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May 29, 2008 Presentation about Community at Sea Mapper by Kevin St. Martin of Rutgers University
Start: 15:00
End: 16:00

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.

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June 12, 2008 Demonstration of InVEST by Heather Tallis of the Natural Capital Project
Start: 14:00
End: 15:00

Demonstration of InVEST by Heather Tallis of the Natural Capital Project. 

Government officials, conservation professionals, farmers, and other land owners make decisions about how to use their land all the time. Yet, never before have any of these groups had a systematic way to demonstrate the future costs and benefits of their decisions for people and the environment. In its most ground-breaking effort, the Natural Capital Project aims to meet this challenge with InVEST, a new tool that can model and map the delivery, distribution, and economic value of life-support systems (ecosystem services), well into the future. The tool will help users visualize the impacts of potential decisions, identifying tradeoffs and compatibilities between environmental, economic, and social benefits.  Learn more about InVEST.  For more information, contact the EBM Tools Network Coordinator Sarah Carr at sarah_carr@natureserve.org.

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June 24, 2008 Presentation of "Models in Support of Decision Making" by Emily Cloyd
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End: 16:00
Presentation of "Models in support of decision making: deliberative effectiveness, explanatory effectiveness, and policy relevance of models in natural resources management. Case studies in the Laurentian Great Lakes" by Emily Therese Cloyd from the U.S. Climate Change Science Program Office (June 24, 3 pm EDT).  This study focused on how participants experienced the process of using models to support policy decisions and what their experiences suggest for designing future processes. We analyzed four cases in which computer simulation models served as decision support tools, all drawn from the Laurentian Great Lakes.  For each case, we assessed how models have been used in decision making, their strengths and weaknesses as decision tools, the ways they have enhanced or undermined decision processes, and ways their development and use could be improved. We conducted in-depth interviews with modelers, managers, decision-makers, and stakeholders and drew on scientific and technical literature related to each case in order to understand the "success" of models as decision support tools in three areas: (1) deliberative effectiveness (fostering communication among participants); (2) explanatory effectiveness (achieving a shared understanding of the problem and solutions); and (3) policy relevance (relevant to the actual policy decisions being made).  Download the full report (JP Manno, R Smardon, JV DePinto, ET Cloyd, and SM Del Granado. 2008 The use of models in Great Lakes decision making: an interdisciplinary synthesis. Randolph G. Pack Environmental Institute: Syracuse, NY. Occasional Paper 16. 95 pp.) at www.esf.edu/es/documents/GreatLakesRpt.pdf.  For more information about the demonstration, contact the EBM Tools Network Coordinator Sarah Carr at sarah_carr@natureserve.org.
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