December 2019 – EwE 35 Years conference (FI, Florida, USA)

The group participated in the EwE 35 Years conference and workshops!

4-11 December 2019 – FWRI, St Petersburg, FL. USA

The “Ecopath 35 years – Making Ecosystem-Based Management Operational” conference and workshops was held in St. Petersburg, Florida, USA, during December 4 to 11, 2019, and showcased thirty-five years of progress using the Ecopath approach in different fields: fisheries management, marine conservation, ecosystem dynamics, climate impacts, and ecosystem-based management (EBM), as well as to introduce exciting new facilities of the approach. The gathering was an international scientific reunion on ecosystem modelling based on the Ecopath and Ecosim modelling framework and software.

 

June 2019 – EuroMarine workshop on spatial model fitting (ICM-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain)

We co-organized with Ecopath International Initiative the EuroMarine workshop “Modelling for policy advice under a global change context: expert workshop on measuring and improving the fit of spatial-temporal aquatic ecosystem models” at the Institute of Marine Sciences (ICM-CSIC) in Barcelona.

The workshop brought together experts across different ecological modeling and spatial-temporal statistical approaches to discuss the state of the art and plan a way forward to improve spatial-temporal models for policy advice.

Funding: EuroMarine

April 2019 – Stakeholders Workshop “Updating the knowledge on small pelagic fish in the northwestern Mediterranean” (ICM-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain)

We organized a second workshop with the fisheries associations and representatives of the small pelagic fisheries “Actualització del coneixement sobre els petits pelàgics al Mediterrani nord occidental” to update them about the main results of our projects PELWEB and SPELMED, at the Institute of Marine Science (ICM-CSIC), in Barcelona, Spain.

Organizers: Marta Coll, Marta Albó Puigserver , John G. Ramírez, María Grazia Pennino & Jose María Bellido (IEO)

 

March 2019 – Workshop Gender Equity in European research (ICM-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain)

Co-organization of Workshop Gender Equity in European research as an activity of MarCons COST Action 15121 ‘Advancing marine conservation in the European and contiguous seas’. 27th – 29th March, Barcelona, Spain.

 

September 2018 – Theme session on Cumulative effects assessment in the marine realm: approaches, examples and future needs (ICES ASC, Hamburg, Germany)

Co-organization of Theme session E, Cumulative effects assessment in the marine realm: approaches, examples and future needs.

Conveners: Vanessa Stelzenmüller (Germany), Marta Coll (Spain), Joachim Claudet (France). ICES ASC 24th September 2018, Hamburg, Germany

February 2018 – Stakeholders Workshop “Recent research about small pelagic fish at ICM” (ICM-CSIC, Barcelona, Spain)

We organized a first workshop with the fisheries associations and representatives of the small pelagic fisheries “Recerca actual sobre els peixos petits pelàgics al ICM” to introduce them two of our new projects PELWEB and SPELMED, which aim at investigating recent trends of small pelagic fish in the Western Mediterranean Sea, at the Institute of Marine Science (ICM-CSIC), in Barcelona, Spain.

Organizers: Marta Coll, Marta Albo-Puigserver, Isabel Palomera

May 2016 – 3rd meeting of ICES Working group COMEDA on Comparative Analyses between European Atlantic and Mediterranean marine ecosystems to move towards an Ecosystem-based Approach to Fisheries (AZTI, Bilbao, Spain)

Marta Coll participated in the co-organization of the 3rd meeting of ICES Working group COMEDA on Comparative Analyses between European Atlantic and Mediterranean marine ecosystems to move towards an Ecosystem-based Approach to Fisheries, hosted at AZTI, Bilbao, Spain.

December 2015 – 1st International Workshop on Global Trends in Marine Biodiversity in Africa and Mediterranean ecosystems (UCT, Cape Town, South Africa)

Organizer of the First International Workshop on Global Trends in Marine Biodiversity in Africa and Mediterranean ecosystems. EuroMarine as part of the activities of IRD-ICEMASA, December 2015, Cape Town, South Africa.

Funding: EuroMarine

June 2015 – Workshop on Building scenarios of future marine ecosystems under a global change context: moving forward (IRD, Sete, France)

Co-organizer of the Workshop “Building scenarios of future marine ecosystems under a global change context: moving forward” held at IRD, MARBEC UMR, in Sete, France.

Organizers: Marta Coll, Philippe Cury, Jeroen Steenbeek

Funding: Euromarine

April 2015 – 2nd meeting of ICES Working group COMEDA on Comparative Analyses between European Atlantic and Mediterranean marine ecosystems to move towards an Ecosystem-based Approach to Fisheries (IEO, Mallorca, Spain)

Co-organization of the 2nd meeting of ICES Working group COMEDA on Comparative Analyses between European Atlantic and Mediterranean marine ecosystems to move towards an Ecosystem-based Approach to Fisheries, hosted at the Instituto Español de Oceanografía (IEO) inPalma de Mallorca, Spain.

Organizers: Manolo Hidalgo (IEO). Hilmar Hinz (IMEDEA) & Marta Coll