Marine educators worldwide will gather January 15 to 18, 2007, to share resources and build a network aimed at ensuring the health of the Pacific Ocean and the communities who depend upon it. Web conferencing will allow educators who are unable to travel to Hawaii to participate.
Be part of an international effort to change the public attitude towards the ocean and to actively protect this ecosystem that keeps our world healthy. If the ocean isn't healthy, people are in jeopardy. Our kids deserve to be given a healthy legacy.
Pressures from a rapidly growing world population are increasing at an exponential rate. From CO2 concentrations that accelerate global climate change to global depletion of fishery stocks, the problems are unprecedented and will require innovative solutions.
A worldwide network of educators who focus on and are prepared to share knowledge and resources to solve these problems is essential.
The International Pacific Marine Educators Conference (IPMEC) is an outcome of the One Ocean Marine Forum (OOMF) held in Hawaii in July 2005 to design a worldwide network of educators for sustainable oceans. IPMEC will further the OOMF goal by piloting a network of Pacific marine educators.
Marine educators - using the widest sense of the word - are invited to participate in this conference focused on the Pacific. The conference (originally scheduled to be held in Fiji) will now be held in Honolulu on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. The conference is being hosted by the Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council.
For those unable to attend IPMEC in Hawaii, participation will via live web cast is available.
Press release: HONOLULU - Jan 31, 2007
The International Pacific Marine Educators Conference (IPMEC), which brought together marine educators from 18 countries Jan. 15 to 18, 2007, in Honolulu, has resulted in the establishment of a Pacific network of marine educators designed to ensure the health of the Pacific and the communities that depend upon it. The network aims to facilitate real action in marine education and highlight the need for ocean stewardship across the Pacific.
For more information or to provide suggestions to the organizing committee, please contact Harry Breidahl (Australia) or Sylvia Spalding (Hawaii).
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