Meetings, Conferences, and Workshops                               

MCBI regularly attends meetings and conferences and hosts workshops to present new information and stay up to date on the latest scientific and marine conservation research.  

Meetings, Conferences and Workshops:

Workshops Hosted By MCBI:

2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2003 | 2002 | 2001 | 2000 | 1999 |1997 | 1996

2010

Puget Sound Workshop on Ocean Acidification, Seattle WA

2009

Human Uses of the Ocean

• California North Coast, Eureka CA
• California North Central Coast, San Rafael CA
• California South Central Coast, Monterey CA

Criteria for Web-Based Mapping of Ocean Uses – Workshop, Palo Alto, CA

Research Priorities for the Pacific Remote Islands Marine National Monument, Honolulu HI

Finalization of a global seamount classification, Honolulu Hawaii

Surveillance and Enforcement in Remote Managed Areas Workshop, Silver Spring MD

2008

Understanding Human Use Mapping, San Francisco CA
Human Uses of the Ocean

• California South Coast, Costa Mesa CA

2007

NGO Strategy Meeting on NMSA reauthorization, Key West FL

How We Fish Matters, Lunenberg Nova Scotia, Canada

Conflicts and Compatibilities of Human Uses, Monterey CA

2006

Sea to Shining Sea Teacher Workshop, online

2005

Sustainability of Deep Sea Fisheries, Miami FL

2004

Workshop on Status of Deep Sea Corals, Seattle WA

2003

Workshop on Identifying Priority Conservation Areas for the North American Pacific, British Columbia, Canada

Technical Review of Data and Synthesis for the Baja California to Bering Sea Region, Seattle WA and San Francisco CA

2002

Ecological Impacts of Fishing Methods, Seattle WA

Baja California to the Bering Sea Data Potluck Workshop, Portland OR

2001

Workplanning Workshop for the Baja California to Bering Sea Region, Monterey CA

2000

Second Symposium on Marine Conservation Biology, San Francisco CA

Establishing a National System of Marine Protected Areas in the United States, Washington DC

1999

Gulf of Maine Priority Areas Workshop, Boston MA

1997

First Symposium on Marine Conservation Biology, Victoria BC, Canada

1996

Effects of Bottom Trawling on Marine Ecosystems, ME

Symposia Hosted By MCBI :

2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2004

2009

International Marine Conservation Congress, Fairfax VA

• Congressional Advocacy Day: Communicating with Congress concerning conservation, International Marine Conservation Congress
• How will conservation science meet policy requirements on the high seas?
• Three stages in the evolution of marine ecosystem-based management: ‘Exploitation everywhere,’ marine reserves, and comprehensive ecosystem-based ocean zoning
• Selection of open-ocean MPAs: the theory and the reality
• Fisheries and Aquaculture II

Linking Deep Sea Science to International Decisions: Vulnerable and Ecologically Significant Areas, ICES Deep Sea Symposium, Azores, Portugal

2008

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Boston MA

• Dragnet—Bottom trawling, the world’s most severe and extensive seafloor disturbance
• Ocean iron fertilization and carbon sequestration: Can the oceans save the planet?
• Will too few jaws take too big a bite? The importance of sharks to ocean ecosystems

2007

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), San Francisco CA

• The world’s last wildlife hunt: Deep-sea fisheries
• Ocean acidification: Past, present and future consequences
• Roving Bandits, complex systems and the closing blue frontier

Spatial management: An ecosystem-based way of protecting marine biodiversity and separating incompatible uses, Coastal Zone 2007, Portland OR

2006

Management for Spatial and Temporal Complexity in Ocean Ecosystems, Society for Conservation Biology Annual Meeting, San Jose CA

2004

The Forgotten Forests: Deep-Sea Coral and Sponge Beds, AAAS Annual Meeting, Seattle WA