added Jul 21 2011
The BCMCA is on the hunt for a new Project Manager! Our new phase of work focuses on delivery and support for the products we have produced, including our marine atlas and data library. We’ll miss Dave Nicolson’s careful oversight and we thank him for his dedication to the project, which is ongoing through this transition. Please circulate this BCMCA job description – Project Manager July 2011 (0.2 MB PDF) widely to those seeking challenging and rewarding project management and outreach work in B.C.’s marine sector.
Best wishes for a summer-like August?!
The BCMCA Project Team
added May 03 2011
The BCMCA Project Team would like to invite you to a lunch-time workshop at the upcoming International Marine Conservation Congress conference here in Victoria. The workshop will be held on Sunday May 15, from 12:15-2:15 pm downtown at the Victoria Conference Centre in the Esquimalt room on the first floor. We will have the first copies of our printed atlas, Marine Atlas of Pacific Canada, hot off the press. Read more…
added Mar 11 2011
The BCMCA is excited to announce the launch of the BCMCA Marine Atlas and Data Library.
The BCMCA Marine Atlas and Data Library is an online, open access resource where you can browse, view, or download ecological and human use maps, data and metadata for the Canadian Pacific. The Data Library and Marine Atlas is designed to inform coast-wide integrated marine planning and management initiatives. Read more…
added Jun 29 2010
The BC Marine Conservation Analysis has always been an ambitious project, and one that continues to bring new challenges and surprises. Over the past few months the BCMCA has been experimenting with Marxan in a novel way – using two differently sized planning units (2×2 km and 4×4 km squares) in one analysis. Marxan experts didn’t really recommend this approach, but couldn’t provide evidence to convince us it wouldn’t work. Read more…
added Jun 08 2010
It was always part of the plan for the BCMCA to host a Marxan expert workshop to gather advice from those who have experience with the tool. It was a natural fit for the BCMCA and PacMARA to jointly host the Marxan workshop, as the BCMCA will be publishing lessons learned as a case study for a future edition of the Marxan Good Practices Handbook. Thus, the workshop was jointly planned with common objectives in mind and it was a great success! Read more…
added May 18 2010
You may be interested to know that on a global scale, there is a lack of consolidated, organized spatial datasets available to marine planners. Yes, the search for globally consolidated baseline data of marine and coastal ecosystems is on! Comprehensive, organized coastal datasets are currently limited in availability and are necessary to evaluate the multitude of resources and processes that are supplied by natural ecosystems. Read more…
