Collaborative Project with the Multipurpose Marine Cadastre

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Collaborative Project with the Multipurpose
Marine Cadastre
Zach Ferdaña Chris Bruce Dan Kelly Jay Odell The
Nature Conservancy
Marine Boundary Working Group Arlington,
VA December 15, 2009
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Overview

• Overview
• Ecoregional approach
• Pilot project aims
• December update

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Marine Ecoregional Assessment Process

• identify conservation features
• gather available information
• set conservation goals
• identify impacts and human uses
• develop initial priority scenarios using
  decision support tools
• evaluate results with experts
• develop final priority conservation areas and
  alternative scenarios
• Products
• spatial database
• decision support
• site priorities

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Northwest Atlantic Marine ecoregion
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Contributing to the Multipurpose Marine Cadastre
Aim 1 Work with the MMC to define and
characterize the Marine Habitat and Biodiversity
data theme
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Contributing to the Multipurpose Marine Cadastre
Aim 2 Determine and categorize what
biodiversity features to include in the MMC
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Contributing to the Multipurpose Marine Cadastre
Aim 3 Define data standards and a peer review
process
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Contributing to the Multipurpose Marine Cadastre
Aim 4 Implement Marine Habitat and Biodiversity
information
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Contributing to the Multipurpose Marine Cadastre
Aim 5 Share lessons learned and develop a
process from these pilot projects
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December update

• December update
• Defined biodiversity and categorized features
• Submitted benthic habitat data
• Initiated peer review process

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Questions?
The Nature Conservancy nature.org/marine

• Zach Ferdaña, Senior Marine Conservation Planner
• zferdana_at_tnc.org