CPC Workshop: Marine Benthic Habitats: The Key to Environmental Management

In 2006, the Circum-Pacific Council held its first workshop on Marine Benthic Habitats, co-sponsored by the Geological and Nuclear Sciences, Limited and The National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research. Links to some of the workshop's presentations can be found below.

Lecture Titles

"Workshop Introduction - Marine Benthic Habitats: The Key to Environmental Management"

"The Need to Standarize Habitat Classification"

"Impacts of Bay Floor Disturbances on Benthic Habitats in San Francisco Bay"

"Recent and Future Seafloor Mapping Plans of the USGS Coastal and Marine Geology Team and The Consortium for California Coastal Geologic and Habitat Mapping"

"Ecosystem Types Based on Multibeam Bathymetry, Sampling and Submersible Observations Along the Tonga-Kermadec Arc System"

"Seafloor Multibeam Mapping for Habitat and Biodiversity Studies: Examples from New Zealand"

"Coupling Habitat and Fisheries Data at Multiple Spatial Scales to Improve the Management of Coral Reef Fisheries in Pacific Island Countries"

"Overview of SOPAC's Bathymetric Mapping and Modeling Program: Current and Potential Applications Including Perspective on the Development of a Pacific Ocean Information System"

"SPREPs Needs in Relation to Marine Benthic Habitat Mapping"