International
Tropical
Marine
Ecosystems
Management
Symposium

Facilitators:

• Kristian Teleki, Ph.D.
• Richard Kenchington, Ph.D.

The goal of the International Tropical Marine Ecosystems Management (ITMEMS) session is to develop the capacities of coastal and marine managers to implement programs and projects that support the conservation and sustainable use of coral reefs and related ecosystems at the local, national, regional and global levels.

Integral to this is good coral reef science and the translation of this science into practical actions and strategies for management. The 11th ICRS is an important opportunity to capture the current coral reef and tropical marine ecosystem thinking and science, and feed this into the next ITMEMS. Likewise ITMEMS is an opportunity for managers to make recommendations for input from the scientific community and identify needs that should be filled by science.

11th ICRS delegates are encouraged to consider how their work could contribute to effective coral reef management and how this can be achieved over short time scales for urgent issues (i.e. not constrained by normal publication timelines) and, over longer time scales, to build time series to understand change and management of coral reefs and human pressures that affect them.