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 SOSOCIALCIAL RRESILIENCEESILIENCE IN ISISLANDLAND SYSSYSTEMS:TEMS: ININFORMINGFORMING POPOLICYLICY AND SSHARINGHARING LLESSONSESSONS FFOROR managemenMANAGEMENTT 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