The Skimmer/MEAM Archives

October 2017 (11:1)

• EBM Toolbox: Calling all MSP tool developers! How MSP tools are being used around the world and remaining gaps in tool functionality

• From the Archives: Tools and resources for measuring blue carbon (MEAM May 2016, Issue 9:7)

September 2017 (10:10)

• Incorporating cultural values into ocean planning and management: New tools and trends

• Consideration of cultural values shapes ecosystem-based management in the Mediterranean

• Latest News and Resources for Ocean Planners, Part I

• Latest News and Resources for Ocean Planners, Part II: High Seas/Deep Sea

• EBM Toolbox: Avoiding tipping points for ocean ecosystems

July - August 2017 (10:9)

• Can optimism help your ocean conservation and management work?

• Can pessimism have a positive impact? Interview with Rowan Jacobsen about the recent obituary of the Great Barrier Reef

• Tundi’s Take: In Praise of Pessimism

• Latest News and Resources for Ocean Planners

• Need to get up to speed quickly on a marine conservation or management topic? Check out the new Top Lists!

June 2017 (10:8)

• How much data is enough? Scoping your ocean and coastal data collection so you can move on to next steps

• An ocean data portal in action: An interview with Nick Napoli about how the Northeast Ocean Data portal is being used

• Dispatches from the Field: How long will the Eastern Tropical Pacific be brimming with life?

• Latest News and Resources for Ocean Planners

• ​​​​​​​From the Archives: Offshore Energy: The Challenge of Planning and Managing It in an Ecosystem-Based Way (MEAM June-July 2010, Issue 3:6)

May 2017 (10:7)

• From the Editor: Making MEAM more global

• Marine Spatial Planning ten years later: A conversation with Charles “Bud” Ehler

• Food for thought: Conservation “leakage” and potential impacts of Trump’s trade policies on marine conservation

• Tundi’s Take: Could complex institutional frameworks and regulations actually inhibit EBM?

• EBM Toolbox: A new, short, and free primer on modern ocean management

• Latest News and Resources for Ocean Planners

April 2017 (10:6)

• New technologies for improving ocean management and ecosystem health

• Tundi’s Take: Can the private sector rescue the oceans?

• The offshore wind energy leasing process should adhere to the cooperative, transparent principles of the new US regional ocean plans: Interview with Anne Hawkins of Kelley Drye

• Latest News and Resources for Ocean Planners

• From the Archives: Maximizing the Value of Offshore Space by Co-Locating Aquaculture and Wind Farms (MEAM December 2012 - January 2013, Issue 6:3)

March 2017 (10:5)

• The UN Sustainable Development Goals and you: A short synopsis for ocean planners and managers

• Dispatches from the Field: Lessons from Peru - Innovative EBM in the Andes

• The EBM Toolbox: New ways to monitor large marine areas

• Latest News and Resources for Ocean Planners

• From the Archives: Managing the Costs and Benefits of Multinational Conservation (MEAM February-March 2010, Issue 3:4)

February 2017 (10:4)

• From the Editor: How to pay for marine conservation and management

• Turning science into actions: What scientists can do to inform marine resource management

• Perspective: The US National Ocean Policy in the Trump Era

• Tundi’s Take: Monitoring for Thinking and Acting Globally

• The EBM Toolbox: Methods for assessing marine ecosystem status

• Latest News and Resources for Ocean Planners

• From the Archives: Getting around ideology - When facts divide more than unite (MEAM February-March 2015, Issue 8:3)

December 2016 - January 2017 (10:3)

• From the Editor: How do recent events affect your work?

• Addressing long-term problems with short-term budgets and mandates: What’s a practitioner to do?

• Influence of shifting governance on ocean conservation and management: Perspectives from our readers

• Tundi’s Take: Time considered: When the time frame of the achievable does not match the time frame of the desirable

• From Our Readers

• Latest News and Resources for Ocean Planners

• From the Archives: MEAM Debate on Mixing Science with Advocacy: What Are the Risks and Responsibilities When Scientists Advocate for Particular Resource Management Policies? (MEAM December 2010-January 2011, Issue 4:3)

November 2016 (10:2)

• From the Editor: How do differences in time scales affect your work?

• Can better ocean management and profitability go hand in hand? Two entrepreneurs give examples

• Dispatches from the Field:  EBM best practices and innovative funding in Australia – and not from where you might expect!