New Topics Course (Spring '09)

Mike Fogarty, a scientist at the National Marine Fisheries Service, and an adjunct member of the WHOI Biology Department, will be offering a special Topics Course this spring.   Here is a brief description of the course, entitled "Marine Ecosystem Based Management: From Vision to Implementation."

This course will cover current developments in the formulation and implementation of Marine Ecosystem-Based Management. The format will include guest lectures from specialists in marine EBM and student-led overviews and  discussion of seminal papers in the field. Topics to be covered will be the general framework for marine ecosystem-based management in the United States as articulated in the Report of the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy and related initiatives, international developments and perspectives on this topic,  overviews of the status of marine ecosystems on the global, national, and local scales, governance structures, and management tools and options including use of marine protected areas as a conservation tool.  These issues will be placed in the context of  evolving perspectives on environmental and fisheries management. 

Mike has said he would welcome faculty participation in the course. "One motivation I have for suggesting the course is to forge a stronger relationship with WHOI as we move towards an ecosystem approach to management on the Northeast Continental Shelf."

Here is a syllabus.