2012 Annual Meeting Symposia:
November 8-11
Seaside, CA

Thursday, November 8 , Student Workshop:

Broadening your Impacts: How to successfully address the 'Broader Impacts' of your research.
by The Center for Ocean Science Education Excellence (COSEE)-Pacific Partnerships.


Dr. Shawn Rowe
Oregon Sea Grant, Oregon State University

Coral Gehrke
COSEE Pacific Partnerships, University of Oregon Institute of Marine Biology

One of the keys to communicating your work with any audience is making your science relevant and interesting. Whether you are trying to communicate to policy and decision makers, school groups, undergraduates, or public audiences concept maps and other visual tools can help you organize your work into themes for communicating. In this workshop, we will introduce you to techniques and online tools for identifying and communicating the big ideas behind your work in ways that make it relevant and interesting without over simplifying it. Participants will identify important audiences, map out key components of their work, and develop strategies for communicating with their maps. Participants in previous workshops have used our tools and techniques to 1) create better presentations for their graduate committees, 2) develop tools for communicating to K-12 teachers, 3) made maps to support policy makers in climate change mitigation, and 4) come to better understand how their work fits in to their colleagues work.



Friday, November 9:
Student Symposium
Interdisciplinary Ecology: Increasing our understanding of the natural world by looking beyond it.


Anne Guerry (Lead Scientist, Marine Initiative Natural Capital Project)
Avoiding the tower of Babel: Lessons about interdisciplinary collaborations from the Natural Capital Project.

Karen McLeod (Director of Science, COMPASS)
Walking the talk: integrating social and natural sciences in marine conservation.

Neo Martinez (Director and President, Pacific Ecoinformatics and Compuational Ecology Lab)
Interdisciplinary Ecology: Using networks to integrate computer science and human exploitation of ecosystems.

John Incardona (Supervisory Research Toxicologist, Northwest Fisheries Science Center, NOAA)
Understanding the impacts of chemical pollution on biodiversity though conservation medicine



Saturday, November 10:
Presidential Symposium
Solutions to the fisheries crisis: stories of success and the way forward


Daniel Pauly, University of British Columbia
Major trends in World Fisheries

Juan Carlos Castilla, Departamento de Ecologia and Center for Advanced Studies in Biodiversity and Ecology. P. Universidad Catolica de Chile.
A Path to Rationalize Fisheries: Chile´s Governance, Use Rights and Ocean Zoning

Robert Steneck, University of Maine
The American Lobster - America's Greatest Fisheries Success Story or Accident Waiting to Happen?

Richard Starr, Moss Landing Marine Labs
Collaborative fisheries research: A way out of the data-poor fishery trap