Dear Colleagues: We are calling your attention to a session at the 2016 Ocean Sciences Meeting taking place on 21-26 February 2016 in New Orleans, Louisiana. You are welcome to submit an oral or poster presentation for this session via this link <https://agu.confex.com/agu/os16/preliminaryview.cgi/Session9632>: Please also share widely with your colleagues. https://agu.confex.com/agu/os16/preliminaryview.cgi/Session9632 *Session ID:* 9632 *Session Title:* Making National Policy Work Locally: Approaches For Implementing The National Ocean Policy At Regional, State, And Local Levels Through Ecosystem-Based Management
*Session Description:* The National Ocean Policy identifies ecosystem-based management (EBM) as a foundation for providing sound science-based and adaptable management to maintain the health, productivity, and resilience of U.S. ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes ecosystems, and the many, diverse benefits they provide. Furthermore, EBM is an important approach for efficient and effective interagency, multi-jurisdictional, and cross-sectoral marine planning and management that is consistent with and authorized by many existing Federal, Tribal, State, and local statutes and authorities. To become part of the marine planning and management culture, EBM must be applied and proven through local and regional examples, and meet management objectives at those scales and for those jurisdictions. To facilitate this, States, Tribes, and key stakeholders should be incentivized and empowered to collaborate with Federal agencies from the outset as partners on its implementation. This session brings together EBM researchers, planners, and decision makers to present the regional needs (the management) for EBM tools (the science) that help regional marine planning within the context of National policy. Presentations will advance the conversation about applying EBM by highlighting key challenges to its implementation, tools and trainings available, and lessons learned from pilot projects. EBM principles, theory, and case studies will be presented. The deadline for all abstract submissions is *Wednesday, 23 September 23:59 EDT/03:59 +1 GMT.* Abstracts will not be accepted for consideration after this date. Please share this notice with your colleagues and anyone who may be interested in this topic. We hope to see you there? *Session Chairs: * *Franklin B Schwing*, NOAA Fisheries, Office of Science and Technology, Silver Spring, MD, United States *Ashley Erickson*, Center for Ocean Solutions, Stanford, CA, United States -- Rebecca G. Martone, PhD Research Associate, Assistant Director for Science and Research Center for Ocean Solutions 99 Pacific Street, Suite 555E Monterey, CA 93940 USA phone: 831-333-2077 fax: 831-333-2081 cell: 831-402-2487 email: [email protected]
