IMPAC5 Session: Co-Designing Ocean Science To Inform Decision Making
Sharing insights and approaches as part of the UN Decade Of Ocean Science
IMPAC5-LCS-1908; February 6, 2023 2-3:30pm
Thank you for attending and participating in our knowledge sharing session! This page is intended to provide opportunities to be connected to the outcomes from our conversation today as well as to our ongoing work as part of the UN Decade of Ocean Science.
Facilitators
Jason Landrum - Lenfest Ocean Program; UN Ocean Decade Foundations Dialogue
Gonzalo Cid - NOAA, MPA Sentinels Ocean Decade Programme
Claudia Barón - University of South Florida College of Marine Science, Marine Life 2030 Ocean Decade Programme
Rebecca Martone, Decade Collaborative Center for the Northeast Pacific; subscribe to the DCC’s newsletter
Kathryn Sheps - Decade Collaborative Center for the Northeast Pacific; subscribe to the DCC’s newsletter
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Session Description
Place-based management of marine resources requires sound and timely scientific information that is useful and usable for various “knowledge users”, including managers, practitioners, and decision-makers. This process necessitates the use of a ‘co-design’ approach to ensure that scientists and the monitoring community work directly with multiple stakeholders to identify critical information needs, to develop research and observations that are necessary to meet those needs, and to integrate various information sources, including local knowledge, experiences, and ways of knowing. The co-design process is iterative, with users, observers, and policy-makers continually discussing and working together as information is produced. The United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021–2030; "Ocean Decade"), has prioritized these approaches to developing usable scientific knowledge, providing an opportunity to reimagine pathways for science to inform management and sustainable development of the ocean.
This knowledge sharing session will provide an opportunity for multiple stakeholders to discuss existing scientific information needs for designing and managing MPAs, to share best practices on how to co-design and co-produce knowledge to fill these needs, and how to leverage the unique opportunity of the Ocean Decade to build greater capacity, coordination, and collaboration. The session begins identifying and developing the relationships needed between scientists and knowledge users to produce research and monitoring positioned to inform management and decision-making. Local to international participants are invited to discuss with peers in the MPA and conservation community already involved in the Ocean Decade. Audiences convened in the session include scientists, the monitoring community, and end users, including MPA and other resource managers.
