Postcards from Iceland
Interviews with our researchers, helpful infographics, and upcoming conferences
Debuting Our New Video Channel
In October, our wonderful Marine SABRES consortium gathered together in Hafnarfjörður, Iceland for three days of collaboration and discussion. While we were there, our partners from LifeWatch ERIC captured interviews with each of our research leads, which we are delighted to share with you!
Each interview is now available on a dedicated YouTube playlist called ‘Postcards from Iceland’, which you can watch via the button below. (Make sure to subscribe to be notified when new videos are posted.)
These videos are part of our new channel on the LifeWatching Science Channel platform, which brings you video content on biodiversity and ecosystem research. Check out our channel at https://www.lifewatching.tv/tv-show/marine-sabres/.
LifeWatch ERIC also created the video above, which highlights the beauty of the Icelandic landscape. Iceland is part of our Arctic Northeast Atlantic research site, where we are currently examining the effects of climate change and changing oceanographic conditions on fisheries. Marine SABRES researchers in Iceland, the Faroe, and Greenland will be identifying ways to implement ecosystem-based management to improve the sustainability of the region's fisheries and aquaculture industries. Visit our Arctic-Northeast Atlantic research site page to learn more.
Remind Me What an SES is?
Coastal and marine management involves balancing multiple human activities and the pressures they exert on the environment, all of which combine to produce cumulative impacts on ocean ecosystems. In some cases, the overwhelming complexity of the system has distracted from our capacity to effectively deal with the most important combinations of activities and pressures. To make marine management clearer and more effective, Marine SABRES is designing a user-friendly framework for ecosystem-based management called a simple 'socio-ecological system’ or ‘Simple SES’. The graphic above from Gemma Smith (IECS, Ltd) explains just what we mean by this.
Learn more about SES’s and our research here.
Dapsi-what?
In case you missed it, take a look at our article and infographic on the DAPSI(W)R(M) problem structuring method (affectionately pronounced as ‘dap-see-worm’). This framework provides a structured approach for ecosystem-based management by categorising key features of Drivers, Activities, Pressures, State changes, Impacts (on human Welfare), and Response (using management Measures).
View the article: https://www.marinesabres.eu/post/what-is-the-dapsi-w-r-m-problem-structuring-method
Upcoming Events
Third International Conference on Ecosystem Approach to Management in the Arctic Large Marine Ecosystems
16-18 April, 2024 | Tromsø, NorwayMarine Socio-Ecological Systems Symposium (MSEAS 2024)
June 3-7, 2024 | Yokohama, Japan
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