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This year’s theme continues to be a priority area for most EMAN partners and the National Science Meeting will provide the opportunity to consult on how we can best collaborate in enhancing the effectiveness of ecological monitoring and assessment. We will look at past experience and develop ideas on how we can collectively best make a difference with our science:
- how can public decisions, choices and trade-offs be better informed?
- how can we deliver information where and when it is needed rather than simply making it
available?
- how can we facilitate adaptive management of landscapes, resources and programs?
Decision-makers and resource managers at community, Parks/protected area and landscape scales require place-based information that is integrated, relevant, comprehensible and timely: linking our science to such needs would benefit from collective consideration of what enhancements might be most useful in ecological monitoring programs.
That collective consideration will occur at the EMAN NSM and your input will be needed.
Hague Vaughan
EMAN Coordinating Office
Meeting highlights:
- Eco-Instruct: 3 day tri-lingual “train-the-trainer” instruction on emerging international environmental information management techniques and standards promoted by the Canadian Information System for the Environment (CISE)
- Canadian Sustainability Indicator Network meeting and a Water Quality Index Workshop
- Opening day key papers on the theme and an afternoon devoted entirely to partner contributions
- A full day on science organized by the Regional Science Coordinating Committee
- A day to examine Science in support of Community and Landscape/Seascape Sustainability focused on Regional examples
- Two days after the meeting set aside for engaging citizens and providing training for community-based monitoring.
Where:
Casino Nova ScotiaHotel
1919 Upper Water Street
Halifax, Nova Scotia B3J 3J5
Tel: 902 421 1700
Reservations 1 866 Halifax (425 4329)
For information please contact: Kathy Finch at (905) 336 4414 or kathy.finch@ec.gc.ca
November 24
November 25
November 26
- EMAN National Science Meeting (November 26-28)
- Opening Plenary Session
- Concurrent Session 1: Monitoring and Ecosystem Management
- Concurrent Session 2: Delivering Integrated Information: Data Bases and Indicators
- EMAN’s Business Meeting
November 27
- Atlantic Region Science Day
- Banquet – Pier 21 (Award presentations)
November 28
- Symposium on Science in Support of Community and Landscape/Seascape Sustainability
- Session 1: Linking Science to Community Decision-Making: Experience and Hurdles
- Session 2: Factors in the Delivery of Science at Landscape/Seascape Scale
- EMAN National Science Meeting Closing
November 29
- Community Based Monitoring Workshop
November 30
- Ecosystem Monitoring Protocols Workshop
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