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To meet the challenges of marine conservation, the Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation (CMBC) was established at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) in May 2001. Its goals are:

  • Investigation: Assess the state of marine ecosystems now and in the past and develop predictive models for the future
  • Education: Train new marine biodiversity and conservation scientists in the United States and around the world
  • Integration: Develop novel interdisciplinary approaches linking the biological, physical, social and informatic sciences
  • Communication: Increase public understanding of scientific issues and provide sound scientific analyses to policy makers
  • Application: Design technically sophisticated, regionally appropriate strategies to prevent and reverse biodiversity collapse

Dr. Lisa Levin, Director
http://cmbc.ucsd.edu
cmbc@ucsd.edu

Cover page of Climate Change and National Security

Climate Change and National Security

(2015)
Cover page of Snapshot Assessment Protocol (SnAP): Guidelines, Tools, and Tips for RapidlyCharacterizing Small-Scale Fisheries.

Snapshot Assessment Protocol (SnAP): Guidelines, Tools, and Tips for RapidlyCharacterizing Small-Scale Fisheries.

(2013)

Recognizing the need for improved coordination, the Small-scale and Artisanal Fisheries Research Network (SAFRN), at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography’s Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation (CMBC), was established in 2010 by graduate students as an interdisciplinary hub of students, researchers, and faculty studying small-scale fisheries (SSF). Our goals are to: enhance communication and collaboration across disciplines, projects, and sectors; share research guidelines and methodologies; and connect research to meaningful management actions.SAFRN has developed the Snapshot Assessment Protocol (SnAP), an interdisciplinary, standardized toolkit for describing SSF holistically, including ecological, social, cultural, economic, and governance-related aspects of these fisheries and the related communities. SnAP is a key part of our 2011-2012 project, “Coordinating Research for Sustaining Artisanal Fisheries”, funded by the Waitt Foundation.

Cover page of Ocean Health and Human Health

Ocean Health and Human Health

(2004)
Cover page of Multiple "stable"states and the conervation of marine ecosystems

Multiple "stable"states and the conervation of marine ecosystems

(2004)
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