[Coral-List] Upcoming Webinar

[Raye Evrard]

Hi Coral List, 

We have an upcoming OCTO-EBMTools webinar that I would like to pass along to you all. The webinar will be an hour long (40min presentation, 20min Q&A). If you’re unable to attend a recording will be made available after at openchannels.org/webinars <http://openchannels.org/webinars> as well as Youtube and Vimeo. Hope to you can attend! Description below.

Webinar: Management and evolution give hope to coral reefs facing the effects of climate change <https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_pJqz1gSQRYGuYvia1nVlHg>

Presented by: Madhavi Colton of the Coral Reef Alliance and Tim Walsworth of Utah State University

Date/Time: Thursday, August 1, 1 pm US EDT/10 am US PDT/5 pm UTC <https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_pJqz1gSQRYGuYvia1nVlHg>

Description: A new study just published in Nature Climate Change shows that management that takes evolution and adaptation into account can help rescue coral reefs from the effects of climate change. The results indicate that managing reefs to facilitate evolution today and in the future can enhance their prospects for long-term survival. Key to successful evolution is management that improves local conditions for reefs by effectively reducing local stressors, such as overfishing and water pollution. Contrary to approaches that are popular today, such as focusing protection on reefs in cooler water, the study shows that protecting diverse reef habitat types across a spectrum of ocean conditions is key to helping corals adapt to climate change. This means creating managed area networks that contain a diversity of coral types and habitats and that effectively reduce local stressors. You can read the paper online at https://go.nature.com/2J0e8XU <https://go.nature.com/2J0e8XU> or download it at https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-019-0518-5 <https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-019-0518-5>.

Co-sponsors: OCTO (OpenChannels, The Skimmer, MPA News) and the EBM Tools Network (co-coordinated by OCTO and NatureServe)

Register Here: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_pJqz1gSQRYGuYvia1nVlHg <https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_pJqz1gSQRYGuYvia1nVlHg>

Best, 
Raye

Raye Evrard, MMA
Project Manager 
OCTO | Open Communications for The Ocean
https://www.octogroup.org | https://www.openchannels.org
raye at octogroup.org
Seattle, Washington, USA (UTC-7)