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Legacy – something coming from the past

Legacy – something coming from the past. Legacies in Policies and Practices: Societal Benefits & Target Audiences Meryl Williams SSC, FC. Where can CoML have the biggest impact?.

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Legacy – something coming from the past

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  1. Legacy – something coming from the past Legacies in Policies and Practices: Societal Benefits & Target Audiences Meryl Williams SSC, FC

  2. Where can CoML have the biggest impact? • Societal benefits depend on how decision makers use the Census products or their derivatives and what outcomes and impacts are thereby achieved • Census scientists have only an indirect role in achieving societal benefits • Societal benefits from science are challenging to assess • Where can we have the biggest impact? • Where demand already exists • Uses already in train • Discussions: some suggestions for securing Census societal benefit

  3. Target Audiences, Benefits Society, Operating Environment Sectoral policy/practice CoML/marine science Project/science field More partners, time, derived products

  4. Target Audiences, Benefits Society, Operating Environment E&O Sectoral policy/practice NRICs, projects CoML/marine science Syntheses Project/science field More partners, time, derived products

  5. Achieving Societal Benefit from Census Products

  6. GoMA Goal: Sustainable use; conservation of biodiversity and ecosystem services

  7. Censeam

  8. Societal Impact of Results to Date The project has raised the public and managerial awareness of the value and significance of mid-ocean areas and their animal communities Results have contributed to defining high-seas habitats and communities in need of protection. Results were used in e.g. ICES WGs to evaluate closed areas implemented by the RFMO NEAFC. OSPAR has shown interest. WWF has based an MPA proposal on preliminary results from MAR-ECO.

  9. Societal Impact of Results to Date MOMAR, Ifremer Rainbow, ATOS/Ifremer Menez Gwen, ATOS/Ifremer Lucky Strike, ATOS/Ifremer • Societal impact: • ChEss signed InterRidge Code of Conduct in relation to investigating and sampling hydrothermal vents (Fisher & Devey, 2006). • Establishment of MAR MPAs for Rainbow, Menez Gwen and Lucky Strike vent fields in Portuguese waters (Santos).

  10. PEW Workshop on defining MPA's, Hawaii, Oct 2007

  11. HMAP

  12. Challenges to assessing societal benefits

  13. Challenges to Assessing Societal Benefits • Establishing a viable counter-factual • What would have happened without the Census or project? • Attribution – and sharing the credit • E&O Network has guidelines for attributing credit thru public statements • Lag times to impact long, unpredictable

  14. Assessing User Demand

  15. Assessing User Demand • Framework Committee surveyed target audiences on what they would like from the Census and how would they might want to learn from it or use its products.

  16. Demand by User Group • All groups want access to raw data, maps, and user-friendly, web-based reliable information. • Scientists interested in obtaining good quality raw data through OBIS and papers published in scientific journals.

  17. Demand by User Group • Educators said that information for use in the classroom must be relevant for teachers and students. • Oil industry want integrated data maps (in GIS platform) and lists and localities of most relevant species. Also want indicators of biodiversity quality and parameters that could be measured and monitored over time.

  18. Demand by User Group • Research managers want Census to provide the “big picture,”-- context and importance of the information presented. • Government officials interested in local or regional information that they could use to help in the development of policy, including protocols and access to scientific experts in different disciplines.

  19. Demand by User Group • Non-Government Organizations want information to help them prioritize conservation or advocacy efforts, such as lists of affected species and key species within ecosystems and identification of pristine areas. • Publicwants brochures, local field guides, TV programs, movies

  20. What uses are already in train?

  21. Project Level Legacies

  22. Thinking Broadly About Potential Applications • What are the likely impact pathways for my outputs? • Who are the likely ultimate users? • What do they want/need? • How are they influenced? • How do they get their scientific advice? • What do I have to do and with whom to get my results into a form that they can/will use?

  23. Census Level Legacies

  24. Some suggestions • Census synthesis + dissemination strategy • NRICS, developing countries especially • Census participation in key international meetings 2009-2010 • OBIS as sustainable global data repository that reflects the Census contribution • Working group of Census users to ensure success • Census people as post-2010 basis for marine biodiversity ‘social networks’ • Census lessons: what worked, what needed improvement, what were the societal benefits and how would we know?

  25. Achieving Societal Benefit from Census Products

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