World Ocean Academy

The first World Ocean Academy was held on the 9^th May, in the frame of
the 4^th International Meeting of World Ocean Network.

  (Some abstracts and presentations here-below are currently only available in French)

09.00 – 09.15

Opening

09.15 – 10.00	Theme 1: The ocean is fundamental to the Earth’s life support system -       Ocean, climate and observing systems, Jean-Louis FELLOUS, Executive Director, Committee on Space Research (COSPAR), Paris, France -       Ocean health and coastal wealth, Dr. Laura T. DAVID, Deputy Director for Instruction at the University of the Philippines Marine Science Institute (UPMSI) or Marine Science Institute, UP Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines
10.00 – 11.15	Theme 2: Oceans of services provided to humankind -       Marine biodiversity and microorganisms, essential for the marine ecosystem, Felipe ARTIGAS, Associate Professor, CNRS UMR LOG, Laboratoire d'Océanologie et Géosciences, MREN - Université du Littoral (ULCO), Wimereux, France -       First observations of a juvenile coelacanth (video), Iwata MASA, Green Eye Project, Aquamarine Fukushima, Japan -       The specificity of deep-ocean ecosystems: oasis of life, chemosynthesis, the hopes of biotechnology, Pierre COCHONAT, Deputy Director of programmes and project coordination at Ifremer, head of the project "Exploration, exploitation of ocean floors and their biodiversity", Ifremer - GM-GEOSCIENCES MARINES, France
11.15 – 11.30	Coffee break
11.30 – 13.00	Theme 3: The ecological disruption of the ocean and what it means for mankind -       Economic costs of the loss of ecological services from marine ecosystems, Dr. Rudolf S. DE GROOT, Associate Professor, Environmental Systems Analysis group, Wageningen University, Wageningen, The Netherlands -       A community-based climate change adaptation approach, Dr. Laura T. DAVID, Deputy Director for Instruction at the University of the Philippines Marine Science Institute (UPMSI) or Marine Science Institute, UP Diliman, Quezon City, Philippines -       The impact of climatic variations on halieutic activities (in Senegal), Diafara TOURÉ, Retired Director, Oceanographic Research Centre Dakar-Thiaroye, Sénégal -       The Marine Protected Areas networks in the Asian region: some good practices and strategic issues (download the presentation), Assc. Prof. Dr. NGUYEN Chu Hoi, Deputy Administrator of VASI: Vietnam Administration of Seas and Islands (VASI), Cum Chairman of ASEAN Working Group on Coastal and Marine Environment (AWGCME), Vietnam

13.00 – 14.30

Lunch at Nausicaá’s restaurant

14.30 – 16.00	Theme 4: The ocean as heritage of humanity -       The contributions of Regional Seas Conventions relative to the provisions of the United Nation's Convention on the Law of the Sea (download the presentation), Dr. Christophe LEFEBVRE, French Marine Protected Areas Agency Representative for European and International Affairs, UICN European Advisor, Lecturer associated with the ULCO, Boulogne sur Mer, France -       The ocean as heritage of humanity, Gabriele GOETTSCHE-WANLI, Deputy Director Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea Office of Legal Affairs United Nations, New York, USA -       Problems of governance in areas beyond national jurisdiction, Dr David FREESTONE, Lobingier Visiting Professor of Comparative Law and Jurisprudence, The George Washington University Law School, Washington DC, USA -       The exploration, prospecting and sustainable exploitation of the ocean depths (download the abstract), Pierre COCHONAT, Deputy Director of programmes and project coordination at Ifremer, head of the project "Exploration, exploitation of ocean floors and their biodiversity", Ifremer - GM-GEOSCIENCES MARINES, France
tio16.00 – 16.15	Coffee break
16.15 – 17.45	Theme 5: New equitable and sustainable approaches for the management of our ocean heritage -       Mobilizing the public and the civil society, Philippe VALLETTE, World Ocean Network, Co-chair / Nausicaá, General Manager, Boulogne sur Mer, France -       Communicating about oceans - Challenges and Possibilities, Anitha SANTHI, Environmental Educator, BALAVIHAR, Kerala, India -       Special address on cross-cutting governance issues, Biliana CICIN-SAIN, Director, Gerard J. Mangone Center for Marine Policy School of Marine Science and Policy College of Earth, Ocean and Environment / Co-Chair and Head of Secretariat, Global Forum on Oceans, Coasts, and Islands / Editor-in-Chief, Ocean & Coastal Management Journal, Delaware, USA

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