approach for achieving better coastal and ocean management - http://www.releases.gov.nl.ca/releases/2010/fishaq/0707n06.htm. ATLANTIC AGRICULTURAL RIPARIAN HEALTH WORKSHOP31 July is the deadline for submitting an outline for a presentation at the Workshop, scheduled for 29-30 September 2010 in Moncton, New Brunswick. The aim of the Workshop is to provide both basic and advanced education to improve riparian management on agricultural lands. For information, email bonnie.robertson@gnb.ca. INFORMATION AND MAPPING SYSTEMS FOR
COMMUNITIES IN ATLANTIC CANADAThe Government of Prince Edward Island has implemented Community Accounts, a comprehensive information system of community, regional, and provincial data. The system allows users to generate tables and illustrative graphics on key social and economic indicators organized by geography and data topic - http://communityaccounts.ca/PEI. Both Newfoundland and Labrador (http://www.communityaccounts.ca) and Nova Scotia (http://www.gov.ns.ca/communitycounts) have previously established similar systems. DRAFT: STATE OF THE ARCTIC COAST 2010The goal of this report is to develop a comprehensive picture of current and anticipated change in the most sensitive Arctic coastal areas. The report includes a thematic review of the state of physical and ecological systems and human communities and activities on the Arctic coast as of 2010. It provides a more holistic and coupled-system perspective and develops future research needs and concepts. The information presented and synthesized is based on published literature and other sources - http://arcticcoasts.org. US NATIONAL POLICY FOR THE STEWARDSHIP OF
THE OCEAN, COASTS, AND GREAT LAKESThe US President has signed an Executive Order which adopts the Final Recommendations of the Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force and directs federal agencies to implement them. The Executive Order strengthens ocean governance and coordination, establishes guiding principles for ocean management, and adopts a flexible framework for effective coastal and marine spatial planning to address conservation, economic activity, user conflict, and sustainable use of the ocean, coasts and the Great Lakes - http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/ceq/initiatives/oceans/. MARINE SPATIAL PLANNING IN THE NORTHEAST USAA Marine Spatial Planning Working Session, convened by the Northeast Regional Ocean Council, was held on 26-27 October 2009 in Gloucester, Massachusetts. The workshop themes were: governance process; regulatory efficiencies and coordination; data needs, collection, and standards; decision support product needs; and the role of NROC and other regional partners. The Proceedings are available at http://collaborate.csc.noaa.gov/nroc/Shared%20Documents/Marine%20Spatial%20Planning%20Workshop%20-%20October%202009/NROC%20MSP%20Proceedings%20-%20Oct2009.pdf. . UNEP POLICY SERIES ON ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENTThe UNEP policy series seeks to facilitate dialogue on policy issues related to Ecosystem Management. Besides enabling UNEP to communicate with stakeholders, the policy series will also provide an opportunity for readers to discuss issues covered in the featured articles. The Policy Series is accompanied by an online blog where readers can post their comments, ask questions, and suggest topics for future issues in the series - http://www.unep.org/policyseries. NORTH AMERICAN POLLUTANT RELEASES AND TRANSFERSTaking Stock Online, published by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation, features an integrated, multi-year database covering over 500 toxic substances and almost 100 major industrial sectors reporting to the pollutant release and transfer registers of Canada, Mexico and the United States. The site also features new tools to assist in data analysis, including a tool to explore data on pollutants transferred across national borders. Oil and gas extraction, mining, and wastewater treatment stand out as clear examples where data reporting needs to improve - http://www.cec.org/Page.asp?PageID=924&SiteNodeID=569&AA_SiteLanguageID=1. OTHER DOCUMENTS, NEWSLETTERS AND WEB RESOURCES- A Centre for Fisheries Ecosystems Research is being established at the Fisheries and Marine Institute of Memorial University. The Centre will address the need for increased capacity in fisheries science in Newfoundland and Labrador - http://www.releases.gov.nl.ca/releases/2010/exec/0702n05.htm. - The Province of Nova Scotia and the State of Maine have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to cooperate on renewable ocean electricity generation. The objectives of the MOU are to: investigate opportunities and areas for cooperation on furthering offshore wind and tidal energy technology and application; and to cooperate on tidal energy research and development - http://www.gov.ns.ca/news/details.asp?id=20100712009. - The Government of Prince Edward Island is providing public data on the quality and quantity of drinking water and stream water in communities across the Island. Creating the online public data system is one of the recommendations of the 'Report on the Commission of Nitrates in Groundwater', which was established to develop a strategy to reduce nitrate concentrations in groundwater and surface water - http://www.gov.pe.ca/eef/index.php3?number=1032151&lang=E. - The State of the Gulf of Maine Report is composed of a context document and a series of theme or issue papers. The theme papers are being developed incrementally and regularly updated. A paper on Marine Invasive Species was recently added to the Report - http://www.gulfofmaine.org/state-of-the-gulf/. - The Massachusetts Office of Coastal Zone Management has established a website on coastal landscaping. The website includes information on: the benefits of coastal landscaping; techniques; tips for planting, installation, and maintenance; and sample landscape plans for a coastal bank, a coastal bank with an existing seawall, and a coastal dune - http://www.mass.gov/czm/coastal_landscaping/index.htm. - The Canadian Ocean Technology Sector Map identifies companies involved in the ocean sector - http://ocean.cinmaps.ca. - MPA News features international news and analysis on Marine Protected Areas. The July/August 2010 issue includes articles on the 'Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill: The Experiences of MPA Managers So Far, and What Lessons Can Be Learned'; 'Is Offshore Drilling Worth the Environmental Risk of Spills?'; and 'How Close Is the MPA Field to Meeting Its Global Targets?' - http://depts.washington.edu/mpanews/issues.html. - An online mapping tool has been introduced to deliver near-real-time information on the response to the Deepwater Horizon BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The site integrates the latest data from federal responders on the oil spill's trajectory and includes fishery area closures, wildlife data, Gulf Coast resources, and locations of oiled shoreline and current positions of deployed research ships - http://www.geoplatform.gov/gulfresponse/index.html. - NOAA's Coastal Services Magazine is a bi-monthly publication that aims to bring new ideas to coastal resource management programs by profiling the efforts of state, community, and non- profit coastal programs. The July/August 2010 issue includes an article on Ecosystem- Based Management: Finding the Interconnections in New York - http://www.csc.noaa.gov/magazine/2010/04/index.html. - OURCOAST is a three-year project commissioned by the Directorate General Environment of the European Commission to support and ensure the exchange of experiences and best practices in coastal planning and management. The July 2010 issue of the OURCOAST newsletter is available at http://ec.europa.eu/environment/iczm/pdf/ourcoast-newsletter2010-4.pdf. - The goal of the UK's 5-year Ocean Acidification Research Programme is to increase the understanding and awareness of the risk of ocean acidification to the marine ecosystem and its impact on the whole Earth System - http://www.nerc.ac.uk/research/programmes/oceanacidification/resources.asp. - Resources available in NOAA's Coastal Climate Adaptation website include: adaptation and action plans; case studies and strategies; climate change communication; guidebooks and outreach materials; and training and workshop materials - http://collaborate.csc.noaa.gov/climateadaptation. - The IUCN publication A Framework for Social Adaptation to Climate Change - Sustaining Tropical Coastal Communities and Industries describes how to "manage for climate resilience" through the maintenance of properties that confer resilience. It also outlines a framework for understanding the vulnerability of communities and marine-based industries to climate change, both through direct effects and through impacts on ecosystem goods and services - http://www.iucn.org/knowledge/publications_doc/publications/. - The Wadden Sea Trilateral Working Group on Coastal Protection and Sea Level Rise (CPSL) has concluded that spatial planning may present a flexible and sustainable tool to deal with the effects of sea level rise and that spatial planning measures may diminish the risk to the coastal population by reducing the damage likely from flooding and land loss - http://www.waddensea-secretariat.org/management/cpsl/cpsl.html. - Taylor and Francis is offering free access to the 10 most-cited Marine Geodesy articles published in the past three years. The aim of Marine Geodesy is to stimulate progress in ocean surveys, mapping, and remote sensing by promoting problem-oriented research in the marine and coastal environment - http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/UMGD. - A paper published in the Proceedings of the US National Academy of Sciences concludes that combination of reduced fishing effort, less selective fishing strategies, and better use of the catch may help achieve sustainable overall yields while maintaining healthy ecosystems - http://www.csiro.au/news/Scientists-offer-new-take-on-selective-fishing.html. OTHER DEADLINES- 30 July is the deadline for submitting abstracts to Geomatics Atlantic 2010, 28-29 October 2010, Fredericton, New Brunswick - http://www.geomaticsatlantic.com. - 30 July is the deadline for submitting workshop proposals to the 5th International Marine Debris Conference, 20-25 March 2011, Honolulu, Hawaii - http://www.5imdc.org. - 31 July is the deadline for submitting comments on a discussion document released by the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador to stimulate public discussion on the Government's strategy development on climate change, including impacts and adaptation, and energy efficiency - http://www.exec.gov.nl.ca/exec/cceeet/external/discussion.html. - 15 August is the deadline for submitting comments to Parks Canada on how Sable Island off the coast of Nova Scotia can be protected and appreciated as a national park. A questionnaire is available at http://www.pc.gc.ca/eng/progs/np-pn/cnpn-cnnp/sable/prenez-get.aspx. - 1 September is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the 11th International Coastal Symposium (ICS), 9-14 May 2011, Szczecin, Poland - http://www.ics2011.pl. - 31 October is the deadline to submit proposals to the Robin Rigby Trust to undertake coastal research that involves collaboration with appropriate coastal communities, coastal research organizations, and/or coastal-focused non-governmental organizations - http://maritimeawards.wordpress.com/2010/04/12/the-robin-rigby-trust-call-for-proposals/. - 15 November is the deadline for submitting abstracts to Coastal Management 2011, 15-16 November 2011, Belfast, UK - http://www.ice-coastalmanagement.com. MARK YOUR CALENDARS- 26-29 June 2011: People in Places: Engaging Together in Integrated Resource Management, Halifax, Nova Scotia - http://www.coastalcura.ca/peopleinplaces2011.html. - 3-7 July 2011: 2nd International Symposium on Integrated Coastal Zone Management, Arendal, Norway - http://www.imr.no/iczm2011. - 17-21 July 2011: Coastal Zone 11, Chicago, Illinois - http://www.doi.gov/initiatives/CZ11/index.htm OTHER UPCOMING CONFERENCES AND EVENTS- For a complete list of upcoming conferences and workshops, access http://aczisc.dal.ca/conf.htm. - July 2010: Workshops on Who Owns the Coast, organized by the East Coast Environmental Law Association, 19 July in Sydney, 22 July in Halifax and 23 July in Liverpool, Nova Scotia - http://www.ecelaw.ca. - 25-29 July 2010: Coastal Zone Canada 2010 Conference, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island - http://www.gov.pe.ca/czc2010. - 10-11 August 2010: Symposium on New Approaches to Understanding Emerging Marine Diseases, Kingston, Rhode Island - http://seagrant.gso.uri.edu/baird/2010_diseases.html. - 1-3 September 2010: UK Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society and Irish Earth Observation Symposium, Cork, Ireland - http://www.rspsoc2010.org. - 2-4 September 2010: Pacem in Maribus XXXIII - International Conference on Oceans, Climate Change and Sustainable Development, Beijing, China - http://www.ioinst.org. - 7-10 September 2010: California and the World Ocean 2010 Conference, San Francisco, California - http://www.cce.csus.edu/conferences/cnra/cwo2010/index.htm. - 7-11 September 2010: 1st World Seabird Conference, Victoria, British Columbia - http://www.worldseabirdconference.com/main.cfm?cid=1813&nid=12669. - 13-17 September 2010: Storm Surges Congress 2010, Hamburg, Germany - http://www.loicz.org/calender/Congress/index.html.en. - 14-17 September 2010: 15th Biennial International Conference on Physics of Estuaries and Coastal Seas, Colombo, Sri Lanka - http://www2.sese.uwa.edu.au/~pecs/. - 15-16 September 2010: 1st International Conference on Marine and Maritime Affairs, Plymouth, UK - http://www.icmma.info. - 20-23 September 2010: Oceans 2010 MTS/IEEE, Seattle, Washington - http://www.oceans10mtsieeeseattle.org/index.cfm. - 20-24 September 2010: Annual Science Conference of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), Nantes, France - http://www.ices.dk/iceswork/asc/2010/index.asp. - 20-24 September 2010: Coast to Coast Conference, Adelaide, Australia - http://www.coast2coast.org.au. - 21-23 September 2010: 10th Littoral Conference, London, UK - http://www.coastnet.org.uk/Littoral2010. - 22-25 September 2010: Global Conference on Aquaculture 2010, Phuket, Thailand - http://www.aqua-conference2010.org. - 27-30 September 2010: Working Waterways & Waterfronts National Symposium on Water Access 2010, Portland, Maine - http://www.wateraccessus.com. - 27 September to 1 October 2010: 3rd RADARSAT-2 Workshop, Canadian Space Agency, Saint-Hubert, Qué;bec - http://www.asc-csa.gc.ca/eng/events/2010/radarsat2.asp. - 28 September to 1 October 2010: 3rd International Conference Coastlab dealing with the Application of Physical Modelling to Port and Coastal Protection, Barcelona, Spain - http://www.coastlab10.com. - 29-30 September 2010: Atlantic Agricultural Riparian Health Workshop, Moncton, New Brunswick - for information, email bonnie.robertson@gnb.ca. - 29 September to 2 October 2010: International Conference on Deltas in Times of Climate Change, Rotterdam, The Netherlands - http://www.climatedeltaconference.org. - 13-15 October 2010: National Coastal Conference of the American Shore & Beach Preservation Association, Charleston, South Carolina - http://www.asbpa.org/conferences/conf_fall_10.htm. - 17-22 October 2010: Coastal Zone Asia-Pacific 2010 Conference, Bangkok, Thailand - http://cdc.fish.ku.ac.th/czap2010/index.html. - 18-22 October 2010: 1st World Small-Scale Fisheries Congress, Bangkok, Thailand - http://www.seafdec.or.th/wsfc2010/index.html. - 25-29 October 2010: 6th International Conference on Marine Waste Water Discharges and Coastal Environment, Langkawi, Malaysia - http://www.mwwd.org. - 27-28 October 2010: Ocean Renewable Energy Group (OREG) 2010 Annual Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia - http://www.oreg.ca/index.php?p=1_41. - 27-30 October 2010: 3rd International Conference on the Management of Coastal Recreational Resources, Grosseto, Southern Tuscany, Italy - http://www.um.edu.mt/iei/mcrr3-2010. 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ACZISC COASTAL UPDATE - JUNE 2010 UPCOMING ACZISC MEETINGS- 6-7 October 2010 (revised dates): ACZISC Meeting #61, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island - 26-27 January 2011: ACZISC Meeting #62, St. John's, Newfoundland - 18-19 May 2011: ACZISC Meeting #63, Fredericton, New Brunswick - 14-15 September 2011: ACZISC Meeting #64, Halifax, Nova Scotia For information on the meetings, email the ACZISC Secretariat. FIELD TRIPS: COASTAL ZONE CANADA 201016 July 2010 is the deadline to register for the field trips associated with the Coastal Zone Canada 2010 Conference, scheduled for 25-29 July 2010 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. The field trips feature various aspects of coastal zone management to be covered in the Conference program. For information, including the Conference program and the field trips, access http://www.gov.pe.ca/czc2010. THE STATE OF THE GULF OF MAINEThe State of the Gulf of Maine Report is composed of a context document and a series of theme or issue papers. The context document provides an introduction to the natural and socio-economic environment of the Gulf. The theme papers provide a more in-depth overview of important issues within the Gulf: climate change, fisheries and aquaculture; coastal development; aquatic habitats; eutrophication; contaminants; biodiversity; and emerging issues. The theme papers will be developed incrementally and regularly updated - http://www.gulfofmaine.org/state-of-the-gulf/. REGULATING OFFSHORE OIL AND GAS ACTIVITY IN ATLANTIC CANADAIn Atlantic Canada, the Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Offshore Petroleum Board and the Canada-Nova Scotia Offshore Petroleum Board were established to regulate offshore oil and gas activity. Recent statements to the House of Commons Standing Committee on Natural Resources by the Boards on the status of emergency response to offshore oil and gas drilling are available respectively at http://www.cnlopb.nl.ca/pdfs/chairman_statement.pdf and http://www.cnsopb.ns.ca/pdfs/Statement_to_Standing_Committee_Speech_May252010.pdf. PLANNING AND MANAGING OFFSHORE ENERGYMarine Ecosystems and Management (MEAM) is the quarterly information service on marine ecosystem-based management (EBM). The current edition of MEAM (Vol. 3, No. 6) includes advice from a number of experts on Offshore Energy: The Challenge of Planning and Managing It in an Ecosystem-Based Way. MEAM is available at http://www.meam.net. SUMMARY: GLOBAL CONFERENCE ON OCEANS, COASTS AND ISLANDSThe Conference, held from 3-7 May 2010 at UNESCO in Paris, France, was organized around three thematic sessions: ensuring survival; preserving life; and improving governance. A summary report of the Conference, published by the International Institute for Sustainable Development in collaboration with the Global Forum on Oceans, Coasts, and Islands, the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission, UNESCO, and the Government of France, is available at http://www.iisd.ca/download/pdf/sd/ymbvol68num5e.pdf. TOOLS TO IMPROVE LAND USE PLANNING IN COASTAL NEW HAMPSHIREThe report entitled Integrating Geospatial and Web-Based Technologies to Improve Land Use Planning in Coastal New Hampshire documents the primary resources generated for this project. They include an enhanced version of a spatial model predicting future development pressures in coastal New Hampshire, and a prototype web-based mapping tool to allow community decision-makers to access these and other geospatial data for local decision-making . The report also includes key findings - http://ciceet.unh.edu/news/releases/spring10_reports/pdf/rubinLU07.pdf. THE NATURAL FIX?: THE ROLE OF ECOSYSTEMS IN CLIMATE MITIGATIONThe UN Environment Programme (UNEP) report states that increasing investments in the conservation, rehabilitation and management of the earth's forests, peatlands, soils and other key ecosystems, including oceans and coasts, could deliver significant cuts in greenhouse gas emissions and avoid even more being released to the atmosphere. The report reviews carbon management in natural and human dominated ecosystems and the impacts of future climate change on ecosystem carbon. It documents opportunities and challenges, and offers conclusions - http://www.grida.no/news/press/3702.aspx. INTERNATIONAL GOVERNANCE AND REGULATION OF THE MARINE ARCTICThis report was commissioned by the WWF International Arctic Programme to examine the adequacy of the current international governance and regulatory regime of the marine Arctic in light of current and future impacts of climate change. The main elements of the report are an overview of the current international governance and regulatory regime of the marine Arctic and an analysis of the main governance and regulatory gaps in that regime - http://assets.panda.org/downloads/3in1_final.pdf. OTHER DOCUMENTS, NEWSLETTERS AND WEB RESOURCES- GeoNB, the free internet-based application for viewing maps and aerial photos of New Brunswick, has launched a new flood information tool. The application allows users to search for historical data on flooding, capture the data, and print them - http://www.snb.ca/geonb. - The Coastal Issues Committee of Nova Scotia's Ecology Action Centre has recently released two reports: Headwaters to Coasts - Getting to Watershed Management in Nova Scotia and On the Rocks - Healing our Dysfunctional Relationship with the Coast. the reports are available at http://ecologyaction.ca/content/coastal. - Reports recently released by GeoConnections include Good Practices in Regional-Scale Information Integration and Data Needs Assessment for Integrated Land Management (ILM) Decision-Making Processes - http://www.geoconnections.org/en/resourcelibrary/keyStudiesReports. GeoConnections has also released version 1.0 of Canada's new Emergency Mapping Symbology, which includes over 200 mapping symbols created for use in geospatial products - http://geoconnections.org/masas/ems.zip. - Canada's Minister of the Environment has tabled an amendment to the Canada National Marine Conservation Areas Act to formally establish the Gwaii Haanas National Marine Conservation Area Reserve and Haida Heritage Site. In total, the area will protect over 5,000 square kilometres of wilderness from alpine mountain tops to the deep sea beyond the continental shelf, a first for the world - http://www.pc.gc.ca/apps/cp-nr/release_e.asp?id=1576&andor1=nr. - GeoBase is a federal, provincial and territorial government initiative that provides access to a common, up-to-date and maintained base of quality geospatial data for all of Canada. A subset of the National Hydro Network data is now available in the form of an image map and can be downloaded in PDF - http://www.geobase.ca/geobase/en/news/2010/nhn-pdf.html. - The interactive North American Environmental Atlas - a trinational partnership coordinated by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation - provides access to geospatial data and map layers related to significant continental environmental issues. A new addition to the Atlas shows the marine protected areas (MPAs) of North America that are managed by national, state, provincial, or territorial authorities - http://www.cec.org/naatlas. - Impacts of Climate change on the Eco-Systems and Chemistry of the Arctic Pacific Environment (ICESCAPE) is a multi-year NASA shipborne project. Most of the research will take place in the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas in the summer of 2010 and the fall of 2011 - http://www.espo.nasa.gov/icescape/. - The Coastal Connections Newsletter is a bimonthly publication from NOAA on tools for coastal resource managers. The June/July issue of the Newsletter focuses on negotiations with regard to coastal resources - http://www.csc.noaa.gov/newsletter/. - The EUCC Coastal & MarinE-News, the international newsletter of the Coastal & Marine Union (EUCC), focuses on EUCC news, climate change, fisheries and aquaculture, coastal management and research, and maritime policy and spatial planning. The June 2010 issue (no 2&3) is available at http://www.eucc.net/en/news/CMN2010-02-03.pdf. - The Lessons Learned from California's Marine Life Management Act (MLMA) report assesses lessons learned about the implementation of the MLMA and provides recommendations to direct future MLMA efforts. The final report and background information is available at http://www.opc.ca.gov/2009/04/mlma-lessons-learned-project/. - The Governors of Washington, Oregon, and California have announced the release of work plans for 8 issues related to West Coast ocean health: climate change, polluted runoff, marine debris, spartina eradication, renewable ocean energy, ocean awareness and literacy, seafloor mapping, and sediment management - http://www.westcoastoceans.gov/. - California's Ocean Science Trust has released the report entitled Evaluating Alternatives for Decommissioning California's Offshore Oil and Gas Platforms: A Technical Analysis to Inform State Policy. The report presents an authoritative synthesis of scientific, financial, and legal information on platform decommissioning - http://www.calost.org/Oil_gas.html. - The June 2010 issue of Oceanography, the magazine of the Oceanography Society, is a special issue on marine renewable energy - http://www.tos.org/oceanography/issues/current.html. - The 20th Meeting of States Parties to the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea are meeting from 14 to 18 June 2010 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. The Meeting will focus, among other things, on the workload of the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf as it continues to examine submissions by coastal States for the delineation of the continental shelf - http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs//2010/sea1939.doc.htm. - The resumed Review Conference on the Agreement for the Implementation of the Provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 relating to the Conservation and Management of Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks was held from 24-28 May 2010 at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. The outcomes are available at http://www.un.org/Depts/los/convention_agreements/review_conf_fish_stocks.htm. - The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) report entitled Dead planet, living planet: Biodiversity and ecosystem restoration for sustainable development documents over 30 successful case studies referencing thousands of restoration projects ranging from deserts and rainforests to rivers and coasts. It also provides recommendations on how to avoid pitfalls and how to minimize risks to ensure successful restoration - http://www.grida.no/publications/rr/dead-planet/. - The Secretariat of the Pacific Community, in collaboration with FAO and The Nature Conservancy, has produced a publication entitled A community-based ecosystem approach to fisheries management: guidelines for Pacific Island countries. The guidelines were produced to describe how an EAF can be merged with community-based fisheries management (CBFM) in Pacific Island countries - http://spc.int/Coastfish/. - The 3rd Annual Global Marine Renewable Energy Conference was held on 14-15 April 2010 in Seattle, Washington. Conference presentations are available at http://www.globalmarinerenewable.com. - The OECD paper entitled Environmental Policy Design Characteristics and Technological Innovation focuses on the issue of innovation and technology transfer in the areas of air pollution abatement, wastewater effluent treatment, solid waste management, and climate change mitigation - http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/32/2/44805905.pdf. OTHER DEADLINES- 30 June is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the 6th International Conference on Remediation of Contaminated Sediments, 7-10 February 2011, Louisiana, New Orleans - http://www.battelle.org/conferences/sediments/. - 30 June is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the Coast to Coast Conference, 20-24 September 2010, Adelaide, Australia - http://www.coast2coast.org.au. - 30 June 2010 is the extended deadline for submitting abstracts to the 1st International Conference on Marine and Maritime Affairs, 15-16 September 2010, Plymouth, UK - http://www.icmma.info. - 1 July is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the 11th International Coastal Symposium (ICS), 9-14 May 2011, Szczecin, Poland - http://www.ics2011.pl. - 1 July is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the 2010 Annual Meeting of the North Pacific Marine Science Organization (PICES), 22-31 October 2010, Portland, Oregon - http://www.pices.int/meetings/annual/PICES-2010/2010-background.aspx. - 1 July is the extended deadline for submitting abstracts to the 12th International Symposium on the Interactions between Sediment and Water, 19-23 June 2011, Dartington, Devon, UK - http://www.geog.plymouth.ac.uk/IASWS2011/. - 10 July is the extended deadline for submitting abstracts to the 6th International Conference on Marine Waste Water Discharges and Coastal Environment, 25-29 October 2010, Langkawi, Malaysia - http://www.mwwd.org. - 31 July is the deadline to comment on a discussion document released by the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador to stimulate public discussion on the Government's development of a strategy on climate change, including impacts and adaptation, and energy efficiency - http://www.exec.gov.nl.ca/exec/cceeet/external/discussion.html. - 31 October is the deadline to submit proposals to the Robin Rigby Trust to undertake coastal research that involves collaboration with appropriate coastal communities, coastal research organizations, and/or coastal-focused non-governmental organizations - http://maritimeawards.wordpress.com/2010/04/12/the-robin-rigby-trust-call-for-proposals/. OTHER UPCOMING CONFERENCES AND EVENTS- For a complete list of upcoming conferences and workshops, access http://aczisc.dal.ca/conf.htm. - 21-23 June 2010: Canadian Hydrographic Conference, Québec City, Québec - http://www.chc2010.ca. - 21-25 June 2010: 5th Caribbean Environmental Forum, Montego Bay, Jamaica - http://www.cef.org.lc. - 30 June to 5 July 2010: ICCE, the 32nd International Conference on Coastal Engineering, Shanghai, China - http://www.icce2010.cn. - 3-7 July 2010: 24th International Congress for Conservation Biology, Edmonton, Alberta - http://www.conbio.org/activities/meetings/2010/. - 25-29 July 2010: Coastal Zone Canada Conference, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island - http://www.gov.pe.ca/czc2010. - 7-12 August 2010: GIslands 2010, an International Summer School on Geotechnologies applied to Marine Spatial Planning, University of the Azores - http://www.gislands.org. - 10-11 August 2010: Symposium on New Approaches to Understanding Emerging Marine Diseases, Kingston, Rhode Island - http://seagrant.gso.uri.edu/baird/2010_diseases.html. - 1-3 September 2010: UK Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society and Irish Earth Observation Symposium, Cork, Ireland - http://www.rspsoc2010.org. - 7-10 September 2010: California and the World Ocean 2010 Conference, San Francisco, California - http://www.cce.csus.edu/conferences/cnra/cwo2010/index.htm. - 7-11 September 2010: 1st World Seabird Conference, Victoria, British Columbia - http://www.worldseabirdconference.com/main.cfm?cid=1813&nid=12669. - 13-17 September 2010: Storm Surges Congress 2010, Hamburg, Germany - http://www.loicz.org/calender/Congress/index.html.en. - 14-17 September 2010: 15th Biennial International Conference on Physics of Estuaries and Coastal Seas, Colombo, Sri Lanka - http://www2.sese.uwa.edu.au/~pecs/. - 15-16 September 2010: 1st International Conference on Marine and Maritime Affairs, Plymouth, UK - http://www.icmma.info. - 20-23 September 2010: Oceans 2010 MTS/IEEE, Seattle, Washington - http://www.oceans10mtsieeeseattle.org/index.cfm. - 20-24 September 2010: Annual Science Conference of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), Nantes, France - http://www.ices.dk/iceswork/asc/2010/index.asp. - 20-24 September 2010: Coast to Coast Conference, Adelaide, Australia - http://www.coast2coast.org.au. - 21-23 September 2010: 10th Littoral Conference, London, UK - http://www.coastnet.org.uk/Littoral2010. - 22-25 September 2010: Global Conference on Aquaculture 2010, Phuket, Thailand - http://www.aqua-conference2010.org. - 27-30 September 2010: Working Waterways & Waterfronts National Symposium on Water Access 2010, Portland, Maine - http://www.wateraccessus.com. 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ACZISC COASTAL UPDATE - MAY 2010 UPCOMING ACZISC MEETINGS- 6-7 October 2010 (revised dates): ACZISC Meeting #61, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island - 26-27 January 2011: ACZISC Meeting #62, St. John's, Newfoundland - 18-19 May 2011: ACZISC Meeting #63, Fredericton, New Brunswick - 14-15 September 2011: ACZISC Meeting #64, Halifax, Nova Scotia For information on the meetings, email the ACZISC Secretariat. NEW ADDITIONS TO THE ACZISC WEBSITEThe presentations made at the recent ACZISC Meeting in Dartmouth, Nova Scotia are available at http://aczisc.dal.ca/docs-ACZISC.htm. The topics are: State of the Gulf of Maine; Changing Climate in Atlantic Canada and Upcoming Regional Adaptation Collaborative (RAC) Projects; Stuck in the Mud: Tales of the Petitcodiac; and Oceans Planning and Management: The Need for an Integrated Coastal and Marine Information System. RESTORING THE PETITCODIAC RIVERThe restoration of the tidal estuary of the Petitcodiac River in New Brunswick has begun with the opening of the gates of the Petitcodiac causeway. The seasonal response will be monitored for up to two years as the river, fish population, and the surrounding habitat adjust to the change. The phased project also involved planning and site preparation, including shoreline and erosion protection along the river channel, waterline relocation, drainage improvements, and dike and aboiteaux construction - http://www.gnb.ca/0099/petit/index-e.asp. CONFERENCE PROGRAM: COASTAL ZONE CANADA 2010The 9th Coastal Zone Canada International Conference is scheduled for 25-29 July 2010 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. The Program focuses on the challenges and opportunities of coastal management in Canada; linking land and ocean planning and management; strengthening coastal communities; planning for the impacts of climate change; planning a coastal policy for PEI; and the culinary advantages of managing Canada's coasts. The Conference Program is now online at http://www.gov.pe.ca/czc2010. ECOSYSTEM OVERVIEW OF THE SHEDIAC BAY WATERSHEDThis Canadian Manuscript Report of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences provides an overview of the coastal community area of Shediac Bay, located in southeastern New Brunswick. It contains information on the functioning of the Shediac Bay ecosystem as a whole and describes the pressures and threats presented by human activity in the coastal area and adjacent lands - http://dsp-psd.pwgsc.gc.ca/collection_2010/mpo-dfo/Fs97-4-2863-eng.pdf. CORAL AND SPONGE CONSERVATION IN CANADAThe Status Report on Coral and Sponge Conservation in Canada provides an overview of Canada's science, policy, and legislation pertaining to coral and sponge conservation. It describes the biology, distribution and ecosystem function of corals and sponges in Canada and summarizes the various hazards to these species. The report also outlines international initiatives related to the conservation of corals and sponges, provides a context for legislative and policy frameworks in Canada and describes science, research, and conservation initiatives - http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/Library/340259E.pdf. MARINE EBM FOR CANADA'S PACIFIC COAST AND OCEANOn 9-10 March 2010, PacMARA convened a workshop on marine ecosystem-based management for Canada's Pacific coast and ocean region. Workshop products include a set of guiding draft Marine EBM principles, a Logic Model that summarizes rationale, drivers and desired outcomes, and suggested innovative approaches to joint planning, shared governance and enhanced collaboration. The next steps will be to collaboratively create an Outcome Map and Strategic Plan to guide shared implementation - http://www.pacmara.org/tikiwiki/tiki-index.php?page=Marine+Ecosystem-based+Management+Gaps+Workshop. BEST PRACTICES FOR MARINE SPATIAL PLANNINGThe Global Marine Team of the Nature Conservancy convened a workshop on Marine Spatial Planning in Practice: Lessons Learned and Best Practices (June 2009 in Santa Cruz, California). The Workshop report includes advice on key issues: geographic planning boundaries; planning scale and resolution; data collection and management; multi-objective planning including aims and outcomes; and interactive decision support - http://www.nature.org/initiatives/marine/files/msp_best_practices.pdf. INNOVATIVE APPROACHES TO UNDERSTAND, PROTECT AND
VALUE ECOSYSTEM SERVICES ACROSS LINKED HABITATSThe UNEP publication provides a synthesis of the current state of knowledge regarding the natural capital of water related ecosystems and offers an overview of the innovative approaches that can support the analysis of the links between interconnected ecosystems. It analyzes the linkage across coastal ecosystem and the 'value added' in terms of ecosystem services (benefits), provided by the linkage as opposed to the services provided by just one system. The environmental, economic, management and social aspects of the linkages between ecosystems are examined - http://www.unep.org/publications/contents/pub_details_search.asp?ID=4116. GLOBAL BIODIVERSITY OUTLOOK - 3RD EDITIONThe 3rd edition of Global Biodiversity Outlook, produced by the Convention on Biological Diversity, concludes that massive further loss of biodiversity is becoming increasingly likely and, with it, a severe reduction of many essential services to human societies as several "tipping points" are approached. The report also outlines a possible new strategy for reducing biodiversity loss, including addressing the underlying causes or indirect drivers of biodiversity loss, such as patterns of consumption, the impacts of increased trade and demographic change - http://www.unep.org/Documents.Multilingual/Default.asp?DocumentID=624&ArticleID=6558&l=en. CSO WHITE PAPER ON CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATIONThe US Coastal States Organization (CSO) has released a white paper on The Faces of Climate Change Adaptation: The Need for Proactive Protection of the Nation's Coasts. The paper explores how coastal states are particularly vulnerable to climate change and examines how some states have begun to adapt to climate change - http://www.coastalstates.org/uploads/CSO%20White%20Paper%20on%20Climate%20Change%20Adaptation,%20May%202010.pdf. CLIMATE CHANGE INDICATORS IN THE UNITED STATESThe US Environmental Protection Agency report presents 24 indicators, each describing trends related to the causes and effects of climate change. It focuses primarily on the US, but in some cases global trends are presented to provide context or a basis for comparison. EPA will use these indicators to collect data and generate analyses to monitor the effects/impacts of climate change and to assist decision-makers on how to best use policymaking and program resources to respond to climate change - http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/indicators.html. GIS TO SUPPORT THE ECOSYSTEM APPROACH TO FISHERIESThis FAO technical paper provides background information and technical guidelines to promote the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) in marine fisheries in support of the implementation of the ecosystem approach to fisheries. The planning considerations for an appropriate GIS in terms of objectives, scope and geographical area are outlined. The practical considerations are discussed and include hardware architecture, various software possibilities, sources and types of data that will be needed, and the array of backup and support that is available - http://www.fao.org/docrep/012/i1213e/i1213e00.htm. OTHER DOCUMENTS, NEWSLETTERS AND WEB RESOURCES- The Governments of Nova Scotia and Canada have announced the extension of the moratorium on oil and gas exploration and drilling on Georges Bank to 31 December 2015. They also agreed to gather and develop information on the Georges Bank ecosystem - http://www.gov.ns.ca/news/details.asp?id=20100513005. - The Atlantic Climate Adaptation Solutions aims to improve the ability of Atlantic Canadians to prepare for climate change by integrating adaptation measures into a variety of commonly used planning and decision-making processes. The three-year initiative is aimed at local issues such as coastal erosion, flooding and groundwater resource management - http://www.nrcan-rncan.gc.ca/media/newcom/2010/201021-eng.php?PHPSESSID=de9feaf39cc642aefc7f87e0a9968924. - Canada's Minister of Fisheries and Oceans has requested that the Fisheries Resource Conservation Council (FRCC) develop a long-term strategic approach to the sustainability of the Atlantic Groundfish fisheries and the conservation of the resource. During the months of April and May 2010, the FRCC are holding public consultations to gather information and input from stakeholders. The briefs received at the consultations are available at http://www.frcc.ca/scrab.htm. - GeoGratis, a web portal provided by the Earth Sciences Sector of Natural Resources Canada (NRCan), provides geospatial data at no cost and without restrictions via web browsers. NRCan has announced the release of 577 new and updated Canadian Topographic Maps accessible as CanTopo files - http://www.geogratis.gc.ca/geogratis/en/index.html. - PacMARA is running courses in July 2010 on the software Marxan, a free site-selection tool used in the design of marine and terrestrial reserves and management areas worldwide: Introduction to Marxan is scheduled for 5-6 July in Victoria, British Columbia and 8-9 July in Edmonton, Alberta; and an Advanced "Train the trainers" course is being held on 7 July in Victoria - http://pacmara.org/marxan_courses. - The April 2010 edition of NOAA's Coastal Management News is available at http://coastalmanagement.noaa.gov/news/docs/czmnewsapr10.pdf. One of the articles describes climate change adaptation workshops held for coastal managers in the San Francisco Bay area and includes a link to the workshop materials, including information on the science and impacts of climate change, examples of adaptation plans, and tools to assist with adaptation planning. - The US National Academy of Sciences report entitled Ocean Acidification: A National Strategy to Meet the Challenges of a Changing Ocean states that the long term consequences of ocean acidification are not known, but are expected to result in changes in many ecosystems and the services they provide to society. The report recommends six key elements of a successful National Ocean Acidification Program, currently being developed by the US federal government - http://www.nationalacademies.org/morenews/20100422.html. - The Report on the scientific basis for and the role of marine sanctuaries in marine planning was prepared for the Inter-Departmental Committee for the Management of the States Marine Protected Areas in Western Australia.The report includes specific conclusions about the role and benefits of marine sanctuaries, primarily for conservation of biodiversity and for fisheries management purposes. It also makes recommendations for incorporation into the policy framework for marine planning - http://www.dec.wa.gov.au/content/category/40/952/2323/. - The State of New York Invasive Species Council has released a draft report entitled A Regulatory System for Non-Native Species. Among the recommendations, the Council proposes a new assessment system for invasive species - such as zebra mussels - that would allow the state to categorize them as "prohibited," "regulated" or "unregulated" - http://www.dec.ny.gov/press/63920.html. - The Number 1 / March 2010 issue (free access) of the Journal of Coastal Conservation includes an article entitled Integrated maritime policy for the European Union - consolidating coastal and marine information to support maritime spatial planning - http://www.springerlink.com/content/1400-0350. - The April issue of Marine Data News, produced by the Marine Environmental Data and Information Network (MEDIN), includes an article on Implementing Information Systems for Coasts and Oceans - http://medin.newsweaver.co.uk/5r31iae0pj5-1bcyw7t3nx?email=true. - The article entitled Application of Technology Development Index and Principal Component Analysis and Cluster Methods to Ocean Renewable Energy Facility Siting is one of documents available in the research documents section of the Rhode Island Ocean Special Area Management Plan - http://seagrant.gso.uri.edu/oceansamp/documents.html. - The 14th meeting of the Subsidiary Body on Scientific, Technical and Technological Advice of the Convention on Biological Diversity is being held from 10-21 May 2010 in Nairobi, Kenya. The Meeting documents, including the Report on Implementation of the Programme of Work on Marine and Coastal Biological Diversity, are available at http://www.cbd.int/doc/?meeting=SBSTTA-14. - A new website for the programme of work on protected areas (PoWPA) under the Convention on Biological Diversity has been launched. The website provides information, e-learning tools and forums for the community of experts working on protected area networks. The online courses currently available on the website are Protected Area Integration and Transboundary Protected Areas and Regional Networks - http://www.cbd.int/protected/e-learning/. - On 20 April 2010, an oil rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico off Venice, Louisiana caused the rig to sink and oil to leak from the well head. Federal and state authorities, both military and civilian, have been working to respond to and mitigate the impact of the resulting oil spill. For information on the cleanup operation, access http://www.louisiana.gov. - The final report of South Carolina's Shoreline Change Advisory Committee identified four broad goals for improved shoreline management in the state that are focused on beachfront management and parallel issues facing estuarine and sheltered coastlines of South Carolina, and policy and management recommendations for addressing those issues - http://www.scdhec.gov/environment/ocrm/science/shoreline_comm.htm. - The International Conference on Marine Data and Information Systems (IMDIS 2010) was held on 29-31 March 2010 in Paris, France. The proceedings (book of abstracts) and the presentations are available at http://www.seadatanet.org/imdis2010. DEADLINES- 21 May is the extended deadline for submitting abstracts to the 9th International Conference on Coasts, Ports and Marine Structures, 29 November to 1 December 2010, Tehran, Iran - http://icopmas.pmo.ir/en/pages/default.aspx. - 24 May is the extended deadline for applications to GIslands 2010, an International Summer School on Geotechnologies applied to Marine Spatial Planning, 7-12 August 2010, University of the Azores, São Miguel Island - http://www.gislands.org. - 28 May is the extended deadline for submitting abstracts to the 1st International Conference on Marine and Maritime Affairs, 15-16 September 2010, Plymouth, UK - http://www.icmma.info. - 31 May is the extended deadline for submitting abstracts to the 6th International Conference on Marine Waste Water Discharges and Coastal Environment, 25-29 October 2010, Langkawi, Malaysia - http://www.mwwd.org. - 1 June is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the 12th International Symposium on the Interactions between Sediment and Water, 19-23 June 2011, Dartington, Devon, UK - http://www.geog.plymouth.ac.uk/IASWS2011/. - 4 June is the deadline for submitting abstracts to Ecosystems 2010: Global Progress on Ecosystem-based Fisheries Management, 8-11 November 2010, Anchorage, Alaska - http://seagrant.uaf.edu/conferences/2010/wakefield-ecosystems/index.php. - 30 June is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the Coast to Coast Conference, 20-24 September 2010, Adelaide, Australia - http://www.coast2coast.org.au. - 30 June is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the 6th International Conference on Remediation of Contaminated Sediments, 7-10 February 2011, New Orleans, Louisiana - http://www.battelle.org/conferences/sediments. - 1 July is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the 11th International Coastal Symposium (ICS), 9-14 May 2011, Szczecin, Poland - http://www.ics2011.pl. - 1 July is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the 2010 Annual Meeting of the North Pacific Marine Science Organization (PICES), 22-31 October 2010, Portland, Oregon - http://www.pices.int/meetings/annual/PICES-2010/2010-background.aspx. - 31 October is the deadline to submit proposals to the Robin Rigby Trust to undertake coastal research that involves collaboration with appropriate coastal communities, coastal research organizations, and/or coastal-focused non-governmental organizations - http://maritimeawards.wordpress.com/2010/04/12/the-robin-rigby-trust-call-for-proposals/. OTHER UPCOMING CONFERENCES AND EVENTS- For a complete list of upcoming conferences and workshops, access http://aczisc.dal.ca/conf.htm. - 25-27 May 2010: Ocean Tech Expo, Newport, Rhode Island - http://www.oceantechexpo.com. - 26-27 May 2010: 4th Nova Scotia Energy Research and Development Forum, Halifax, Nova Scotia - http://www.offshoreenergyresearch.ca. - 28-30 May 2010: 1st World Congress on Cities and Adaptation to Climate Change, Bonn, Germany - http://resilient-cities.iclei.org/bonn2010/home/. - 30 May - 3 June 2010: 3rd International Disaster and Risk Conference, Davos, Switzerland - http://www.idrcdavos2010.org. - 31 May - 4 June 2010: 3rd Joint CMOS-CGU Congress, Ottawa, Ontario. This event will be the 44th Annual Congress of the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society and the 36th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Canadian Geophysical Union - http://www.cmos.ca/congress2010/indexe.html. - 31 May - 4 June 2010: 30th EARSeL Symposium on Remote Sensing for Science, Education, and Natural and Cultural Heritage, Paris, France - http://www.earsel.org/symposia/2010-symposium-Paris/index.php. - 1-5 June 2010: Joint Meeting of the Canadian Association of Geographers, the Canadian Cartographic Association, the Canadian Geomorphology Research Group, and the Canadian Remote Sensing Society, Regina, Saskatchewan - http://uregina.ca/prairies/. - 3-4 June 2010; 16th Annual Meeting of the North Atlantic Chapter of the Society for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, Narragansett, Rhode Island - http://www.nacsetac.org/Annual_meeting.htm. - 7-11 June 2010: 12th Deep-sea Biology Symposium, Reykjavík, Iceland - http://12dsbs.hi.is. - 8-12 June 2010: International Polar Year Oslo Science Conference, Oslo, Norway - http://www.ipy-osc.no. - 13-16 June 2010: 22nd International Coastal Conference, Wilmington, North Carolina - http://www.thecoastalsociety.org/conference/tcs22/index.html. - 15-17 June 2010: Sustainable Ocean Summit, Belfast, Ireland - http://www.oceancouncil.org. - 15-18 June 2010: Canadian Geomatics Conference and the International Society for Photogrammetry and of Remote Sensing, Calgary, Alberta - http://www.geoconf.ca. - 21-23 June 2010: Canadian Hydrographic Conference, Québec City, Québec - http://www.chc2010.ca. - 21-25 June 2010: 5th Caribbean Environmental Forum, Montego Bay, Jamaica - http://www.cef.org.lc. - 30 June to 5 July 2010: ICCE, the 32nd International Conference on Coastal Engineering, Shanghai, China - http://www.icce2010.cn. - 3-7 July 2010: 24th International Congress for Conservation Biology, Edmonton, Alberta - http://www.conbio.org/Activities/Meetings/2010/?CFID=9733107&CFTOKEN=67881659. - 25-29 July 2010: 9th Coastal Zone Canada International Conference, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island - http://www.gov.pe.ca/czc2010. 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ACZISC COASTAL UPDATE - APRIL 2010 UPCOMING ACZISC MEETINGS- 12-13 May 2010: ACZISC Meeting #60, Halifax, Nova Scotia - 6-7 October 2010 (revised dates): ACZISC Meeting #61, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island - 26-27 January 2011: ACZISC Meeting #62, St. John's, Newfoundland - 18-19 May 2011: ACZISC Meeting #63, Fredericton, New Brunswick For information on the meetings, email the ACZISC Secretariat. ACCESS / NEERS 2010 JOINT MEETINGThe 2010 Joint Meeting of the Atlantic Canada Coastal and Estuarine Science Society (ACCESS) and the New England Estuarine Research Society (NEERS) is scheduled for 13-16 May 2010 in St. Andrews, New Brunswick. Sessions will focus on: Transboundary Issues; Climate Change; Invasive Species; Coastal Eutrophication; Community Monitoring; Seagrass and Saltmarsh Ecology; General Coastal and Nearshore Studies; and Taxonomic Inventories and Coastal Biodiversity - http://www.cerf-access.ca. EARLY REGISTRATION: COASTAL ZONE CANADA 201015 April 2010 is the deadline for early registrations for the 9th Coastal Zone Canada International Conference, scheduled for 25-29 July 2010 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. The theme is 'Healthy Oceans - Strong Coastal Communities'. Sub-themes include: the Challenges of coastal management in Canada; Linking land and ocean planning and management; Strengthening coastal communities; Planning for the impacts of climate change; and Coastal policy planning for PEI. A Program outline is available - http://www.gov.pe.ca/czc2010. AREAS OF INTEREST FOR AN MPA OFF NOVA SCOTIAFisheries and Oceans Canada has identified three candidate Areas of Interest for further study as a Marine Protected Area for the Eastern Scotian Shelf off Nova Scotia: Middle Bank, Misaine Bank and Eastern Shoal; and St. Anns Bank. The consultation period has been extended to 14 May 2010. Additional information, including socio-economic profiles focussed mostly on fisheries information, are available at http://www.mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/oceans/e/ocmd/mpa/aoi-e.html. PLACE-BASED APPROACHES TO INTEGRATED MANAGEMENTThe latest issue of Horizons from the Government of Canada's Policy Research Initiative presents findings of significant national and international research work on the development of place-based initiatives, with a particular emphasis on the extent to which they can be designed to address sustainable development challenges. An accompanying compendium presents short descriptions of a number of existing place based initiatives in support of sustainable development - http://www.policyresearch.gc.ca/page.asp?pagenm=pub_index. GEOGRAPHIC SCIENCES RESEARCH IN THE USA new report from the US National Research Council presents eleven questions that should shape the next decade of geographical sciences research. The questions are grouped by topic area: How to understand and respond to environmental change; How to promote sustainability; How to recognize and cope with the rapid spatial reorganization of economy and society; and How to leverage technological change for the betterment of society and environment - http://www.nationalacademies.org/morenews/20100325b.html. NEW ADDITION TO THE NORTH AMERICAN ENVIRONMENTAL ATLASThe interactive Atlas - a trinational partnership coordinated by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation - provides access to geospatial data and map layers related to significant continental environmental issues. New additions to the Atlas are the North American Land Cover 2005 map, which depicts 19 classes of land cover at a spatial resolution of 250 m, and its accompanying data - http://www.cec.org/naatlas. CLIMATE CHANGE IMPACTS IN EUROPEThe objective of the PESETA project (Projection of economic impacts of climate change in sectors of the European Union based on bottom-up analysis) is to make a multi-sectoral assessment of the impacts of climate change in Europe for the 2011-2040 and 2071-2100 time horizons. The PESETA project focuses on impacts on the following sectors: Coastal systems, Human health, Agriculture, Tourism, and Floods. The final PESETA project report is available at http://peseta.jrc.ec.europa.eu. COASTAL MANAGEMENT IN EUROPE: EROSION AND FLOODINGA special issue of the European Commission's Science for Environment Policy news alert discusses participation and integration as key elements of coastal management, with a focus on erosion and flooding. The topics covered are integrated coastal flood risk management; practical applications of resilience principles for coastal communities; the economic value of coastal and marine environments; the design of long-term coastal defence strategies; and the use of GIS to manage vulnerable coastlines - http://ec.europa.eu/environment/integration/research/newsalert/pdf/19si.pdf. CLEARING THE WATERS: A FOCUS ON WATER QUALITY SOLUTIONSThe UNEP publication focuses on the urgency of controlling pollution and preserving water quality around the world. It quantifies the issues and uses case studies to illustrate both problems and solutions. Strategies for water-quality institutions and data, pollution prevention, treatment, and ecological restoration are documented wth an emphasis on water-quality solutions. It concludes by highlighting the main findings and key policy recommendations - http://www.unep.org/publications/contents/pub_details_search.asp?ID=4123. OTHER DOCUMENTS, NEWSLETTERS AND WEB RESOURCES- The 2008-2009 Annual Report of Fisheries and Oceans Canada Science details work carried out in the five key functions of DFO Science: research, monitoring, data and information management, scientific advice, and products and services - http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/science/publications/annualreport-rapportannuel/ar-ra0809/index-eng.htm. - Ecosystem Based Management: Beyond Boundaries, the Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Science and Management of Protected Areas held in May 2007 in Wolfville, Nova Scotia, are available at http://www.sampaa.org/publications/conference-proceedings-1991-2000/sampaa-6-proceedings/conference-proceedings-2007. - The winter 2010 issue of Hook, Line and Thinker, the Newsletter of the Fishermen and Scientists Research Society (FSRS), includes a review of the FSRS 17th Annual Conference held on 26-27 February 2010 in Truro, Nova Scotia - http://fsrs.ns.ca/doc/HLT2010-1.pdf. - Oceans, the documentary film from Disneynature, will open on 22 April, Earth Day, in theatres across North America - http://disney.go.com/disneynature/oceans/?saveoceans. - OURCOAST is a three-year project commissioned by the Directorate General Environment of the European Commission to support and ensure the exchange of experiences and best practices in coastal planning and management. The March 2010 issue of the OURCOAST newsletter is available at http://ec.europa.eu/environment/iczm/pdf/ourcoast-newsletter2010-3.pdf. - The EUCC Coastal & MarinE-News, the international newsletter of the Coastal & Marine Union (EUCC), focuses on EUCC news, climate change, fisheries and aquaculture, coastal management and research, and maritime policy and spatial planning. The March 2010 issue is available at http://www.eucc.net/en/news/CMN2010-01.pdf. - SPICOSA, an EU integrated project, aims to create a self-evolving, operational research approach framework for the assessment of policy options for the sustainable management of coastal zone systems. Presentations at the SPICOSA 5th Systems Approach Framework (SAF) Meeting in Istanbul, Turkey, 3-5 February 2010 and Training material from the SPICOSA training workshop in Stockholm, Sweden, November 2009 are available at http://www.spicosa.eu. - The April/May 2010 issue of NOAA's Coastal Connections newsletter focuses on identifying high-priority habitat, using the Habitat Priority Planner - http://www.csc.noaa.gov/newsletter/. - With support from NOAA, a new calculator has been developed to help coastal managers assess the impacts of dock shading on eelgrass. The model is generally applicable to areas with tidal ranges similar to New England - http://www.marine.unh.edu/jel/faculty/fred2/seagrass-tools.htm. - Agenda items for the 60th session of the Marine Environment Protection Committee of the International Maritime Organization (IMO), held on 22-26 March 2010, included the Ballast Water Management Convention, Garbage Special Areas and the MARPOL Convention. Amendments to MARPOL were adopted which establish a North American Emission Control Area with more stringent controls of emissions and particulate matter from ships - http://www.imo.org/Newsroom/mainframe.asp?topic_id=1859&doc_id=12724. - The UK's Foreign Secretary has announced the creation of a Marine Protected Area in the British Indian Ocean Territory (Chagos Archipelago). The MPA covers approximately 250,000 square miles and will include a "no-take" marine reserve where commercial fishing will be banned. For information, including the consultation report, access http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/news/latest-news/?view=News&id=22014096. - The US Ocean Carbon and Biogeochemistry program, supported by the European Project on Ocean Acidification and the UK Ocean Acidification Research Programme, has compiled a list of frequently asked questions (FAQs) about ocean acidification. Questions were widely distributed to the research community and the replies were subject to an open peer-review and revision process - http://www.whoi.edu/OCB-OA/FAQs/. - At the triennial general assembly of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), held on 18-25 March 2010 in Doha, Qater, governments rejected trade bans for bluefin tuna and polar bears - http://www.cites.org/eng/news/press/2010/20100318_tuna.shtml. - NOAA has announced plans to develop a new aquaculture policy and is currently seeking broad input from interested stakeholders on the components of a draft policy, including the role that NOAA should play with respect to aquaculture issues and initiatives at the international level - http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/aquaculture/policy1/. - The reports in the series on the Status of US Living Marine Resources present an overview of the principal fishery resources, marine mammals, and sea turtles that are under the management jurisdiction of NOAA Fisheries. The resources are discussed in terms of seven regional ecosystems around the US. The 6th edition is available at http://www.st.nmfs.noaa.gov/LivingOceans.html. OTHER DEADLINES- 15 April is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the California and the World Ocean 2010 Conference, 7-10 September 2010, San Francisco, California - http://www.cce.csus.edu/conferences/cnra/cwo2010/index.htm. - 15 April is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the 2010 Annual Science Conference of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), 20-24 September 2010, Nantes, France - http://www.ices.dk/iceswork/asc/2010/index.asp. - 16 April is the extended deadline for submitting abstracts to the joint UK Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society and Irish Earth Observation Symposium, 1-3 September 2010, Cork, Ireland - http://www.rspsoc2010.org. - 23 April is the deadline for applications to attend the capacity-building and training programme on dispute settlement under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea for 2010-2011, which is organized with the support of the Nippon Foundation. The programme will run from 28 June 2010 to 31 March 2011 in Hamburg, Germany - http://www.itlos.org/start2_en.html. - 28 April is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the 1st International Conference on Marine and Maritime Affairs, 15-16 September 2010, Plymouth, UK - http://www.icmma.info. - 30 April is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the 16th Annual Meeting of the North Atlantic Chapter of the Society for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 3-4 June 2010, Narragansett, Rhode Island - http://www.nacsetac.org/Annual_meeting.htm. - 30 April is the deadline to submit abstracts to the 15th International Conference on Physics of Estuaries and Coastal Seas, 14-17 September 2010, Colombo, Sri Lanka - http://www2.sese.uwa.edu.au/~pecs. - 30 April is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the 18th International Sedimentological Congress, 26 September - 1 October 2010, Mendoza, Argentina - http://www.isc2010.com.ar/english/home.html. - 30 April is the extended deadline for submitting abstracts to the Storm Surges Congress 2010, 13-17 September 2010, Hamburg, Germany - http://www.loicz.org/calender/Congress/index.html.en. - 30 April is the extended deadline for submitting abstracts to the 3rd International Conference Coastlab dealing with the Application of Physical Modelling to Port and Coastal Protection, 28 September to 1 October 2010, Barcelona, Spain - http://www.coastlab10.com. - 30 April is the extended deadline for submitting abstracts to the 1st World Small-Scale Fisheries Congress and the 5th Coastal Zone Asia-Pacific Conference, which will be held jointly on 17-22 October 2010, Bangkok, Thailand - http://cdc.fish.ku.ac.th. - 7 May is the deadline to comment on the UK's draft Marine Policy Statement (MPS). The MPS will provide the high level policy context within which Marine Plans will be developed, and set the direction for marine licensing and other authorisation systems - http://www.defra.gov.uk/environment/marine/legislation/planning.htm#discuss. - 15 May is the deadline for submitting abstracts to Oceans 2010 MTS/IEEE, 20-23 September 2010, Seattle, Washington - http://www.oceans10mtsieeeseattle.org/index.cfm. OTHER UPCOMING CONFERENCES AND EVENTS- For a complete list of upcoming conferences and workshops, access http://aczisc.dal.ca/conf.htm. - 27-30 April 2010: International Conference of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO, Saint Petersburg, Russia - http://www.ioc50.ru. - 3-7 May 2010: 5th Global Conference on Oceans, Coasts, and Islands, Paris, France - http://www.globaloceans.org. - 4-7 May 2010: Geohab 2010, Wellington, New Zealand - http://geohab2010.com. - 9-12 May 2010: 4th World Ocean Network International Meeting, Boulogne-sur-Mer, France - http://oceanmondial.worldoceannetwork.org/EN/page-EVENEMENTS-4e_Rencontre_Internationale-8-45.htm. - 12-14 May 2010: 2nd Policy Symposium on Public Science in Canada: Strengthening Science to Protect Canadians, Gatineau, Québec - http://www.hyper-media.ca/pipsc/index.html. - 16-19 May 2010: Aquaculture Canada 2010 and Cold Harvest 2010, St. John's, Newfoundland - http://www.aquacultureassociation.ca/meeting/aquaculture-canada-2010. - 17-19 May 2010: Annual Nonpoint Source Pollution Conference, Plymouth, Massachusetts - http://www.neiwpcc.org/npsconference. - 25-27 May 2010: Ocean Tech Expo, Newport, Rhode Island - http://www.oceantechexpo.com. - 26-27 May 2010: 4th Nova Scotia Energy Research and Development Forum, Halifax, Nova Scotia - http://www.offshoreenergyresearch.ca. - 28-30 May 2010: 1st World Congress on Cities and Adaptation to Climate Change, Bonn, Germany - http://resilient-cities.iclei.org/bonn2010/home/. - 30 May - 3 June 2010: 3rd International Disaster and Risk Conference, Davos, Switzerland - http://www.idrcdavos2010.org. - 31 May - 4 June 2010: 3rd Joint CMOS-CGU Congress, Ottawa, Ontario. This event will be the 44th Annual Congress of the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society and the 36th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Canadian Geophysical Union - http://www.cmos.ca/congress2010/indexe.html. - 31 May - 4 June 2010: 30th EARSeL Symposium on Remote Sensing for Science, Education, and Natural and Cultural Heritage, Paris, France - http://www.earsel.org/symposia/2010-symposium-Paris/index.php. - 1-5 June 2010: Joint Meeting of the Canadian Association of Geographers, the Canadian Cartographic Association, the Canadian Geomorphology Research Group, and the Canadian Remote Sensing Society, Regina, Saskatchewan - http://uregina.ca/prairies/. - 3-4 June 2010; 16th Annual Meeting of the North Atlantic Chapter of the Society for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, Narragansett, Rhode Island - http://www.nacsetac.org/Annual_meeting.htm. - 7-11 June 2010: 12th Deep-sea Biology Symposium, Reykjavík, Iceland - http://12dsbs.hi.is. - 8-12 June 2010: International Polar Year Oslo Science Conference, Oslo, Norway - http://www.ipy-osc.no. - 13-16 June 2010: 22nd International Coastal Conference, Wilmington, North Carolina - http://www.thecoastalsociety.org/conference/tcs22/index.html. - 15-17 June 2010: Sustainable Ocean Summit, Belfast, Ireland - http://www.oceancouncil.org. - 15-18 June 2010: Canadian Geomatics Conference and the International Society for Photogrammetry and of Remote Sensing, Calgary, Alberta - http://www.geoconf.ca. - 21-23 June 2010: Canadian Hydrographic Conference, Québec City, Québec - http://www.chc2010.ca. 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ACZISC COASTAL UPDATE - MARCH 2010 UPCOMING ACZISC MEETINGS- 12-13 May 2010: ACZISC Meeting #60, Halifax, Nova Scotia - 6-7 October 2010 (revised dates): ACZISC Meeting #61, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island - 26-27 January 2011: ACZISC Meeting #62, St. John's, Newfoundland - 18-19 May 2011: ACZISC Meeting #63, Fredericton, New Brunswick For information on the meetings, email the ACZISC Secretariat. NEW ADDITION TO THE ACZISC WEBSITEA report of Coastal Activities in Atlantic Canada, based on discussions at the ACZISC Meeting held on 20-21 January 2010 in Fredericton, New Brunswick, and the presentations made at the meeting, are available at http://aczisc.dal.ca/docs-ACZISC.htm. EARLY REGISTRATION: COASTAL ZONE CANADA 201015 April 2010 is the deadline for early registrations for the 9th Coastal Zone Canada International Conference, scheduled for 25-29 July 2010 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. The theme is 'Healthy Oceans - Strong Coastal Communities'. Sub-themes include: the Challenges of coastal management in Canada; Linking land and ocean planning and management; Strengthening coastal communities; Planning for the impacts of climate change; and Coastal policy planning for PEI - http://www.gov.pe.ca/czc2010. CANADA'S RESEARCH PRIORITIES FOR CONSERVATION POLICYA SSHRC-funded survey is being conducted to identify Canada's top 40 priorities for policy-relevant research on effective management of species, ecosystems, and ecological processes. The results will be disseminated to policymakers, research funders, and the scientific community. The survey is open until 2 April - see the English version at http://www.40q.org/English/cgi-bin/ciwweb.pl?studyname=CA_E&ac=1527147 and the French version at http://www.40q.org/French/cgi-bin/ciwweb.pl?studyname=CA_F&ac=1527147. BC/WASHINGTON COASTAL AND OCEAN TASK FORCEThe British Columbia/Washington Coastal and Ocean Task Force has been established to provide a mechanism to enhance collaboration on coastal and ocean issues. An Action Plan is being developed which focuses on Ocean Health and Conservation, Coastal Climate Change Adaptation, and Ocean Research and Innovation - http://www.pacificcoastcollaborative.org/Pages/Agreements.aspx. BEST PRACTICES FOR SHARING SENSITIVE ENVIRONMENTAL GEOSPATIAL DATAThe GeoConnections guide highlights issues and concepts associated with protecting, sharing and utilizing sensitive geospatial data related to the environment and sustainable development; provides frameworks for assessing data sensitivity; and describes potential mechanisms for facilitating the sharing of data, including online transactions - http://www.geoconnections.org/publications/Key_documents/Sensitive_Env_Geo_Data_Guide_EN_v1.pdf. SUSTAINABLE COASTAL TOURISMThe purpose of this UNEP handbook is to explain how the tourism sector can coordinate effectively in the overall development of coastal zones and contribute to the long-term sustainability of these areas. It provides an introduction to the key tools to be used in different stages of the planning process and identifies the stakeholders that are critical in the successful delivery of the various stages of the process - http://www.pap-thecoastcentre.org/pdfs/DTIx1091xPA-SustainableCoastalTourism-Planning.pdf. ACHIEVING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT TOGETHERThe report entitled Progress Through Process: Achieving Sustainable Development Together, a joint effort of Canada's National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy and the Public Policy Forum, recommends new collaborative approaches be adopted to achieve the goal of sustainable development. The study also argues that new governance methods must include key interest groups to build legitimacy; allow for ongoing dialogue that creates trust; and allow participants to take responsibility for solving difficulties - http://www.nrtee-trnee.com/eng/news-media/news-media.php. HOPE FOR COASTAL HABITATS IN THE USAThe report provides thematic overviews of coastal conditions, including wetlands, shellfish, aquatic vegetation, fish passage, beach dunes and coastal barrier islands. Each section summarizes the current situation and historic trends, and describes promising restoration projects in a variety of different watershed ecosystems. Although it presents coastal habitat restoration in the best possible light, it also documents negative impacts - https://www.estuaries.org/images/stories/docs/Hope%20for%20Habitats%202010.pdf. COASTAL AND MARINE ECOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION STANDARDThis volume describes a national standard in the USA for classifying ecological units in the benthic, sub-benthic, geoform, and water column regimes of coastal and marine systems. It presents the conceptual structure of the classification and the unit definitions forming the basis of inventorying, sampling, and mapping activities necessary for management and protection efforts - http://www.csc.noaa.gov/benthic/cmecs/CMECS_v3_20090824.pdf. ECOLOGY OF MARINE WIND FARMSThe Science Symposium on the Ecology of Marine Wind Farms was held on 2-4 November 2009 in Newport, Rhode Island. Sessions focussed on: Marine Spatial Planning; Innovations in aquaculture technologies suitable for integration with offshore energy systems; Designing and managing offshore structures to enhance coastal habitats, fishing and alternative livelihoods; and Regional needs on knowledge transfer, mitigating impacts and future uses of windpower areas - http://seagrant.gso.uri.edu/baird/2009/abstracts.html. GEOTECHNOLOGIES AND MARINE SPATIAL PLANNING4 April is the deadline for submitting short papers on topics related to Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) for publication in a special issue of the scientific journal ACOREANA. Authors will be invited to attend GIslands 2010, an International Summer School on Geotechnologies applied to MSP, 7-12 August 2010, São Miguel Island, The Azores - http://www.gislands.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6&Itemid=13. OTHER DOCUMENTS, NEWSLETTERS AND WEB RESOURCES- The Biodiversity Best Practices Handbook 2009, published by the Canadian Environmental Network, documents examples of environmental non-governmental organizations' (ENGOs) work related to the conservation, sustainable use, and awareness of biodiversity - http://www.cen-rce.org/IYB2010/submissions/index.html. - The Marine Affairs Policy Forum provides perspectives on current and emerging issues of concern to the coastal and ocean policy community in the Atlantic Region. The current issue focuses on Addressing Coastal Water Quality as a Priority Coastal Issue in Nova Scotia - http://marineaffairsprogram.dal.ca/Files/MAP_Policy_Forum_Feb_2010_Coastal_Water_Quality.pdf. - A report from the US National Research Council recommends how to apply best management practices and performance standards to maintain or restore ecosystems while culturing bivalve shellfish - such as oysters, clams, and mussels - in their natural marine environment - http://www.nationalacademies.org/morenews/20100217c.html. - The March/April issue of NOAA's Coastal Services magazine includes an article on Marine Spatial Planning: Guiding the Uses in Massachusetts' Waters - http://www.csc.noaa.gov/magazine/2010/02/index.html. - The Massachusetts Coastal Landscaping website describes the benefits of landscaping with native plants in preventing storm damage and erosion, providing wildlife habitat, and reducing coastal water pollution. It also includes step-by-step instructions on landscaping coastal areas and sample landscape plans - http://www.mass.gov/czm/coastal_landscaping/index.htm. - The Cooperative Institute for Coastal and Estuarine Environmental Technology (CICEET) has awarded funds to develop/implement the Coastal Vulnerability Decision Support System; a methodology for assessing flood risk associated with land use and climate change; the Coastal Watersheds Ecosystem Management Process; and tools to manage salt marsh sustainability in the face of sediment changes resulting from land use and sea level rise - http://ciceet.unh.edu/news/releases/nrfp_2009/index.html. - The Nature Conservancy is offering an online training program on Reef Resilience to provide guidance on building resilience to climate change into the design of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) and daily management activities. The course is free and participants can work it at their own pace - http://www.reefresilience.org/Training_Online.html. - The Reef Journal focuses on information that promotes the use of multi-purpose reefs in the coastal environment to mitigate erosion, increase amenity and enhance marine ecology. A selection of peer reviewed papers from the 4th and 5th International Surfing Reef Symposiums are available in the Journal at http://www.thereefjournal.com/Publications.html. - Scientists from the NOAA-funded Gulf of Maine Toxicity project have issued an 'outlook' for a significant regional bloom of a toxic alga that causes 'red tides' in the spring and summer of 2010 - http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2010/20100224_redtide.html. - The HR Wallingford ePrints repository includes peer-reviewed journal articles, conference papers and research reports published by HR Wallingford's staff. The documents relate to engineering and environmental hydraulics, and the management of water and the water environment. Access requires the user to create an account (free) - http://eprints.hrwallingford.co.uk. - The InterAcademy Council, a multinational body of science academies, has been asked to conduct an independent review of the processes and procedures of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The review was requested by the United Nations Secretary-General and the chair of the IPCC - http://www.nationalacademies.org/morenews/20100310.html. - The UNESCO publication entitled Climate Change and Arctic Sustainable Development documents the knowledge, concerns and visions of Arctic scientists, leaders and international experts. Topics include: ice, oceans and atmosphere; biodiversity and ecosystems services; community-level impacts and adaptation; and monitoring systems. Purchase information is available at http://publishing.unesco.org/details.aspx?Code_Livre=4722. OTHER DEADLINES- 15 March is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the 3rd International Conference on the Management of Coastal Recreational Resources, 27-30 October 2010, Grosseto, Italy - http://www.um.edu.mt/iei/mcrr3-2010. - 15 March is the extended deadline for submitting abstracts to the 6th International Conference on Marine Waste Water Discharges and Coastal Environment, 25-29 October 2010, Langkawi, Malaysia - http://www.mwwd.org. - 19 March is the extended deadline for submitting abstracts to Aquaculture Canada 2010 and Cold Harvest 2010, 16-19 May 2010, St. John's, Newfoundland - http://www.aquacultureassociation.ca/meeting/aquaculture-canada-2010. - 20 March is the extended deadline for submitting abstracts to the 3rd International Conference Coastlab dealing with the Application of Physical Modelling to Port and Coastal Protection, 28 September to 1 October 2010, Barcelona, Spain - http://www.coastlab10.com. - 21 March is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the Canadian Hydrographic Conference, 21-23 June 2010, Québec City, Québec - http://www.chc2010.ca. - 22 March is the deadline for submitting applications to attend the 2010 General Bathymetric Chart of the Oceans (GEBCO) Training Programme in Ocean Bathymetry. The 12-month course, funded by the Nippon Foundation, will start at the end of August 2010 and will be held at the University of New Hampshire, in Durham, New Hampshire - http://www.gebco.net/training/training_project. - 31 March is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the 2010 Joint Meeting of the Atlantic Canada Coastal and Estuarine Science Society (ACCESS) and the New England Estuarine Reseach Society (NEERS), 13-16 May 2010, St. Andrews, New Brunswick. - 31 March is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the 1st World Small-Scale Fisheries Congress, 18-22 October 2010, Bangkok, Thailand - http://www.seafdec.or.th/wsfc2010/index.html. - 31 March is the extended deadline for submitting abstracts to the Storm Surges Congress 2010, 13-17 September 2010, Hamburg, Germany - http://www.loicz.org/calender/Congress/index.html.en. - 1 April is the deadline for submitting abstracts to Coastal Sediments 2011, 2-6 May 2011, Miami, Florida - http://coastalsediments.cas.usf.edu/index.html. - 1 April is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the 12th Deep-sea Biology Symposium, 7-11 June 2010, Reykjavík, Iceland - http://12dsbs.hi.is. - 15 April is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the 2010 Annual Science Conference of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), 20-24 September 2010, Nantes, France - http://www.ices.dk/iceswork/asc/2010/index.asp. - 15 April is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the California and the World Ocean 2010 Conference, 7-10 September 2010, San Francisco, California - http://www.cce.csus.edu/conferences/cnra/cwo2010/index.htm. - 30 April is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the 16th Annual Meeting of the North Atlantic Chapter of the Society for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 3-4 June 2010, Narragansett, Rhode Island - http://www.nacsetac.org/Annual_meeting.htm. - 30 April is the deadline to submit abstracts to the 15th International Conference on Physics of Estuaries and Coastal Seas, 14-17 September 2010, Colombo, Sri Lanka - http://www2.sese.uwa.edu.au/~pecs/. OTHER UPCOMING CONFERENCES AND EVENTS- For a complete list of upcoming conferences and workshops, access http://aczisc.dal.ca/conf.htm. - 24-26 March 2010: GLOBE 2010, an International Conference and Trade Fair on Energy and Environment, Vancouver, British Columbia - http://www.globe2010.com. - 26-27 March 2010: Inaugural Atlantic Canada Symposium and Planning Forum on Watershed Assessment, Technology, Education and Research, Truro, Nova Scotia - http://www.nsac.ca/water. - 29-31 March 2010: IMDIS 2010, the International Conference on Marine Data and Information Systems, Paris, France - http://www.seadatanet.org/imdis2010. - 11-14 April 2010: International Low Impact Development Conference, San Francisco, California - http://content.asce.org/conferences/lid10/. - 11-16 April 2010: XXIV FIG International Congress, Sydney, Australia - http://fig2010.com. - 11-17 April 2010: ICCCM10, the International Conference on Coastal Conservation and Management in the Atlantic and Mediterranean, Cascais, Portugal - http://icccm.dcea.fct.unl.pt. - 12-13 April 2010: International Symposium on Coastal Zones and Climate Change, Churchill, Victoria, Australia - http://www.monash.edu.au/cemo/czcc2010/. - 14-15 April 2010: 3rd Annual Global Marine Renewable Energy Conference, Seattle, Washington - http://www.globalmarinerenewable.com. - 27-30 April 2010: International Conference of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO, Saint Petersburg, Russia - http://www.ioc50.ru. - 3-7 May 2010: 5th Global Conference on Oceans, Coasts, and Islands, Paris, France - http://www.globaloceans.org. - 9-12 May 2010: 4th World Ocean Network International Meeting, Boulogne-sur-Mer, France - http://oceanmondial.worldoceannetwork.org/EN/page-EVENEMENTS-4e_Rencontre_Internationale-8-45.htm. - 4-7 May 2010: Geohab 2010, Wellington, New Zealand - http://geohab2010.com. - 16-19 May 2010: Aquaculture Canada 2010 and Cold Harvest 2010, St. John's, Newfoundland - http://www.aquacultureassociation.ca/meeting/aquaculture-canada-2010. - 17-19 May 2010: Annual Nonpoint Source Pollution Conference, Plymouth, Massachusetts - http://www.neiwpcc.org/npsconference. - 25-27 May 2010: Ocean Tech Expo, Newport, Rhode Island - http://www.oceantechexpo.com. - 26-27 May 2010: 4th Nova Scotia Energy Research and Development Forum, Halifax, Nova Scotia - http://www.offshoreenergyresearch.ca. - 28-30 May 2010: 1st World Congress on Cities and Adaptation to Climate Change, Bonn, Germany - http://resilient-cities.iclei.org/bonn2010/home/. - 30 May - 3 June 2010: 3rd International Disaster and Risk Conference, Davos, Switzerland - http://www.idrcdavos2010.org. - 31 May - 4 June 2010: 3rd Joint CMOS-CGU Congress, Ottawa, Ontario. 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ACZISC COASTAL UPDATE - FEBRUARY 2010 UPCOMING ACZISC MEETINGS- 12-13 May 2010: ACZISC Meeting #60, Halifax, Nova Scotia - 6-7 October 2010 (revised dates): ACZISC Meeting #61, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island - 26-27 January 2011: ACZISC Meeting #62, St. John's, Newfoundland - 18-19 May 2011: ACZISC Meeting #63, Fredericton, New Brunswick For information on the meetings, email the ACZISC Secretariat. NEW ADDITION TO THE ACZISC WEBSITEThe presentations made at the recent ACZISC Meeting in Fredericton, New Brunswick are available at http://aczisc.dal.ca/docs-ACZISC.htm. The topics are: Power Sharing in the Coastal Zone - Shifting Roles of Government in Community-based Coastal Management; Finding, Getting, and Using Indicator Data for the Gulf of Maine; Overview of the State of Nova Scotia's Coast Report; GeoNB - New Brunswick's Spatial Data Infrastructure Initiative; and a COINAtlantic Update. EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS: COASTAL ZONE CANADA 201026 February 2010 is the extended deadline for submitting abstracts to the 9th Coastal Zone Canada International Conference, scheduled for 25-29 July 2010 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. The theme is Healthy Oceans - Strong Coastal Communities. Sub-themes include: the Challenges of coastal management in Canada; Linking land and ocean planning and management; Strengthening coastal communities; Planning for the impacts of climate change; Coastal policy planning for PEI - http://www.gov.pe.ca/czc2010. ADAPTING TO CLIMATE CHANGE IN ATLANTIC CANADAThe Conference Board of Canada Executive Action Report entitled Adapting to Climate Change in Atlantic Canada: What Organizations Are Doing Today to Prepare for Tomorrow is a summary of the Leaders Roundtable on Climate Change Adaptation (LRCCA) held in March 2009 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Registration (free) is required to access the report available at http://www.conferenceboard.ca/documents.aspx?did=3437. MYTHS ASSOCIATED WITH ICZMThe author of the perspective entitled Integrated Coastal Zone Management: four entrenched illusions, published in SAPIENS, outlines four illusions associated with ICZM: round table discussions can solve any problem; the myth of the coastal manager; the community illusion; and the positivist illusion. It is argued that these illusions result from unproved conceptual over-simplifications and lead to a naive conception of action that often impedes ICZM implementation - http://sapiens.revues.org/index198.html. FIRST NATIONS AND MARINE PROTECTED AREASThe Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS) has commissioned a report to help encourage a broader understanding of First Nations rights, concerns and interests regarding Marine Protected Areas (MPAs). The report covers legal and treaty themes, cultural and economic considerations and past experiences, and it identifies necessary changes and promising approaches to achieve a collaborative, coast-wide MPA network in British Columbia - http://www.cpawsbc.org/publications/FirstNationsandMPAs.php. ANALYSIS OF MARINE SPATIAL PLANNING STAKEHOLDERS FOR NOAAAn analysis of marine spatial planning (MSP) stakeholders, carried out for NOAA's Coastal Services Center, provides information on the audiences involved in coastal and marine spatial planning. The report, organized by coastal region, discusses several common themes, including: governance; the scale of MSP; MSP drivers; data resources; stakeholder engagement and support; and the future of MSP. Recommendations are provided - http://www.csc.noaa.gov/publications/MSPStakeholderAnalysis.html. NORTH AMERICAN ENVIRONMENTAL ATLASThe interactive Atlas - a trinational partnership coordinated by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) - provides access to geospatial data and map layers related to significant continental environmental issues. It allows users to: view environmental data at a continental scale; combine multiple map layers; display map layers using an integrated Google Earth viewer; and download maps and related data in a variety of formats - http://www.cec.org/naatlas. GLOBAL INDICATORS OF BIOLOGICAL INVASIONThe authors of the report entitled Global indicators of biological invasion: species numbers, biodiversity impact and policy responses studied 57 countries and found that, on average, there are 50 non-indigenous species per country which have a negative impact on biodiversity. A total of 542 species were documented as invasive aliens, including 316 plants, 101 marine organisms, 44 freshwater fish, 43 mammal, 23 bird and 15 amphibian species - http://www.iucn.org/knowledge/news/?4561/Impact-of-natures-invading-aliens-measured-for-first-time. SEA LEVEL RISE: RETREAT, DEFEND, ATTACK?The think-piece entitled Facing up to Rising Sea Levels: Retreat, Defend, Attack?, by the Royal Institute of British Architects and the Institution of Civil Engineers, presents scenarios for coastal and estuarine cities and proposes three main approaches to dealing with extreme flooding and rising sea levels - retreating inland, creating habitable defence structures and building out into the sea - http://www.buildingfutures.org.uk/projects/building-futures/facing-up. OTHER DOCUMENTS, NEWSLETTERS AND WEB RESOURCES- The conservation objectives developed for the Ecologically and Biologically Significant Areas (EBSA) of the Estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence are intended to guide managers and other ecosystem users by establishing the safe limits within which the social, cultural and economic objectives will be established - http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/csas/Csas/Publications/SAR-AS/2009/2009_049_E.pdf. - The governments of Canada and Nova Scotia have signed a Memorandum of Understanding outlining the steps both governments will take over the next 12 months to legally protect Sable Island. After holding consultations, they will then negotiate an appropriate agreement and designate the area for protection under either the Canada National Parks Act or the Canada Wildlife Act - http://www.pc.gc.ca/apps/cp-nr/release_e.asp?id=1495&andor1=nr. - Over 30 Canadian ocean technology companies are participating in Oceanology International 2010, scheduled for 9-11 March 2010 in London, UK - http://www.oceanologyinternational.com. For information regarding Canada's participation at OI 2010, email Peter.Studer@ic.gc.ca. - The International Submerged Lands Management Conference (ISLMC) has been held annually since 1982. ISLMC information and presentations are being archived at http://www.mcatoolkit.org/Resources/Resources_Meetings.html. If you have information from previous ISLMCs that has not yet been posted, please email Jay Udelhoven at judelhoven@tnc.org. - The California Coastal LiDAR Project (CCLP) report provides a summary of the collaborative efforts to map the topography of California's coastal region - http://www.opc.ca.gov/webmaster/ftp/pdf/opc_cclp_report_final.pdf. - The OSPAR assessment report entitled Impacts of climate change on the North-East Atlantic ecosystem details both the direct physical and chemical impacts on the marine environment and the subsequent impacts occurring in the ecosystems and their biodiversity - http://www.ospar.org/documents/dbase/publications/p00463_Impacts%20of%20Climate%20Change.pdf. - Recent IUCN publications related to climate change include: The ocean and climate change: tools and guidelines for action; Managing seagrasses for resilience to climate change; and Climate, biodiversity, and forests: issues and opportunities emerging from the Kyoto protocol - http://www.iucn.org/what/tpas/climate/resources/publications/. - The Toolkit for Institutional, Policy and Legislative Improvements in Support of the Integrating Watershed and Coastal Area Management (IWCAM) Approach in Caribbean Small Island Developing States (SIDS) can be used as a reference document when amending legislation in support of multilateral environmental agreements - http://www.iwcam.org. - NOAA's Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research and Google have signed a cooperative research and development agreement outlining how they will work together to create state-of-the-art visualizations of scientific data - http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2010/20100125_google.html. OTHER DEADLINES- 15 February is the extended deadline for submitting abstracts to the 30th EARSeL Symposium on Remote Sensing for Science, Education, and Natural and Cultural Heritage, 31 May - 4 June 2010, Paris, France - http://www.earsel.org/symposia/2010-symposium-Paris/index.php. - 17 February is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the 3rd Joint Congress of the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society and the Canadian Geophysical Union, 31 May - 4 June 2010, Ottawa, Ontario - http://www.cmos.ca/congress2010/indexe.html. - 20 February is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the 3rd International Conference Coastlab dealing with the Application of Physical Modelling to Port and Coastal Protection, 28 September - 1 October 2010, Barcelona, Spain - http://www.coastlab10.com. - 28 February is the deadline for nominations for the next Timothy R. Parsons Medal, established by Fisheries and Oceans Canada to recognize achievement in ocean sciences. The nominations can be for a lifetime's body of work or for a recent outstanding achievement - http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/science/award-prix/parsons/about-apropos-eng.htm. - 28 February is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the Storm Surges Congress 2010, 13-17 September 2010, Hamburg, Germany - http://www.loicz.org/calender/Congress/index.html.en. - 1 March is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the 2010 International Conference of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO, 27-30 April 2010, Saint Petersburg, Russia - http://www.ioc50.ru. - 2 March is the deadline for submitting proposals for sessions, presentations and posters to the 5th US National Conference on Coastal and Estuarine Habitat Restoration, 13-17 November 2010, Galveston, Texas - http://www.estuaries.org/conference. - 5 March is the deadline for submitting abstracts to Aquaculture Canada 2010 and Cold Harvest 2010, 16-19 May 2010, St. John's, Newfoundland - http://www.aquacultureassociation.ca/meeting/aquaculture-canada-2010. - 15 March is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the 3rd International Conference on the Management of Coastal Recreational Resources, 27-30 October 2010, Grosseto, Italy - http://www.um.edu.mt/iei/mcrr3-2010. - 15 March is the extended deadline for submitting abstracts to the 6th International Conference on Marine Waste Water Discharges and Coastal Environment, 25-29 October 2010, Langkawi, Malaysia - http://www.mwwd.org. - 15 March is the deadline for submitting applications to co-host the 5th International Symposium on GIS/Spatial Analyses in Fishery and Aquatic Sciences, 22-26 August 2011 - http://www.esl.co.jp/Sympo/index.htm. - 21 March is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the Canadian Hydrographic Conference, 21-23 June 2010, Québec City, Québec - http://www.chc2010.ca. - 1 April is the deadline for submitting abstracts to Coastal Sediments 2011, 2-6 May 2011, Miami, Florida - http://coastalsediments.cas.usf.edu/index.html. - 4 April is the deadline for submitting short papers on topics related to Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) for publication in a special issue of the scientific journal ACOREANA. Authors will be invited to attend "GIslands 2010", an International Summer School on Geotechnologies applied to MSP, 7-12 August 2010, São Miguel Island, The Azores - http://www.gislands.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=6&Itemid=13. - 15 April is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the 2010 Annual Science Conference of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), 20-24 September 2010, Nantes, France - http://www.ices.dk/iceswork/asc/2010/index.asp. OTHER UPCOMING CONFERENCES AND EVENTS- For a complete list of upcoming conferences and workshops, access http://aczisc.dal.ca/conf.htm. - 18-22 February 2010: Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), San Diego, California - http://www.aaas.org/meetings/2010. - 22-26 February 2010: Ocean Sciences Meeting, Portland, Oregon - http://www.agu.org/meetings/os10/. - 25-27 February 2010: Species at Risk Stewardship Workshop, Wolfville, Nova Scotia - http://www.coastalaction.org/index_home.html. - 26-27 February 2010: 17th Annual Conference of the Fishermen and Scientists Research Society, Truro, Nova Scotia - http://www.fsrs.ns.ca/events/ac2010.html. - 1-5 March 2010: Aquaculture 2010, San Diego, California - https://www.was.org/WasMeetings/meetings/Default.aspx?code=AQ2010. - 6-10 March 2010: International Conference on Coastal Zone Management of River Deltas and Low Land Coastlines, Alexandria, Egypt - http://www.nwrc-egypt.info. - 9-11 March 2010: Oceanology International 2010, London, UK - http://www.oceanologyinternational.com. - 24-26 March 2010: GLOBE 2010, an International Conference and Trade Fair on Energy and Environment, Vancouver, British Columbia - http://www.globe2010.com. - 29-31 March 2010: IMDIS 2010, the International Conference on Marine Data and Information Systems, Paris, France - http://www.seadatanet.org/imdis2010. - 11-16 April 2010: XXIV FIG International Congress, Sydney, Australia - http://fig2010.com. - 11-17 April 2010: ICCCM10, the International Conference on Coastal Conservation and Management in the Atlantic and Mediterranean, Cascais, Portugal - http://icccm.dcea.fct.unl.pt. - 12-13 April 2010: International Symposium on Coastal Zones and Climate Change, Churchill, Victoria, Australia - http://www.monash.edu.au/cemo/czcc2010/. - 14-15 April 2010: 3rd Annual Global Marine Renewable Energy Conference, Seattle, Washington - http://www.globalmarinerenewable.com. - 27-30 April 2010: International Conference of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO, Saint Petersburg, Russia - http://www.ioc50.ru. - 3-7 May 2010: 5th Global Conference on Oceans, Coasts, and Islands, Paris, France - http://www.globaloceans.org. - 4-7 May 2010: Geohab 2010, Wellington, New Zealand - http://geohab2010.com. - 16-19 May 2010: Aquaculture Canada 2010 and Cold Harvest 2010, St. John's, Newfoundland - http://www.aquacultureassociation.ca/meeting/aquaculture-canada-2010. - 17-19 May 2010: Annual Nonpoint Source Pollution Conference, Plymouth, Massachusetts - http://www.neiwpcc.org/npsconference. - 25-27 May 2010: Ocean Tech Expo, Newport, Rhode Island - http://www.oceantechexpo.com. - 26-27 May 2010: 4th Nova Scotia Energy Research and Development Forum, Halifax, Nova Scotia - http://www.offshoreenergyresearch.ca. - 28-30 May 2010: 1st World Congress on Cities and Adaptation to Climate Change, Bonn, Germany - http://resilient-cities.iclei.org/bonn2010/home/. - 30 May - 3 June 2010: 3rd International Disaster and Risk Conference, Davos, Switzerland - http://www.idrcdavos2010.org. - 31 May - 4 June 2010: 3rd Joint CMOS-CGU Congress, Ottawa, Ontario. This event will be the 44th Annual Congress of the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society and the 36th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Canadian Geophysical Union - http://www.cmos.ca/congress2010/indexe.html. - 31 May - 4 June 2010: 30th EARSeL Symposium on Remote Sensing for Science, Education, and Natural and Cultural Heritage, Paris, France - http://www.earsel.org/symposia/2010-symposium-Paris/index.php. Top of Page
ACZISC COASTAL UPDATE - JANUARY 2010 UPCOMING ACZISC MEETINGS- 20-21 January 2010: ACZISC Meeting #59, Fredericton, New Brunswick - 12-13 May 2010: ACZISC Meeting #60, Halifax, Nova Scotia - 6-7 October 2010 (revised dates): ACZISC Meeting #61, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island - 26-27 January 2011: ACZISC Meeting #62, St. John's, Newfoundland For information on the meetings, email the ACZISC Secretariat. CALL FOR PAPERS: COASTAL ZONE CANADA 201026 February 2010 is the extended deadline for submitting abstracts to the 9th Coastal Zone Canada International Conference, scheduled for 25-29 July 2010 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. The theme is Healthy Oceans - Strong Coastal Communities. Sub-themes include: the Challenges of coastal management in Canada; Linking land and ocean planning and management; Strengthening coastal communities; Planning for the impacts of climate change; Coastal policy planning for PEI - http://www.gov.pe.ca/czc2010. PEI COMMISSION ON THE LAND AND LOCAL GOVERNANCEThe Prince Edward Island Commission on the Land and Local Governance was established to identify concerns and recommend changes in the provincial approach to land use planning, municipal structures, and municipal governance, in order to better protect water resources, agricultural lands, undeveloped areas, forests, the coastline, heritage sites and viewscapes, particularly in coastal areas. The Commissioner's Report includes 40 recommendations and a government action plan - http://www.gov.pe.ca/news/index.php3?number=news&dept=&newsnumber=6781&lang=E. MARINE ECOREGIONS OF NORTH AMERICAThe book, produced by the Commission for Environmental Cooperation, is a joint Canadian, American and Mexican effort. It classifies North America’s oceans and coastal waters into 24 ecological regions according to oceanographic features and geographically distinct groups of species. The book includes maps, photos and detailed information on habitats, ecosystems and human activities - http://www.cec.org/pubs_docs/documents/index.cfm?varlan=english&ID=2557. OCEAN ACIDIFICATION AND MARINE BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITYThe Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity has released a study entitled Scientific Synthesis of the Impacts of Ocean Acidification on Marine Biological Diversity. According to the study, seas and oceans absorb approximately one quarter of the carbon dioxide emitted to the atmosphere and as a result ocean acidity could increase by 150% by the year 2050. This rapid increase will give little time for evolutionary adaptation within biological systems - http://www.cbd.int/doc/publications/cbd-ts-46-en.pdf. MASSACHUSETTS OCEAN MANAGEMENT PLANThe final ocean management plan has been released following a public review period. The plan provides a comprehensive framework for managing, reviewing and permitting proposed uses of state waters. It raises standards for the protection of the most sensitive marine species and habitats, allows for more community-scale wind energy development, creates a formal role for regional planning authorities in wind energy planning, and outlines a five-year research plan - http://www.mass.gov/?pageID=eoeeapressrelease&L=1&L0=Home&sid=Eoeea&b=pressrelease&f=100104_pr_ocean_plan&csid=Eoeea. COASTAL AND MARINE SPATIAL PLANNING IN THE USA12 February 2010 is the deadline to comment on the Interim Framework for Effective Coastal and Marine Spatial Planning released by the Ocean Policy Task Force. The Framework describes a comprehensive, integrated approach to planning and managing uses and activities. Under the Framework, coastal and marine spatial planning would be regional in scope, developed cooperatively among Federal, State, tribal, local authorities, and regional governance structures, with stakeholder and public input - http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/ceq/initiatives/oceans/interim-framework. OTHER DOCUMENTS, NEWSLETTERS AND WEB RESOURCES- In July, the Government of Nova Scotia announced its goal of meeting 25 per cent of the Province's electricity needs through renewable sources by 2015. A study has been carried out which provides options, including ocean energy - http://www.gov.ns.ca/energy/renewableplan/. - Oceans Day (14 December 2009) at the United Nations Climate Change Conference held last month in Copenhagen focussed on the role of the oceans in climate change and on the impact of ocean warming, sea level rise, extreme weather events, and ocean acidification on people living in coastal areas. Oceans Day underscored a number of issues for consideration in future climate talks - http://www.globaloceans.org/content/oceans-day-highlights-need-focus-attention-oceans-coasts-and-sids-climate-negotiations-beyon. - The International Coastal Atlas Network (ICAN) aims to be a global reference for the development of coastal web atlases. The 4th ICAN Workshop was held on 16-20 in Trieste, Italy. The presentations and other documents are available at http://ican.science.oregonstate.edu/ican4_prog. - The East Asian Seas (EAS) Congress 2009 was held on 23-27 November 2009 in Manila, Philippines. With the theme Partnerships at Work: Local Implementation and Good Practices, it highlighted initiatives and good practices covering key aspects of coastal and marine resource management and interregional, interagency and multisectoral partnerships. Workshop reports and other documents are available at http://pemsea.org/eascongress. - A policy brief entitled Achieving Sustainable Development Targets in a Changing Climate: How Can ICM Help?, prepared for the East Asian Seas Congress is available at http://pemsea.org/eascongress/section-support-files/policy_brief.pdf. - The 10th International Coastal Symposium was held on 13-18 April 2009 in Lisbon, Portugal. The Conference focussed on Coastal Zone Management issues and tools, including: Climate Change; Ecosystems; Engineering; Geomorphology; Hazards and Pollution; and GIS and Remote Sensing. The presentations are available in the Journal of Coastal Research at http://e-geo.fcsh.unl.pt/ICS2009/jcr_si56.html. - NOAA's marine spatial planning resources and information website describes basic marine spatial planning concepts. It also provides news and information about marine spatial planning initiatives in the US, and access to the tools and data used by organizations involved in marine spatial planning - http://www.msp.noaa.gov. - Pharmaceuticals in the Environment: Coastal Managers Are Discovering How to Respond is one of the articles featured in the January/February 2010 issue of NOAA's Coastal Services Magazine - http://www.csc.noaa.gov/magazine/2010/01/index.html. - The EBM Roadmap website has been established to provide practical support for ecosystem-based management (EBM). It provides access to readings, case studies, methods, tools, and data to address the core elements of EBM: Nature's Services; Scientific Evidence; Geographic Scales; Ecological Linkages; Cumulative Impacts; Tradeoffs Among Human Activities; Adaptive Management; and a Network of People and Information - http://www.ebmtools.org/roadmap.html. - The European Commission launched a review of the Common Fisheries Policy in 2008. Towards a new EU Common Fisheries Policy (CFP), a position paper prepared by the EUCC Marine Team, documents a list of twenty-one 'essentials' to improve the new Policy, including a rigorous catch allocation regime, limiting fish catch to maximum sustainable yield, taking all by-catch into account, and tying sustainability to fishing rights - http://www.eucc.net/en/news/Marine_Team_CFP.pdf. - The FAO study entitled Climate change implications for fisheries and aquaculture is a comprehensive survey of existing scientific knowledge on the impacts of climate change on fisheries and aquaculture. It.includes contributions from experts from around the world, including from the Worldfish Centre, Globec, NACA, Fisheries and Oceans Canada and the University of East Anglia - http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/38060/icode/. - EUCC Coastal & MarinE-News is the international newsletter of the Coastal and Marine Union (EUCC). The December 2009 issue is available at http://www.eucc.net/en/news/CMN09-06.pdf. - The authors of a study entitled State and local governments plan for development of most land vulnerable to rising sea level along the US Atlantic coast, published in Environmental Research Letters, recommend comprehensive estuary-wide plans that define the fates of shorelines as sea level rises - http://www.iop.org/EJ/abstract/1748-9326/4/4/044008/. - A team of scientists has calculated that climate change will cause the world's ecosystems to move at an average speed of 0.42 kilometres per year to keep up with temperature changes and that the projected speed will vary from one ecosystem to another - http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091223133337.htm. The study was published in the December 24 issue of Nature - http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v462/n7276/abs/nature08649.html. OTHER DEADLINES- 15 January is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the 2010 Species at Risk Stewardship Workshop, 25-27 February 2010, Wolfville, Nova Scotia - http://www.coastalaction.org/index_home.html. - 15 January is the deadline to submit abstracts to IMDIS 2010, the International Conference on Marine Data and Information Systems, 29-31 March 2010, Paris, France - http://www.seadatanet.org/imdis2010. - 15 January is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the Canadian Geomatics Conference and the "International Society for Photogrammetry and of Remote Sensing (ISPRS) 2010", 15-18 June 2010, Calgary, Alberta - http://www.geoconf.ca. - 22 January is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the Working Waterways & Waterfronts National Symposium on Water Access 2010, 27-30 September 2010, Portland, Maine - http://www.wateraccessus.com. - 29 January is the extended deadline for submitting abstracts to the 10th Littoral Conference, 21-23 September 2010, London, UK - http://www.coastnet.org.uk/Littoral2010. - 31 January is the deadline to apply to the Southern Gulf of St. Lawrence Coalition on Sustainability for the 2010 Sustainability Scholarship. The Coalition offers a $5,000 scholarship annually to graduate students who undertake research on environmental and sustainability topics in the Southern Gulf of St. Lawrence region - http://www.coalition-sgsl.ca/awards_desc.php. - 31 January is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the 2010 International Conference of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO, 27-30 April 2010, Saint Petersburg, Russia - http://www.ioc50.ru. - 31 January is the deadline to comment on the types of US ocean infrastructure that will facilitate research in 2030, including advice as to what criteria may be most appropriate for setting priorities. The input is being sought by the US National Research Council from the worldwide ocean community - http://dels.nas.edu/osb/isforum/. - 1 February is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the 30th EARSeL Symposium on Remote Sensing for Science, Education, and Natural and Cultural Heritage, 31 May - 4 June 2010, Paris, France - http://www.earsel.org/symposia/2010-symposium-Paris/index.php. - 1 February is the deadline for submitting special session proposals to the Joint Meeting of the Canadian Association of Geographers, the Canadian Cartographic Association, the Canadian Geomorphology Research Group, and the Canadian Remote Sensing Society. 1 March 2010 is the deadline for abstracts. The Joint Meeting is scheduled for 1-5 June 2010 in Regina, Saskatchewan - http://uregina.ca/prairies/. - 6 February is the deadline for submitting abstracts to Geohab 2010, 4-7 May 2010, Wellington, New Zealand - http://geohab2010.com. - 12 February is the extended deadline to submit comments to Fisheries and Oceans Canada regarding the identification of an Area of Interest for further study as a Marine Protected Area for the Eastern Scotian Shelf off Nova Scotia. Additional information and a consultation booklet are available at http://www.mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/oceans/e/ocmd/mpa/aoi-e.html. - 17 February is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the 3rd Joint Congress of the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society and the Canadian Geophysical Union, 31 May - 4 June 2010, Ottawa, Ontario - http://www.cmos.ca/congress2010/indexe.html. - 20 February is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the 3rd International Conference Coastlab dealing with the Application of Physical Modelling to Port and Coastal Protection, 28 September - 1 October 2010, Barcelona, Spain - http://www.coastlab10.com. - 28 February is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the Storm Surges Congress 2010, 13-17 September 2010, Hamburg, Germany - http://www.loicz.org/calender/Congress/index.html.en. - 2 March is the deadline for submitting proposals for sessions, presentations and posters to the 5th US National Conference on Coastal and Estuarine Habitat Restoration, 13-17 November 2010, Galveston, Texas - http://www.estuaries.org/conference. - 5 March is the deadline for submitting abstracts to Aquaculture Canada 2010 and Cold Harvest 2010, 16-19 May 2010, St. John's, Newfoundland - http://www.aquacultureassociation.ca/meeting/aquaculture-canada-2010. - 15 March is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the 3rd International Conference on the Management of Coastal Recreational Resources, 27-30 October 2010, Grosseto, Italy - http://www.um.edu.mt/iei/mcrr3-2010. - 21 March is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the Canadian Hydrographic Conference, 21-23 June 2010, Québec City, Québec - http://www.chc2010.ca. - 31 March is the deadline for submissions for Volume 25 of the Ocean Yearbook of the International Ocean Institute. Topics include: governance, living resources, non-living resources, acidification, renewable energy, transportation and communications, environment and coastal management, maritime security, military activities, regional developments, training and education, and polar issues - http://law.dal.ca/Institutes/Marine%20&%20Environmental%20Law%20Institute/Ocean%20Yearbook/. OTHER UPCOMING CONFERENCES AND EVENTS- For a complete list of upcoming conferences and workshops, access http://aczisc.dal.ca/conf.htm. - 20-21 January 2010: Coastal Futures 2010: Review and Future Trends, London, UK - http://www.coastms.co.uk/conferences/424. - 28-29 January 20101: Workshop on Scenario-Based Planning for a Changing Climate in the Bras d’Or Ecosystem, Sydney, Nova Scotia - for information, email Elizabeth MacCormick. - 18-22 February 2010: Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), San Diego, California - http://www.aaas.org/meetings/2010. - 22-26 February 2010: Ocean Sciences Meeting, Portland, Oregon - http://www.agu.org/meetings/os10/. - 25-27 February 2010: Species at Risk Stewardship Workshop, Wolfville, Nova Scotia - http://www.coastalaction.org/index_home.html. - 26-27 February 2010: 17th Annual Conference of the Fishermen and Scientists Research Society, Truro, Nova Scotia - http://www.fsrs.ns.ca/events/ac2010.html. - 1-5 March 2010: Aquaculture 2010, San Diego, California - https://www.was.org/WasMeetings/meetings/Default.aspx?code=AQ2010. - 6-10 March 2010: International Conference on Coastal Zone Management of River Deltas and Low Land Coastlines, Alexandria, Egypt - http://www.nwrc-egypt.info. - 9-11 March 2010: Oceanology International 2010, London, UK - http://www.oceanologyinternational.com. - 22-25 March 2010: CARIS 2010, Miami, Florida - http://www.caris.com/conferences/caris2010/index.cfm?CFID=138570&CFTOKEN=46113070. - 24-26 March 2010: GLOBE 2010, an International Conference and Trade Fair on Energy and Environment, Vancouver, British Columbia - http://www.globe2010.com. - 29-31 March 2010: IMDIS 2010, the International Conference on Marine Data and Information Systems, Paris, France - http://www.seadatanet.org/imdis2010. - 11-16 April 2010: XXIV FIG International Congress, Sydney, Australia - http://fig2010.com. - 11-17 April 2010: ICCCM10, the International Conference on Coastal Conservation and Management in the Atlantic and Mediterranean, Cascais, Portugal - http://icccm.dcea.fct.unl.pt. - 12-13 April 2010: International Symposium on Coastal Zones and Climate Change, Churchill, Victoria, Australia - http://www.monash.edu.au/cemo/czcc2010/. - 27-30 April 2010" International Conference of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO, Saint Petersburg, Russia - http://www.ioc50.ru. - 3-7 May 2010: 5th Global Conference on Oceans, Coasts, and Islands, Paris, France - http://www.globaloceans.org. - 4-7 May 2010: Geohab 2010, Wellington, New Zealand - http://geohab2010.com. - 16-19 May 2010: Aquaculture Canada 2010 and Cold Harvest 2010, St. John's, Newfoundland - http://www.aquacultureassociation.ca/meeting/aquaculture-canada-2010. - 17-19 May 2010: Annual Nonpoint Source Pollution Conference, Plymouth, Massachusetts - http://www.neiwpcc.org/npsconference. - 26-27 May 2010: 4th Nova Scotia Energy Research and Development Forum, Halifax, Nova Scotia - http://www.offshoreenergyresearch.ca. - 28-30 May 2010: 1st World Congress on Cities and Adaptation to Climate Change, Bonn, Germany - http://resilient-cities.iclei.org/bonn2010/home/. - 30 May - 3 June 2010: 3rd International Disaster and Risk Conference, Davos, Switzerland - http://www.idrcdavos2010.org. - 31 May - 4 June 2010: 3rd Joint CMOS-CGU Congress, Ottawa, Ontario. This event will be the 44th Annual Congress of the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society and the 36th Annual Scientific Meeting of the Canadian Geophysical Union - http://www.cmos.ca/congress2010/indexe.html. - 31 May - 4 June 2010: 30th EARSeL Symposium on Remote Sensing for Science, Education, and Natural and Cultural Heritage, Paris, France - http://www.earsel.org/symposia/2010-symposium-Paris/index.php. Top of Page
ACZISC COASTAL UPDATE - DECEMBER 2009 UPCOMING ACZISC MEETINGS- 20-21 January 2010: ACZISC Meeting #59, Fredericton, New Brunswick NOTE: A Workshop on the Marine Cadastre will be held on the afternoon of Tuesday, 19 January, prior to ACZISC Meeting #59. - 12-13 May 2010: ACZISC Meeting #60, Halifax, Nova Scotia - 6-7 October 2010 (revised dates): ACZISC Meeting #61, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island - 26-27 January 2011: ACZISC Meeting #62, St. John's, Newfoundland For information on the meetings, email the ACZISC Secretariat. THE STATE OF NOVA SCOTIA'S COAST REPORTThe report gives an overview of the condition of Nova Scotia's coastal areas and resources. It serves as a baseline to determine future trends. It describes physical, ecological, and socio-economic characteristics of the coast, and examines six priority coastal issues in more detail. The Government will use the information in the Report and feedback from coastal stakeholders to develop a Sustainable Coastal Development Strategy - http://www.gov.ns.ca/coast/state-of-the-coast.htm. POWER SHARING IN THE COASTAL ZONEThe research associated with the PhD thesis (Cardiff University) entitled Power Sharing in the Coastal Zone: Shifting Roles of Government in Community-based Coastal Management identifies the need for a 'shifting' role for governments in sharing power with community-based partners. It also indicates that governments can indeed, over time, rely on community-based organizations to take on many management functions that are best-placed for delivery at the local level. Email Larry Hildebrand to obtain a copy of his thesis abstract, or to discuss his research. CALL FOR PAPERS: COASTAL ZONE CANADA 201015 January 2010 is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the international conference Coastal Zone Canada 2010, scheduled for 25-29 July 2010 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. The theme is 'Healthy Oceans - Strong Coastal Communities'. Sub-themes include: the Challenges of coastal management in Canada; Linking land and ocean planning and management; Strengthening coastal communities; Planning for the impacts of climate change; Coastal policy planning for PEI - http://www.gov.pe.ca/czc2010. ENGLAND'S MARINE AND COASTAL ACCESS ACTThe Act includes new systems for managing and protecting coastal and marine waters through: the establishment of a Marine Management Organisation which will be a centre of marine expertise; a marine planning system which will enable a more strategic approach to be taken to the use of the seas; a more streamlined marine licensing system; reform of inshore fisheries management; and better management for migratory and freshwater fisheries - http://www.defra.gov.uk/environment/marine/legislation/index.htm. COLLABORATIVE GEOSPATIAL INFORMATION AND TOOLS
FOR CALIFORNIA COASTAL AND OCEAN MANAGERSThe purpose of the workshop, held on 17-18 August 2009 in Palo Alto, California, was to assess the current and potential capabilities and needs of resource managers to manage and share geospatial data. The final report is a compendium of ideas and recommendations on geospatial data management put forward during the workshop. The report and presentations are available at http://www.centerforoceansolutions.org/Spatial-Data-and-Tools/Workshop-2009/main.html. ECONOMICS FOR COASTAL MANAGERS"Introduction to Economics for Coastal Managers" provides a basic introduction to economic ideas and methods that can be applied to coastal resource management. The economic concepts are illustrated by several case studies. The publication is the third in a series developed by NOAA's Coastal Services Center on the use of social science tools for coastal management - http://www.csc.noaa.gov/coastaleconomics. OCEANS DAY AT COPENHAGENDecember 14 is Oceans Day at the UN Climate Change Conference being held from 7-18 December in Copenhagen, Denmark - see http://en.cop15.dk. Oceans Day will highlight the central role of oceans in climate, and the fact that 50% of the human population now live in coastal areas or small island countries. Coastal inhabitants are especially dependent on the oceans, and are at the frontline of climate change - http://www.globaloceans.org/Oceans_day/index.html. OTHER DOCUMENTS, NEWSLETTERS AND WEB RESOURCES- The Marine Affairs Policy Forum provides perspectives on current and emerging issues of concern to the coastal and ocean policy community in the Atlantic Region. The current issue focuses on Addressing Working Waterfronts as a Priority Coastal Issue in Nova Scotia - http://marineaffairsprogram.dal.ca/Files/MAP_Policy_Forum_Working_Waterfronts.pdf. - GeoNB, recently launched by the Government of New Brunswick, provides free, online access to geographic information about the Province from authoritative sources, including property maps, aerial photos and topographic maps. It also involves sharing tools, technology and services (or applications) built as part of, or linked into, the core infrastructure, along with guiding principles, policies and data standards - http://www.snb.ca/geonb. - The St. Lawrence Global Observatory was recently officially launched. The SLGO is an inter-institutional initiative to provide access to data and information from a network of governmental, academic and community organizations in support of the sustainable management of the St. Lawrence ecosystem - http://slgo.ca. - The Royal Society of Canada has established an Expert Panel on Ocean Climate Change and Marine Biodiversity. For information, including the draft terms of reference and the list of Panel members, see http://www.rsc.ca/documents/expert/FisheriesPanelPressRelease_Nov26_09.pdf. - Marine Spatial Planning is the focus of the December 2009/January 2010 issue of Coastal Connections, the bimonthly newsletter of NOAA's Coastal Services Center - http://www.csc.noaa.gov/newsletter/. - The main focus of the 2008 ICES Report on Ocean Climate is the observed variability in the upper ocean. The report also summarizes the variability of the intermediate and deep waters of the North Atlantic - http://www.ices.dk/pubs/crr/crr298/CRR%20298-low%20res.pdf. - The 4th Workshop on Remote Sensing of the Coastal Zone was held in June 2009 in Chania (Crete), Greece. The theme was Coasts and Climate Conflicts. Several of the Workshop presentations are available at http://www.earsel.org/SIG-CZ/4th-workshop/WS_Coastal-Zones-2009-publications.htm. - The report entitled The Management of Natural Coastal Carbon Sinks, published by the IUCN, states that there is a lack of recognition and focus on coastal marine ecosystems to complement activities already well advanced on land to address the best practice management of carbon sinks - http://www.iucn.org/knowledge/publications_doc/publications/?4229/The-Management-of-Natural-Coastal-Carbon-Sinks. - The report entitled Connecting Biodiversity and Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation: Report of the Second Ad Hoc Technical Expert Group on Biodiversity and Climate Change, published by the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity, is available at http://www.cbd.int/doc/publications/cbd-ts-41-en.pdf. - The 5th US National Conference for Nonpoint Source and Stormwater Outreach was held on 11-14 May 2009 in Portland, Oregon. The proceedings and presentations are available at http://www.epa.gov/nps/outreach2009/. - MPA News features international news and analysis on Marine Protected Areas. The November/December 2009 issue includes articles on addressing the issue of underwater noise, and on the Gully Marine Protected Area off Nova Scotia to discuss balancing science and conservation in an MPA - http://depts.washington.edu/mpanews/issues.html. - The 2009 California Climate Adaptation Strategy summarizes the best known science on climate change impacts in seven specific sectors: Public Health; Biodiversity and Habitat; Ocean and Coastal Resources; Water Management; Agriculture; Forestry; and Transportation and Energy Infrastructure. It also provides recommendations on how to manage those threats - http://www.climatechange.ca.gov/adaptation/index.html. - The poster proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Coastal Engineering held from 31 August to 5 September 2008 in Hamburg are available at http://icce2008.hamburg.baw.de/downloads/20091126-ICCE_poster-proceedings_2008.pdf. OTHER DEADLINES- 15 December is the extended deadline for submitting abstracts to the International Symposium on Coastal Zones and Climate Change, 12-13 April 2010, Churchill, Australia - http://www.monash.edu.au/cemo/czcc2010/. - 15 December is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the 6th International Conference on Marine Waste Water Discharges and Coastal Environment, 25-29 October 2010, Langkawi, Malaysia - http://www.mwwd.org/site/page.asp?dsy_id=3331. - 15 December is the revised deadline to respond to an issue scan on small-scale fisheries being conducted for the first World Small-Scale Fisheries Congress, 18-22 October 2010 in Bangkok, Thailand. The results will be incorporated into the program of the Congress - http://www.seafdec.or.th/wsfc2010/index.html. - 21 December is the extended deadline to comment on Nova Scotia's draft Wetland Conservation Policy. The policy will establish specific goals and objectives intended to prevent the net loss of wetlands - https://www.gov.ns.ca/nse/wetland/conservation.policy.asp. - 21 December is the deadline for submitting abstracts to Littoral 2010 - Adapting to Global Change at the Coast, 21-23 September 2010, London, UK - http://www.coastnet.org.uk/Littoral2010. - 15 January is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the 2010 Species at Risk Stewardship Workshop, 25-27 February 2010, Wolfville, Nova Scotia - http://www.coastalaction.org/index_home.html. - 15 January is the deadline to submit abstracts to IMDIS 2010, the International Conference on Marine Data and Information Systems, 29-31 March 2010, Paris, France - http://www.seadatanet.org/imdis2010. - 22 January is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the Working Waterways & Waterfronts National Symposium on Water Access 2010, 27-30 September 2010, Portland, Maine - http://www.wateraccessus.com. - 31 January is the deadline to comment on the types of US ocean infrastructure that will facilitate research in 2030, including advice as to what criteria may be most appropriate for setting priorities. The input is being sought by the US National Research Council from the worldwide ocean community - http://dels.nas.edu/osb/isforum/. - 1 February is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the 30th EARSeL Symposium on Remote Sensing for Science, Education, and Natural and Cultural Heritage, 31 May - 4 June 2010, Paris, France - http://www.earsel.org/symposia/2010-symposium-Paris/index.php. - 1 February is the deadline for submitting special session proposals to the Joint Meeting of the Canadian Association of Geographers, the Canadian Cartographic Association, the Canadian Geomorphology Research Group, and the Canadian Remote Sensing Society. 1 March 2010 is the deadline for abstracts. The Joint Meeting is scheduled for 1-5 June 2010 in Regina, Saskatchewan - http://uregina.ca/prairies/. - 6 February is the deadline for submitting abstracts to Geohab 2010, 4-7 May 2010, Wellington, New Zealand - http://geohab2010.com. - 17 February is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the 3rd Joint Congress of the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (CMOS) and the Canadian Geophysical Union (CGU), 31 May - 4 June 2010, Ottawa, Ontario. Abstracts will be accepted after 7 January - http://www.cmos.ca/congress2010/indexe.html. - 20 February is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the 3rd International Conference Coastlab dealing with the Application of Physical Modelling to Port and Coastal Protection, 28 September - 1 October 2010, Barcelona, Spain - http://www.coastlab10.com. - 28 February is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the Storm Surges Congress 2010, 13-17 September 2010, Hamburg, Germany - http://www.loicz.org/calender/Congress/index.html.en. - 31 March is the deadline for submissions for Volume 25 of the Ocean Yearbook of the International Ocean Institute. Topics include: governance, living resources, non-living resources, acidification, renewable energy, transportation and communications, environment and coastal management, maritime security, military activities, regional developments, training and education, and polar issues - http://law.dal.ca/Institutes/Marine%20&%20Environmental%20Law%20Institute/Ocean%20Yearbook/. OTHER UPCOMING CONFERENCES AND EVENTS- For a complete list of upcoming conferences and workshops, access http://aczisc.dal.ca/conf.htm. - 16 December 2009: Global webinar, hosted by MPA News and the EBM Tools Network, to explore Strategies and Technologies for Developing High Seas MPAs - https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/280701032. - 18-22 February 2010: Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), San Diego, California - http://www.aaas.org/meetings/2010. - 22-26 February 2010: Ocean Sciences Meeting, Portland, Oregon - http://www.agu.org/meetings/os10/. - 25-27 February 2010: Species at Risk Stewardship Workshop, Wolfville, Nova Scotia - http://www.coastalaction.org/index_home.html. - 26-27 February 2010: 17th Annual Conference of the Fishermen and Scientists Research Society, Truro, Nova Scotia - http://www.fsrs.ns.ca/events/ac2010.html. - 1-5 March 2010: Aquaculture 2010, San Diego, California - https://www.was.org/WasMeetings/meetings/Default.aspx?code=AQ2010. - 6-10 March 2010: International Conference on Coastal Zone Management of River Deltas and Low Land Coastlines, Alexandria, Egypt - http://www.nwrc-egypt.info. - 24-26 March 2010: GLOBE 2010, an International Conference and Trade Fair on Energy and Environment, Vancouver, British Columbia - http://www.globe2010.com. - 29-31 March 2010: IMDIS 2010, the International Conference on Marine Data and Information Systems, Paris, France - http://www.seadatanet.org/imdis2010. - 11-16 April 2010: XXIV FIG International Congress, Sydney, Australia - http://fig2010.com. - 11-17 April 2010: ICCCM10, the International Conference on Coastal Conservation and Management in the Atlantic and Mediterranean, Cascais, Portugal - http://icccm.dcea.fct.unl.pt. - 12-13 April 2010: International Symposium on Coastal Zones and Climate Change, Churchill, Victoria, Australia - http://www.monash.edu.au/cemo/czcc2010/. 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ACZISC COASTAL UPDATE - NOVEMBER 2009 UPCOMING ACZISC MEETINGS- 20-21 January 2010: ACZISC Meeting #59, Fredericton, New Brunswick NOTE: A Workshop on the Marine Cadastre will be held on the afternoon of Tuesday, 19 January, prior to ACZISC Meeting #59. - 12-13 May 2010: ACZISC Meeting #60, Halifax, Nova Scotia - 6-7 October 2010 (revised dates): ACZISC Meeting #61, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island - 26-27 January 2011: ACZISC Meeting #62, St. John's, Newfoundland For information on the meetings, email the ACZISC Secretariat. NEW ADDITION TO THE ACZISC WEBSITEA report of Coastal Activities in Atlantic Canada, based on discussions at the ACZISC Meeting held on 23-24 September 2009 in St. John's, Newfoundland, and the presentations made at the meeting, are available at http://aczisc.dal.ca/docs-ACZISC.htm. CALL FOR PAPERS: COASTAL ZONE CANADA 201015 January 2010 is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the international conference Coastal Zone Canada 2010, scheduled for 25-29 July 2010 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. The theme is Healthy Oceans - Strong Coastal Communities. Sub-themes include: the Challenges of coastal management in Canada; Linking land and ocean planning and management; Strengthening coastal communities; Planning for the impacts of climate change; Coastal policy planning for PEI - http://www.gov.pe.ca/czc2010. SPECIAL MARINE AREAS IN NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADORThe marine guide outlines 73 sites that are of particular interest from ecological, social or economic perspectives. Each summary includes a description of the site, and its marine habitats, marine wildlife, special features, existing protection and current or potential threats. The guide explains how to reduce and eliminate negative impacts and promotes the use of public education and engagement as tools to aid in the conservation and preservation of these marine areas - http://cpawsnl.org/2009/07/cpaws-nl-releases-the-special.php. ASSESSMENT OF TIDAL AND WAVE ENERGY CONVERSION TECHNOLOGIES IN CANADAFisheries and Oceans Canada hosted a National Science Advisory Process meeting on 21-22 April 2009 to determine the current state of knowledge on the environmental impacts of tidal and wave energy conversion technologies and their application in the Canadian context based on published reports. The objectives of the meeting included identifying potential mitigation measures and determining the feasibility of developing a relevant Canadian Statement of Practice. A summary is available at http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/CSAS/Csas/Publications/SAR-AS/2009/2009_064_E.pdf. ARCTIC REPORT CARD: UPDATE FOR 2009The authors of the Report Card state that warming of the Arctic continues to be widespread, and in some cases, dramatic, and linkages between air, land, sea, and biology are evident. The topics covered include: atmosphere; sea ice; ocean; land; Greenland; and biology. Material presented in the Report Card is prepared by an international team of scientists and is peer-reviewed by topical experts - http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/reportcard. THE ROLE OF HEALTHY OCEANS IN BINDING CARBONA UNEP report estimates that carbon emissions - equal to half the annual emissions of the global transport sector - are being captured and stored by marine ecosystems such as mangroves, salt marshes and seagrasses. The authors estimate that up to 7 percent of these 'blue carbon sinks' are being lost annually, or seven times the rate of loss of 50 years ago. They recommend that a 'Blue Carbon' fund be considered by governments to maintain and rehabilitate key marine ecosystems - http://www.unep.org/Documents.Multilingual/Default.asp?DocumentID=599&ArticleID=6342&l=en&t=long. OTHER DOCUMENTS, NEWSLETTERS AND WEB RESOURCES- The Government of Prince Edward Island has approved regulatory changes to stop commercial sand mining on Island beaches - http://www.gov.pe.ca/news/index.php3?number=news&dept=&newsnumber=6656&lang=E. - The Science Workshop on Resource Development and Its Implications in the Bay of Fundy and Gulf of Maine was held on 26-29 May 2009 in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. The Proceedings are available at http://www.bofep.org/bofep_workshops.htm. - The Northeast Avalon ACAP group in Newfoundland has produced a handbook, Freshwater Joys, as a homeowner's "how-to" guide to maintaining a healthy freshwater shoreline. Topics include: the importance of shorelines; shoreline erosion; caring for your lawn and garden; co-existing with wildlife; septic systems, wells and docks; and contacts and resources - http://www.naacap.ca. - The latest Report of Canada's Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development states that while some environmental monitoring and science-based programs are working as intended, others are carried out in a piecemeal manner and data systems are not connected strategically - http://www.oag-bvg.gc.ca/internet/English/parl_cesd_200911_00_e_33195.html. - The West Coast Coastal Atlas Workshop was held on 23-24 April 2009 in Seattle, Washington, USA. The intent is to increase communication and collaboration between individual coastal web atlas projects. The proceedings, presentations and the results of a post-workshop survey are available at http://ican.science.oregonstate.edu/westcoast. - A seminar on Coastal Processes and Erosion Response was held on 6-8 October 2009 in Anchorage, Alaska. The Seminar background papers on Beach Nourishment, Coastal Erosion Responses, Coastal Sediments & Sediment Budgets, Nikiski Coastal Processes, Revetments, Seawalls, Tides and Tidal Datums, and Winds and Waves are available at http://www.alaskacoast.state.ak.us/Enews/coastal_processes/index.html. - The Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries has published Eelgrass (Zostera marina) Restoration and Monitoring Technical Guidelines. The document is intended to be used as a guide in the design and review of eelgrass restoration and mitigation projects - http://www.mass.gov/dfwele/dmf/programsandprojects/eelgrass_mitigation_guidelines.pdf. - The October 2009 FIG article of the month entitled Spatial Planning and Climate Change Adaptation in Coastal Regions: The Case of Vietnam recommends that spatial planning principles be adopted for the development and implementation of sustainable coastal adaptation policies to reduce the impacts of climate change - http://www.fig.net/pub/monthly_articles/october_2009/october_2009_boateng.html. - Spatial Data Serving People: Land Governance and the Environment - Building the Capacity was the theme of the 7th FIG Regional Conference, held on 19-22 October 2009 in Hanoi, Vietnam. The proceedings are available at http://www.fig.net/pub/vietnam/. - The New York State Department of State and the Department of Environmental Conservation have developed materials designed to encourage and assist local watershed planning and implementation efforts. The multi-media package consists of: a video on watershed planning; a companion guidebook on preparation and implementation of watershed management plans; and web pages - http://www.nyswaterfronts.com/watershed_home.asp. - The University of Ulster offers an online PGDip and a MSc in Coastal Zone Management. There are two intakes per year: one in September and one in January - http://campusone.ulster.ac.uk/potential/postgraduate.php?ppid=2. - The UK Government has produced an interactive map outlining some of the global impacts that may occur if the average temperature rises by 4°C above the pre-industrial climate average. The map focuses on the effects on water availability, agricultural productivity, extreme temperatures and drought, the risk of forest fire and sea level rise - http://www.actoncopenhagen.decc.gov.uk/en/ambition/evidence/4-degrees-map/. - Twenty years ago, from 14-18 November 1989, the Small States Conference on Sea Level Rise, held in Male, the Maldives, was one of the first international meetings addressing island concerns about climate change. The Conference papers and other documents are now available at http://www.islandvulnerability.org/slr1989.html. - An international team of experts on marine acoustics has compiled, on behalf of the OSPAR Commission, an overview document entitled Overview of the impacts of anthropogenic underwater sound in the marine environment - http://www.ospar.org/content/news_detail.asp?menu=00600725000000_000008_000000. - A report on the Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity concludes that policy-makers who factor ecosystem services into their national and international investment strategies are likely to see far higher rates of return and stronger economic growth in the 21st century. The report includes a number of key recommendations - http://www.unep.org/Documents.Multilingual/Default.asp?DocumentID=602&ArticleID=6371&l=en&t=long. - Articles featured in the November/December issue of NOAA's Coastal Services magazine include: Smart Growth for Coastal and Waterfront Communities; Sharing Delaware's Lidar Lessons; Competing with Ideas for How to Address Sea Level Rise in California - http://csc.noaa.gov/magazine/2009/06/. OTHER DEADLINES- 20 November is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the 2010 Annual Conference of the International Association of Maritime Economists, 7-9 July 2010, Lisbon, Portugal - http://www.iame2010.org. - 30 November is the deadline to comment on the quality status report on the marine environment of the North-East Atlantic, prepared by the OSPAR Commission. This assessment, summarising 10-years of work, will inform the 2010 OSPAR Ministerial Meeting on the environmental status and future actions for the protection and conservation of the North-East Atlantic - http://www.ospar.org/content/content.asp?menu=01410900000000_000000_000000. - 30 November is the deadline to respond to an issue scan on small-scale fisheries being conducted for the first World Small-Scale Fisheries Congress, 18-22 October 2010 in Bangkok, Thailand. The results will be incorporated into the program of the Congress - http://www.seafdec.or.th/wsfc2010/index.html. - 4 December is the deadline to submit written comments on the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Report prepared and submitted by the Irving Oil Company on the proposal to construct a petroleum refinery and marine terminal in Saint John, New Brunswick - http://www.gnb.ca/0009/0377/0002/0005-e.asp. - 9 December is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the Annual Nonpoint Source Pollution Conference, 17-19 May 2010, Plymouth, Massachusetts - http://www.neiwpcc.org/npsconference. - 15 December is the deadline to submit applications for funding under the Environmental Trust Fund (ETF) for 2010-2011. The ETF supports New Brunswick-based initiatives that restore, protect and improve air, land and water resources - http://www.gnb.ca/cnb/news/env/2009e1796ev.htm. - 15 December is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the 6th International Conference on Marine Waste Water Discharges and Coastal Environment, 25-29 October 2010, Langkawi, Malaysia - http://www.mwwd.org/site/page.asp?dsy_id=3331. - 21 December is the deadline for submitting abstracts to Littoral 2010 - Adapting to Global Change at the Coast, 21-23 September 2010, London, UK - http://www.coastnet.org.uk/Littoral2010. - 15 January is the deadline to submit abstracts to IMDIS 2010, the International Conference on Marine Data and Information Systems, 29-31 March 2010, Paris, France - http://www.seadatanet.org/imdis2010. - 22 January is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the Working Waterways & Waterfronts National Symposium on Water Access 2010, 27-30 September 2010, Portland, Maine - http://www.wateraccessus.com. OTHER UPCOMING CONFERENCES AND EVENTS- For a complete list of upcoming conferences and workshops, access http://aczisc.dal.ca/conf.htm. - 17 November 2009: Webinar on Marine Spatial Planning - http://www.ebmtools.org/about_ebm/meam.html. - 19 November 2009: Webinar on Marine Spatial Planning in the Series of the 28th International Submerged Lands Management Conference - http://www.submergedlandsconference.com. - 18-20 November 2009: 2009 Atlantic Planners Institute Conference, including a workshop on Coastal Zone Management, St. John's, Newfoundland - http://www.atlanticplanners.org/events/Conferences/2009Conference/2009Conference.htm. - 23-24 November 2009: Remote Ocean Sensing Workshop 2009, Delmenhorst / Bremen, Germany - http://www.h-w-k.de/ros2009.html?&L=1. - 23-27 November 2009: East Asian Seas (EAS) Congress 2009, Manila, Philippines - http://pemsea.org/eascongress. - 14-18 December 2009: 4th European Conference on Coastal Lagoon Research, Montpellier, France - http://www.ecolag.univ-montp2.fr/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=205&Itemid=131. - 18-22 February 2010: 2010 Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), San Diego, California - http://www.aaas.org/meetings/2010. - 22-26 February 2010: Ocean Sciences Meeting, Portland, Oregon - http://www.agu.org/meetings/os10/. - 1-5 March 2010: Aquaculture 2010, San Diego, California - https://www.was.org/WasMeetings/meetings/Default.aspx?code=AQ2010. - 6-10 March 2010: International Conference on Coastal Zone Management of River Deltas and Low Land Coastlines, Alexandria, Egypt - http://www.nwrc-egypt.info. 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ACZISC COASTAL UPDATE - OCTOBER 2009 UPCOMING ACZISC MEETINGS- 20-21 January 2010: ACZISC Meeting #59, Fredericton, New Brunswick - 12-13 May 2010: ACZISC Meeting #60, Halifax, Nova Scotia - 6-7 October 2010 (revised dates): ACZISC Meeting #61, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island - 26-27 January 2011: ACZISC Meeting #62, St. John's, Newfoundland For information on the meetings, email the ACZISC Secretariat. NEW ADDITION TO THE ACZISC WEBSITEThe presentations made at the recent ACZISC Meeting in St. John's, Newfoundland are available at http://aczisc.dal.ca/docs-ACZISC.htm. The topics are: Coastal Connections - Community Interactions; Canadian Healthy Oceans Network (CHONe) - Biodiversity Science for Sustainability of Canada's Three Oceans; Newfoundland and Labrador's Ocean Technology Sector Strategy; COINAtlantic Update; Towards a Marine Cadastre - For an Integrated Management System; and Draft Recommendations on ACZISC's Web Presence. CALL FOR PAPERS: SPECIES AT RISK STEWARDSHIP WORKSHOP30 October is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the Workshop, scheduled for 3-5 December 2009 in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. Themes include: Habitat Stewardship Program; Capacity Building during Stewardship Opportunities; Issues surrounding Critical Habitat; Role of Invasive Species with regards to Species at Risk; Native/Aboriginal Involvement in Species at Risk Stewardship; Roles and Responsibilities of Recovery Teams; and Better Communications between all Stakeholders - http://www.coastalaction.org. CONSULTATION: AREA OF INTEREST FOR MPA OFF NOVA SCOTIAFisheries and Oceans Canada has opened a 60 day consultation period to identify an Area of Interest for further study as a Marine Protected Area for the Eastern Scotian Shelf off Nova Scotia. The deadline to submit comments is 11 December 2009. Additional information and a consultation booklet which includes an overview of the individual candidates and how they were selected are available at http://www.mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/oceans/e/ocmd/mpa/aoi-e.html. OCEAN ACIDIFICATIONThe 2nd Symposium on the Ocean in a High-CO2 World was held on 6-9 October 2008 in Monaco. The purpose of the meeting was to assess what is known about ocean acidification impacts on marine chemistry and ecosystems, and to address the socio-economic and policy perspectives of these impacts. Symposium documents include the Summary for Policymakers, a summary of new research findings presented at the Symposium, and a synthesis of Research Priorities for Ocean Acidification - http://www.ocean-acidification.net. ECONOMICS OF CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION IN EU COASTAL AREASThe study reviews the financial dimension of the actions undertaken to prepare Europe's coastal zones for the effects of climate change. It also compares the different climate change adaptation aspects from an empirical perspective. The study includes specific reports for each of the coastal Member States. The study reports are available at http://ec.europa.eu/maritimeaffairs/climate_change_en.html. OTHER DOCUMENTS, NEWSLETTERS AND WEB RESOURCES- The October 2009 report of the Ocean Management Research Network focuses on the activities associated with the OMRN National Conference scheduled for 21-24 October 2009 in Ottawa, Ontario - http://www.omrn-rrgo.ca/index.php?action=home.index&language=en. - The Nova Scotia Minister of Environment has approved, with conditions, the construction and operation of a facility in the Minas Basin near Parrsboro to demonstrate and test in-stream tidal devices and to assess their potential to generate electricity - http://www.gov.ns.ca/nse/ea/minas.passage.tidal.demonstration.asp. - The Fundy Issues fact sheets, published by the Bay of Fundy Ecosystem Partnership, describe environmental issues confronting the Bay. Issue #30 entitled Tweaking Tidal Technology: Harnessing Fundy's Phenomenal Tides? examines early efforts to extract power from Fundy waters in order to provide an historical context and a baseline for assessing recent initiatives for tidal power development in the Bay - http://www.bofep.org/fundy_issues.htm. - The Marine Affairs Policy Forum provides perspectives on current and emerging issues of concern to the coastal and ocean policy community in the Atlantic Region. The current issue focuses on Addressing Coastal Access as a Priority Coastal Issue in Nova Scotia - http://marineaffairsprogram.dal.ca/Files/MAP_Forum_Sept_2009_Coastal_Access_in_Nova_Scotia.pdf. - EcoAdapt is undertaking a Marine and Coastal Adaptation Survey of past, current, and proposed climate change adaptation activities and projects in North America. The results will be used to prepare a synthesis report of the state of coastal and marine adaptation in the US, Canada, and Mexico - http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=bvAhkrVsD7lzZS93_2bA_2fHRg_3d_3d. - Marine Ecosystems and Management (MEAM) is the quarterly information service on marine ecosystem-based management (EBM). Topics discussed in the current edition of MEAM (Vol. 3, No.2) include the challenge of describing EBM to various audiences, countering common misconceptions about EBM and marine spatial planning, and the relationship between marine spatial planning and ocean zoning - http://www.meam.net. - The article entitled Comprehensive planning, dominant-use zones, and user rights: a new era in ocean governance, published in the Bulletin of Marine Science, discusses the social and legal aspects of ocean zoning, focusing on comprehensive planning, segregation of activities into use-priority areas, and the allocation of user rights within each zone - http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/umrsmas/bullmar/pre-prints/8621. - The Ecosystem-Based Management Tools Network hosted a webinar presentation on an Integrated Land-Sea Planning Toolkit and its use in Aransas County, Texas on 22 September 2009. The presentation described the project, how the local community is involved in use of the toolkit, and methods for using the tools in an integrated manner. A recording of the webinar is available at https://transfer.natureserve.org/download/longterm/EBM%20Tools. - Issue 6 of Marine News, the IUCN Global Marine Programme newsletter, is a retrospective on the activities and achievements of both the IUCN Global Marine Programme and a selection of IUCN's marine-orientated members over the past year - http://www.iucn.org/about/work/programmes/marine/gmp_newsletter/. - The October 2009 issue of the Canadian Ocean Science newsletter features an article on Ocean Acidification - http://www.cmos.ca/scor/newsletters.htm. - Resources available on the New York State Coastal Resources website include videos and guidebooks on waterfront revitalization, re-using abandoned buildings, and watershed planning - http://www.nyswaterfronts.org/index.asp. - The Ocean Studies Board of the US National Research Council is mandated to explore the science, policies, and infrastructure needed to understand, manage, and conserve coastal and marine environments and resources. The 2006-2008 Biennial Report describing the activities of the Ocean Studies Board is available at http://dels.nas.edu/osb/osb%20biennial%20report.pdf. - NASA has produced a colour-coded map showing the anthropogenic biomes across Earth's terrestrial biosphere, based on a 2008 study entitled "Putting people in the map: anthropogenic biomes of the world" - http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=40554&src=eoa-iotd. - The European Commission has released a strategy aimed at countering the various maritime challenges in the Mediterranean Sea basin and improving governance of maritime affairs. The strategy addresses competition for marine space, threats to maritime safety, environmental degradation and the adverse effects of climate change - http://ec.europa.eu/maritimeaffairs/press/press_rel110909_en.html. - The Expert Group of the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO (IOC-UNESCO) have released the Assessment of Assessments report, a comprehensive overview of the marine assessment landscape that also considers socio-economic factors - http://www.eurocean.org/np4/1200.html. - A new edition of a Manual on Maritime Safety Information has been released by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the International Maritime Organization (IMO) and the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO). This new edition provides a practical guide for drafting navigational warnings or issuing meteorological forecasts and warnings - http://www.wmo.int/pages/mediacentre/press_releases/pr_865_en.html. - The book entitled Tools and Criteria for Sustainable Coastal Ecosystem Management discusses operational bioindicators for sustainable coastal management, criteria for coastal area sensitivity to eutrophication and an approach set for a "biological value" of coastal areas. Case-studies exemplify the practical use of the bioindicators and concepts discussed in the book. Purchase information is available from online book retailers. OTHER DEADLINES- 15 October is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the 2010 Ocean Sciences Meeting, 22-26 February 2010, Portland, Oregon - http://www.agu.org/meetings/os10. - 17 October is the deadline to comment on the Interim Report of the US Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force. The report provides proposals for a comprehensive national approach to uphold stewardship responsibilities and to ensure accountability - http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/ceq/initiatives/oceans/interimreport/. - 23 October is the deadline for submitting abstracts to The Coastal Society's 22nd International Conference, 13-16 June 2010, Wilmington, North Carolina - http://thecoastalsociety.org/conference/tcs22/index.html. - 23 October is the extended deadline for submitting abstracts to ICCCM10, the International Conference on Coastal Conservation and Management in the Atlantic and Mediterranean, 11-17 April 2010, Cascais, Portugal - http://icccm.dcea.fct.unl.pt. - 26 October is the deadline to submit abstracts for a Special Paper Session on Remote Sensing and GIS for Coastal Research and Management at the 2010 AAG Annual Meeting, 14-18 April 2010, Washington DC - http://aag.org/annualmeetings/2010/papers.htm. - 2 November is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the 29th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering, 6-11 June 2010, Shanghai, China - http://www.asmeconferences.org/OMAE2010/index.cfm. - 20 November is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the 2010 Annual Conference of the International Association of Maritime Economists, 7-9 July 2010, Lisbon, Portugal - http://www.iame2010.org. - 4 December is the deadline to submit written comments on the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Report prepared and submitted by the Irving Oil Company on the proposal to construct a petroleum refinery and marine terminal in Saint John, New Brunswick - http://www.gnb.ca/0009/0377/0002/0005-e.asp. - 21 December is the deadline for submitting abstracts to Littoral 2010 - Adapting to Global Change at the Coast, 21-23 September 2010, London, UK - http://www.coastnet.org.uk/Littoral2010. OTHER UPCOMING CONFERENCES AND EVENTS- For a complete list of upcoming conferences and workshops, access http://aczisc.dal.ca/conf.htm. - October - November 2009: Webinar Series of the 28th International Submerged Lands Management Conference, including Water Dependency, Wetlands Restoration/Climate Change Adaptation, and Marine Spatial Planning - http://www.submergedlandsconference.com. - 19 October 2009: Webinar to explore lessons learned from MPA networking programs in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary (US) and in rocky reef MPAs in the Mediterranean - http://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/831299216. - 20-22 October 2009: Ocean Innovation 2009, Victoria, British Columbia - http://www.oceaninnovation.ca. - 21-24 October 2009: National Conference of the Ocean Management Research Network (OMRN), Ottawa, Ontario - http://www.omrn-rrgo.ca/conf2009/conference2009.html. - 26-29 October 2009: Oceans 2009 MTS/IEEE, Biloxi, Mississippi - http://www.oceans09mtsieeebiloxi.org. - 26-30 October 2009: ColacMarCuba 2009, Havana, Cuba - http://www.colacmarcuba2009.com. - 27-29 October 2009: Headwaters to Oceans (H2O) Conference, Long Beach, California - http://www.coastalconference.org. - 28 October 2009: Maine Coastal Waters Conference - Climate, Energy, and our Coastal Communities, Northport, Maine - http://www.maine.gov/dmr/coastalconf/. - 1-5 November 2009: Conference of the Coastal & Estuarine Research Federation, Portland, Oregon - http://www.erf.org/cerf2009. - 2-4 November 2009: The Ecology of Marine Wind Farms: Regional Perspectives on Impact Mitigation, Siting, and Future Uses, Newport, Rhode Island - http://seagrant.gso.uri.edu/baird/2009/index.html. - 10-14 November 2009: MEDCOAST 09, the 9th International Conference on the Mediterranean Coastal Environment, Sochi, Russia - http://www.medcoast.org.tr. - 13-14 November 2009: Conference on the Gulf of Maine Maritime Boundary Delimitation: Law, Science and Policy of Marine Transboundary Management, Portland, Maine - for information, email Lauri.MacDougall@dal.ca. - 18-20 November 2009: Atlantic Planners Institute Conference, including a workshop on Coastal Zone Management, St. John's, Newfoundland - http://www.atlanticplanners.org/events/Conferences/2009Conference/2009Conference.htm. - 23-24 November 2009: Remote Ocean Sensing Workshop 2009, Delmenhorst / Bremen, Germany - http://www.h-w-k.de/ros2009.html?&L=1. - 23-27 November 2009: East Asian Seas (EAS) Congress 2009, Manila, Philippines - http://pemsea.org/eascongress. - 14-18 December 2009: 4th European Conference on Coastal Lagoon Research, Montpellier, France - http://www.ecolag.univ-montp2.fr/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=205&Itemid=131. 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ACZISC COASTAL UPDATE - SEPTEMBER 2009 UPCOMING ACZISC MEETINGS- 23-24 September 2009: ACZISC Meeting #58, St. John's, Newfoundland - 20-21 January 2010: ACZISC Meeting #59, Fredericton, New Brunswick - 12-13 May 2010: ACZISC Meeting #60, Halifax, Nova Scotia - 6-7 October 2010 (revised dates): ACZISC Meeting #61, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island For information on the meetings, email the ACZISC Secretariat. NOVA SCOTIA WETLAND CONSERVATION POLICY - DRAFTThe intent of the Policy is to identify which legislation, regulation and policy are currently relevant to wetland conservation, to clarify responsibilities of government and the public related to wetlands, and to make this information more clear and accessible. Ultimately, the Policy is intended to prevent the net loss of wetlands in the Province. The deadline to comment on the draft Policy is 9 November 2009 - http://www.gov.ns.ca/nse/wetland/conservation.policy.asp. CALL FOR PAPERS: COASTAL ZONE CANADA 201015 January 2010 is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the international conference Coastal Zone Canada 2010, scheduled for 25-29 July 2010 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. The theme is Healthy Oceans - Strong Coastal Communities. Sub-themes include: Watershed planning and management; Coastal land-use planning; Small island development; Healthy coastal communities; The Rights of sand; and Canadian Integrated Coastal and Ocean Management - http://www.gov.pe.ca/czc2010. PROCEEDINGS: COASTAL ZONE 09The Conference was held on 19-23 July 2009 in Boston, Massachusetts. The theme was Revolutionary Times: Catching the Wave of Change. Topics included: the US climate change strategy and how it will impact coastal communities and organizations, regional ocean governance, coastal conservation and restoration, marine protected areas, coastal and ocean observations, and land use planning. The proceedings, consisting of extended abstracts, are available at http://www.csc.noaa.gov/cz/index.html. OMRN NATIONAL CONFERENCE 2009The 2009 National Conference of the Ocean Management Research Network is scheduled for 21-24 October 2009 in Ottawa, Ontario. The Conference will place a particular emphasis on three themes: Oceans Governance; Canada's Arctic; and Oceans' Accountability - http://www.omrn-rrgo.ca/smc/home.php. SMART GROWTH GUIDE FOR COASTAL
AND WATERFRONT COMMUNITIESDeveloped in consultation with the national Smart Growth Network in the US, the interagency Guide builds on the Network's ten smart growth principles to create coastal and waterfront-specific strategies for development. The Guide includes an overview of the unique development challenges and opportunities along the water and provides specific approaches to development that include a description of the issues, tools and techniques, and case studies - http://coastalsmartgrowth.noaa.gov/report.html. SEAFLOOR MAPPING, BENTHIC ECOLOGY
AND FISHERIES MANAGEMENTThe Gulf of Maine Mapping Initiative (GOMMI) is a Canadian-US partnership of government and non-government organizations to conduct comprehensive seafloor imaging, mapping, and biological and geological surveys. The GOMMI Workshop on Integrating Seafloor Mapping and Benthic Ecology into Fisheries Management in the Gulf of Maine was held on 15-16 April 2009 in Portland, Maine. The proceedings and presentations are available at http://www.gulfofmaine.org/gommi/GOMMI_Workshop_Proceedings_20090820_FINAL.pdf. EFFECTS OF EXTRACTION OF MARINE SEDIMENTSON THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT 1998 – 2004 This ICES report presents the latest synthesis of recent research on the effects of marine sediment extraction. It also provides a synthesis of state-of-the-art approaches to understanding the effects of the extraction; provides detail on established legislative frameworks; and identifies the latest developments in approaches to assessing risk at proposed extraction areas - http://www.ices.dk/pubs/crr/crr297/CRR%20297.pdf. SPATIAL APPROACHES TO INTEGRATED MANAGEMENTAs part of a process to establish a national network of integrated landscape management (ILM) practitioners and experts across Canada, a Network Implementation Workshop was held on 4-5 March 2008 in Winnipeg, Manitoba - see https://policyresearch.gc.ca/page.asp?pagenm=2009-0013_toc. A Workshop backgrounder entitled Collaborating to Implement Spatial Approaches to Integrated Management is also available at http://www.policyresearch.gc.ca/doclib/BK_SD_31032009-eng.pdf. KEY NEW FINDINGS RE CLIMATE CHANGEA brief published by the Pew Center on Global Climate Change summarizes key developments in climate science since the publication of the 4th Assessment Report in 2007 by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The majority of the new developments described in the brief are based entirely or partially on direct observations of climate change. The brief concludes that, in general, the IPCC projections now appear rather conservative in light of more recent observations and improved modeling techniques - http://www.pewclimate.org/brief/science-developments/June2009. SHARED RESOURCES: ISSUES OF GOVERNANCEThe authors of this IUCN publication state that the importance of successful management of transboundary resources is growing in relevance as resources become sparse and conflicts over them increase. The report examines the characteristics of successful transboundary resource management. Various cases of different shared resources, from water to fish to air, are described and their strengths and weaknesses analysed - http://www.uicn.org/publicationsold/?3789/Shared-resources-Issues-of-governance. OTHER DOCUMENTS, NEWSLETTERS AND WEB RESOURCES- A Workshop on the Role of Communities, First Nations, Aboriginals and Municipalities in Coastal Management was held on 17 June 2009 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The Workshop report and summary are available at http://marineaffairsprogram.dal.ca/News%20and%20Events/Workshops.php. - Maine's Scenic Assessment Handbook is a 'how-to' guide for using the State Planning Office's scenic inventory methodology to identify, evaluate, and document scenic resources and to identify scenic viewpoints of state or national significance for purposes of the Wind Power Law - http://www.maine.gov/spo/publications/index.htm. - The IWRM Roadmap is a description of the steps required in the development of a national integrated water resources management plan. Draft IWRM Roadmaps have been prepared for Barbados, Union Island, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines. The preparation of the draft Roadmaps involved stakeholder consultations and a situational analysis, and will lead to the preparation of an IWRM Plan - http://cep.unep.org/iwcam/documents/iwrm-roadmaps. - A Federal Wetlands Mapping Standard has been approved in the US. The Standard provides minimum requirements and guidelines for wetlands mapping efforts. It is designed to guide current and future wetlands digital mapping projects and enhance the overall quality and consistency of wetlands data - http://www.fws.gov/wetlands/_documents/gNSDI/FGDCWetlandsMappingStandard.pdf. - MPA News features international news and analysis on Marine Protected Areas. The September-October 2009 issue includes an article entitled Planning MPAs for the Deep Ocean: How Can We Protect What We Do Not Yet Know? - http://depts.washington.edu/mpanews/issues.html. - The article entitled Beyond Marine Reserves: Exploring the Approach of Selecting Areas where Fishing Is Permitted, Rather than Prohibited is available online on the PLoS ONE Journal website - http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0006258. - The article entitled Why Climate Change Makes Riparian Restoration More Important than Ever: Recommendations for Practice and Research is available in the September 2009 issue of the journal Ecological Restoration - http://er.uwpress.org/cgi/reprint/27/3/330.pdf. - A series of global maps are available from NASA. Topics include: sea surface temperature, land surface temperature, total rainfall, snow cover, etc. - http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/GlobalMaps. - In June, US President Obama issued a memorandum establishing an Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force. The Task Force is seeking input on the issues set forth in the memorandum: National Policy; Framework for Policy Coordination; Implementation Strategies; Marine Spatial Planning; and Emerging Issues on Ocean, Coasts and Great Lakes Policy - http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/ceq/initiatives/oceans/. - The GSDI World Conference on Spatial Data Infrastructure Convergence was held on 15-19 June 2009 in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. The Conference program with links to the papers, PPTs, etc. is available at http://www.gsdi.org/gsdi11/prog_details.html. The 288-page book of refereed papers from the Conference is available http://www.gsdi.org/gsdi11/SDICnvrgncBook.pdf. - The FAO/RECOFI Regional Workshop to Combat Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing was held on 30 March - 2 April 2009 in Muscat, Oman. The objective of the Workshop was to develop national capacity and promote regional coordination so that countries would be better placed to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing activities. The Workshop report is available at http://www.fao.org/docrep/012/i0917e/i0917e00.htm. OTHER DEADLINES- 15 September is the deadline to apply for the position of Program Director of the master's in Coastal and Marine Management at the University Centre of the Westfjords in Ísafjördur, Iceland - http://www.hsvest.is/skraarsafn/skra/264/. - 17 September is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the 2010 World Environmental & Water Resources Congress, 16-20 May 2010, Providence, Rhode Island - http://content.asce.org/conferences/ewri2010/index.html. - 22 September is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the XXIV FIG International Congress, 11-16 April 2010, Sydney, Australia - http://fig2010.com. - 25 September is the deadline for submitting abstracts to ICCCM10, the International Conference on Coastal Conservation and Management in the Atlantic and Mediterranean, 11-17 April 2010, Cascais, Portugal - http://icccm.dcea.fct.unl.pt. - 1 October is the deadline for submitting abstracts to ICCE 2010, the 32nd International Conference on Coastal Engineering, 30 June to 5 July 2010, Shanghai, China - http://www.icce2010.cn. - 15 October is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the 2010 Ocean Sciences Meeting, 22-26 February 2010, Portland, Oregon - http://www.agu.org/meetings/os10. - 23 October is the deadline for submitting abstracts to The Coastal Society’s 22nd International Conference, 13-16 June 2010, Wilmington, North Carolina - http://thecoastalsociety.org/conference/tcs22/index.html. - 20 November is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the 2010 Annual Conference of the International Association of Maritime Economists, 7-9 July 2010, Lisbon, Portugal - http://www.iame2010.org. - 4 December is the deadline to submit written comments on the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Report prepared and submitted by the Irving Oil Company on the proposal to construct a petroleum refinery and marine terminal in Saint John, New Brunswick - http://www.gnb.ca/0009/0377/0002/0005-e.asp. OTHER UPCOMING CONFERENCES AND EVENTS- For a complete list of upcoming conferences and workshops, access http://aczisc.dal.ca/conf.htm. - September - November 2009: Webinar Series of the 28th International Submerged Lands Management Conference - http://www.submergedlandsconference.com. - 20-23 September 2009: 27th Meeting of the International Association of Sedimentologists, Alghero, Island of Sardinia, Italy - http://www.ias2009.com. - 21-23 September 2009: Northeast Beaches Conference, Woods Hole, Massachusetts - http://www.ieca-nechapter.org/coastal2009.html. - 21-25 September 2009: ICES Annual Science Conference 2009, Berlin, Germany - http://www.ices.dk/iceswork/asc/2009/index.asp. - 21-25 September 2009: OceanObs’09 Symposium, Venice, Italy - http://www.oceanobs09.net. - 25-29 September 2009: World Aquaculture 2009, Veracruz, Mexico - https://www.was.org/WasMeetings/meetings/Default.aspx?code=WA2009. - 30 September - 2 October 2009: CoastGIS '09, the 9th International Symposium on GIS and Computer Cartography for Coastal Zone Management, Santa Catarina, Brazil - http://www.coastgis.com.br/index.php. - 2 October 2009: Workshop and Concluding Conference on Key Principles for Maritime Spatial Planning in the EU, Stockholm, Sweden - http://ec.europa.eu/maritimeaffairs/msp/conference_021009_en.html. - 4-9 October 2009: Gulf of Maine Symposium - Advancing Ecosystem Research for the Future of the Gulf, St. Andrews, New Brunswick - http://www.rargom.org/Symposium2009. - 13-16 October 2009: 2nd DIVERSITAS Open Science Conference on Biodiversity and Society, Cape Town, South Africa - http://www.diversitas-osc.org. - 14-16 October 2009: Integrating Coastal Science and Policy, the National Conference of the American Shore & Beach Preservation Association, St. Pete Beach, Florida - http://www.asbpa.org/conferences/conferences.htm. - 16-18 October 2009: Workshop on Connecting Communities, Watersheds, and Young Leaders Across the Maritimes, Truro, Nova Scotia - for information, email Karen Kun at karen@waterlution.org. - 20-22 October 2009: Ocean Innovation 2009, Victoria, British Columbia - http://www.oceaninnovation.ca. - 21-24 October 2009: National Conference of the Ocean Management Research Network (OMRN), Ottawa, Ontario - http://www.omrn-rrgo.ca/conf2009/conference2009.html. - 26-29 October 2009: Oceans 2009 MTS/IEEE, Biloxi, Mississippi - http://www.oceans09mtsieeebiloxi.org. - 26-30 October 2009: ColacMarCuba 2009, Havana, Cuba - http://www.colacmarcuba2009.com. - 27-29 October 2009: Headwaters to Oceans (H2O) Conference, Long Beach, California - http://www.coastalconference.org. - 28 October 2009: Maine Coastal Waters Conference - Climate, Energy, and our Coastal Communities, Northport, Maine - http://www.maine.gov/dmr/coastalconf/. - 1-5 November 2009: Conference of the Coastal & Estuarine Research Federation, Portland, Oregon - http://www.erf.org/cerf2009. - 2-4 November 2009: International Symposium on Integrating Offshore Renewable Energy Systems & Aquaculture, Newport, Rhode Island - http://seagrant.gso.uri.edu/baird/2009/index.html. - 10-14 November 2009: MEDCOAST 09, the 9th International Conference on the Mediterranean Coastal Environment, Sochi, Russia - http://www.medcoast.org.tr. - 12-14 November 2009: Conference on the Gulf of Maine Maritime Boundary Delimitation: Law, Science and Policy of Marine Transboundary Management, Portland, Maine - for information, email Lauri MacDougall at lauri.macdougall@dal.ca. - 23-24 November 2009: Remote Ocean Sensing Workshop 2009, Delmenhorst / Bremen, Germany - http://www.h-w-k.de/ros2009.html?&L=1. 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ACZISC COASTAL UPDATE - AUGUST 2009 UPCOMING ACZISC MEETINGS- 23-24 September 2009: ACZISC Meeting #58, St. John's, Newfoundland - 20-21 January 2010: ACZISC Meeting #59, Fredericton, New Brunswick - 12-13 May 2010: ACZISC Meeting #60, Halifax, Nova Scotia - 6-7 October 2010 (revised dates): ACZISC Meeting #61, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island For information on the meetings, email the ACZISC Secretariat. GULF OF MAINE SYMPOSIUMThe Symposium on Advancing Ecosystem Research for the Future of the Gulf is scheduled for 4-9 October 2009 in St. Andrews, New Brunswick. The themes are: Tools for integrated policy and management; Structure and function of the Gulf of Maine system; Anthropogenic and external influences on the Gulf of Maine ecosystem; and Monitoring/observation, data collection, analyses, and tools required for an Ecosystem Approach to Management of the Gulf of Maine - http://www.rargom.org/Symposium2009. 12TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON SHELLFISH RESTORATIONAbstracts are still being accepted for the 12th International Conference on Shellfish Restoration scheduled for 15-18 September 2009 in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island. The theme is Healthy Environmental Conditions for Successful Shellfish Restoration - http://www.gov.pe.ca/shellfishconf. CALL FOR PAPERS: OMRN CONFERENCE9 September is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the 2009 National Conference of the Ocean Management Research Network (OMRN), scheduled for 21-24 October 2009 in Ottawa, Ontario. The Conference will focus on: Integrated Management and Coastal Areas Management; Arctic Ocean, TEK, and Northern Development; Oceans Valuation; and State of the Oceans Reporting - http://www.omrn-rrgo.ca/conf2009/conference2009.html. PREVENTING POLLUTION IN CANADA'S ARCTIC WATERSBill C-3, an Act to amend the Canadian Arctic Waters Pollution Prevention Act, came into force on 1 August 2009. The amendment extends the geographic application of the Act from 100 to 200 nautical miles offshore Canadian land north of the 60th parallel. The change has implications for pollution reduction in anticipation of expected increased shipping and resource development and their concomitant environmental threats - http://www2.parl.gc.ca/Sites/LOP/LegislativeSummaries/Bills_ls.asp?lang=E&ls=c3&source=library_prb&Parl=40&Ses=2. CLEANING THE SHORELINEOver 48,000 participants and 1,200 sites are now registered in the TD Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup, scheduled for 19-27 September 2009 - see http://www.vanaqua.org/cleanup for more information. Data is collected from each cleanup to determine the major (and minor) causes of shoreline litter in each region. The Canadian initiative is a contributor to the Ocean Conservancy's International Coastal Cleanup. Last year, 400,000 volunteers collected 6.8 million pounds of trash in 104 countries during the 2008 International Coastal Cleanup - http://www.coastalcleanup.org. MARITIME SPATIAL PLANNING IN THE EUThe European Commission has organised a series of workshops to discuss the options for implementing maritime spatial planning in the EU and the specific key principles set out in the roadmap - http://ec.europa.eu/maritimeaffairs/spatial_planning_en.html. A Workshop was held on 2-3 July 2009 in S. Miguel, Azores, Portugal. The Workshop presentations and conclusions are available at http://ec.europa.eu/maritimeaffairs/msp/workshop_020709_en.html. A concluding conference is scheduled for 2 October 2009 in Stockholm, Sweden. CONSERVATION - A USE OF THE MARINE ENVIRONMENT?Marine Ecosystems and Management (MEAM) is the quarterly information service on marine ecosystem-based management (EBM). The current edition of MEAM (Vol. 3, No. 1) includes the results of a poll of conservationists, resource users, and others regarding the question: In the context of EBM and the negotiations it often entails with stakeholders, should conservation be considered a use of the marine environment - similar to uses such as fishing, shipping, tourism, etc.? MEAM is available at http://www.meam.net. PLANNING FOR CLIMATE CHANGEA Planning for Climate Change Workshop was piloted in two locations in March 2009 in Washington State, USA. The Workshop was designed primarily for shoreline planners and primarily focused on actions that can be taken to prepare and adapt to the anticipated impacts of climate change. Workshop materials, including class materials, links to climate training resources, lessons learned, and streaming video/powerpoint presentations, are available at http://nerrs.noaa.gov/Training/padillabay/project.html. OTHER DOCUMENTS, NEWSLETTERS AND WEB RESOURCES- An international team of scientists has compiled and analyzed the first comprehensive global assessment of seagrass observations and found that 58 percent of the world's seagrass meadows are currently declining. The scientists warn that accelerating losses of seagrasses across the globe threaten the immediate health and long-term sustainability of coastal ecosystems - http://www.pnas.org/content/106/30/12377.full.pdf+html. - A Forum on Prospects for Systems Science Assessments in support of ICZM was organized by the SPICOSA (Science and Policy Integration for Coastal System Assessment) team on 10 June 2009 in Rome, Italy. The presentations are available at http://www.spicosa.eu/rome/index.htm. - Integrated Ecosystem Assessments, a NOAA Technical Memorandum, describes the process needed to actively integrate diverse physical, biological, and socioeconomic data and to think critically about the ways in which decisions affect ecosystem goods and services - http://www.nwfsc.noaa.gov/assets/25/6801_07302008_144647_IEA_TM92Final.pdf. - The Workshop on Toolbox for Applying the Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries was held on 26–29 February 2008 in Rome. The Workshop report (FAO Fisheries Report. No. 884) is available at http://www.fao.org/docrep/012/i0946e/i0946e00.htm. - The authors of the article entitled Rebuilding Global Fisheries, published in the journal Science (31 July 2009), have analyzed current trends from a fisheries and conservation perspective and concluded that, after a long history of overexploitation, increasing efforts to restore marine ecosystems and rebuild fisheries are under way - http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/325/5940/578. - The OceanObs'09 Symposium is scheduled for 21-25 September 2009 in Venice, Italy. Community White Papers are being prepared as the basis for planning and building consensus. The papers are focused on specific observing networks, observing technology, scientific questions requiring observations, observing and data system infrastructure, or the development of ocean information. They are available for download and comment - http://www.oceanobs09.net. - The authors of the article entitled Physical and biogeochemical modulation of ocean acidification in the central North Pacific, published in the US National Academy of Sciences, conclude that physical and biogeochemical processes alter the acidification rate with depth and time and must therefore be given due consideration when designing and interpreting ocean pH monitoring efforts and predictive models - http://www.pnas.org/content/106/30/12235. - A NOAA-funded research project is being conducted to assess the resilience of coastal communities in Maine and Oregon. The goal of the project is to move behaviour toward decisive action that results in coastal communities becoming more resilient to climate variability at all scales. A five-part documentary and reports that summarize the results of the project for Maine are available at http://www.seagrant.umaine.edu/extension/coastal-community-resilience. - The publication entitled Climate Change Information for Effective Adaptation - A Practitioner's Manual is intended to serve as a guide. Its aim is to extend the capacity of practitioners to find answers in any specific situation, using the best information available - http://www.pik-potsdam.de/research/research-domains/climate-impacts-and-vulnerabilities/research/research-field-2-1/nsp/pubs/pik-gtz-adaptation-manual. - The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change secretariat has released an update of the GHG Data Interface. A new feature in this release is a 'Global map - Annex I' which provides access to key greenhouse gas (GHG) data for Annex I Parties in a map format - http://maps.unfccc.int/di/map/. - The review entitled Impacts of Climate Change on Marine Organisms and Ecosystems, published in the journal "Current Biology", describes present-day climate change, setting it in context with historical change, considers consequences of climate change for marine biological processes now and into the future, and discusses contributions that marine systems could play in mitigating the impacts of global climate change - http://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(09)01181-6. - The report entitled Good Morning, America! The Explosive U.S. Awakening to the Need for Adaptation provides an historical overview of the public, political, and scientific concern with adaptation in the US and identifies a number of barriers to basic adaptation planning and more ambitious policy developments. Recommendations are provided - http://www.csc.noaa.gov/publications/need-for-adaptation.pdf. - The 2009 California Climate Adaptation Strategy Discussion Draft summarizes the latest science on how climate change could impact the state, and provides recommendations on how to manage against those threats in seven sector areas: public health, biodiversity and habitat, ocean and coastal resources, water management, agriculture, forestry, and transportation and energy infrastructure - http://www.climatechange.ca.gov/adaptation/index.html. - The New York Ocean and Great Lakes Ecosystem Conservation Council has produced a report entitled Our Waters, Our Communities, Our Future. The Council's nine-member State agencies collaborated to detail opportunities to protect and enhance New York's shoreline waters through an "ecosystem-based management" approach to decision-making within their respective missions - http://www.nyoglecc.org. - The Marine Environment Protection Committee of the International Maritime Organization (IMO) has agreed to disseminate interim and voluntary technical and operational measures to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from international shipping. The measures are intended to be used for trial purposes until the Committee's 60th session in March 2010, when they will be refined, as necessary, with a view to facilitating decisions on their scope of application and enactment - http://www.imo.org/Newsroom/mainframe.asp?topic_id=1773&doc_id=11579. - A US National Research Council report entitled Ensuring the Integrity, Accessibility, and Stewardship of Research Data in the Digital Age offers principles for maintaining the integrity and accessibility of research data - http://www8.nationalacademies.org/onpinews/newsitem.aspx?RecordID=12615. - The book entitled Beach Management Principles and Practice covers beach management principles and theory and addresses practical management tools and guidelines. It also provides case studies of best and worst practice. The emphasis throughout the book is on optimizing economic, social and environmental outcomes and reconciling competing needs in management planning for beach area. Purchase information is available from online book retailers. OTHER DEADLINES- 15 August is the extended deadline for submitting abstracts to the 4th European Conference on Coastal Lagoon Research, 14-18 December 2009, Montpellier, France - http://www.ecolag.univ-montp2.fr/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=205&Itemid=131. - 31 August is the deadline for submitting abstracts to Aquaculture 2010, 1-5 March 2010, San Diego, California - https://www.was.org/WasMeetings/meetings/Default.aspx?code=AQ2010. - 31 August is the extended deadline for submitting abstracts to ColacMarCuba 2009, 26-30 October 2009, Havana, Cuba - http://www.colacmarcuba2009.com. - 25 September is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the International Conference on Coastal Conservation and Management in the Atlantic and Mediterranean, 11-17 April 2010, Cascais, Portugal - http://icccm.dcea.fct.unl.pt. OTHER UPCOMING CONFERENCES AND EVENTS- For a complete list of upcoming conferences and workshops, access http://aczisc.dal.ca/conf.htm. - 24-27 August 2009: 6th International Conference on Marine Bioinvasions, Portland, Oregon - http://www.clr.pdx.edu/mbic. - 24-28 August 2009: 6th International Scientific Conference on the Global Energy and Water Cycle and the "2nd Integrated Land Ecosystem-Atmosphere Study (iLEAPS) Science Conference", Melbourne, Australia - http://gewex.org/2009gewex_ileaps_conf.html. - 25 August 2009: Marine Environmental Sciences Information Session, Halifax, Nova Scotia - http://www.esans.ca/events.html. - 2-4 September 2009: New Zealand Marine Sciences Society Annual Conference, Auckland, New Zealand - http://nzmss.rsnz.org/conference.html. - 7-11 September 2009: 6th International Conference on Coastal Dynamics, Tokyo, Japan - http://www.coastaldynamics.org. - 9-11 September 2009: 5th International Conference on Sustainable Water Resources Management, Malta - http://www2.wessex.ac.uk/09-conferences/water-resources-management-2009.html. - 13-17 September 2009: International Conference on Ecology and Transportation, Duluth, Minnesota - http://www.icoet.net/ICOET2009.asp. - 14-16 September 2009: 3rd International Conference on Estuaries & Coasts, Sendai, Japan - http://donko.civil.tohoku.ac.jp/icec2009/index.html. - 15-18 September 2009: 12th International Conference on Shellfish Restoration, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island - http://www.gov.pe.ca/shellfishconf. - 16-18 September 2009: Coasts, Marine Structures and Breakwaters 2009, Edinburgh, Scotland - http://www.ice-breakwaters.com. - 20-23 September 2009: 27th Meeting of the International Association of Sedimentologists, Alghero, Island of Sardinia, Italy - http://www.ias2009.com. - 21-23 September 2009: Northeast Beaches Conference, Woods Hole, Massachusetts - http://www.ieca-nechapter.org/coastal2009.html. - 21-25 September 2009: ICES Annual Science Conference 2009, Berlin, Germany - http://www.ices.dk/iceswork/asc/2009/index.asp. - 21-25 September 2009: OceanObs'09 Symposium, Venice, Italy - http://www.oceanobs09.net. - 25-29 September 2009: World Aquaculture 2009, Veracruz, Mexico - https://www.was.org/WasMeetings/meetings/Default.aspx?code=WA2009. - 30 September - 2 October 2009: CoastGIS '09, the 9th International Symposium on GIS and Computer Cartography for Coastal Zone Management, Santa Catarina, Brazil - http://www.coastgis.com.br/index.php. - 13-16 October 2009: 2nd DIVERSITAS Open Science Conference on Biodiversity and Society, Cape Town, South Africa - http://www.diversitas-osc.org. - 14-16 October 2009: Integrating Coastal Science and Policy, the National Conference of the American Shore & Beach Preservation Association, St. Pete Beach, Florida - http://www.asbpa.org/conferences/conferences.htm. 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ACZISC COASTAL UPDATE - JULY 2009 UPCOMING ACZISC MEETINGS- 23-24 September 2009: ACZISC Meeting #58, St. John's, Newfoundland - 20-21 January 2010: ACZISC Meeting #59, Fredericton, New Brunswick - 12-13 May 2010: ACZISC Meeting #60, Halifax, Nova Scotia - 6-7 October 2010 (revised dates): ACZISC Meeting #61, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island For information on the meetings, email the ACZISC Secretariat. PROCEEDINGS: 4TH ESSIM FORUM WORKSHOPThe Eastern Scotian Shelf Integrated Management (ESSIM) Initiative is a collaborative planning process for the Eastern Scotian Shelf marine region off Nova Scotia. The 4th ESSIM Forum Workshop was held on 26-27 November 2008 in Halifax to discuss advancing and implementing the Eastern Scotian Shelf Integrated Ocean Management Plan, released in June 2008 (http://www.mar.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/oceans/e/essim/plan/essim-plansum-e.html). The Proceedings are available at http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/Library/336858.pdf. ATLAS OF THE GRAND BANKSThe Grand Banks of Newfoundland: Atlas of Human Activities features maps and accompanying text. It is designed to provide ocean planners, managers and other users with a visual interpretation on the location and extent of major human activities such as fisheries, oil and gas and commercial shipping occurring on the Grand Banks of Newfoundland. The Atlas is available at http://www.dfo-mpo.gc.ca/Library/336890.pdf (115 MB) MARINE SPATIAL PLANNING FOR EBMThe guide entitled Marine Spatial Planning: A Step-by-Step Approach toward Ecosystem-based Management was published by UNESCO's Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission. The guide defines Marine Spatial Planning (MSP), why it is needed, what its benefits and outputs are, and describes how MSP relates to other marine management approaches. It also includes a ten-step approach to show users how MSP could become operational in their area - http://www.unesco-ioc-marinesp.be/uploads/documentenbank/d87c0c421da4593fd93bbee1898e1d51.pdf. DRAFT MASSACHUSETTS OCEAN MANAGEMENT PLANThe draft comprehensive ocean management plan, now available for review and comment, was mandated by the Oceans Act of 2008. The Act sets a deadline of 31 December 2009 for final promulgation of an ocean plan that balances protection of marine resources with uses such as renewable energy development. The draft Plan is available at http://www.mass.gov/?pageID=eoeeaterminal&L=3&L0=Home&L1=Ocean+%26+Coastal+Management&L2=Massachusetts+Ocean+Plan&sid=Eoeea&b=terminalcontent&f=eea_oceans_draft_mop&csid=Eoeea. IMPACTS OF CLIMATE CHANGE IN THE GULF OF MAINERecent publications produced or sponsored by the Gulf of Maine Council on the Marine Environment include: Identifying Coastal Habitats at Risk from Climate Change Impacts in the Gulf of Maine; Identifying the Possible Effects of Climate Change on Invasive Species in the Gulf of Maine - a Background Report; and Identifying the Possible Effects of Extreme Precipitation and other Climate Change Impacts on Streamflow and Water Quality in the Gulf of Maine - a Background Report - http://gulfofmaine.org/council/publications. ICES ICZM WORKING GROUP REPORTThe Integrated Coastal Zone Management Working Group of the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) met on 24-27 March 2009 in Geesthacht, Germany. The meeting report includes updates on ICZM activities in different ICES countries, including information on initiatives towards integrated governance of the coastal zone, and progress on the development of an integrated decision making framework for ICZM - http://www.ices.dk/workinggroups/ViewWorkingGroup.aspx?ID=108. GUIDEBOOK: ADAPTING TO CLIMATE CHANGEAdapting to Coastal Climate Change: A Guidebook for Development Planners, released by USAID, provides a detailed treatment of climate concerns in coastal areas. The Guidebook proposes an approach for assessing vulnerability to climate change and climate variability, developing and implementing adaptation options, and integrating options into programs, development plans, and projects at the national and local levels - http://www.usaid.gov/our_work/cross-cutting_programs/water/news_announcements/coastal_climate_change_report.html. OTHER DOCUMENTS, NEWSLETTERS AND WEB RESOURCES- The Government of Newfoundland and Labrador has released its Ocean Technology Strategy. The goals of the Strategy are to: improve support to business; strengthen ties between institutions; and develop a new marketing approach for select target markets - http://www.intrd.gov.nl.ca/intrd/sectordev/oceansopportunity.html. - We All Share the Coast: A Workshop on Coastal Access was held on 7 May 2009 in Halifax, Nova Scotia. The aim of the workshop was to discuss coastal access issues and to develop potential solutions to these issues. The workshop summary is available at http://www.ecologyaction.ca/files/images/file/Coastal/We%20All%20Share%20the%20Coast%20Report.pdf. - The Marine Affairs Policy Forum provides perspectives on current and emerging issues of concern to the coastal and ocean policy community in the Atlantic Region. The current issue focuses on Addressing Sea-Level Rise and Storm Events as a Priority Coastal Issue in Nova Scotia - http://marineaffairsprogram.dal.ca/Files/MAP_Policy_Forum_July_2009_-_Sea-Level_Rise_and_Storm_Events.pdf. - Comments are being sought on a Discussion Paper on Contaminated Sites in Nova Scotia, prepared by the Law Reform Commission. The Final Report will be submitted to the Minister of Justice and will include recommendations on how the law should deal with contaminated sites - http://www.lawreform.ns.ca/introduction.htm. - NASA and Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry have released a Global Digital Elevation Model (GDEM). The GDEM was produced with 30-metre postings, and is formatted as 23,000 one-by-one degree tiles - http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/aster-20090629.html. - The 2nd International Marine Conservation Congress was held on 20-24 May 2009 in Washington, DC. The proceedings are available at http://www2.cedarcrest.edu/imcc/program.html. - The 33rd Annual Conference of the Center for Oceans Law and Policy was held on 20-23 May 2009 in Seward, Alaska. The event focussed on 'Changes in the Arctic Environment and the Law of the Sea'. Conference notes and presentations are available at http://www.virginia.edu/colp/annual-conference.html. - The 20th Salt Water Intrusion Meeting was held on 23-27 June 2008 in Naples, Florida. The proceedings and several of the presentations are available at http://conference.ifas.ufl.edu/swim. - The LOICZ report entitled Dynamics and Vulnerability of Delta Systems discusses the changes and vulnerabilities of world deltas resulting from anthropogenic alteration of upstream freshwater and sediment inflows; anthropogenic alteration of sediment and water routing through deltas; hydrocarbon and groundwater extraction from deltas; sea-level change; and the increased frequency of extreme climate events - http://www.loicz.org/products/publication/reports/index.html.en. - Canada's National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy held a forum on 30 October 2008 in Ottawa to discuss Canada's next climate-policy agenda. The Forum identified the research priorities, including: the economics of climate change impacts and mitigating it and the valuation of ecosystem services and the pricing of externalities that are currently not accounted for - http://www.nrtee-trnee.com/eng/index.php. - The report entitled Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States focuses on impacts in different regions of the US and on various environmental and societal sectors. The report also discusses both mitigation and adaptation responses to climate change - http://www.globalchange.gov/usimpacts. - A report entitled State of the U.S. Ocean and Coastal Economies 2009 has been issued by the US National Ocean Economics Program. The report states that coastal states account for 83 per cent of the US economy - http://noep.mbari.org/NationalReport. - The Assessment of Assessment (AoA) Report is part of the international initiative to develop a Regular Process for global reporting and assessment of the state of the marine environment, including socio-economic aspects , and to develop a global mechanism for delivering science-based information to decision-makers. The pre-release version of the report is available at http://www.unga-regular-process.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18&Itemid=20. - The aim of the report entitled Establishing best practice for the collection, processing, quality assurance and dissemination of marine biological data is to put forward a number of ideas for discussion to facilitate more efficient and effective flow of data between contractors and data commissioners and between data providers and archive centres - http://www.offshorewind.co.uk/Assets/sDATA_14_11_08_FINALREPORT.pdf. - The authors of the research article entitled Management Effectiveness of the World's Marine Fisheries, published in the June 2009 issue of PLoS Biology, used a survey approach and enquiries to fisheries experts to assess the current effectiveness of fisheries management regimes worldwide - http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.1000131. - The editorial entitled The Blue Gym: Health and wellbeing from our coasts, published in the July 2009 issue of the Marine Pollution Bulletin, describes the Blue Gym programme which attempts to encourage physical activity and time spent outdoors to help improve health and wellbeing and to make people aware of the value of the marine environment. Purchase details are available at http://www.sciencedirect.com (search for "Blue Gym") - The book entitled Ecosystem-Based Management for the Oceans emphasizes the importance of understanding the factors that contribute to social and ecological resilience - the extent to which a system can maintain its structure, function, and identity in the face of disturbance. It also provides tools for the design and implementation of responsive EBM solutions. Purchase details are available at http://www.islandpress.com/bookstore/details.php?prod_id=1750. DEADLINES- 15 July is the extended deadline for submitting abstracts to CoastGIS '09, the 9th International Symposium on GIS and Computer Cartography for Coastal Zone Management, 30 September - 2 October 2009, Santa Catarina, Brazil - http://www.coastgis.com.br/index.php. - 31 July is the deadline for submitting abstracts to ColacMarCuba 2009, 26-30 October 2009, Havana, Cuba - http://www.colacmarcuba2009.com. - 31 July is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the Oceanology International Conference, 9-11 March 2010, London, UK - http://www.oceanologyinternational.com/page.cfm/Link=14/t=m/goSection=10. - 31 July is the deadline for submitting proposals to the 6th International Conference on Marine Waste Water Discharges and Coastal Environment, 25-29 October 2010, Langkawi, Malaysia - http://www.mwwd.org/site/page.asp?dsy_id=3331. - 1 August is the deadline to apply for a tenure track position in Environmental Policy (Assistant or Associate Professor) at the Sir Wilfred Grenfell College, Memorial University of Newfoundland, in Corner Brook - http://www.swgc.mun.ca/admin/Pages/tenure.aspx. - 1 August is the deadline to respond to the call for candidates for the Land-Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone (LOICZ) Scientific Steering Committee. LOICZ is a joint Core Project of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme and the International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change - http://www.loicz.org/about_us/ssc/index.html.en. - 31 August is the deadline for submitting abstracts to Aquaculture 2010, 1-5 March 2010, San Diego, California - https://www.was.org/WasMeetings/meetings/Default.aspx?code=AQ2010. - 9 September is the deadline for submitting abstracts to the 2009 National Conference of the Ocean Management Research Network, 21-24 October 2009, Ottawa, Ontario - http://www.omrn-rrgo.ca/conf2009/conference2009.html. - 25 September is the deadline for submitting abstracts to ICCCM10, the International Conference on Coastal Conservation and Management in the Atlantic and Mediterranean, 11-17 April 2010, Cascais, Portugal - http://icccm.dcea.fct.unl.pt. UPCOMING CONFERENCES AND EVENTS- For a complete list of upcoming conferences and workshops, access http://aczisc.dal.ca/conf.htm. - 19-23 July 2009: Coastal Zone 09, Boston, Massachusetts - http://www.csc.noaa.gov/cz/index.html. - 19-29 July 2009: MOCA-09, Montréal, Québec. MOCA-09 is the Joint Assembly of the International Association of Meteorology and Atmospheric Sciences, the International Association for the Physical Sciences of the Oceans and the International Association for the Cryospheric Sciences - http://www.moca-09.org. - 23-24 July 2009: 2nd Conference on Coastal Environmental Sensing Networks, Boston, Massachusetts - http://www.cesn.org/events/cesn09.php. - 2-7 August 2009: 94th Annual Meeting of the Ecological Society of America, Albuquerque, New Mexico - http://esa.org/albuquerque/. - 24-27 August 2009: 6th International Conference on Marine Bioinvasions, Portland, Oregon - http://www.clr.pdx.edu/mbic/. - 24-28 August 2009: 6th International Scientific Conference on the Global Energy and Water Cycleand the 2nd Integrated Land Ecosystem-Atmosphere Study (iLEAPS) Science Conference, Melbourne, Australia - http://gewex.org/2009gewex_ileaps_conf.html. - 7-11 September 2009: 6th International Conference on Coastal Dynamics, Tokyo, Japan - http://www.coastaldynamics.org. - 9-11 September 2009: 5th International Conference on Sustainable Water Resources Management, Malta - http://www2.wessex.ac.uk/09-conferences/water-resources-management-2009.html. - 13-17 September 2009: International Conference on Ecology and Transportation, Duluth, Minnesota - http://www.icoet.net/ICOET2009.asp. - 14-16 September 2009: 3rd International Conference on Estuaries & Coasts, Sendai, Japan - http://donko.civil.tohoku.ac.jp/icec2009/index.html. - 15-18 September 2009: 12th International Conference on Shellfish Restoration, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island - http://www.gov.pe.ca/shellfishconf. - 16-18 September 2009: Coasts, Marine Structures and Breakwaters 2009, Edinburgh, Scotland - http://www.ice-breakwaters.com. - 20-23 September 2009: 27th Meeting of the International Association of Sedimentologists, Alghero, Island of Sardinia, Italy - http://www.ias2009.com. - 21-23 September 2009: Northeast Beaches Conference, Woods Hole, Massachusetts - http://www.ieca-nechapter.org/coastal2009.html. - 21-25 September 2009: ICES Annual Science Conference 2009, Berlin, Germany - http://www.ices.dk/iceswork/asc/2009/index.asp. - 21-25 September 2009: OceanObs'09 Symposium, Venice, Italy - http://www.oceanobs09.net. 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