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Tools Training

Coastal-Marine EBM Tools Training for Pacific Practitioners | Marine Protected Area and Ecosystem-Based Management Tools Knowledge Café

Coastal-Marine EBM Tools Training for Pacific Practitioners

James Cook University and the University of Queensland in conjuction with the EBM Tools Network Training Program hosted the EBM Tools Training for Pacific Practitioners from August 27-29, 2008, at the Magnetic Island International Resort on Magnetic Island in Queensland, Australia. Fifty-five practitioners from Fiji, Indonesia, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, Vietnam, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the United States participated in the training. The objectives of the training were to:

Increase awareness of software tools that can facilitate coastal-marine EBM processes
Increase effective use of EBM software tools

Training sessions were held in two tracks:

Track A: Introduction to tools and their functionality, utility, and capacity requirements
Track B: Tools applications, methods, approaches and techniques

Jorge Alvarez-Romero presents to workshop participants. Photo by Sarah Carr.

Presentations from the meeting can be viewed by clicking on the links below.

Wednesday, August 27

Welcome Presentation by Bob Pressey
Introduction to EBM tools and the EBM Tools Network and overview of workshop by Sarah Carr and Dan Dorfman

Overviews of EBM tools for Marine Protected Area Network Planning, Marine Ecosystem Conservation Planning, Accounting for Connectivity, and Integrated Land-Sea Planning
Marxan and Marzone by Carissa Klein and Matt Watts
Zonation by Dan Segan
C-Plan Ecosystem Planning by Bob Pressey
A land-sea toolkit: NatureServe Vista, CommunityViz, and N-SPECT by Patrick Crist
Marine Geospatial Ecology Tools (MGET) by Jason Roberts

Emerging Tools and Approaches for EBM
Tools for dealing with risk, uncertainty, and climate-driven ecological change by Eddie Game
Return On Investment (ROI) calculations for ecosystem services tool by Michael Bode
Return on Investment by Bob Pressey

Thursday, August 28

Track A: Putting Tools for Marine Ecosystem Conservation Planning and MPA Network Planning into Practice
California MARXAN tool use case study by Carissa Klein
Marine ecosystem management in the Philippines by Rebecca Weeks
MPA networks and ecosystem conservation in Kimbe Bay by Joseph Aisti

Track B: Applying Tools for Integrated Land-Sea Planning
“Interfaces” Approach in Marxan by Matt Watts and Maria Beger
Overview of a land-sea toolkit: NatureServe Vista, CommunityViz, and N-SPECT functionality by Patrick Crist
Marine, terrestrial, and freshwater integrated ecosystem resource conservation planning by Dan Dorfman

Track A: Putting Tools for Integrated Land-Sea Planning into Practice
Framework presentation by Jorge Alvarez-Romero
Watershed Catchment effects on the Great Barrier Reef by Jane Waterhouse
Integrated assessment and planning case study by Patrick Crist
Return on Investment (ROI) case study by Carissa Klein
“Interfaces” Approach in Marxan by Maria Beger

Track B: Applying Tools for Marine Ecosystem Conservation Planning and MPA Network Planning
Overview of relevant Marxan/Marzone functionality by Matt Watts and Eddie Game
Overview of relevant Zonation functionality by Dan Segan

Friday, August 29

Track A: Putting Tools for Accounting for Connectivity into Practice
Coral reef ecosystem connectivity case study by Maria Beger
Hydrodynamic connectivity of coral reefs: a case study by Eric Treml

Track B: EBM Tools for Ecosystem Approaches to Fisheries Management
Overview and demonstration of Ecopath with Ecosim by Villy Christensen

Track A: EBM Tools for Ecosystem Approaches to Fisheries Management
Overview and presentation on fisheries ecosystem modeling with Ecopath and EcoSim case studies by Villy Christensen

Track B: Applying Tools for Accounting for Connectivity
Tools application for coral reef ecosystem connectivity by Matt Watts and Maria Beger
Connectivity tools in MGET by Jason Roberts and Eric Treml

Engaging Communities in EBM and Tool Use
Social network analysis by Ken Vance-Borland
Kimbe Bay case study by Freda Paiva
Philippines case study by Garry Russ

Informal Presentations
Presentations by Chris Bartlett and John Ronneth on marine/coastal resource management in Vanuatu and the creation of a marine reserve network on Nguna and Pele islands
EBM tools in a Community Setting by James Comley

Workshop participants on a bushwalk on Magnetic Island. Photo by Kiki Dethmers.

Marine Protected Area and Ecosystem-Based Management Tools Knowledge Café

Venue: International Marine Conservation Congress in Fairfax, Virginia IMCC Logo
Date: May 19,2009
Location: The Bistro, George Mason University
Sponsors: Conservation International and the EBM Tools Network
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A wealth of tools exist to assist marine protected area managers and other marine resource managers in addressing the various issues they are tackling, including resilience to climate change, economic incentives, ecosystem-based management and networks of protected areas. Yet accessing this information has been a challenge as institutions and initiatives are dispersed worldwide. The Knowledge Cafe provided an opportunity to access critical tools for MPAs and EBM. Tool providers were available to explain their tool to participants, provide demonstrations of the tools, and discuss tool relevance to attendees’ projects with them. Tools demonstrated included guidebooks, software, websites, models, and integrated tool kits.

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Tools being demonstrated:

Coastal Transects Analysis Model (CTAM) (Ratana Chuenpagdee and Ian Ivany, Coastal Development Centre, International Coastal Network) CTAM helps visualize and analyze interactions and flows between natural and human systems, with current emphasis on fisheries and aquatic resources, using information provided by users, literature, and expert judgment. Learn more at www.coastaltransects.org.

Consvalmap.org (Giselle SamonteTan, Conservation International) This interactive website provides an easy-to-use reference to all the economic valuation statistics of tropical marine resources worldwide. Learn more at www.consvalmap.org.

EBM Tools Network Website (ebmtools.org) and Database (Sarah Carr, EBM Tools Network) The EBM Tools Network is a voluntary, international alliance to promote the awareness, development, and effective use of tools and methods for EBM of coastal and marine environments and their watersheds. At this table, we will provide an overview of the range of available EBM tools and the EBM Tools Database. Learn more at ebmtools.org.

Guidebook to Incentive-based Conservation Approaches and Marine Management Areas (Heidi Gjertsen and Eduard Niesten, Conservation International) Heidi and Eduard will share their lessons-learned analysis of a global set of case studies of buy-outs, conservation incentive agreements, and alternative livelihoods projects. They will be available to discuss the applications to your situation and what key issues to consider as you plan your incentive-based conservation strategy.

Integrated Biodiversity Assessment Tool (IBAT) for business (Conrad Savy, Conservation International) IBAT for business is the first output of a shared vision between BirdLife International, UNEP-WCMC and CI, with IUCN acting as an observer. IBAT integrates critical conservation data via web-based tools to facilitate fine-scale biodiversity risk assessment by public and private sector decision-makers. Learn more about the application of this tool to marine-related development planning. Learn more at www.ibatforbusiness.org.

Marine Geospatial Ecology Tools (MGET) (Jason Roberts and Daniel Dunn, Duke University Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab) MGET is a free collection of ArcGIS tools that facilitate the inclusion of ecological and oceanographic data and analyses in MPA planning processes. MGET includes tools for acquiring and manipulating biological and remotely-sensed oceanographic data, building habitat models from field observations of important species, and modeling hydrodynamic connectivity of coral reefs. Learn more at http://code.env.duke.edu/projects/mget.

MarineMap Decision Support Tool (Will McClintock, University of California at Santa Barbara) MarineMap is a free tool that helps stakeholders visualize geospatial data layers, draw prospective MPA boundaries, share prospective MPA boundaries with other users, and generate graphs and statistics to evaluate MPAs on science-based guidelines. Learn more at http://marinemap.org/marinemap.

Marine Integrated Decision Analysis System (MIDAS) (Suchi Gopal, Boston University) MIDAS offers managers and other users of MMAs (marine managed areas) around the world the capability to analyze outcomes that result from the interaction of governance, socioeconomic and ecological factors. The users can input information relevant to their MMAs and quickly visualize the outcomes, including a map of the spatial distribution of risk.

Marine Reserve and Local Fisheries Interactive Simulation (Dan Brumbaugh, American Museum of Natural History) This simulation-based education 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. It focuses 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. Learn more at http://ncep.amnh.org/marine_simulation.

MPA EZ – the CCIF MPA Financial Management Tool (Sarah Conway and John Claussen, Conservation and Community Investment Forum) MPA EZ is a free web-and Excel-based tool that provides an overview of an MPA’s current financial situation and helps ensure that resource allocation is in-line with management objectives, financial and physical resources are used efficiently, and financing portfolios are sustainable. Learn more at http://ccif.digitalclouds.net/costmodel/authentication/login.

Open OceanMap (Charles Steinback, Ecotrust) Open OceanMap is a data collection tool used to collect local expert knowledge in support of marine spatial planning. Open OceanMap allows the user to collect and compile ecological and economic data through an intuitive 100-pennies stakeholder interview process. The tool provides interviewees with a web-based interface to review and verify information and aggregates data to ensure confidentiality. Learn more at www.ecotrust.org/ocean/OpenOceanMap.html.

ProtectPlanetOcean.org (Leah Bunce Karrer, Conservation International) This interactive website provides easy access to a wealth of information on MPAs, including a virtual library of marine resource tools ranging from guidebooks to software models to video clips. Learn more at www.protectplanetocean.org.

Practitioner’s Toolkit and Field Guide for Marine Conservation Agreements (Jay Udelhoven, The Nature Conservancy) Marine Conservation Agreements (MCAs) are increasingly being used by NGOs around the world to complement traditional efforts (such as MPAs, area-wide laws and fisheries management) to protect, manage and improve marine biodiversity and ecosystem services. MCAs include any formal or informal understanding between two or more parties in which the parties obligate themselves, for an exchange of benefits, to take certain actions, refrain from certain actions, or transfer certain rights and responsibilities to achieve agreed upon ocean or coastal conservation goals. To help field practitioners understand what MCAs are, determine if MCAs can help them meet their conservation goals, and plan in-water MCA projects, The Nature Conservancy and partners have developed an on-line toolkit and field guide for MCAs. The toolkit and field guide provide information on the basics of MCAs, phases for evaluating and implementing MCAs, country analyses, case studies and resources. Learn more at www.mcatoolkit.org.

Reef Resilience Toolkit (Stephanie Wear, The Nature Conservancy) Developed for coral reef managers, the toolkit provides guidance on how to integrate and build the principles of resilience to climate change into the design of MPAs and daily management activities. The toolkit includes guidance on management strategies such as conserving fish spawning aggregations, MPA network design, and developing coral reef monitoring programs. During the Café, we will review what is available within this new toolkit and share plans for advancing this work via training and practitioners networks. Learn more at www.reefresilience.org.

Social Network Mapping and Analysis for EBM and Conservation Planning (Ken Vance-Borland, Conservation Planning Institute) Many of the insights we get when we reflect on our conservation actions have to do with relationships—who shares information with whom and which individuals are working together. Network maps enable us to track these relationships and then work to improve information flow, innovation diffusion, and collaborative activities by improving the connectivity of individuals in the conservation network. Learn more at www.networkweaving.com/june.html.

For additional information about the Cafe, please contact Leah Bunce Karrer (l.karrer at conservation dot org) or Sarah Carr (sarah_carr at natureserve dot org).

NatureServe Vista® Presentation by Patrick Crist

Demonstration of NatureServe Vista® by Patrick Crist of NatureServe (September 30, 2008). This webinar provides an overview of NatureServe Vista, a decision support system for conservation planning that integrates conservation information with land/water use patterns and policies, providing planners, resource managers, and communities with tools to help manage their natural resources. This conservation planning software enables users to create, evaluate, implement, and monitor land use and resource management plans that operate within the existing economic, social, and political context to achieve conservation goals. This presentation also includes an overview of an integrated land-sea planning toolkit featuring Vista, CommunityViz, and N-SPECT software. Learn more about NatureServe Vista at www.natureserve.org/prodServices/vista/overview.jsp.

EBM Tools Awareness Presentation by Dan Dorfman 091608

Use of Models in Great Lakes Decision Making by Emily Cloyd

InVEST Demonstration by Heather Tallis

Community at Sea Mapper Presentation by Kevin St Martin

Marine Reserves Local Fisheries Simulation Demonstration by Dan Brumbaugh

Restoration Prioritization Toolset Demonstration by Chaeli Judd

EBM Tools Awareness Presentation by Dan Dorfman

e-Participation Overview by Chris Hallers

EBM Tools Network Webinar and Office Hour Series

Tools Training

The EBM Tools Network Webinar Series highlights key tools and tool use case studies to help practitioners learn about tools quickly and determine their suitability for specific EBM projects. Webinars are held 1-3 times per month and typically last 1 hour.

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Upcoming EBM Tool Demonstration Webinars

Thursday,
April 11, 1 pm EDT/10 am PDT/5 pm GMT

Webinar
on WWII Offshore: Monitor National Marine Sanctuary’s Battle of the Atlantic
Expedition by John Wagner of the Monitor National Marine Sanctuary. The Battle of the
Atlantic has been called the longest, largest and most complex naval battle in
history, running throughout World War II and extending across the Atlantic to
U.S. shores. The Battle of the Atlantic Expedition is a multiyear maritime
archaeology project to survey and document historically significant shipwrecks
lost off the coast of North Carolina. Find out more about the field of maritime
archaeology, innovative archaeological survey technologies, and Monitor
National Marine Sanctuary’s efforts to raise awareness and appreciation of
these nonrenewable cultural resources. Webinar co-hosted by the NOAA National
MPA Center, MPA News, and OpenChannels. Register for the webinar at https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/567879617.

Tuesday,
April 23, 1 pm EDT/10 am PDT/5 pm GMT

Webinar
Demonstration of Our Coast-Our Future led by Kelley Higgason of the Gulf of the
Farallones National Marine Sanctuary and Michael Fitzgibbon, PRBO
Conservation Science.
Our Coast–Our Future (OCOF) provides San Francisco Bay Area planners and
managers with online maps and tools to help understand, visualize, and
anticipate vulnerabilities to sea level rise and storms. OCOF provides a
variety of information and tools needed to plan for changing Bay Area
shorelines including: seamless Digital Elevation Model (DEM) at 2 meter
horizontal resolution; 25 cm increment sea level rise projections between 0 - 2
meters with a 5 meter extreme; storm scenarios using the Coastal Storm Modeling
System (CoSMoS); and interactive maps overlaying infrastructure and ecosystem
vulnerabilities. Scenarios and decision support tools are currently available
for the North-central California coast and are anticipated to be available for
San Francisco Bay by Summer 2014. This webinar will provide information on how
these products were created as well as give a live demonstration of their
capabilities. Learn more at www.prbo.org/ocof.
Register for the webinar at https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/249162664.

Wednesday, April 24, 4 pm US EDT/1 pm US
PDT/8 pm GMT

Live “Office Hour” Chat on the Global
Ocean Legacy Project with Imogen Zethoven of the Pew Charitable Trusts. The Pew Charitable Trust’s Global
Ocean Legacy project actively works with national governments and other
partners to designate very large, fully protected marine reserves around the
world. The project has been a principal driver behind the designation of the
640,000-km² Chagos MPA (UK), the 360,000-km²
Papahanaumokuakea Marine National Monument (US), and more recently, the
502,000-km² no-take zone within Australia’s new 1 million-km²
Coral Sea Marine Reserve. Global Ocean Legacy is now working to establish
similar large reserves in the waters of the Kermadec Islands (New Zealand) and
Bermuda. Imogen Zethoven, director of Pew’s Coral Sea campaign, an effort of the
Global Ocean Legacy project, will be available during the chat to discuss the Global
Ocean Legacy project. Participants are encouraged to visit the Global Ocean Legacy project website
before the chat. The link for the chat
will be released shortly.

Thursday,
May 2, 1 pm EDT/10 am US PDT/5 pm GMT

Webinar
Demonstration of Social Values for Ecosystem Services (SolVES) by Ben Sherrouse
and Darius Semmens of USGS. Social Values for Ecosystem Services (SolVES) is a GIS-based
tool to assess, map, and quantify nonmarket values of ecosystem services as
perceived by stakeholders. These perceived social values often correspond to
cultural ecosystem services, such as aesthetics and recreation. These values
can be compared among different stakeholder groups distinguished by their
attitudes and preferences regarding public uses, such as motorized recreation
or logging. SolVES derives a nonmonetary, 10-point social-values metric, the
value index (VI), from a combination of spatial and nonspatial responses to
public attitude and preference surveys. It then models the relationship between
VI and characteristics of the underlying environment, such as average distance
to water and dominant land cover. Additionally, SolVES facilitates the transfer
of social-value models to areas where primary survey data are not available.
Learn more about SolVES at http://solves.cr.usgs.gov. Register
for the webinar at https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/438764008.

Thursday, May 9, 1 pm EDT/10 am PDT/5 pm GMT

Webinar on Marine Protected Area Network Planning in the Bay
of Fundy/Scotian Shelf by Maxine Westhead of Fisheries and Oceans Canada. Planning a network
of MPAs off of Canada’s East Coast of Nova Scotia and New Brunswick is no small
task. Fisheries and Oceans Canada is the lead agency of this effort, working in
partnership with Environment Canada, Parks Canada and the provinces to design a
marine protected areas network that represents the region’s diverse habitats
and ecosystems to meet the goals of the Convention on Biological Diversity, as
well as national and regional goals and mandates. Maxine will describe
the work completed to date for this unique area of Canadian waters, successes,
challenges, and next steps in the planning process. Webinar co-hosted by the
NOAA National MPA Center, MPA News, and OpenChannels. Register for the
webinar at https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/753744104.

Thursday, May 16, 1 pm EDT/10 am PDT/5 pm GMT

Webinar Demonstration of How to Apply CMECS to Existing
Geospatial Datasets by Mark Finkbeiner and Chris Robinson of NOAA Coastal
Services Center. The Coastal and Marine Ecological Classification Standard
(CMECS) provides a comprehensive national framework for organizing information
about coasts and oceans and their living systems. This framework accommodates
the physical, biological, and chemical data that collectively define coastal
and marine ecosystems. The recent endorsement of CMECS by the Federal Geographic
Data Committee (FGDC) is an important step in facilitating development of
regionally consistent spatial data and integrating data derived using various
technologies. While some users will employ CMECS at the outset of their
projects, for many others CMECS will form the unifying framework for
incorporating existing spatial data classified according to other
systems. To facilitate this process, NOAA Coastal Services Center has
developed a tool which imports benthic cover data classified using the System
for Classification of Habitats in Estuarine and Marine Environments (SCHEME)
and produces a CMECS geodatabase as an output product. This tool functions in
an ESRI environment and can be adapted to work with other classification
systems. This presentation will highlight the CMECS data model, demonstrate the
tool’s functionality, describe the cross-walking process, and show how it can
be adapted to other commonly used data. Read more about CMECS at www.csc.noaa.gov/digitalcoast/publications/cmecs.
Register for the webinar at https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/362922144.

Thursday,
June 13, 1 pm EDT/10 am PDT/5 pm GMT

Webinar
on Big Ocean MPA Network: Addressing the Common Challenges of Large,
Remote Marine Protected Areas by Aulani Wilhelm of the Papahanaumokuakea Marine
National Monument. Is big always better? Big Ocean is a network of
managers and partners of existing and proposed large-scale marine managed
areas. The network’s aim is to improve the effectiveness of management efforts,
to serve as a peer learning resource and support system, and to build the
professional standards of practice for large, remote MPAs. The six founding
member sites in Australia, the United States, Kiribati, Chagos (UK) and Chile
represent more than 900,000 mi² (2.3 million km²) of
ocean ecosystems -- roughly the same size as the Mediterranean Sea. Webinar
co-hosted by the NOAA National MPA Center, MPA News, and OpenChannels. Register
for the webinar at https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/176985136.

Thursday,
July 11, 1 pm EDT/10 am PDT/5 pm GMT

Webinar on SocMon: Social Science Monitoring in Coastal
and MPA Management by Peter Edwards of the NOAA Coral Reef Conservation Program. How do we know what
impacts MPAs and other coastal management tools are having on the lives of
people who live nearby? This information is critical for management
decisions, but often lacking. The Global Socioeconomic Monitoring Initiative
for Coastal Management (SocMon) works through regional and local partners to conduct
community-based socioeconomic monitoring. Partners collect
household and community level data about dependence on coral reef resources,
perceptions of resource conditions, threats to marine and coastal resources,
and support for strategies such as marine protected areas. Take a look at
some of these monitoring exercises and learn about findings, lessons learned
and challenges facing effective use of human dimensions data as part of coastal
resource management. Webinar co-hosted by the NOAA National MPA Center, MPA News,
and OpenChannels. Register for the webinar at https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/971236993.

Thursday, August 8, 1 pm EDT/10 am PDT/5 pm GMT

Webinar on Drawing the Line: Visualizing Global MPA
distribution using Practical Protection Categories with MPAtlas.org
by Lance Morgan and Russell Moffitt of the Marine Conservation Institute. Currently, only
about 1.8% of the world’s oceans are in MPAs; far less than the 12% of land
area that is protected. Of the world’s MPAs, only a small fraction—less than
half—are in areas designated as no-take marine reserves, places where fishing
is prohibited. MPAtlas.org is an interactive online compilation of key information on
the world’s MPAs to help users locate and learn about individual MPAs. Speakers
will discuss country- and regional-level progress towards implementing MPAs and
allow users to obtain information on the distribution of MPAs relative to
social, political, and ecological contexts. Webinar co-hosted by the NOAA National
MPA Center, MPA News, and OpenChannels. Register for the webinar at https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/834025201.

Download Recordings of Past EBM Tool Webinars (by Date)

Webinars below are organized by the date they were held.

Monitoring Resources (March 20, 2013)

Finding the Right Tool(s) for Coastal Climate Change Planning (March 12, 2013)

Role of Decision Support Tools and Toolkits in Building Conservation Capacity (February 26, 2013)

Mapping and Visualizing Sea Level Rise and Coastal Flooding Impacts (January 15, 2013)

Incorporating Ecosystem Services into Assessments of Climate Change Vulnerability and Adaptation (December 4, 2012)

Integrated Ecosystem Assessment for the California Current (November 20, 2012)

Evaluating Conservation and Management Efforts through an Eco-Audit (November 13, 2012)

Madrona (October 23, 2012)

OpenChannels (October 9, 2012)

Habitat Climate Change Vulnerability Index (September 25, 2012)

SeaSketch (August 21, 2012)

Esri's Emerging Natural and Ocean Sciences Agenda (August 2, 2012)

ArcGIS (July 18, 2012)

Social Vulnerability Index (SoVI) (June 12, 2012)

Uncertainty Analysis Using SLAMM (May 9, 2012)

EcoSpatial Information Database (April 24, 2012)

CommunityViz CHARM Model (March 14, 2012)

Oregon MarineMap (February 7, 2012)

Climate Change Vulnerability Index (January 19, 2012)

Networking Coastal Web Atlases to Address Regional Scale Issues (December 6, 2011)

Building Capacity for Coastal Conservation Planning in Georgia (November 9, 2011)

Marine Zoning in Saint Kitts and Nevis (October 26, 2011)

Massachusetts Ocean Management Plan Use of Decision Support Tools (October 13, 2011)

Engaging Plans (September 28, 2011)

Marine Ecosystem Services Library (September 15, 2011)

Marine Spatial Planning Decision Support Tools Decision Guide (August 18, 2011)

Economics: National Ocean Watch (ENOW) (August 2, 2011)

Ecosystem Based Management of the Bird’s Head Seascape (July 25/26, 2011)

Integrating Climate Vulnerability Assessment and Adaptation in a Conservation Planning Approach (July 13, 2011)

Ecosystem-Based Zoning in the Bay of Samaná, Dominican Republic (June 21, 2011)

Development of framework for making catchment tradeoff decisions (June 15, 2011)

Coral Reef Scenario Evaluation Tool (CORSET) (May 26/27, 2011)

SimCLIM (May 4, 2011)

Coastal Adaptation to Sea Level Rise Tool (COAST) (April 21, 2011)

Coastal and Marine Ecological Classification Standard (CMECS) (April 5, 2011)

Ecosystem Management Decision Support (EMDS) (March 30, 2011)

Multi-scale Integrated Models of Ecosystem Services (MIMES) (March 15, 2011)

OpenNSPECT (February 24, 2011)

HPP-Habitat Priority Planner (February 8, 2011)

Ecosystem Assessment and Reporting Tool (EAR) (January 27, 2011)

West Coast EBM Network: Real Steps towards EBM along the West Coast of the U.S. (January 13, 2011)

CanVis (December 14, 2010)

Collaborative Learning and Land Use Tools (December 1, 2010)

Creating Resilient Communities EBM Tool Demonstration Project (November 17, 2010)

Economic Data Needed for EBM (October 28, 2010)

Marine InVEST (October 12, 2010)

Digital Coast Coastal Inundation Toolkit (September 23, 2010)

Multipurpose Marine Cadastre 2.0 (August 26, 2010)

HD.Gov Web Portal (July 22, 2010)

Miradi 3.1 (June 3, 2010)

InVEST (May 19, 2010)

NatureServe Vista 2.5 [Spanish] (May 11, 2010)

MarineMap (May 3, 2010)

From ArcGIS to Web Maps: Simple Techniques for Publishing GIS Maps Online (April 22, 2010)

Keyhole Markup Language (KML) and the Mapping Application Programming Interface (API) (April 14, 2010)

Coastal Web Atlas Interoperability Prototype (March 25, 2010)

Marine Integrated Decision Analysis System (MIDAS) (March 10, 2010)

SLAMM and SLAMM-View (February 23, 2010)

Comparing tool-based and stakeholder-based approaches for designing marine reserve networks (February 3, 2010)

Ocean and Coastal EBM Implementation Handbook (January 20, 2010)

Connie 2.0 (December 14/15, 2009)

ARIES (December 3, 2009)

NatureServe Vista 2.5 (November 18, 2009)

Participatory GIS (November 5, 2009)

California Ocean Uses Atlas Project (October 20, 2009)

Fledermaus (October 7, 2009)

Science Communication Tools (September 30, 2009)

Integrated Land-Sea Planning Toolkit (September 22, 2009)

Marxan with Zones (August 26 and 27, 2009)

U.S. Legislative Atlas (August 12, 2009)

Reef Resilience Toolkit (July 29/30, 2009)

Coastal Resilience EBM Tool Demonstration Project (July 16, 2009)

Cumulative Impact Mapping of Human Activities on Marine Ecosystems (July 8, 2009)

Eureka (June 30, 2009)

Mitigation Ratio Calculator (June 4, 2009)

MPA EZ – the CCIF MPA Financial Management Tool (May 18, 2009)

anyWare Polling (May 6, 2009)

Multi-species Community-Based Fisheries Monitoring and Managing Tool (April 1, 2009)

MINOE (February 5, 2009)

Social Network Mapping and Analysis (January 29, 2009)

Eonfusion (January 14, 2009)

Fishery Analyst (December 10, 2008)

Atlantis (November 12, 2008)

InVitro (November 12, 2008)

Marine Geospatial Ecology Tools (MGET) (October 15, 2008)

EBM Tools Awareness Webinar #2 (September 16, 2008)

Models in support of decision making (June 24, 2008)

Communities at Sea Mapper (May 29, 2008)

Marine Reserves and Local Fisheries Interactive Simulation (May 15, 2008)

Restoration Prioritization Toolset (April 10, 2008)

Ecopath with Ecosim (EwE) and the Ecoseed Project (March 26, 2008)

EBM Tools Awareness #1 (March 25, 2008)

e-Participation (March 6, 2008)

Marxan (February 12, 2008)

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Marine Protected Area and Ecosystem-Based Management Tools Knowledge Café

Venue: International Marine Conservation Congress in Fairfax, Virginia IMCC Logo
Date: May 19,2009
Time: 1-5 pm
Location: The Bistro, George Mason University
Sponsors: Conservation International and the EBM Tools Network
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A wealth of tools exist to assist marine protected area managers and other marine resource managers in addressing the various issues they are tackling, including resilience to climate change, economic incentives, ecosystem-based management and networks of protected areas. Yet accessing this information has been a challenge as institutions and initiatives are dispersed worldwide. The Knowledge Cafe will provide an opportunity to access critical tools for MPAs and EBM. Tool providers will be available to explain their tool to participants, provide demonstrations of the tools, and discuss tool relevance to attendees’ projects with them. Tools being demonstrated include guidebooks, software, websites, models, and integrated tool kits.