The Skimmer/MEAM Archives

February 2018 (11:4)

• Can we insure our way to healthier oceans and ocean communities?

• A new way to frame ecosystem services: Ecosystems as ‘Providers’ and ‘Protectors’

• Latest News and Resources for Ocean Planners and Managers

• Perspective: Radical MSP can solve social and environmental problems, not just facilitate industrialization

• A few more wrap-up announcements from MEAM

December 2017 - January 2018 (11:3)

• How genetics can improve marine conservation and management: What practitioners should know (and do)

• Do big and sudden actions distract us from nurturing effective EBM?

• Latest News and Resources for Ocean Planners and Managers

• Get your research off the shelf and into policy: Writing reports and briefs that influence decision making

• A few more wrap-up announcements from MEAM

November 2017 (11:2)

• Help us improve MEAM and enter a drawing to win a MEAM tote bag!

• The Skimmer: The Latest on Ocean Plastic in Just a Few Minutes

• A Parable about Plastics

• Latest News and Resources for Ocean Planners and Managers

• From Our Readers and a Correction!

October 2017 (11:1)

• New ideas on how the social sciences could change the way we do ocean conservation and management – and already are

• Science is crucial to ecosystem-based management - but what science is most crucial?

• Latest News and Resources for Ocean Planners and Managers

• 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