Advisory Council
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- Published on Friday, 16 December 2011 16:21
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Charles N. Ehler
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Charles Ehler is an internationally recognized expert in integrated coastal zone and ocean management. Over the past five years, he has specialized in marine spatial planning. He is the president of Ocean Visions, a consulting firm on integrated coastal zone and ocean management based in Paris, France, which provides expert advice on strategic planning, program assessment and evaluation for national governments, international agencies and non-governmental organizations.
He has consulted for the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission and the Man and the Biosphere Program, the Ecological and Earth Sciences Division of UNESCO; the UNEP Regional Seas Programme; the World Bank, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), the IUCN Marine Program, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) of the United States; Fisheries and Oceans of Canada; the International Ocean Institute; WWF-International; WWF-Sweden and for the Commission on Climate Change and the Arctic of the Aspen Institute.
Ehler worked as chief executive of NOAA and as vice-president of the IUCN's World Commission on Protected Areas and he is a member of the Steering Committee for the Global Forum on Oceans, Coasts and Islands.
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Jon C. Day
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Jon Day is the regional coordinator for WCPA-Marine for Australia and New Zealand and director of the working group in charge of preparing a report on the status of the Great Barrier Reef.
He has extensive professional experience as a natural area manager, specializing in planning and management for the Great Barrier Reef. He has also worked with Kakadu National Park which has been declared a World Heritage Site, and in several national parks in the state of Victoria, Australia. He initially worked in the departments of planning and management for the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park and then for the state parks and wildlife agency of Queensland, responsible for the regular management of one third of the Great Barrier Reef. He was a marine consultant in Canada and is a former director of the Conservation, Heritage and Indigenous Peoples group.
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Steve Gaines
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Steve Gaines has a Ph.D. in Ecology from Oregon State University. He is the Director of the Institute of Marine Sciences and professor of ecology, evolution and marine biology at the University of California at Santa Bárbara. He studies marine conservation, marine reserve design, the impact of climate change on oceans and sustainable fishing.
He is the principal investigator for PISCO (Partnership for Interdisciplinary Studies of Coastal Oceans), a consortium that studies marine ecosystems on the west coast of the United States as part of the long term ecological research project in the coastal zone of Santa Barbara, studying the connections between coastal watersheds and the ecology of kelp forests, the sustainable fisheries groups that use market based approaches to improve the sustainability of the fishery and finally, 'Flow, Fish and Fishing', a biocomplexity project that analyzes the connections between ocean physics, fish and fishing.
