NEWS HIGHLIGHTS
ONE-DAY WORKSHOP ON MSPThe Workshop "One Day of Marine Spatial Planning" took place in Lisbon, May 15 2019, organised by NOVA-FCSH and the University of the Azores. It included experiences from Spain (Javier García Sanabria, University of Cadiz), Brazil (Marinez Scherer, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina), Portugal (Catarina Frazão Santos, University of Lisbon) and a practical exercise with SeaSketch (Will McClintock, UCSB).
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MSP & MARINE CONSERVATION - ICMMPA5The 5th International Conference on Marine Mammals Protected Areas (ICMMPA5) took place in Costa Navarino, Greece, April 8-12 2019. ICMMPA5 Workshop 10 focused on Marine Spatial Planning and Conservation in the context of Blue Growth. With Tundi Agardy, Catarina Frazão Santos, Elena Gissi, Duncan Vaughan, Vedran Nikolic, Helene Labach and Jon Day. More information here.
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SPECIES ON THE MOVE 2019Three abstracts on the implications of moving ecosystem services and climate change to MSP were accepted for the Species On The Move international conference (SOTM 2019), which will take place from July 22 to 26, in Kruger National Park, South Africa! Find more information about this amazing conference here.
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CLIMATE CHANGE ADAPTATION 2019OCEANPLAN team members will be discussing the vulnerability and risk of ocean planning to climate change (May 29 at 14h), and the integration of climate change adaptation in ocean planning (May 28 at 18h) at the European Climate Change Adaptation Conference (ECCA 2019), which will take place from May 28 to 31, in Lisbon, Portugal. Find more information here.
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* MSP GLOBAL INITIATIVEMSPglobal is a 3-year new joint initiative by IOC-UNESCO and the European Commission to develop guidelines for international cross-border Marine Spatial Planning. Find more information here.
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MUSEUM EXHIBITION - CASCAIS 2019A new exhibition on Climate Change and the Oceans of Tomorrow will be open at the King D. Carlos Sea Museum (Cascais, Portugal) from February 10 to July 31, 2019. OCEANPLAN contributed to the exhibition with a panel on climate change impacts on main ocean uses. Find more information here.
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COLLOQUIUM ON MSP & SCIENCE 2018We were invited to give a short presentation on the MSP-climate change nexus at the Colloquium on MSP & Science: Actual challenges and demands for effective action in Venice (Università Iuav di Venezia). Read more on the event, supported by JPI Oceans and the European Commission, here.
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MEAM ISSUE NOVEMBER 2018The assessment of ocean planning vulnerability to climate change was highlighted in the November 2018 (12:2) issue of Marine Ecosystems and Management (MEAM). To read the full article and interview click here.
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15th MSEG-MSP MEETINGWe were invited to give a short presentation on the OCEANPLAN project at the 15th meeting of the European Commission's Member States Expert Group on Maritime Spatial Planning in Brussels, within the MSP "Science Slam". Read more on the event here.
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ICES ANUAL SCIENCE CONFERENCE 2018An oral presentation on the impacts of climate change in ocean planning and the blue economy was given at the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES) Anual Science Conference in Hamburg, within Theme Session C. The presentation was awarded with the Best Early Career Scientist Presentation. Read more here.
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ECCWO-2018 by ICES-PICES-UNESCO-FAOThe OCEANPLAN project research topic was presented and discussed at the 4th International Symposium on the Effects of Climate Change on the World's Oceans (ECCWO-2018) in Washington DC, within Session 14 and Workshop 4. Both presentations are available at the conference website here (S14) and here (W4).
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