Tag Archives: policy and permitting

**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> This post first appeared January 27, 2014 in the West Coast Governors’ Alliance on Ocean Health, The Collaborative Voice of the West Coast Sea Grant Fellows. As someone working extensively with ocean-related data sets, I’m thrilled to announce the launch of a new West Coast marine […]

**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> This post first appeared February 4, 2014 in The California Majority Report. Liz Whiteman Many factors influence the health of the ocean, but one making waves of late is ocean acidification. It is human nature to fear what we do not adequately understand, and there are […]

**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> This post is the second of a two-part series on the roles that boundary organizations play in linking science with decision making. It was first published on January 24, 2014 in Leopold Leadership 3.0. Click here to view part one. In our first post, we described […]

**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> November marks the first anniversary of the online community – and our community is the heart of OceanSpaces.  In our first year, we’ve grown to 600+ members, who are broadly engaged across the platform: downloading data; sharing monitoring results; writing blogs and more.  The interactive e-book, […]

**This blog entry orginally appeared on the website oceanspaces.org.**/p> One of the more encouraging aspects of working in the boundary between science and decision making is hearing scientists increasingly express the desire for their research to more effectively inform policy and management. However, for many the boundary appears difficult to navigate. In an approach we […]