Events

Demonstration of the Marine Reserves and Local Fisheries Interactive Simulation by Dan Brumbaugh of the American Museum of Natural History.

This simulation-based educational tool allows users to experiment with the use of marine reserves as tools in fisheries management and to explore various biological and economic factors that influence population viability and fisheries sustainability. Focusing on key Caribbean fisheries species, their habitat preferences, the distribution of these habitats across the seascape, economic costs and proceeds from small-scale fisheries, and simple models of fishing behavior, the simulation provides an easy to use but flexible platform for visualizing and exploring multiple ecological and human dimensions of fisheries management and marine reserve design. Learn more about and download this tool at https://webmail.natureserve.org/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://ncep.amnh.org/marine_simulation/.  For more information, contact the EBM Tools Network Coordinator Sarah Carr at sarah_carr@natureserve.org.

Presentation about Community at Sea Mapper by Kevin St. Martin of Rutgers University on Thursday, May 29, at 3 pm EDT (US & Canada).  

Please note that this webinar will involve the use of both an online desktop sharing system for video AND a conventional telephone conference call for audio.  The video and audio portions will be enabled 30 minutes prior to the start of the webinar to allow users to test their systems. 

A key difficulty in EBM is directly integrating human communities into the marine environment and management.  These difficulties are largely a result of the lack of data specifying those areas at sea that are utilized by communities of resource users even as the marine environment is increasingly understood in spatial terms.  This presentation will describe the background research for and a tool currently under development- Community at Sea Mapper- that will link port communities to resource areas.

Community at Sea Mapper (still under development) will facilitate two basic functions. The first function will link port communities (as defined by the end user) to resource areas. The second function will link specific resource areas (defined by the end user) to particular port communities.  The tool will facilitate the creation of maps depicting the resource areas upon which coastal communities depend and it will work to enhance impact analyses of area-based management initiatives.

Since the Community at Sea Mapper tool is still under development, this presentation will focus on Dr. St. Martin's research on New Engand fishing communities informing the tool functionality.  A demonstration of the tool functionality will be held at a later date after the tool is completed.

Funding for development of Community at Sea Mapper is being provided by the Duke-Packard Marine EBM Tool Innovation Fund.  For more information about the tool being developed and Dr. St. Martin's research, see http://mgel.env.duke.edu/proj/mebm/funded-projects/communities/index_html and http://geography.rutgers.edu/people/faculty/stmartin/research.html.

For more information, contact the EBM Tools Network Coordinator Sarah Carr at sarah_carr@natureserve.org.