Communicating science: indicators, monitoring and collaboration in British Columbia.
Presentation Abstract
Indicators and monitoring can be an effective way of understanding status, trends, and pressures for marine ecosystems. They can also be useful for communicating science to decision-makers, stakeholders, and the public.
One of the main challenges in developing and implementing indicators is that monitoring programs can be expensive to implement over large areas like British Columbia. Further challenges include linking indicators to the diverse values that different groups hold for marine ecosystems, and working across organizational, cultural, and other boundaries.
Our discussion will focus on our work building a collaborative Coastal Ocean Health Report in British Columbia. The COHR initiative involves working with First Nations, governments, citizen scientists, universities, NGOs, and others.
Session Title
Softening Borders through Information Exchange: Monitoring and Indicator- Efforts Within and Across Boundaries in the Salish Sea
Conference Track
Policy and Management
Conference Name
Salish Sea Ecosystem Conference (2016 : Vancouver, B.C.)
Document Type
Event
Location
2016SSEC
Type of Presentation
Oral
Genre/Form
presentations (communicative events)
Contributing Repository
Digital content made available by University Archives, Heritage Resources, Western Libraries, Western Washington University.
Subjects – Topical (LCSH)
Environmental monitoring--Salish Sea (B.C. and Wash.)
Geographic Coverage
Salish Sea (B.C. and Wash.)
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Text
Language
English
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Communicating science: indicators, monitoring and collaboration in British Columbia.
2016SSEC
Indicators and monitoring can be an effective way of understanding status, trends, and pressures for marine ecosystems. They can also be useful for communicating science to decision-makers, stakeholders, and the public.
One of the main challenges in developing and implementing indicators is that monitoring programs can be expensive to implement over large areas like British Columbia. Further challenges include linking indicators to the diverse values that different groups hold for marine ecosystems, and working across organizational, cultural, and other boundaries.
Our discussion will focus on our work building a collaborative Coastal Ocean Health Report in British Columbia. The COHR initiative involves working with First Nations, governments, citizen scientists, universities, NGOs, and others.
