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		<title>Call for Abstracts: Gulf of Maine Symposium</title>
		<link>http://oceanandcoast.wordpress.com/2009/04/15/call-for-abstracts-gulf-of-maine-symposium/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Apr 2009 14:07:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Gulf of Maine Symposium: Advancing Ecosystem Research for the Future of the Gulf will take place October 4-9, 2009. All individuals involved in scientific and policy/management activities that support the future management of the Gulf of Maine are invited to submit titles and abstracts for consideration as an oral or poster presentation. The deadline for submitting [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oceanandcoast.wordpress.com&blog=2536540&post=51&subd=oceanandcoast&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Workshop: Tools to Support Community-Based Ecosystem Management</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 23:04:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tools to Support Community Based Ecosystem Management
Date: November 19-20, 2008
Location: Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve (Wells, Maine)
Instructors: Ken Snyder (Place Matters) and Judy Colby-George (Spatial Alternatives)
Who Should Attend?
Day 1: The first day of training will provide managers and planners with basic training in the use of keypad polling and CommunityViz, and examples of the ways [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oceanandcoast.wordpress.com&blog=2536540&post=44&subd=oceanandcoast&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>EBM communication guide forthcoming from SeaWeb</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 19:05:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[SeaWeb is in the final stages of producing a guide to EBM communication. From what I understand, the guide presents messaging and communication recommendations from SeaWeb based on their national survey. I believe it will be released in the next couple months. SeaWeb has also been involved in developing an EBM board game with some [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oceanandcoast.wordpress.com&blog=2536540&post=40&subd=oceanandcoast&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Workshop &#8211; The Practice and Potential of EBM</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Oct 2008 18:30:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, I attended a workshop in Portland, Maine, called &#8220;The Practice and Potential of Ecosystem-Based Management: Applying lessons from land use and coastal management in Maine.&#8221; The workshop was sponsored by the Wells (Maine) National Estuarine Research Reserve, Maine Coastal Program, Maine Sea Grant, and the University of New England Center for Sustainable Communities. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oceanandcoast.wordpress.com&blog=2536540&post=35&subd=oceanandcoast&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Update on Northeast Regional Ocean Council (NROC)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:12:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In quite a few meetings and conference calls, I&#8217;ve heard people ask what the Northeast Regional Ocean Council (NROC) is and what it&#8217;s doing. Usually they&#8217;ve only heard that it was set up a couple years ago by the governors of the northeastern states to advance regional ocean management. Other than that, NROC seems to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oceanandcoast.wordpress.com&blog=2536540&post=19&subd=oceanandcoast&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Corporate responsibility, social justice, ethics&#8230;and fisheries?</title>
		<link>http://oceanandcoast.wordpress.com/2008/03/31/corporate-responsibility-social-justice-ethics-%e2%80%94-and-fisheries/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2008 19:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interesting article in the new issue of Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment. The authors argue that corporate responsibility, social justice, and ethics are the most important issues to address for successful fisheries management. Their ideas are noteworthy as another attempt to think in terms of linked socio-ecological systems, instead of just the ecological system. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oceanandcoast.wordpress.com&blog=2536540&post=18&subd=oceanandcoast&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Gulf of Maine Science Symposium in the works</title>
		<link>http://oceanandcoast.wordpress.com/2008/03/10/gulf-of-maine-science-symposium-in-the-works/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Regional Association for Research on the Gulf of Maine (RARGOM) has begun to plan a major symposium to be held in 2009. The Gulf of Maine Science Symposium will have sessions and presentations on the state of scientific knowledge about the Gulf of Maine, management of marine resources, and future needs for science and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oceanandcoast.wordpress.com&blog=2536540&post=17&subd=oceanandcoast&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ecology of the Northeast Continental Shelf</title>
		<link>http://oceanandcoast.wordpress.com/2008/03/06/15/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:45:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a handy 24-page booklet written by Michael Fogarty of NMFS Northeast Fisheries Science Center. Info ranges from fairly basic to more advanced — something for everyone. Well written and useful beyond fisheries. Nice illustrations showing how the ecosystem functions.
Ecology of the Northeast Continental Shelf: Toward an Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries Management (PDF, 996 KB) [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oceanandcoast.wordpress.com&blog=2536540&post=15&subd=oceanandcoast&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>NOAA needs assessment for the northeastern U.S.</title>
		<link>http://oceanandcoast.wordpress.com/2008/02/29/noaa-needs-assessment-for-the-northeastern-us/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Feb 2008 17:18:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[NOAA has been conducting a needs assessment for the northeastern U.S. (Connecticut and north). The report is expected in June 2008. Socio-economic aspects of EBM were apparently identified as a big need. (NOAA released a different but related report a couple days ago. See blog post below).
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		<title>NOAA needs assessment for EBM training</title>
		<link>http://oceanandcoast.wordpress.com/2008/02/27/noaa-needs-assessment-for-ebm-training/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Feb 2008 19:07:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Peter Taylor</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ The NOAA Coastal Services Center is developing a training course for EBM. As part of the process, they conducted a needs assessment survey of 254 people involved in EBM. The summary report has just been released. It has info that will be useful for lots of other EBM-related efforts. The report is available on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=oceanandcoast.wordpress.com&blog=2536540&post=10&subd=oceanandcoast&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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