Legacy something coming from the pastLegacies in Policies and Practices: Societal Benefits & Target Audiences

Meryl WilliamsSSC, FC

Where can CoML have the biggest impact?Societal benefits depend on how decision makers use the Census products or their derivatives and what outcomes and impacts are thereby achievedCensus scientists have only an indirect role in achieving societal benefitsSocietal benefits from science are challenging to assessWhere can we have the biggest impact?Where demand already exists Uses already in trainDiscussions: some suggestions for securing Census societal benefit

Target Audiences, BenefitsProject/science fieldMore partners, time, derived products CoML/marine science Society, Operating EnvironmentSectoral policy/practice

Target Audiences, BenefitsProject/science fieldMore partners, time, derived products CoML/marine science Society, Operating EnvironmentSectoral policy/practiceE&ONRICs, projectsSyntheses

Achieving Societal Benefit from Census Products

GoMA

Censeam

The project has raised the public and managerial awareness of the value and significance of mid-ocean areas and their animal communities

Results have contributed to defining high-seas habitats and communities in need of protection. Results were used in e.g. ICES WGs to evaluate closed areas implemented by the RFMO NEAFC. OSPAR has shown interest. WWF has based an MPA proposal on preliminary results from MAR-ECO.Societal Impact of Results to Date

Societal Impact of Results to DateSocietal impact: ChEss signed InterRidge Code of Conduct in relation to investigating and sampling hydrothermal vents (Fisher & Devey, 2006). Establishment of MAR MPAs for Rainbow, Menez Gwen and Lucky Strike vent fields in Portuguese waters (Santos).

PEW Workshop on defining MPA's, Hawaii, Oct 2007

HMAP

Challenges to assessing societal benefits

Challenges to Assessing Societal BenefitsEstablishing a viable counter-factualWhat would have happened without the Census or project?Attribution and sharing the creditE&O Network has guidelines for attributing credit thru public statementsLag times to impact long, unpredictable

Assessing User Demand

Assessing User Demand

Framework Committee surveyed target audiences on what they would like from the Census and how would they might want to learn from it or use its products.

Demand by User GroupAll groups want access to raw data, maps, and user-friendly, web-based reliable information.

Scientists interested in obtaining good quality raw data through OBIS and papers published in scientific journals.

Demand by User GroupEducators said that information for use in the classroom must be relevant for teachers and students.

Oil industry want integrated data maps (in GIS platform) and lists and localities of most relevant species. Also want indicators of biodiversity quality and parameters that could be measured and monitored over time.

Demand by User GroupResearch managers want Census to provide the big picture,-- context and importance of the information presented.

Government officials interested in local or regional information that they could use to help in the development of policy, including protocols and access to scientific experts in different disciplines.

Demand by User GroupNon-Government Organizations want information to help them prioritize conservation or advocacy efforts, such as lists of affected species and key species within ecosystems and identification of pristine areas.

Public wants brochures, local field guides, TV programs, movies

What uses are already in train?

Project Level Legacies

Thinking Broadly About Potential ApplicationsWhat are the likely impact pathways for my outputs?Who are the likely ultimate users?What do they want/need?How are they influenced?How do they get their scientific advice?What do I have to do and with whom to get my results into a form that they can/will use?

Census Level Legacies

Some suggestionsCensus synthesis + dissemination strategyNRICS, developing countries especially Census participation in key international meetings 2009-2010 OBIS as sustainable global data repository that reflects the Census contributionWorking group of Census users to ensure successCensus people as post-2010 basis for marine biodiversity social networksCensus lessons: what worked, what needed improvement, what were the societal benefits and how would we know?

Achieving Societal Benefit from Census Products

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