CICEET Co-sponsors Chesapeake Bay Ecosystem Based Management Conference

March 6, 2009

DURHAM, N.H. -- The Chesapeake Research Consortium and partners are convening a regional conference March 22-25, 2009. "Ecosystem Based Management (EBM): The Chesapeake Basin and Other Systems" will bring scientists and coastal managers together to assess the science supporting EBM, policy used to implement EBM, and current EBM practices in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. This conference will provide the Chesapeake regional community with a unique opportunity for cross discipline and topic-specific discussions on science to management land use and resource decisions across the watershed.

Partners include the Cooperative Institute for Coastal and Estuarine Environmental Technology (CICEET), NOAA’s Chesapeake Bay Office, Maryland Sea Grant, U.S. Geological Survey, Chesapeake Bay Trust, Keith Campbell Foundation for the Environment, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Chesapeake Bay Program Office and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Conference organizers seek participation from the scientific community and policy staffs from federal, state, and local governments, and non-governmental organizations. Keynote and plenary presentations will preface 27 sessions on EBM throughout the watershed, now and into the future. For example, the CICEET co-sponsored session, "Applying Land Use Planning Tools to Support Ecosystem Based Management," will present land use planning tools that can be used to support such decisions, as well as different strategies that tool developers have used to ensure that their work results in an effective technology that can be applied in complex social and political contexts.

For more information on the conference: www.chesapeakemeetings.com/EBM/
Or contact Dwight Trueblood, CICEET’s NOAA Co-director, at dwight.trueblood@noaa.gov or 603-862-3580.