News & Events
 
Upcoming Events
OCTOBER
- October 25-November 12, 2010 - Coastal CURA Collaborator, John Kearney,
will be facilitating a 3-week certificate program in community-based natural resource management at the Coady International Institute at St. Francis Xavier University. A number of full and partial scholarships for tuition, room, and board are available for Canadian and international participants. The deadline for application for admission is September 15. More information can be viewed at: http://www.coady.stfx.ca/education/certificate/naturalresource/.
NOVEMBER
- November 1,2,3 2010 Biannual Coastal CURA Council Meeting
- November 2010, Dates TBD. Multidisciplinary Dialogue Session on Overcoming Barriers to Community Involvement in Ocean and Coastal Management. Read about our previous session regarding the Identification of Barriers to Community Involvement in Ocean and Coastal Management here.
Coastal CURA News
August 12, 2010
From July 29-August 5, some of our Coastal CURA Students and Partners had the pleasure of meeting participants in the People of the Tides project, based in Brazil. Courtenay Parlee, a Masters student with Coastal CURA spent much time organizing activities and knowledge exchage opportunities for the group (read about it here) - Thank you Courtenay for you amazing work!
August 11, 2010
We have been working hard to produce a new brochure as well as a postcard, both of which highlight our upcoming conference, People in Places, next June 2011.
Many of our Coastal CURA partners attended the Coastal Zone Canada Conference in Charlottown, PEI from July 25-29. Please find below a selection of our paper presentations, and a short brief on our Community Forum session. Congratulations to Randy Angus and Melanie Wiber for their well recieved Plenary Session on Communities at the Front Line.
Coastal Zone Canada Presentations:
Communities at the Front Line Pleanary Session
Comunity Forum Brief
Paper Presentations
In May 2010, Coastal CURA held a Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue on Community Involvement in Integrated Ocean and Coastal Management. We would like to thank our government guests and community partners for participating in this timely discussion. We look forward to hosting a follow-up session in Fall, 2010. For more information on these sessions, please contact us at coastalcura@smu.ca.
June 9, 2011
Coastal CURA attended the Oceans Day event on June 4, 2010. Read about
the event here.
Coastal CURA Spring 2010 Newsletter
The Coastal CURA has been accepted into the Coastal Zone Canada Conference 2010, to be held from July 25-29 in Charlottetown, PEI. The partners have been busy organizing a Workshop session as well as a Plenary and a Community Session.
Congratulations to the CURA team for its recent publication of "Integrated Management: A Coastal Community Perspective", published in the Policy Research Initiative journal Horizons (March 2010 Volume 10, Number 4).
The Fundy North Fishermen's Association recently won the Gulf of Maine award for environmental stewardship. The award was received for the ghost trap retrieval project, which Fundy North undertook as part of a Harmful Alternation, Disruption or Destruction (HADD) project in Saint John Harbour. Congratulations, too, to all the CURA students who worked on the water as part of the retrieval process.
Congratulations to Hubert Saulnier and the Maritime Fishermen’s Union. Their Clean Oceans Initiative has been awarded the Gulf of Maine’s Visionary Award because of it’s efforts to reduce marine debris. Read about it here.
Donna Curtis won a best poster blue ribbon prize at the Annual Rural Sociological Society Meetings in Madison, Wisconsin this August. Congratulations Donna! View Donna's award winning poster - Bringing Local and Scientific Fisheries and Aquaculture Knowledge Together.
Courtenay Parlee recently won the best photo competition at the Oceans Management Research Networks conference in Ottawa. Congratulations Courtenay! View Courtenay's award winning photo here.
Newsletter Volume 1, Issue 1
Newsletter Volume 1, Issue 2
Newsletter Volume 2, Issue 1
Newsletter Volume 2, Issue 2
CURA Staffing Updates
Coastal CURA would like to introduce Madelaine Patterson as their new Project Coordinator! Madelaine hails from Vancouver Island, BC, and has recently finished her M.A. in Environmental Security Studies. Welcome Madelaine!
Coastal CURA would like to take this opportunity to congratulate Arthur Bull on his move to the position of Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of Policy and Priorities for the Nova Scotia Provincial Government. Arthur will be working primarily on rural and citizen engagement policies. Congratulations Arthur!
National & International News
Fall Lobster Press Release - Maria Recchia
Calgary Herald - Nova Scotia looks to tap powerful Bay of Fundy tides for clean energy
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