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Mapping European Seabed Habitats

A framework to support Sustainable Management

Wed 14/3/2007- Thu 15/3/2007

Dublin Castle, Dublin, Ireland

Over 200 delegates from more than 20 countries attended the MESH Conference in Dublin in March 2007. Stakeholders, policy-makers and MESH Partners contributed presentations to the two-day conference programme.

Press article: Irish Times

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MESH Conference Presentations: Wednesday 14th March 2007
Speaker	Presentation Title	Size
Introduction Chair: Fiona Fitzpatrick, Marine Institute, Ireland
Prof. Gary Green Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, USA	Keynote speaker – The importance of habitat mapping	9.7MB PDF
Petra Pelster Joint Technical Secretariat of INTERREG IIIB North West Europe	The MESH Project – A model of transnational territorial cooperation	400KB PDF
David Connor Joint Nature Conservation Committee, UK	An overview of the MESH project	>10MB PDF On request
Session 1: Habitat mapping – an essential component of marine management Chair: Paul Gilliland, Natural England, UK
Mark Russell British Marine Aggregates Producers Association, UK	Mapping and industry – the marine aggregate industry perspective	2.7MB PDF
Joe Breen Environmental Heritage Service, Northern Ireland	Habitat mapping to meet key policy and management needs – a Northern Ireland perspective	4.5MB PDF
Matt Service Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute, Northern Ireland	Habitat maps in a fisheries management context	4.7MB PDF
Natalie Coltman Joint Nature Conservation Committee, UK	Making the best use of existing maps – MESH data collation and web dissemination	5.1MB PDF
Session 2: Scoping and planning mapping projects Chair: Roger Coggan, CEFAS, UK
Ian Sotheran and Dan Foster-Smith Envision Ltd, UK	Scoping the project: What exactly do you want to map?	5.4MB PDF
Roger Coggan CEFAS, UK	Gap analysis and survey specification	6.2MB PDF
Annika Mitchell Queens University Belfast / Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute, Northern Ireland	Optimising surveys 1: Survey strategies	2.6MB PDF
Jacques Populus IFREMER, France	Optimising surveys 2: Survey design and survey tools	3.0MB PDF
Session 3: Standards and protocols: Best practice for habitat mapping – acquiring high quality data for better maps Chair: Janine Guinan, Marine Institute, Ireland
Fiona Fitzpatrick Marine Institute, Ireland	Recommended operating guidelines and standards in marine habitat mapping	4.5MB PDF
Craig Brown University of Coleraine, Northern Ireland	Synopsis of operational workshops (video, backscatter) and case studies from the subtidal	3.6MB PDF
Andy Wheeler University College Cork, Ireland	From the far to the near – Data integration and resolution: Lessons from deep water surveys	7.3MB PDF

MESH Conference Presentations: Thursday 15th March 2007
Speaker	Presentation Title	Size
Session 4: Producing habitat maps Chair: Bob Foster-Smith, Envision Mapping Ltd, UK
Vera Van Lancker University of Ghent, Belgium	Data integration and modelling in view of habitat mapping	4.6MB PDF
Paul Gilliland Natural England, UK	Ways to produce broadscale habitat mapping, such as ‘landscape’ modelling and UKSeaMap	4.8MB PDF
Els Verfaillie, University of Ghent, Belgium	Towards high resolution habitat maps of the southern North Sea	3.4MB PDF
Brigitte Guillaumont IFRMER, France	From fine to intermediate scale modelling and mapping: what can we achieve?	3.6MB PDF
Session 5: Accuracy and confidence in maps Chair: Dave Long, British Geological Survey, UK
Bob Foster-Smith Envision Mapping Ltd, UK	Assessing accuracy and confidence – a practical solution to a complex problem	1.6MB PDF
Sytze Van Heteren Technological Innovation (TNO), Netherlands	Confidence in proxy maps: Policy decisions that will be made using maps	5.2MB PDF
Session 6: Benefits of transnational survey cooperation Chair: Styze Van Heteren, Technological Innovation (TNO), Netherlands
Liz Sides Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local Government, Ireland	The Irish national requirement for habitat maps	6.6MB PDF
Jan Van Dalfsen TNO, Netherlands	The benefits of transnational co-operation, the western Shelf, NW Shelf Consortium, Belgium Shelf	6.4MB PDF
Steven Piel French Marine Protected Areas Agency, France	Marine Protected Areas; the French spatial approach	4.1MB PDF
Conference wrap-up: The potential contribution of habitat mapping to emerging European Policy Chair Deryck Steer, MD, Joint Nature Conservation Committee, UK
Rania Spyropoulou European Environment Agency, Denmark	European Environment Agency perspective on seabed habitat information	600KB PDF
Gert Vereet (pre-recorded) European Commission, Brussels	The potential role of habitat mapping in delivering the Marine Strategy Directive European Commission	530KB PDF
Fiona Fitzpatrick (Peter Heffernan) Marine Institute, Ireland	How MESH can contribute to the creation of a European Atlas of the Seas as proposed in the EU Maritime Green Paper.	3.7MB PDF

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