Recent sio_cmbc_conference items

The future of marine biodiversity: The Known Unknown and Unknowable

Tue, 13 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0000

The reports on the third in a series of conferences funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's, Known, Unknown and Unknowable program. The purpose of the conference was to explore two main aspects of marine biodiversity in the near (2020) future: (a) projections on anthropogenic drivers and (b)projections on impacts on marine biodiversity.

Marine Biodiversity: Using the Past to Inform the Future

Tue, 13 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0000

This report covers the second conference supported by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's Known, Unknown and Unknowable Program. The conference goal is to explore the structure and limits to knowledge of marine ecosystems and implications of the state of our knowledge to research, policy and society at large.

This conference highlighted the importance of understanding past ecosystems and how they have changed, and asked how we can make use of this historical perspective to better understand the present and to safeguard and manage to future.

Conference Report: Marine Biodiversity in the Present:The Known, Unknown and Unknowable

Tue, 13 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation's, Known, Unknown and Unknowable project. This is the first in a series of three conferences held at Scripps Institution of Oceanography to explore the structure and knowledge of marine systems. The report describes how the conference was organized and the results of the conference.

Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation Conference Report - May, 2001

Mon, 28 Oct 2002 00:00:00 +0000

The opening conference to launch the Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation (CMBC) at Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) was held 25-27 May 2001. The goal of the conference was to identify priorities in the study of marine biodiversity and conservation, announce the establishment of the Center, and solicit ideas for its future development. Invited participants and guests hailed from a diversity of disciplines and institutions from the social, physical and biological sciences, national and local academic institutions, national and international governmental institutions, NGO's, and industry. The agenda featured plenary addresses, which were open to the public, followed by a graduate student poster session and four panel discussions. We asked all participants to be their most challenging and provocative.

Several themes emerged from the conference for which there was universal agreement. First, this is the time to tackle problems affecting marine biodiversity,...