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List of conferences relevant to MPAs and/or marine ecosystem-based management
Last updated: January 13, 2010
| January 12-15, 2010 | "ICRI General Meeting" | Monaco | General Meeting of the International Coral Reef Initiative (ICRI) Secretariat; will include a full day dedicated to the Caribbean region | Web: icriforum.org/GM24/index.html |
| February 18-22, 2010 | "Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)" | San Diego, California, U.S. | Theme is "Bridging Science and Society" | Web: www.aaas.org/meetings/2010 |
| February 22-26, 2010 | "2010 Ocean Sciences Meeting" | Portland, Oregon, U.S. | Includes a session on marine spatial planning | Web: www.agu.org/meetings/os10/ |
| March 6-10, 2010 | "International Conference on Coastal Zone Management of River Deltas and Low Land Coastlines" | Alexandria, Egypt | Themes include coastal change processes and human influence on coasts; coastal modeling and risk management; coastal and beach ecosystems; and more | E-mail: nicoastmarine@gmail.com |
| April 11-17, 2010 | "International Conference on Coastal Conservation and Management in the Atlantic and Mediterranean (ICCCM10)" | Cascais, Portugal | Conference themes include strategic environmental assessment in coastal areas; integrated coastal zone management; living with erosion; and tourism and coastal conservation | Web: icccm.dcea.fct.unl.pt/ |
| April 12-13, 2010 | "International Symposium on Coastal Zones and Climate Change: Assessing the Impacts and Developing Adaptation Strategies" | Churchill, Victoria, Australia | Assessing the impacts of climate change in coastal zones (including sea level rise), and examining strategies and policies for adaptation | Web: www.monash.edu.au/cemo/czcc2010/ |
| April 19-21, 2010 | "Islands 2010: First International Conference on Island Sustainabilityt" | Brac Island, Croatia | Topics will include climate change, natural resources and economics, tourism strategies, and more | Web: www.wessex.ac.uk/10-conferences/islands-2010.html |
| June 1-4, 2010 | "MPA Workshop: Design of Marine Protected Areas for Chemosynthetic Ecosystems" | Dinard, France | Formulating a general approach for the design of MPA networks around hydrothermal vents and seeps | Web: www.interridge.org/en/node/5951 |
| June 7-11, 2010 | "12th Deep-sea Biology Symposium" | Reykjavik, Iceland | Themes include diversity, reproduction, human impact in the deep sea, and outcomes of the Census projects | Web: 12dsbs.hi.is/ |
| June 13-16, 2010 | "The Coastal Society's 22nd International Conference" | Wilmington, North Carolina, US | Providing information and solutions relevant to solving contemporary coastal problems | Web: www.thecoastalsociety.org/conference/tcs22/abstract.html |
| June 15-17, 2010 | "Sustainable Ocean Summit" | Belfast, UK | Held by the World Ocean Council;
it is the first international,
cross-sectoral ocean sustainability conference for the private sector |
Web: www.oceancouncil.org |
| June 15-18, 2010 | "The Third International Symposium on Research and Management of Eutrophication in Coastal Ecosystems (EUTRO 2010)" | Nyborg, Denmark | Presenting most recent results and experience in the research and management of coastal eutrophication | Web: www.eutro2010.dhi.dk/ |
| June 19-23, 2010 | "12th International Symposium on the Interactions between Sediment and Water" | Dartington, Devon, U.K. | Exploring the state-of-the-art in sediment-water science from catchment to coast, and its contribution toward sustainable management of water-sediment systems | Web: www.geog.plymouth.ac.uk/IASWS2011/ |
| July 3-7, 2010 | "24th International Congress for Conservation Biology" | Edmonton, Alberta, Canada | Presenting new developments in conservation science and practice | Web: www.conbio.org/Activities/Meetings/2010/ |
| July 13-16, 2010 | "IIFET 2010 (Conference of the International Institute for Fisheries Economics and Trade)" | Montpellier, France | Theme is "Economics of fish resources and aquatic ecosystems: balancing uses, balancing costs" | Web: www.colloque.ird.fr/iifet-2010/ |
| July 23-30, 2010 | "The Fisheries Society of the British Isles Annual Conference: Fish and Climate Change" | Belfast, UK | Bringing together fish biologists of all disciplines and backgrounds who are interested in climate change | Web: www.fsbi.org.uk/2010/ |
| July 24-29, 2010 | "Coastal Zone Canada 2010" | Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada | Theme is "Healthy Oceans - Strong Coastal Communities" | E-mail: kdcantelo@gov.pe.ca |
| September 7-10, 2010 | "California and the World Ocean (CWO) 2010" | San Francisco, California, US | Conference theme is "Our Changing Ocean: A Vision for the 21st Century" | Web: www.cce.csus.edu/conferences/cnra/cwo2010/index.htm |
| September 20-24, 2010 | "VIII World Sponge Conference" | Girona, Spain | Including discussion of sponge conservation issues | Web: www.spongeconference2010.org |
| October 25-29, 2010 | "6th International Conference on Marine Waste Water Discharges and Coastal Environment (MWWD 2010)" | Langkawi, Malaysia | Themes include: Environmental Impact Assessment of near-shore and offshore discharges; Environmental aspects of water discharges; Eutrophication and discharge’s impacts on marine biology;bio-indicators of pollution; and more | Web: www.mwwd.org/site/page.asp?dsy_id=3331 |
| November 1-3, 2010 | "2nd International Conference on Coastal Zones and Engineering (Arabian Coast 2010)" | Muscat, Oman | Discussing coastal zone management, coastal dynamics and monitoring, waterfront development, risk management, coastal legislation, and more | Web: www.arabiancoast2010.org/login.aspx |
| November 8-11, 2010 | "Ecosystems 2010: Global Progress on Ecosystem-based Fisheries Management" | Anchorage, Alaska, US | Reviewing regional case studies, developing new analytical tools, and discussing practical approaches toward future progress | Web: seagrant.uaf.edu/conferences/2010/wakefield-ecosystems/index.php |
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