Articles

• Adapting to shifting sands
• 5 Questions on Engagement
• MASGC shares in Gulf Guardian Award
• Program to certify nature-tour operators
• Bruening recognized for outstanding service
• Symposium to feature adaptive management
• Water-access committee nears end of mission
• Volunteers grow 45,000 oysters for restoration
• Potential end-users test tool for sea-level rise planning
• Fink joins Office of Coast Survey in Mobile
• Featured Publication
• From the Director

Sea Briefs is a report on the results of the Mississippi-Alabama Sea Grant Consortium.

Editor: Melissa Schneider

Frontpage graphics: Matthew Capps

This newsletter is available in PDF format from:
masgc.org/seabriefs

MASGC supports applied, interdisciplinary marine science research, education and outreach efforts to foster the sustainable development and management of the Mississippi and Alabama coasts and nearshore ecosystems of the Gulf of Mexico

Mississippi-Alabama
Sea Grant Consortium
703 East Beach Drive
Ocean Springs, MS 39564
Phone: 228-818-8838
E-mail: seabriefs@masgc.org
MASGP 09-011-04

Symposium to feature adaptive management

The National Sea Grant Law Center will host its third annual Sea Grant Law and Policy Journal Symposium on March 30-31 in Oxford, Miss. This year’s topic is “addressing uncertainty of environmental problems: the challenges of adaptive management.”

Some of the speakers’ presentations will include “Overview of Scientific Underpinnings of Adaptive Management and Adaptive Governance,” “Adaptive Management and Environmental Ethics,” “NOAA Marine Sanctuaries’ Experiences with Adaptive Management” and “Climate Change and Coastal Management in the United Kingdom.”

The National Sea Grant Law Center has applied to the Mississippi Commission on Continuing Legal Education for approval of this course or a portion thereof for a maximum of 6 hours of credit, including 1 ethics hour.

Register by Feb. 26 for $50. For details, go to nsglc.olemiss.edu/SGLPJ/symposium.htm or contact Stephanie Showalter, director of the law center, at 662-915-7775.