Marine educators worldwide will gather in the tropical Australian city of Townsville to share resources and to continue ongoing efforts to build a network aimed at ensuring the health of the Pacific and the communities who depend upon it. The conference dates are October 16 to 21, 2008 and web conferencing will allow virtual participation for educators who are unable to travel to Australia.
The International Pacific Marine Educators Network (IPMEN) is a developing collective of marine educators throughout the Pacific. The creation of this group began with a two day meeting on the Hawaiian island of Maui in July 2005 and gained considerable momentum at a second international meeting, also in Hawaii, in January 2007. This second meeting, called IPMEC, brought together 100 educators from 18 Pacific nations and territories and resulted in the formation of IPMEN.
By piloting a cooperative network of Pacific marine educators, IPMEN is seen as a first step towards the goal of establishing a worldwide marine educators network. Such a worldwide network would aim to share knowledge, expertise and resources to solve ocean related environmental issues.
You are invited to be part of this growing international effort to change the public attitudes towards the ocean and to actively protect this ecosystem that keeps our world healthy. Marine educators – using the widest sense of the word – are encouraged to participate, either in person or virtually via the web, in this conference focused on the Pacific.
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o the IPMEN’08 conference committee, please contact Harry Breidahl (Australia) or Sylvia Spalding (Hawaii).
This is the second posting of IPMEN’08 conference announcements. As of March 2008 a final draft conference program, conference themes and strands and full details for potential sponsors and supporters have been posted on this web site. Updated details of travel to Townsville, conference accommodation plus details of conference scholarships have also been posted. Finally, the first round call for papers, conference registration and scholarship application forms have been posted.
An IPMEN’08 conference brochure is now available for download as a pdf.
Sponsorship is currently being sought for the IPMEN’08 conference in Townsville. The first two Silver Sponsors are the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council and Nautilus Educational plus the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority has signed on as a function sponsor.
Full details of IPMEN’08 conference sponsorship packages are now available in the Sponsors section of this site. Potential IPMEN’08 sponsors should contact Billy Breidahl.
The growing list of IPMEN’O8 supporters (in-kind) includes – BriTer Solutions (Australia), Centro AquaSendas-COPAS (Chile), the Conservation Society of Pohnpei, the College of Exploration (USA), COSEE California, Firestarter (Australia), the Lawrence Hall of Science (University of Berkeley, California), the Marine Education Society of Australasia, National Marine Educators Association (USA) and the Institute of Applied Sciences at the University of the South Pacific (Fiji).
Three IPMEN’08 sponsors, namely the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council, Nautilus Educational and the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority, are also valuable in-kind supporters of the conference.
If you are interested in joining this growing list please go to the Sponsors section of this site.
