understanding ecological and social resilience in island systems

informing policy and sharing lessons for management

milstein science symposium

american museum of natural history

new york, ny

9-11 APRIL 2013 undeunderstandingrstanding eecologicalcological and socialsocial resilienceresilience in isislandland syssystems:tems: ininformingforming popolicylicy and ssharingharing llessonsessons fforor managementmanagement S Y M P O S I U M A G E N D A

TABLE OF CONTENTS day one - April 9, 2013

8:00 a.m. BREAKFAST (Shell Corridor) An integrated framework for assessing Introduction ...... 1 and managing data-limited fish stocks 9:00 a.m. introductory REMARKS Kendra Karr, Environmental Defense Symposium Agenda ...... 2 (Kaufmann Theater) Fund, USA Eleanor J. Sterling, Center for Biodiversity Guide to Posters ...... 5 and Conservation, American Museum of Managing for resilience using directed Natural History, USA monitoring efforts and community Center for Biodiversity and Conservation ...... 7 (Session Moderator) engagement at the Kahekili Herbivore Jenny Newell, Pacific Ethnology, fisheries Management Area (KHFMA) Division of Anthropology, American Russell Sparks, Division of Aquatic Island ecosystems present unique challenges for conservation due to their restricted geography and Museum of Natural History Resources, State of Hawaii, USA isolation as well as high vulnerability to threats such as climate change. At the same time, island peoples must confront rapid economic transformations and globalization. Without the geographc 9:15 a.m. KEYNOTE PRESENTATION managing identity in the midst of globalization buffers that a continent can provide, islands face critical conservation decisions now that foreshadow (Kaufmann Theater) Navigating an era of unprecedented Mae Adams, Micronesia Program, The decisions all peoples will increasingly face. These actions directly impact both biological and cultural change: the rise of resilience and its Nature Conservancy diversity. importance to islands Paul Marshall, The Great Barrier Reef 12:05 p.m. lunch AND WORKING GROUPS The American Museum of Natural History’s Center for Biodiversity and Conservation, and its Marine Park Authority, Australia (PowerHouse) collaborators The Nature Conservancy, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the National Science Nadine Marshall, Ecosystem Sciences, Foundation, the University of California Santa Barbara, the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial 2:00 p.m. panel DISCUSSION (Kaufmann Theater) University of California San Diego, the Wildlife Conservation Society, and the UN Office for the High Research Organization (CSIRO), Australia What is the role of science in managing Representative for Least Developed Countries, Landlocked Developing Countries, and Small Island 10:00 a.m. inVITED TALKS for resilience? Developing States have convened this symposium to examine characteristics, qualities, and processes (Kaufmann Theater) Hugh Possingham, School of Forestry that may foster resilience for coastal and marine systems as well as explore interactions, linkages, and Socio-ecological resilience in Pacific Island and Environmental Studies, Yale feedback loops in complex social-ecological systems and what this means for management. traditional and contemporary contexts University, USA and University of Stacy Jupiter, Fiji Country Program, Queensland, Australia Presenters and attendees will share experiences on how island systems have resisted or recovered from Wildlife Conservation Society Stuart Sandin, University of California San Diego, USA major disturbances while also identifying what information is needed to better inform planning and Environmental displacement and cultural Stephanie Wear, Global Marine policy for resilience in the future. resilience: the Banabans of Ocean Island Program, The Nature Conservancy, USA The Milstein Science Symposium is proudly sponsored by the Irma and Paul Milstein Family. and Rabi Sangeeta Mangubhai, Indonesia Marine Katerina Teaiwa, School of Culture, Program, The Nature Conservancy History and Language, College of Asia and Mae Adams, Micronesia Program, The The Center for Biodiversity and Conservation at the American Museum of Natural History would also the Pacific, Australian National University, Nature Conservancy like to thank the following partners for their contribution and collaboration: Australia Tadzio Bervoets, St. Maarten Nature Foundation 10:40 a.m. BREAK (Northwest Coast Indians Hall) Eleanor J. Sterling (moderator), Center for Biodiversity and Conservation, 11:10 a.m. case STUDY PRESENTATIONS American Museum of Natural History session Moderator: Petra MacGowan, Global Marine Program, The Nature 3:05 p.m. inVITED TALKS Conservancy, USA session Moderator: Jenny Newell, (Kaufmann Theater) Pacific Ethnology, Division of Anthropology, American Museum Supporting resilient systems in the Bay of Natural History islands, Honduras (Kaufmann Theater) Jenny Myton, Coral Reef Alliance, Honduras

S Y M P O S I U M A G E N D A S Y M P O S I U M A G E N D A

day Two - April 10, 2013 making it easier to manage rrefs for coral reef resilience to climate change in resilience - a framework for interpretation 8:00 a.m. BREAKFAST saipan, CNMI: field based-assessments and 2:00 p.m. inVITED TALK of resilience assessment scores (Shell Corridor) implications for vulnerability and future session Moderator: Dan Brumbaugh, Sangeeta Mangubhai, Indonesia Marine management Center for Biodiversity and Program, The Nature Conservancy 9:00 a.m. day ONE RECAP AND Steven Johnson, Division of Conservation, American Museum of introduction TO DAY TWO Environmental Quality in the Natural History, USA Building reef resilience capacity at a (Kaufmann Theater) Commonwealth of the Northern (Kaufmann Theater) local scale Eleanor J. Sterling, Center for Mariana Islands Naneng Setiasih, Coral Reef Alliance, Biodiversity and Conservation, Fostering manager voices to inform global Indonesia American Museum of Natural History Notes from a floating island: long term policy Jenny Newell, Pacific Ethnology, experiences of climate change in the Pacific Peter Kenilorea, UN Office of the High 3:45 p.m. BREAK (Shell Corridor) Division of Anthropology, American Carlos Mondragon, Center for African Representative for the Least Developed Museum of Natural History and Asian Studies, El Colegio de Mexico, Countries, Landlocked Developing 4:00 p.m. case STUDY PRESENTATIONS Countries, and Small Island Developing (Kaufmann Theater) 9:05 a.m. inVITED TALKS 10:40 a.m. BREAK (Northwest Coast Indians Hall) States Incorporating local wisdom sasi into session Moderator: Christopher Filardi, marine zoning to increase the resilience Center for Biodiversity and Conservation, 11:10 a.m. case STUDY PRESENTATIONS 2:15 p.m. panel DISCUSSION of a Marine Protected Area network in American Museum of Natural History session Moderator: Katherine Holmes, (Kaufmann Theater) raja Ampat, West Papua, Indonesia (Kaufmann Theater) Wildlife Conservation Society, USA Funding for resilience: perspectives Purwanto, Coral Triangle/Indonesia, (Kaufmann Theater) from funders and grantees The Nature Conservancy evolutionary processes fostering resilience Bernd Cordes, Paul G. Allen Family on islands Ecological and social resilience in island Foundation, USA Integrated indigenous management of Scott V. Edwards, Department of systems: case study of Lakshadweep Sangeeta Mangubhai, Indonesia Marine land and Marine Protected Areas in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Vineeta Hoon, Centre for Action Program, The Nature Conservancy taiarapu, Tahiti Harvard University, USA Research on Environment Science and Jenny Myton, Coral Reef Alliance, Tokainuia Devatine, Centre de Recherches Society, India Honduras Insulaires et Observatoire de prioritising conservation actions for Kate Barnes, MacArthur Foundation, USA l’Environnement (CRIOBE), island marine ecosystems Community-based adaptation in the Pacific Jeffrey Campbell (moderator), The French Polynesia Hugh Possingham, School of Forestry islands Christensen Fund, USA and Environmental Studies, Yale Megan Gombos, Sea Change 4:30 p.m. panel DISCUSSION University, USA and University of Consulting, LLC, USA 3:45 p.m. BREAK AND WORKING GROUPS (Kaufmann Theater) Queensland, Australia (Northwest Coast Indians Hall) Resilience in the Solomons: Common Community-based planning and threads, trade-offs, and unanticipated 9:45 a.m. case STUDY PRESENTATIONS mobilization in urbanized atolls: the Rita 5:30 p.m. plenary AND CLOSING REMARKS outcomes session Moderator: Susan Perkins, reimaanlok case study Christopher Filardi, Center for Biodiversity Simon Albert, University of Queensland, Division of Invertebrate Zoology, Tina Stege, MarTina Corporation, and Conservation, American Museum of Australia American Museum of Natural HIstory, Marshall Islands Natural History Matthew Lauer, San Diego State USA University, USA (Kaufmann Theater) Fostering resilience in coral reef and 6:00 p.m. adJOURN Senoveva Mauli, Solomon Islands Speyside Marine Area Community-based agricultural systems in Guanica, PR Program, The Nature Conservancy management Project - a case study for Paul Sturm, Ridge to Reefs, USA Patrick Pikacha, Solomon Islands socio-ecological resilience in Tobago Community Conservation Partnership (Southern Caribbean) The effects of natural disturbances, reef Christopher Filardi (moderator), Center Jahson Alemu, Institute of Marine state, and herbivorous fish densities on for Biodiversity and Conservation, Affairs, Trinidad and Tobago ciguatera poisoning in Raratonga, American Museum of Natural History southern Cook Islands Climate change adaptation: local Teina Rongo, Climate Change - Cook 5:30 p.m. poster SESSION AND RECEPTION solutions for a global problem in a Islands Division, Office of the (Milstein Hall of Ocean Life) popular tourism destination Prime Minister Derta Prabuning, Reefcheck, Bali 12:30 p.m. lunch (PowerHouse)

g u i d e t o p o s t e r s g u i d e t o p o s t e r s

SIMPSON ABRAHAM WHITNEY HOOT DAVID NGUYEN RANDI ROTJAN FSM Pacific Adaptation to Climate Change (PACC), Island Research & Education Initiative, Palikir, Pohnpei, Department of Urban Planning, University of Hawaii, New England Aquarium, USA Federated States of Micronesia Federated States of Micronesia USA The Phoenix Islands - a reference site for global change, Study on loss and damage on coastal housing as a result The Abandonment of Sorol Atoll (Yap State, Federated Resiliency in Miyakojima, Japan resilience, and adaptation of climate change in Kosrae States of Micronesia) EMILIE NOVACZEK STEPHANIE SABBAGH JORG ANSON PRICILA IRANAH College of Sustainability, Dalhousie University, Canada School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, University Conservation Society of Pohnpei, Federated States of Department of Earth and Environmental Science, Is tourism an enemy to anemones? Examining the of Belize Micronesia Montclair State University, USA impacts of tourism on coral reefs in San Andrés, Social factors challenging shark conservation outcomes Coral reef resource management in Pohnpei, Micronesia Bridging gaps in biodiversity conservation policy and Colombia in Belize action: case study of Mauritius WENDY COVER IRENE NOVACZEK VIJOY SAHAY National Marine Sanctuary of American Samoa JOE McCARTER Institute of Island Studies, University of Prince Edward Department of Anthropology, University of Allahabad, Drivers of resilient coral-reef assemblages in Fagatele Department of Human Dimensions of Natural Resources, Island, Canada India Bay, American Samoa Warner College of Natural Resources, Colorado State Place attachment, community cohesion and resilience Himalayan blunders in Andaman and Nicobar University, USA on Prince Edward Island Archipelago NATALIE DAWSON Traditional ecological knowledge and resilience on Wilderness Institute, University of Montana, USA Malekula Island, Vanuatu VEIRA PULEKERA ROBERT SNYDER Introducing resilience: Pine marten (Martes americana) University of Queensland and Marovo Resource Island Institute, Maine, USA on North Pacific islands LUCIANO MINERBI Management Program, Australia Islands of hope Department of Urban and Regional Planning, University “Hope” practice: traditional resource management CHRISTOPHER DUNN of Hawaii, USA method in Zaira village GABRIEL THOUMI Lyon Arboretum, University of Hawaii, USA Sustainable ecosystem and disaster resilient practices in Integra, LLC, USA Biocultural diversity in botanical garden conservation an American Samoa village Use of financial risk analysis tools to empower island strategies in island systems communities

ROD FUJITA FRANCISCO VILELLA Environmental Defense Fund, USA United States Geological Survey Step-by-step guide to provide management guidance for Sugarcane cultivation in the West Indies and wetland data-limited fisheries biodiversity restoration

VICTOR GALVAN JOHN WAUGH PUNTACANA Ecological Foundation, Dominican Integra, LLC, USA Republic Participatory mapping of climate risk - a case study from Active restoration of endangered Acropora cervicornis in the Cook Islands the Dominican Republic KAME WESTERMAN JEAN-RAPHAEL GROS-DESORMEAUX Blue Ventures, USA Centre de Recherche sur les Pouvoirs Locaux dans la Building resilience with integrated ecological and social CaraÏbe, Universite des Antiles et de la Guyane, French initiatives in Madagascar West Indies The relationship between birds and fruit and vegetable TARA WILKINSON crops in Martinique McGill University, Canada Marine reserves: beneficial for Barbadian fisher, NICK HOLMES conservation and resilience? Island Conservation, USA Protecting biodiversity by removing invasive species from islands C E N T E R F O R B I O D I V E R S I T Y A N D C O N S E R V A T I O N

In 1993, the American Museum of Natural History created the Center for Biodiversity and Conservation (CBC) to leverage its institutional expertise to mitigate threats to cultural and biological diversity. The CBC develops strategic partnerships to expand scientific knowledge about diverse species in critical exosystems and to apply this knowledge to conservation; builds professional and institutional capacities for biodiversity conservation; and heightens public understanding and stewardship for biodiversity. Working both locally and and around the world, the CBC develops model programs and tools that integrate research, education, and outreach so that people -- a key factor in the rapid loss of biodiversity -- will become participants in its conservation.

To learn more about the CBC, please visit our website: http://cbc.amnh.org.

SYMPOSIUM CONTENT COORDINATORS: Eleanor J. Sterling, Center for Biodiversity and Conservation, American Museum of Natural History Jenny Newell, Pacific Ethnology, Department of Anthropology, American Museum of Natural History Felicity Arengo, Center for Biodiversity and Conservation, American Museum of Natural History

SYMPOSIUM CONTENT ADVISORS: Petra MacGowan, The Nature Conservancy Stephanie Wear, The Nature Conservancy Susan Perkins, American Museum of Natural History Christopher Filardi, Center for Biodiversity and Conservation, American Museum of Natural History Stuart Sandin, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, University of California San Diego Madhavi Colton, Coral Reef Alliance (CORAL) Jason Vasques, Coral Reef Alliance (CORAL) David Obura, CORDIO Paul Marshall, Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority (GBRMPA) Nadine Marshall, Commonwealth and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) Jeff Campbell, The Christensen Fund Kate Brown, GLISPA Peter Kenilorea, UN-OHRLLS Caleb McClennen, Wildlife Conservation Society Katherine Holmes, Wildlife Conservation Society Stacy Jupiter, Wildlife Conservation Society Georgina Cullman, Center for Biodiversity and Conservation, American Museum of Natural History April Ridlon, University of California Santa Barbara Laura Dee, University of California Santa Barbara Dan Brumbaugh, Center for Biodiversity and Conservation, American Museum of Natural History

SYMPOSIUM LOGISTICS COORDINATOR: Robin Cannito Gold

TECHNOLOGY COORDINATORS: Tony Alexander Ho-Ling Poon Pete Ersts

REGISTRATION COORDINATOR: Margaret Law

The Center for Biodiversity and Conservation thanks all of the volunteers who gave their time and energy to help with the symposium.