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Watch PISCO talks at CWO (California and the World Ocean Conference) 2010

PISCO personnel were recently selected to present at the California and the World Ocean conference 2010. The talks focused on a range of topics from PISCO's science communication to work conducted with California's MLPA and the science surrounding MPA's.

PISCO PI Mark Carr

Ocean Impacts of Climate Change: Science, People and Policy

Friday, September 10, 2010
8:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Room 175, Knight Law Center
1515 Agate Street

Pre-registration strongly encouraged

Associated Pages: 
Climate Change

PISCO PI Mark Carr interviewed for KQED Radio (MPA)

PISCO Principal Investigator Dr. Mark Carr

PISCO PI Steve Palumbi talks for TED

PISCO Principal Investigator Dr. Stephen Palumbi has been invited to talk for the TED non-profit organisation.

Synopsis

There's a tight and surprising link between the ocean's health and ours, says marine biologist Stephen Palumbi. He shows how toxins at the bottom of the ocean food chain find their way into our bodies, with a shocking story of toxic contamination from a Japanese fish market. His work points a way forward for saving the oceans' health -- and humanity's.

PNAS Marine Reserves Special Edition

"We're at the point where we can actually begin to assess network benefits, including increases in the size and number of fish across the entire network. Based on what we know so far, it seems the whole really can be more than the sum of its parts when networks are designed with larval and adult movements in mind."

Monitoring MPAs by SCUBA in waters off Central California

"In conjunction with ocean observations, continued monitoring of ecosystems can reveal the drivers of ecosystem change, particularly as they influence ecosystem productivity, function, resiliency and services. When combined with socioeconomic monitoring studies, ecological monitoring can identify how ecosystem effects from MPAs are both caused by and influence changes in human-use patterns.

Associated Pages: 
MLPA Central Coast Study Region baseline data collection
MLPA Marine Protected Area Monitoring
Monitoring Marine Protected Areas
Monitoring MPAs by SCUBA in waters off Central California
Science of Marine Reserves (Video)
Science of Marine Reserves: U.S. booklet versions
Select PISCO Publications and Resources: Marine Protected Areas
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PISCO Comments to Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force (Feb)

On June 12, 2009, President Obama sent a memorandum to the heads of executive departments and federal agencies establishing an Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force (IOPTF), led by the White House Council on Environmental Quality. The Task Force is charged with developing a recommendation for a national policy that ensures protection, maintenance, and restoration of oceans, our coasts and the Great Lakes.

Associated Pages: 
PISCO PI Mark Carr testifies to Obama Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force on Marine Spatial Planning
PISCO Policy Comments

PISCO Hypoxic Research highlighted by NSF

PISCO Principal Investigator Jack Barth

PISCO Principal Investigator Jack Barth

Associated Pages: 
2009 Hypoxia Season Summary (old)
PISCO Hypoxia Research Video

Rapid Effects of Marine Reserves via Larval Dispersal

PISCO PI Pete Raimondi is co-author on a recently published study validating one of the principle concepts behind the use of marine protected areas. Using marine reserves, (marine protected areas that are assigned the highest level of protection, prohibiting all forms of fishing and resource extraction) Raimondi tested the theory that marine reserves can benefit fisheries via spillover of adults and enhanced larval dispersal from protected sites.

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