{"id":19,"date":"2012-10-05T17:38:38","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T21:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/conferences.aehms.org\/managing-for-sustainability\/?page_id=19"},"modified":"2012-12-10T16:50:41","modified_gmt":"2012-12-10T21:50:41","slug":"themes","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/conferences.aehms.org\/AEHMS11\/themes\/","title":{"rendered":"Themes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AEHMS conferences focus on aquatic ecosystems, their health and their management. The current suggested themes for the AEHMS 11 conference are:<\/p>\n<p><strong>1.\u00a0 Health and Status of Marine Ecosystems<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Status of fish, fisheries, and coral reefs<\/li>\n<li>New monitoring tools, ocean observatories<\/li>\n<li>Oceans 2 Network-Enabled Platforms Project, autonomous nodes in circumpolar networks<\/li>\n<li>Arctic ecosystems including impacts of climate change, methane escape, permafrost, impacts of resource development<\/li>\n<li>Acidification, phosphorus, dead zones, health of corals, ocean ecosystems, deep sea<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>2. Health and Status of Freshwater Ecosystems<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Great lakes of the world:\u00a0North American, South American, European, African, etc.<\/li>\n<li>Northern \/ arctic lakes of Canada: Great Slave, Great Bear, Winnipeg, Athabasca, Reindeer and others<\/li>\n<li>Changing hydrological cycles, migration of water resources<\/li>\n<li>Watershed management<\/li>\n<li>Water quality monitoring and risk management<\/li>\n<li>Water rights, access, privatization<\/li>\n<li>Significance of long-term data sets (Great Lakes, ELA, etc.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>3.\u00a0 Impacts of\u00a0Invasive species on marine and freshwater ecosystems\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Methods of introduction<\/li>\n<li>Prevention, monitoring, and treatment techniques<\/li>\n<li>Impacts to native species and fisheries<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>4.\u00a0 Coastal habitat and management (marine\/freshwater)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Man made coastal perturbations<\/li>\n<li>Debris fields and ocean currents<\/li>\n<li>Debris from the T\u014dhoku earthquake\/tsunami and Fukushima nuclear disaster<\/li>\n<li>Dead zones; phosphorus discharge<\/li>\n<li>Degradation of coastal habitat, loss of biodiversity<\/li>\n<li>Regulating development to control habitat loss\u2014Green Shores, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>5.\u00a0 Shellfish and Aquaculture: Management and new developments<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Acidification<\/li>\n<li>Virus outbreaks<\/li>\n<li>New technologies, closed containment<strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>6.\u00a0 Indigenous peoples: Fisheries management and resource development<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Global covenants, regional implementation in fisheries agreements<\/li>\n<li>Freshwater on reserves<\/li>\n<li>Impacts of tar sands, mining and development<strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Seeking food security; indigenous communities and traditional foods<strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Rights of indigenous peoples; artisanal resource development versus the globalized world<strong><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>7.\u00a0 Tools, Toys and Techniques<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Emerging technology<\/li>\n<li>Zooniverse<\/li>\n<li>Whale song<\/li>\n<li>Digital Fishers<\/li>\n<li>Fluorometers, LOPCs, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>8.\u00a0 Youth session, science education and outreach<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Many perspectives of youth; many ways to see water<\/li>\n<li>Youth initiatives<\/li>\n<li>Citizen science, outreach, engagement<\/li>\n<li>Social networking driving youthful activism<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><strong>9.\u00a0 Governance and management; transboundary issues, sustainability and stewardship<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Intarnational agreements, conventions, and treaties<\/li>\n<li>Participatory mechanisms, coastal and marine spatial planning<\/li>\n<li>Recognizing and building on traditional knowledge; validating academic science<\/li>\n<li>Cross-scale linkages and institutions<\/li>\n<li>Community mapping and coastal communities\u2014natural capital and access to resources<\/li>\n<li>Canadian developments\u2014fisheries act, environmental monitoring and review, de-emphasis of environmental sciences<\/li>\n<li>Salish Sea (Marine Water Quality Panel, Victoria Sewage treatment)<\/li>\n<li>Big Eddy, Pacific North Coast Integrated Management Area (PNCIMA)<\/li>\n<li>Bay of Fundy, Gulf of Maine Council<\/li>\n<li>Wadden Sea, Gulf of Thailand, South China Sea<\/li>\n<li>Interpretation, perspectives, practice<\/li>\n<li>Implementing global covenants on the ground\u2014\u201clived rights\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AEHMS conferences focus on aquatic ecosystems, their health and their management. The current suggested themes for the AEHMS 11 conference are: 1.\u00a0 Health and Status of Marine Ecosystems Status of fish, fisheries, and coral reefs New monitoring tools, ocean observatories &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/conferences.aehms.org\/AEHMS11\/themes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-19","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/conferences.aehms.org\/AEHMS11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/conferences.aehms.org\/AEHMS11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/conferences.aehms.org\/AEHMS11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conferences.aehms.org\/AEHMS11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/conferences.aehms.org\/AEHMS11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/conferences.aehms.org\/AEHMS11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86,"href":"https:\/\/conferences.aehms.org\/AEHMS11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19\/revisions\/86"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/conferences.aehms.org\/AEHMS11\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}