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Regional Program Comparison. Gulf of Maine Area Census : Sara Ellis, Lew Incze, Peter Lawton Baltic HMAP : Brian MacKenzie, Henn Ojaveer, Margit Eero GBR Seabed Biodiversity Project : Roland Pitcher
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Regional Program Comparison • Gulf of Maine Area Census: • Sara Ellis, Lew Incze, Peter Lawton • Baltic HMAP: Brian MacKenzie, Henn Ojaveer, Margit Eero • GBR Seabed Biodiversity Project: • Roland Pitcher • Gulf of Mexico Biodiversity Project: • Tom Shirley, Wes Tunnell, • Rich McLaughlin, Darryl Felder • Main contact: Sara Ellis
Approach: compare and contrast the motivations, goals, approaches, achievements and “lessons learned” from four ecosystem-wide studies of marine biodiversity • Objective: recommend how information from regional biodiversity studies can be used to improve coastal and marine decision-making
Planned timelines Meetings: Jun 2008 Planning Corpus Christi, TX Sep Follow up Halifax, NS Feb 2009 Writing Long Beach, CA Oct Final St Andrews, NB Drafts: Feb 2009 Partial draft, regional case studies Apr First full draft (to Snelgrove) Jul Revised draft (to Synthesis Group) Oct Presentation, GoM Sci. Symposium Nov Finalize manuscript Submission: Dec 2009 To journal & Synthesis Group
Publication Plans Working title: A Comparison of Regional Marine Biodiversity Studies and Their Application to Ecosystem Approaches to Management (EAM) Target journal: Bulletin of Marine Science PLoS (?)