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History of Marine Animal Populations project Roskilde University
Att. Kira Paulli Pravato Building 3.2.1
Universitetsvej 1 DK 4000 Roskilde
Denmark Ph: +45 4674 3222 Fx: +45 4674 3050 E-mail:kpp@ruc.dk www.hmapcoml.org
PROPOSAL TO THE ALFRED P. SLOAN FOUNDATION
Project goal: to maximize public outreach and secure the legacies of the HMAP project in the final phase of the Census program. Proposed activities: Coordination of HMAP; focus on regional policy briefings, visualization and outreach; complete research syntheses. Expected products: Concise regional policy briefing documents; image gallery, short presentation movies; archive of research findings; two books for the general audience; research syntheses Expected outcomes: : reach out to targeted audiences, including policy makers; institutional homes for archive and web; scholarly community to secure the future of marine environmental history Principal investigator: Professor Poul Holm Academic Director Trinity Long Room Hub Trinity College Dublin Ireland Tel: +353 1 896 8490 Mobile: +353 (0)876188039 http://www.tcd.ie/longroomhub Amount requested: $621,000 Start and end dates of the project: 1 July 2009 to 31 December 2010
History of Marine Animal Populations
Proposal for Phase V, July 2009 – December 2010
Submitted to the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
by
Poul Holm Andrew A. Rosenberg Brian R. MacKenzie
Bo Poulsen Anne Husum Marboe
15 April 2009
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Table of Contents 1. Context 4 2. Notable accomplishments to date 6 3. The Project 8 3.1. Impact on decision makers 8 3.1.1. Visualizing Ocean’s Past 9 3.1.2. Policy Briefings 11 3.2. Impact on the general public 11 3.2.1. Visuals 12 3.2.2. Publications 15 3.3. Legacies for science 15 3.3.1 Data management 16 3.3.2. Scientific publications and community 17 4. How the Project is managed 18 5. Appendices 1. Budget details for HMAP V June 2009 - Dec 2010 21 2. Publications 2001-2009 23 3. Major books and special issues planned and in preparation 29 4. Applications of HMAP data and knowledge 31 5. Milestones 32 6. Education and Outreach 35 7. Regional policy briefings 36 8. Curriculum Vitae, HMAP Steering Committee 39 9. Curriculum Vitae, HMAP Executive Committee 43 10. Cited literature 48
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1. Context
The History of Marine Animals Populations (HMAP) project is a ten-year project which will
establish historical baselines for the Census of Marine Life status of marine ecosystems by 2010.
Understanding what used to live in the ocean is critical to an assessment of current health and
analyzing the dynamics of the past will improve our ability to assess the future. This proposal
aims to maximize public dissemination and secure the legacies of the HMAP project in the final
phase of the Census program. We will do this by focusing on major new initiatives such as
regional policy briefings and web products while ensuring the publication of research syntheses.
The HMAP project has evolved since 2000 as a pioneering effort to establish the
magnitude of changes in ecosystems since the beginning of commercial fisheries. Our ongoing
ecological and historical synthesis work offers insight into the changes in human and natural
systems over historical time. It also reveals what we do not yet know and, in some cases, cannot
know about these changes.
The overarching aim of the HMAP project is to improve knowledge and understanding of
long-term interaction of humankind with the marine environment. Attaining this goal will yield
information on changes in stock abundance, the ecological impact of large-scale human
harvesting, and the role of marine resource utilization in the development of human societies.
Such evidence, in turn, will broaden and deepen knowledge of the contemporary condition of the
marine environment and provide the time series and ecological insight required to assess the
future sustainability of marine animal populations.
Forming the historical component of the Census of Marine Life program (CoML), HMAP is
conceived as a ten-year project to be executed in five phases:
HMAP I, 2000: scoping the project; assembling the team; designing the research program
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HMAP II, 2001-2002: establishing the institutional core; founding a new disciplinary
approach; launching pilot research projects;
HMAP III, 2003-2007: consolidating the institutional core; building the sub-disciplines of
marine environmental history and historical marine ecology; developing the research effort;
connecting with the scientific and historical community and the general public;
HMAP IV, 2007-2009: synthesizing the research findings on declines and recoveries using
population and ecological modeling of the data generated;
HMAP V, 2009-2010: disseminating the results; ensuring the legacies of HMAP.
At a workshop in February 2000, HMAP identified a preliminary set of hypotheses, which
were subsequently revised in 2004 (http://hmapcoml.org/documents/Hypotheses.pdf). We have
derived four basic questions from the hypotheses:
• How have the diversity, distribution, and abundance of marine animal populations altered
over the last 2,000 years?
• Which factors have forced or influenced changes in the diversity, distribution, and
abundance of marine animal populations?
• What has been the anthropogenic and biological significance of changes in marine animal
populations?
• By what processes have marine ecosystems interacted with human societies?
HMAP has undertaken research in 11 regional case studies, 2 global species studies and in a
small number of cross-cutting studies integrating with the NaGISA field project. We cover
mainly continental shelf and near-shore regions of all oceans while the whaling project extends
into the deep seas.
Building on the firm foundations laid in phases I through IV, HMAP V will present a
global historical perspective on changes in marine life as a result of human interaction and
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climate in the centennial to millennial perspective. We shall ensure that the legacies of HMAP
find institutional homes and that the new discipline of marine environmental history will be well
positioned to thrive in the years to come.
Specifically, we shall provide a strong historical backdrop to the 2010 CoML reports on
the global state of life in the oceans. We will publish a general history of the environmental
history of marine animal populations, an image gallery for the history of the oceans, a series of
maps of historical exploitations and impacts, and synthetic papers on historical declines and
recoveries. Regional HMAP projects will disseminate results through policy briefings and
regional outreach. The website will be developed to cater for the high degree of public interest
likely to be generated through 2010 and a permanent home for an Oceans Past website will be
established. The preservation of data will be ensured through the creation of a World Repository
for Marine Environmental History Data.
2. Notable accomplishments to date
While the history of marine animal populations has long been one of the great unknowns, recent
advances in scientific and historical methodology have enabled the HMAP team to expand the
realm of the known and the knowable. We now know that the distribution and abundance of
marine animal populations change dramatically over time. Changes are attributed to climatic and
human forces, and while few marine species have gone extinct, there is concern that entire
marine ecosystems have been depleted beyond recovery. An understanding of historical patterns
of resource exploitation is a key to identifying what has actually been lost in the habitat and is an
essential part of developing and implementing recovery plans for depleted marine ecosystems
and ecosystem attributes. The HMAP approach offers a means to obtain a broader theoretical and
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analytical perspective on marine ecosystems to inform present and future environmental
management policies. This is the HMAP legacy to future marine science.
HMAP has developed this broader perspective by fostering the collaboration of ecologists,
marine biologists, historians, archaeologists, and oceanographers. Such an innovative strategy
has led to the emergence of marine environmental history/historical marine ecology. It involves
the collection of historical evidence from a vast range of archival sources. Marine environmental
history is now recognized as a new discipline and as a major new contribution to the field of
environmental history (1-5). At the first World Congress of Environmental History in
Copenhagen in August 2009 the chair of HMAP is invited to give a keynote lecture in
recognition of this accomplishment.
The HMAP project has sponsored and pioneered a range of new methods such as the
integration of paleological with historical studies (Francis 2001), statistical modeling techniques
have been applied to evidence derived from virgin source materials (Rosenberg 2006),
integrative archaeological and historical studies have vastly increased our level of knowledge of
the impact of early human exploitation (Barrett 2007; Poulsen 2008) and HMAP has provided
inspiration to glean important information from surprising and sometimes unlikely sources such
as restaurant menus (Jones 2008) and snapshots of sports fishermen’s catches (McClenachan
2009). A total of 205 books and papers have been published (see Appendix 2) and the HMAP
database (www.hull.ac.uk/hmap) currently holds approximately 350,000 records, with some 80%
available through OBIS. By 2010, it is anticipated that up to 1,000,000 records will be available
on the HMAP website.
The HMAP approach is firmly embedded in the teaching and research effort of several
universities around the globe: Roskilde University and the Technical University, Denmark,
University of Hull and Cambridge University, UK, University of New Hampshire and University
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of Connecticut, USA, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, Murdock University, Australia, Simon
Bolivar University, Caracas, Venezuela, Haifa University, Israel, and the European University of
St Petersburg, Russia. More than 20 graduate students have been trained in HMAP summer
schools and MA/PhD programs and 3 new full professorial positions have been created.
The HMAP approach has been adopted by several environmental science projects and has
received governmental and intergovernmental recognition. For example, in 2008 the New
Zealand Fisheries Department recognized the HMAP approach as a valid and cost-effective
approach to assessing ecosystem change, and the International Council for the Exploration of the
Seas (ICES) established a working group to report to its general assembly in 2010 on the
importance of historical records.
3. The Project
HMAP V will focus on impacts and legacies:
- impact on decision makers
- impact on the general public
- legacies for science
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3.1. Impact on decision makers
The HMAP approach offers a means to obtain a temporal theoretical and analytical perspective
on marine ecosystems to inform present and future environmental management policies.
Potential users of HMAP results will include the scientific community, conservation
organizations, and national, international and inter-governmental fisheries and ecosystem
management agencies. These agencies include US-NOAA, Canada DFO, the European
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Commission, the Helsinki Commission for the Protection of the Baltic Marine Environment
(Helcom), the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), the International
Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT), the Mediterranean Science
Commission (CIESM), the International Whaling Commission, and UN-FAO.
Organizations such as these require documentation of past human impacts on marine
resources and ecosystems in order to develop baselines and conservation/recovery policies
consistent with national legislation and major international fisheries and biodiversity agreements
such as the FAO Agreement on the Precautionary Approach to Fisheries and the Rio and
Johannesburg Declarations. We will actively seek opportunities to bring our results to bear on
current policy-making and management efforts. Examples of where and how HMAP data and
findings are being used are given in Appendix 4.
Impact on decision makers depends on strong science, effective supporting visualization
and dialogue. Through HMAP V we will therefore be actively disseminating our scientific
results in scientific fora (peer-reviewed literature, conferences). The scientific work will largely
have been funded in HMAP IV and we shall therefore focus on maximizing impact of these
studies as they are published in the lead up to the completion of the project in 2010. For HMAP
V we are requesting support for work on visualization and a series of regional policy briefings.
3.1.1. Visualizing Ocean’s Past
The HMAP field projects will be engaged with the synthesis team in developing global maps of
fishing grounds and fishing effort. The survey instruments and mapping interface developed by
Dr. Stefan Claesson will serve as a primary mechanism for integration. In addition, the interface
will enable historical research from regions that have not yet been engaged in HMAP to join in
the synthesis of fishing impacts globally. A description of the mapping effort is available at
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https://comlmaps.org/work/hmap/hmap-atlas-of-historical-fishing-grounds. The funding will
finance the salary of Dr. Claesson for 9 months and some travel money to enable him to work
with regional teams. The HMAP visualization work will be fully integrated with the work of the
Census Mapping & Visualization team. Dr. Claesson participated in the workshop at Duke last
year and his work has substantially benefited from the interaction.
Additionally, the World Whaling HMAP project will create a series of large-format
world maps, in color, showing the spatial distribution of whale ships and whales during the 19th
century. These charts will provide a simple, high-impact graphical representation of the spatial
and temporal extent of whaling in the 19th century. They will make one of the central messages
of our work readily accessible and comprehensible to the general public and, relative to policy
and management interests, will facilitate comparisons between past and current whale
distribution patterns. This will allow resource managers to identify areas where populations have
and have not recovered to their pre-whaling distribution, and to identify formerly occupied areas
where whales are now essentially absent. Where recovery has been less than complete, human
activities may need to be better managed to allow further recovery. A major emphasis will be to
promote the perspective that spatial distribution should become a more important element in
assessing population recovery, in addition to the more usual measure based on current population
size as a fraction of historical, or pre-whaling, population size. The maps will significantly
improve on previously published charts by showing the daily positions of whaling vessels when
they were searching but did not catch whales, as well as when they did. The data available
include 70,000 whale encounters from some 450,000 days at sea. Daily positions will be overlain
on base maps showing ocean depth and land areas.
All charts and visualizations will be prepared with sufficient resolution to allow
electronic magnification of specific regions for close examination, while at the same time
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allowing printing on a range of sizes of flatbed printers. Importantly, our charts will be
accompanied by complete documentation of data sources and data will be publicly available.
3.1.2. Policy Briefings
A number of regional briefings to policy makers and senior management will inform of the
findings and implications of HMAP research. The different HMAP projects have some separate
and some common audiences. National agencies will be most interested in the results of local
projects and in many cases specific results relevant to their policy or management mandate.
Other agencies with broader mandates will be interested in a more synoptic overview. For this
reason it is important that the major findings and policy implications of each project are
highlighted, as well as themes common across the regions and globally.
Preparation of documents that undertake this summary and synoptic overview is critical
as we need to provide policy makers with the implications of our results in a form that can be
readily uplifted and inserted into policy documents thereby minimizing the amount of
reinterpretation of our results. An opportunity to discuss and debate our results and their policy
implications with managers, policy makers and other stakeholders is also a critical part of the
outreach process. A general statement about HMAP explaining the project and its discoveries
will be prepared as a backdrop for regional briefings. The specific plans for regional briefings for
New Zealand, Australia, Russia, the Baltic and the Mediterranean are given in Appendix 7.
3.2. Impact on the general public
In phase V, communication and outreach come to the forefront of HMAP. We aim to reach out
in a tangible and visual language through the use of appealing web content such as films and
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animations, image galleries and compelling story lines, in addition to books for the general
public.
3.2.1. Visuals
We shall build on the success of the new, redesigned website and its innovative content and
maximize its appeal by adding much more content. In addition to the seven videos produced in
phase IV two additional videos will be produced. A new and attractive GallerOceans - the
HMAP image gallery – will be introduced. Synthesis products will be assembled into a cohesive
entirety on the website, featuring all of the HMAP sub-projects, bibliography, books, news,
Oceans Past II, and much more. All this will enhance the HMAP presence on the World Wide
Web. During phase IV, two news releases generated good responses from the press, and the
newly developed newsletter has strengthened internal communications and project awareness.
The permanent home for the HMAP website after 2010 will be a Trusted Digital Repository,
probably the one currently being set up by the Royal Irish Academy, which will ensure that the
many different kinds of information that have been generated through the last decade will be
accessible for generations to come.
To increase the outreach potential of sub-projects, an efficient and coherent media
approach will be implemented. A general article about HMAP explaining the project and its
discoveries will form the basis of media approach locally and regionally. Press releases will be
distributed highlighting results from the case studies. Target group: Fisheries managers,
stakeholders and regional decision makers.
To ensure a strong internal communication within HMAP, the newsletter will continue to
be published four times a year. Target group: the scientific community. The success of CoML as
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a whole is very important to HMAP, and the requests from the E&O team will have the highest
priority to ensure the best outreach potential as possible.
A DVD package will be produced and 500 copies freely distributed at the CoML event in
London 2010. The DVD will contain: 1. an introductory article about HMAP; 2. all videos
produced by HMAP; 3. a sample from GallerOceans; 4. maps and other products from the
synthesis team. Target group: Participants in the CoML event in London, fisheries managers and
interested researchers.
The EC employs a Public Outreach Officer (Kira Paulli Pravato) full-time for 10 months
from March 2010. Kira has a strong background in TV production, writing, web design and
administration, and photography and has been with HMAP from 2007.
GallerOceans - HMAP image gallery: HMAP will prepare a gallery of historical images
to extend public understanding of the changing oceans. A virtual gallery of marine images is
capable of reaching a much wider audience than a physical exhibition of similar artworks. The
educational and public outreach potential is great for serving information dissemination and the
media. Especially students and teachers are expected to gain from this resource
The gallery, in which historic images of marine biodiversity and human exploitation of
marine resources underpin the HMAP case stories, aims for time depth and global coverage.
The images already collected by the case studies form an excellent basis for the image gallery
and integration with the HMAP synthesis, projects, database and website will be crucial. The
gallery will provide a strong basis for further research and outreach products.
The gallery will be a database organized in three dimensions: a temporal, a spatial and a
thematic. Four themes are envisioned: Biodiversity (species and size), Technology (vessels and
boats, gear, processing), Markets (markets, products, meals) and Culture (religious (sacred
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species and places), ornamentals). This allows users to access the gallery with different
approaches maximizing the benefit of the gallery and supporting the HMAP messages.
Building the image gallery is a two step process. The first phase sets strict standards to
maintain the quality of each entry, including significance of source, documentation and
metadata. Realistic goals concerning organization and growth would have to be implemented
from the start as well as maintenance beyond 2010. The initial work requests dedicated
assistance obtained through collaboration with knowledgeable experts and institutions. By
building on local images related to and primarily collected in the HMAP case studies expensive
and complicated copyright issues are prevented in the first phase. In the second phase the gallery
will be expanded by collections of historical images and artwork illustrating, deepening and
expanding the HMAP case studies. GallerOceans will attract selected and pertinent images from
collections and museums around the world to ensure a high-quality resource which will be
attractive to academics from many disciplines, teachers and media.
The requested funding is split into four main items. Firstly, development and
management of the image gallery will be in the hands of the HMAP project coordinator, and
funding is requested for travel for image collection / archiving, meetings with potential partners
and collaboration with the HMAP synthesis and outreach. Secondly, development of the
infrastructure of the database and metadata standards as well as integrating existing images will
be undertaken by a research assistant partly funded by HMAP. Thirdly, seed money is requested
to assist the HMAP projects to collect additional images, metadata or pay smaller copyright fees.
Fourthly, a sum is reserved for equipment, professional assistance and potential higher costs for
copyright for key illustrations.
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The proposal outlines ambitious goals for the image gallery, outreach, supporting the
grand messages of HMAP and at the same time sets a realistic priority for implementation by the
end of 2010.
3.2.2. Publications
Two books for the general public are in preparation for publication by the end of 2010. One titled
‘Ocean Yields. A history of Marine Animal Harvests’ will be a general overview by Poul Holm
and David J Starkey with a particular focus on extractions, impacts on ecosystems and impacts
on human societies. Research assistance to collect statistics for the book in addition to data
collected by the projects was previously funded by the A.P. Sloan Foundation.
The whaling charts will complement a book describing the historical distribution of
populations of sperm, right, humpback and gray whales from the point of view of 19th century
whalers. Many populations of these species were depleted by the 19th century whalers, and while
some populations are increasing in abundance, albeit slowly, vast areas of the ocean that the
whalers experience as full of whales no longer are. Tim Smith and Randall Reeves will identify
the historical distribution of whales in comparison to 21st century distribution.
In addition, the mapping project directed by Dr Claesson will serve as an important
communication tool to a wider audience especially through Google Ocean and National
Geographic. A primary scholarly publication will also result from the mapping effort along with
the online material that will be a legacy product of HMAP.
3.3. Legacies for science
The legacies of HMAP for the scientific community may largely be described as data
management on the one hand, scientific publications and community building on the other.
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3.3.1 Data management
The HMAP Data Pages (www.hull.ac.uk/hmap) are managed by Michaela Barnard and John
Nicholls at the University of Hull, UK. Approximately 350,000 records, all derived from
historical source materials, are currently archived in the HMAP Data Store, with some 80% of
this material available through OBIS. This substantial stock of data will be developed to
reach 550,000 records by the end of 2009, and 1,000,000 records by December 2010. The spatial
and temporal coverage of these data will expand in line with this development in size. The
University of Hull is committed to maintaining and enhancing this data facility beyond 2010,
ensuring that the Data Pages will constitute one of HMAP’s key legacies.
HMAP data management entails the acquisition, dissemination and digital preservation of
datasets generated by researchers working within and without the project’s case studies. To
facilitate the submission process, online and/or hard copy guides are available to assist data
providers in the construction of their datasets. These materials are updated and expanded
regularly, with the next major revision scheduled to take place in September 2009. As the
submitted materials, comprising actual data files and explanatory metadata, are largely derived
from historical sources, they are edited to enhance their clarity and validity as evidence.
The datasets are developed and maintained according to internationally recognized
standards and protocols (SSADM/Open Systems). HMAP data are disseminated to scientists and
the general public through a web portal that enables users to search across disparate datasets
according to their own criteria. Results of these searches can be downloaded, while complete
and/or partial dataset downloads are also available in multiple industry standard formats.
Interoperability with OBIS and compliance with Darwin Core – which ensures that GIS standard
useable data can be derived from all HMAP datasets – further enhances dissemination. Visual
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projections of the data via standard Google maps and Google Earth/Oceans will be integrated
into the HMAP Data Pages during 2009.
A key objective of HMAP data management is to avoid software and hardware
obsolescence through practical maintenance and the implementation of migration strategies. This
preservation effort entails the maintenance of localized electronic file storage on a RAID Server
and on DVD media. Remote storage is guaranteed through the employment of enterprise level
multiple blade servers that ensure full failure redundancy; data are backed up incrementally
daily, with complete locality back-ups weekly, and system back-ups on a fortnightly basis. In the
unlikely event of data corruption or integrity failure, restorative daily rollbacks are maintained
for a full year, with fortnightly complete system rollbacks accessible for up to four years. Future
maintenance and viability of the stored data according to these guidelines will be undertaken
indefinitely, or for the viable life of the data itself.
The Database Management System (currently Open Systems employing open source
MySQL technology) incorporates a ‘future proofing’ migration strategy. Data are updated to
conform to current dissemination standards, including the latest widely available file formats,
and are concurrently stored in multiple formats to ensure a wide spectrum of user accessibility.
In line with these ongoing developments, web access and dissemination technologies are
regularly updated to ensure both future proofing and enhanced user interaction.
3.3.2. Scientific publications and community
HMAP is on-schedule for its chapter to the McIntyre CoML book and has shared information
with Paul Snelgrove for his overview book. The Ocean’s Past II conference in May 2009 will
bring together about 100 researchers on the history of the oceans in Vancouver. The conference
is in collaboration with Prof. Tony Pitcher at UBC’s Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies.
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Dr. Pitcher is leading a project called the Sea Ahead that fits well with the work of HMAP,
FMAP and the Census. Out of the conference there will be the opportunity to publish a large
body of work on the history of the marine environment. We request a contribution to cover
publication costs for PLoS One.
From all 15 HMAP research projects major papers are in press or under development as a
result of funding for HMAP IV. To give just an impression from one regional study: A historical
analysis of the Gulf of Maine cod fishery is in press in Fish and Fisheries (by K. Alexander et
al.), the first time this important journal has published a historical study. A further paper on the
full suite of exploited species in the Gulf of Maine is under development and will be presented as
a paper but also to a broader policy making audience in the coming year. In addition, a paper is
in press on the management of cultural resources (S. Claesson) in Marine Policy.
Cross-project integration with FMAP and NaGISA was funded under HMAP IV and is
well under way. HMAP and FMAP collaborate on syntheses of declines and restorations of
ecosystems and while one major review was recently published (Lotze & Worm 2009), several
are in the pipeline. HMAP and NaGISA collaborate in the History of Nearshore (HNS) project.
The project was launched after the 2005 All Program Meeting and is currently working on a
synthesis publication. HNS meets at three writing workshops in 2009, the first one held at the
Queen Mary. The next step is integration of the HNS synthesis with the NaGISA/FMAP
synthesis. At various times HMAP has also interacted with the shelf/salmon (POST), top
predators (TOPP), reefs (CReefs), ridges (MAR-ECO) and Arctic (ARCOD) projects.
The living legacy of HMAP will be the community of marine environmental historians
and historical ecologists. HMAP has already impacted universities and their teaching curricula.
We aim to make sure that the headway made will be sustained in coming years. A focus on
community and strong networks will ensure that the generous investments by the Sloan
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Foundation will continue to reap returns in coming years. A final Oceans Past III conference will
therefore be held in November 2010 to mark the successful completion of HMAP and establish a
strong platform for future work.
4. How the Project is managed
A table of milestones and outcomes to be accomplished in the next two years is provided as
Appendix 5. The project will be managed by a Steering Committee whose tasks and
responsibilities will be to coordinate the general finalizing of the project, direct the Executive
Committee, and provide consultative advice during the year. The SC will meet in May 2009 in
Vancouver and will hold regular virtual meetings.
The HMAP Steering Committee consists of the following members: Alison MacDiarmid
(Taking stock-New Zealand), Andrzej Antczak (Mega molluscs), Andrew A. Rosenberg (Gulf of
Maine cod), David J. Starkey (North Sea), Henn Ojaveer (Baltic), James Barrett (Fishbone),
Jeremy Jackson Caribbean), Julia Lajus (White and Barents Seas), Malcolm Tull (Asia),
Michaela Barnard (Database), Poul Holm (Chair), Ruthy Gertwagen (Mediterranean/Black Sea),
Tim Smith (World Whaling).
Everyday management is in the hands of an Executive Committee: Poul Holm (HMAP
Chair: communication with CoML Management and CoML Scientific Steering Committee,
finances), Brian MacKenzie (research activities in case studies and synthesis), Andy A.
Rosenberg (synthesis), Bo Poulsen (Database and Education and Outreach), Anne Husum
Marboe (case study liaison, image database, integration with NaGISA). The EC holds frequent
virtual meetings. The EC will review progress and develop and coordinate outreach efforts for
the project as a whole, including coordination with the Census Outreach program. The EC will
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coordinate interactions with other Census projects and ensure that the financial management of
the project is as efficient as possible.
The EC employs a part-time Executive Officer (Anne Husum Marboe) who is a marine
environmental historian and has broad experience to help connect the case studies, synthesis and
outreach to provide a cohesive framework for the last phase of the program. She will provide the
day-to-day presence in program management that is beyond the Steering Group and facilitate the
HMAP research outputs, coherence in the final phase and collaboration with Census and the
outreach team. She is specifically charged with: 1. Overall communication from central HMAP
to HMAP project leaders and HMAP community. 2. Communications and reports between
CoML and HMAP. 3. Liaison to the Census of Marine Life E&O team. 4. Management and
development of the HMAP Image Gallery. 5. Oversee the HMAP budget and account. 6. Support
of the HMAP web site, public, media and scientific area. 7. Liaison with HMAP project leaders
to support synthesis activities.
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Appendix 1: Budget details for HMAP V June 2009 - Dec 2010
Type Purpose Purpose Total
1. Institutional Executive management Communications officer 1 (10 months) 75Project officer 2 (18 months, p-t) 60Travel 20
Data Management Data Archive (data conversion & maintenance) 65
sub-total 1 220
2. Visual projectionPostdoc researcher Maps 70Outreach Outreach /web 40Image Gallery Seed money 50
sub-total 2 160
3. OutputsSyntheses Oceans Past III 25
PLoSOne subsidy 10Regional output & Policy Briefings 125
sub-total 3 160
540 540
Total 1 + 2 + 3 540Overhead (15%) 81
Grand Total 621 Budget justification
In line with the directions received from the A. P. Sloan Program Director, the budget requested for the last phase of HMAP is reduced by 20% relative to the budgets allocated for HMAP phases III and IV.
1. Institutional The Executive Committee will employ a communications officer (Kira Paulli Pravato) for 10 months of 2010 (75k). Kira is currently the HMAP project officer but will take maternity leave as from May 2009 to February 2010. She is a professional photographer and film maker and shall devote her time primarily to the visual products outlined in section 3.2.1.
From May 2009 Anne Husum Marboe shall take over as the HMAP Project Officer on a half-time basis for the remainder of the project (60k). Anne served in this capacity from 2001 to early 2007.
Travel funding is severely limited for this phase and will only allow for minimal synthesis-related travel (20k).
The data team at Hull University entails two part-time positions at a total cost of 65 k.
2. Visual projection Outreach products, web design and the image gallery are prime concerns for this phase as justified in section 3.2.1. (90k). Dr Stefan Claesson will be appointed as a post doc researcher in charge of mapping as outlined in section 3.1.1. (70k).
3. Outputs
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The second main focus of this phase of HMAP is on policy briefings which are budgeted at 125k to allow for five regional initiatives. We request funding to publish selected papers of the Oceans Past II conference in 2009 in PloSOne, and funding for a final conference Oceans Past III, which is crucial to secure a community focus through this last phase and will be an important basis to secure the living legacy of HMAP (section 3.3.2.).
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Appendix 2: Publications 2001-2009 Total publications (peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, books, reports; excludes contributions which have been submitted or which are in preparation): 217 Publications for 2007-Feb2009 are listed below. A complete list of publications from 2001-2008 is available at http://hmapcoml.org/publications/html/Bibliografi.html 2009 Christensen, J. (2009)‘Recreational Fishing’ in Gregory, J. and Gothard, J. Historical
Encyclopedia of Western Australia Crawley: University of Western Australia Press McClenachan, L., Documenting Loss of Large Trophy Fish from the Florida Keys with
Historical Photographs, Conservation Biology, VL: 9999, NO: 9999 (2009) 2008 W. Jeffrey Bolster, "Putting the Ocean in Atlantic History: Maritime Communities and Marine
Ecology in the Northwest Atlantic, 1500-1800," American Historical Review vol. 113, pp. 19-47
Early Human Impact on Megamolluscs. Edited by Andrzej Antczak and Roberto Cipriani (Oxford: BAR).
Bo Poulsen: Dutch Herring. An Environmental History, c. 1600-1860. Amsterdam, Aksant, 2008 Ivanova T.S., Lajus D.L. 2008. [Temporal and spatial variation in number of threespine
stickleback in Keret archipelago area of the White Sea] In: Proceedings of the scientific conference of the White Sea Biological station named by N.A. Pertsev, 9-10 August, 2008, devoted to the 30th aniversary of the station. Collection of papers. Moscow, "Grif and K" Press. P. 267-270 (in Russian).
April M. H. Blakeslee; James E. Byers (2008) Using Parasites To Inform Ecological History: Comparisons Among Three Congeneric Marine Snails. Ecology: Vol. 89, No. 4, Pp. 1068-1078
Blakeslee, April M. H.; Byers, James E.; Lesser, Michael P. Solving cryptogenic histories using host and parasite molecular genetics: the resolution of Littorina littorea's North American origin. Molecular Ecology, Volume 17, Number 16, August 2008, pp.3684-3696.
Chen Ta-Yuan (陳大元), ‘Japan and the Birth of Takao’s Fisheries in the Nanyo 1895-1945’, International Journal of Maritime History, 21 (June 2008), pp.133-152.
Chen Ta-Yuan (陳大元), ‘Half Mountain – Half Sea (半山半海), Women’s Roles in the Fishing Communities of Post-war Kaohsiuing, 1945-1975’, Intersections, issue 17, July 2008
Holm, P. (2008). The Last Fish - a historical perspective on the exploration of the North Sea. I Mizoguchi, T. (red.): The Environmental Histories of Europe and Japan: The Oxford-Kobe Seminar, 12-14 September 2007, Kobe, Japan (s. 139-147). Nagoya University
Poulsen, R. T., Cooper, A. B., Holm, P., & MacKenzie, B. R. (2008). Beware the misapplication of results: Response to Cardinale and Sveddng (2007). Fisheries Research, 89(3), 307-308
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M. Tull and S. Vieira, 'Restricting Fishing: A Socio-Economic Impact Assessment Of Artisanal Shark And Ray Fishing In Cilacap’, Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, Volume 44, Issue 2 August 2008, pp.263-288.
Joseph Christensen, "Shark Bay 1616-1991: The Spread of Science and the Emergence of Ecology in a World Heritage Area", PhD thesis, University of Western Australia, 2008.
Tomaso Fortibuoni, Ruthy Gertwagen, Otello Giovanardi and Sasa, Raicevich: The Historical Search for Sustainable of biological Resources in the Venetian Lagoon between the Fall of the Republica Serenissima and World War I.
Josephson, E.A., T.D. Smith and R.R. Reeves. 2008. Historical distribution of right whales in the North Pacific. Fish and Fisheries 9:1-14.
Lund, Judith N., Elizabeth A. Josephson, Randall R. Reeves and Tim D. Smith. 2008. American Offshore Whaling Voyages: a database. Contributions to World Whaling History No. 5
Reeves, R.R., T.D. Smith and E.A. Josephson. 2008. Observations of Western Gray Whales by Ship-based Whalers in the 19th Century. IWC Scientific Committee Document SC/60/BRG7. Contributions to World Whaling History, No. 6
Bailey, G., J. Barrett, O. Craig & N. Milner. 2008. Historical ecology of the North Sea basin: An archaeological perspective and some problems of methodology, in T. Rick & J. Erlandson (eds.) Human Impacts on Ancient Marine Ecosystems: A global perspective: 216-42. Berkeley: University of California Press
Barrett, J., C. Johnstone, J. Harland, W. Van Neer, A. Ervynck, D. Makowiecki, D. Heinrich, A.K. Hufthammer, I.B. Enghoff, C. Amundsen, J.S. Christiansen, A.K.G. Jones, A. Locker, S. Hamilton-Dyer, L. Jonsson, L. Lõugas, C. Roberts & M. Richards. 2008. Detecting the medieval cod trade: A new method and first results. Journal of Archaeological Science 35(4): 850-61
F. Fiorentino, F. Badalamenti, G. D’Anna, G. Garofalo, P. Gianguzza, M. Gristina, C. Pipitone, P. Rizzo, T. Fortibuoni (2008). Changes in spawning stock structure and recruitment pattern of red mullet, Mullus barbatus (L. 1758), after a trawl ban in the Gulf of Castellammare (Central Mediterranean Sea). ICES Journal of Marine Science, 65(7): 1175-1183
Kraikovski Alexei, Julia Lajus and Dmitry Lajus. 2008. Fisheries on the southeastern coast of the Gulf of Finland and the adjoining river basins, 15th - 18th centuries, in: Leva vid Ostersjons kust. En antologi om naturforutsattningar och resursutnyttjande pa bada sidor av Ostersjon ca 800-1800. Rapport 2 fran projektet Formoderna kustmiljoer. Naturresurser, klimat och samhalle vid ostersjokusten fore 1800 – ett miljohistoriskt projekt. Ed. by Sven Lilja. Stockholm, 2008. P. 197-216 (with A. Kraikovski & D. Lajus)
Kraikovski Alexei & Julia Lajus. 2008. Towards a history of the Neva River fisheries: sources, methods, general tendencies (15th - 18th cc.), in: Leva vid Ostersjons kust. En antologi om naturforutsattningar och resursutnyttjande pa bada sidor av Ostersjon ca 800-1800. Rapport 2 fran projektet Formoderna kustmiljoer. Naturresurser, klimat och samhalle vid ostersjokusten fore 1800 ? ett miljohistoriskt projekt. Ed. by Sven Lilja. Stockholm, 2008. P. 217 ? 226 (with A. Kraikovski).
Il Mare com’era; Le interazioni tra uomo ed ambiente nel Mediterraneo dall’Epoca Romana al XIX secolo: una visione storica ed ecologica delle attività di pesca (The Sea. As it was Human-environment interactions in the Mediterranean Sea since the Roman period until the XIX century: an historical and ecological perspective on fishing
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activities, Proceedings of the Second HMAP international Workshop HMAP of the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, Chioggia, 27-29 Settembre 2006. Supplemento ai Quaderni ex ICRAM, (Santa Maria di Sala, Venezia, 2008) 219pp edited by R. Gertwagen, S. Raicevich, T. Fortibuoni, O. Giovanardi (eds.)
Content: Introduzione - A Cura Di R. Gertwagen Introduction - By R. Gertwagen La Pesca In Nord Africa Dalla Tarda Antichità Almedioevo: Una Breve Panoramica - A.L.
Trakadas Il Pesce Nell’alimentazione Mediterranea Tra Il Xvi E Il Xix Secolo - M.L. De Nicolò I Prud’homies: Associazioni Professionali Di Pescatori Francesi Nel Mediterraneo - K.
Frangoudes Imbarcazioni Da Pesca Di Piccole E Medie Dimensioni Dal Xvii All’inizio Del Xx Secolo Nel
Golfo Del Leone Tra La Provenza E La Linguadoca (Francia Meridionale) - J.L. Cortés La Pesca Nell’egeo: Aspetti Relativi Alle Attività Di Pesca Tra Il Xvii E Il Xviii Secolo - D. Dimitropoulos
La Pesca Nell’egeo: La Pesca E Il Pesce Nel Xix Secolo - E. Olypmpitou Lo Studio Della Fauna Antica Delmar Nero (Fino Al 1200 D.C.): Aspetti Quantitativi E
Qualitativi - T. Bekker-Nielsen Lo Scarus Degli Antichi: La Storia Dello Sparisoma Cretense Nel I Secolo D.C. - A. Bullock La Pesca E Il Commercio Del Pesce Lungo La Costa Della Dalmazia Alla Fine Delmedioevo -
S.F. Fabijanec Evoluzione Delle Tecniche Di Pesca E Uso Del Territorio: Una Panoramica A Lungo Termine -
A. Garrido, J. Alegret Specie Minacciate Nelmaremediterraneo. Il Caso Degli Elasmobranchi: Valutazione Del Loro
Stato E Iniziative Internazionali Per La Loro Conservazione - F. Serena, C. Mancusi, M. Vacchi
Approccio Multidisciplinare Allo Studio Dell’ambiente Marino E Della Pesca Nelmedioevo Nelmediterraneo Orientale - R. Gertwagen
Integrazione Di Fonti Storiche, Statistiche, Antropologiche E Scientifiche Per Individuare L’estirpazione Di Specie Marine Minacciate Delmediterraneo - S. Raicevich, T. Fortibuoni, O. Giovanardi
Basi Di Dati E Strategia Di Informazione Per L’amministrazione E Uso Di Dati Storici Di Pesca Nel Contesto Storico Attuale - R. Coppola
Bridging Gaps: Utilità Dei Modelli E Di Altri Metodi Numerici Per L’analisi Dei Dati Storici - S. Libralato, D. Melaku Canu, C. Solidoro
Conclusioni Del Workshop - A Cura Di R. Gertwagen Oceans Past. Management Insights from the History of Marine Animal Populations. Edited by
David J. Starkey, Poul Holm & Michaela Barnard. London: Earthscan Chapter 1
Starkey, D.S., Holm, P., Barnard, M. Oceans Past: History Meets Marine Science Chapter 3
McClenachan, L. 2007. Social conflict, overfishing and disease in the Florida sponge fishery, 1849-1939.
Chapter 4 Jones, G.A. Quite the Choicest Protein Dish’: The Costs of Consuming Seafood in American Restaurants, 1850–2006. pp 47-76
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Chapter 5 McKenzie, M.G. Baiting Our Memories: The Impact of Offshore Technology Change in Inshore Species Around Cape Cod, 1860-1895. pp 77-89
Chapter 6 Claesson, S. Mapping Historic Fishing Grounds in the Gulf of Maine and Northwest Atlantic Ocean. pp 91-108
Chapter 7 Bannister, J.L., Josephson, E., Reeves, R.R. and T.D. Smith. 2007. There she blew! Yankee sperm whaling grounds 1760-1920. pp. 109-132
Chapter 8 Josephson, E.A., T.D. Smith and R.R. Reeves. 2008. Depletion within a decade: the American 19th-century North Pacific right whale fishery. pp. 133-147
Chapter 9 Smith, T.D., Reeves, R.R., Josephson, E., Lund, J.L., and Whitehead. 2007. Sperm whale catches and encounter rates in the 19th and 20th centuries: an apparent paradox. pp. 149-173
Chapter 10 Lajus, J. Understanding the dynamics of fisheries and fish populations: Historical approaches from the 19th century pp. 175 – 187.
2007Acebes, J.M, Darling, J.D. and Yamaguchi, M. (2007) ‘Status and Distribution of Humpback
Whales (Megaptera novaeangliae) in Northern Luzon, Philippines’ Journal of Cetacean Research and Management 9(1): 37-43
Antczak, A., J. Buitrago, Ma. M. Mackowiak de Antczak, and H. Guada 2007 A Contribution to the History of Marine Turtle Exploitation in Venezuela. Proceedings of the 59th Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute Conference, Belize, pp. 63-73.
Barrett, J., C. Johnstone, J. Harland, W. Van Neer, A. Ervynck, D. Makowiecki, D. Heinrich, A.K. Hufthammer, I.B. Enghoff, C. Amundsen, J.S. Christiansen, A.K.G. Jones, A. Locker, S. Hamilton-Dyer, L. Jonsson, L. Lõugas, C. Roberts & M. Richards. 2007. Detecting the medieval cod trade: A new method and first results. Journal of Archaeological Science doi:10.1016/j.jas.2007.06.004.
Debrot, D., J. M. Posada, and A. Antczak 2007, What can archaeological otoliths of bonefish (Albula vulpes) tell us? Proceedings of the 59th Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute Conference, Belize, pp. 75-78.
Eero, M., Koester, F. W., Plikshs, M., and Thurow, F. 2007. Eastern Baltic cod (Gadus morhua callarias) stock dynamics: extending the analytical assessment back to the mid-1940s. – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 64: 1257–1271.
Harland, J. 2007. Status and space in the 'Fish Event Horizon': Initial results from Quouygrew and earl's Bu, Viking Age and medieval sites in Orkney, Scotland, in H.H. Plogmann (ed.) The Role of Fish in Ancient Time: 63-8. Rahden: Verlag Marie Leidorf.
McClenachan, L. and J. Jackson. 2007. Sources Survey: The Historical Ecology of the Florida Keys Coral Reef Ecosystem. NOAA Report, 117pp.
McClenachan, L., M. Newman, and G. Paredes. 2006. Florida Keys coral reef fish communities, then and now. Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute Proceedings, 59: 1-8.
Pandolfi, JM and JBC Jackson. 2007. Broad-scale patterns in Pleistocene coral reef communities from the Caribbean: Implications for ecology and management. Chapter 8 In:
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Geological Approaches to Coral Reef Ecology, R Aaronson, editor. Springer Science, New York.
Posada, J. M., A. W. Stoner, K. Sullivan Sealey, A. Antczak, D. Schapira, R. Torres, I. Montaño, M. Ray Culp, and D. Aldana Aranda 2007 Regional Initiative for the Evaluation of Queen Conch (Strombus gigas) Exploitation under an Historical Perspective. Proceedings of the 59th Gulf and Caribbean Fisheries Institute Conference, Belize, pp. 23-30.
Poulsen, R. T., & Holm, P. (2007). What Can Fisheries Historians Learn from Marine Science?: The Concept of Catch Per Unit Effort (CPUE). International Journal of Maritime History, 19(2)..
Reeves, R.R., T.D. Smith and E.A. Josephson. 2007. Near-annihilation of a species: right whaling in the North Atlantic. Pp. 75-104 In S.D. Kraus and R.M. Rolland (eds.) The Urban Whale. Harvard U. Press, Cambridge, MA.
Tønnes Bekker-Nielsen, “The one that got away: a reassessment of the Agoranomos inscription from Chersonesos (VDI 1947, 245)”, in Vincent Gabrielsen, John Lund (ed.), The Black Sea in Antiquity. Regional and interregional economic exchanges. Aarhus: Aarhus Universitetsforlag 2007.
Special issue of Fisheries Research: History of Marine Animal Populations and their
Exploitation in Northern Europe. Edited by Henn Ojaveer and Brian R. MacKenzie. Volume 87, Issues 2-3, Pages 101-262
Contents: Ojaveer, H., MacKenzie, B.R. 2007. Historical development of fisheries in northern Europe -
reconstructing chronology of interactions between nature and man. Fisheries Research 87, 102-105
MacKenzie, B. R., Bager, M., Ojaveer, H., Awebro, K., Heino, U., Holm, P., Must, A. 2007. Multi-decadal scale variability in the eastern Baltic cod fishery 1550-1860: evidence and causes. Fisheries Research 87, 106-119
Gaumiga, R., Karlsons, G., Uzars, D., Ojaveer, H. 2007. Fisheries of the Gulf of Riga (Baltic Sea) in the late 17th century. Fisheries Research 87, 120-125
Lajus, J., Ojaveer, H., Tammiksaar, E. 2007. Fisheries on the northeast coast of the Baltic Sea in the first half of the 19th century: what can be learned from the archives of Karl Ernst von Baer. Fisheries Research 87, 126-136
Ojaveer, H., Awebro, K., Karlsdottir, H. M., MacKenzie, B. R. 2007. Swedish Baltic Sea fisheries during 1868-1913: spatio-temporal dynamics of catch and fishing effort. Fisheries Research 87, 137-145
Bager, M., Søndergaard, M., MacKenzie, B. R. The development of fisheries at Bornholm, Denmark (Baltic Sea) fisheries during 1880-1914. Fisheries Research 87, 146-154
Eero, M., MacKenzie, B. R., Karlsdottir, H. M., Gaumiga, R., 2007. Development of international fisheries for the eastern Baltic cod (Gadus morhua) during 1888-1938. Fisheries Research 87, 155-166
Enghoff, I. B., MacKenzie, B. R., Nielsen, E. E. The Danish fish fauna during the warm Atlantic period (ca. 7,000 - 3,900 BC): forerunner of future changes? Fisheries Research 87, 167-180
Poulsen, B., Holm, P., MacKenzie, B.R. A long-term (1667–1860) perspective on impacts of fishing and environmental variability on fisheries for herring, eel, and whitefish in the Limfjord, Denmark. Fisheries Research 87, 181-195
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Poulsen, R.T, Cooper, A.B., Holm, P., MacKenzie, B.R. An abundance estimate of ling (Molva molva) and cod (Gadus morhua) in the Skagerrak and the northeastern North Sea, 1872. Fisheries Research 87, 196-207
Lotze, H. K. Rise and fall of fishing and marine resource use in the Wadden Sea, southern North Sea. Fisheries Research 87: 208-218
MacKenzie, B.R., Myers, R.A. The development of the northern European fishery for north Atlantic bluefin tuna Thunnus thynnus during 1900–1950. Fisheries Research 87: 229-239
Lajus, D.L., Dmitrieva, Z.V., Kraikovski, A.V., Lajus, J.A., Alexandrov, D.A. Atlantic salmon fisheries in the White and Barents Sea basins: Dynamic of catches in the 17–18th Century and comparison with 19–20th Century data. Fisheries Research 87:240-254
Lajus, D.L., Alekseeva, I.Y., Lajus, J.A. Herring fisheries in the White Sea in the 18th–beginning of the 20th Centuries: Spatial and temporal patterns and factors affecting the catch fluctuations. Fisheries Research 87:255-259
T. Fortibuoni, S. Raicevich, C. Solidoro, S. Libralato, O. Giovanardi, R. Gertwagen. Shifting the baseline in the northern Adriatic Sea integrating historical, archival, scientific and anthropological sources (Poster). Italian Ecological Society, September 2007, Ancona - Italy
F. Badalamenti, G. D’Anna, C. Pipitone, M. Giacalone, C. Romano, M. Sinopoli, C. Sweeting, F. Fiorentino, T. Fortibuoni, G. Garofalo, A. Granzotto, M. Gristina, V. Micale, M. Coppola, G. Di Stefano (2007). Ricostituzione delle risorse di pesca in un’area precedentemente soggetta ad intenso sfruttamento: dinamiche a larga scala del popolamento ittico e della struttura trofica della comunità marina. Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca. Decreto 1397 del 27/05/2004 di cui al bando di contributo straordinario D.M. 1105/2002 del 9/10/2002 Progetto n° 63.
M. Camilleri, M. Dimech, A. Drago, F. Fiorentino, T. Fortibuoni, G. Garofalo, M. Gristina, P. J. Schembri, F. Massa, S. Coppola, T. Bahri, V. Giacalone (2007). Spatial pattern of fisheries demersal resources, environmental factors and fisheries activities in GSA 15 (Malta Island). MedSudMed Technical Documents. No.13. GCP/RER/ITA/MSM-TD-13, Rome, 2007: 103 pp.
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Appendix 3: Major books and special issues planned and in preparation
Publications in press/accepted T. Fortibuoni & S. Raicevich. Una crociera di ricerca in Montenegro e Albania ovvero note sulla
ricerca per la gestione della pesca in Adriatico, dall’inizio del ‘900 ad oggi (A trawl survey in Montenegro and Albania or notes on applied research for fishery management from the begin of the XXth century to nowadays). To be published on “Chioggia: rivista di studi e ricerche.
S. Raicevich. Il mare, com’era. Verso la ricostruzione della storia ecologica dell’Adriatico (How was the sea. Towards the reconstruction of the historical ecology of the Adriatic Sea). Proceedings of the International Summer School: Economia dei litorali e gestione delle risorse dall’Antichità al Novecento (Seashore economy and resource management from the antiquity to the nineteenth century), June 2008, Cattolica, Italy.
Publications submitted Alekseeva Ya. I., Lajus D.L. Effect of anthropogenic and natural factors on dynamics of
populations of Atlantic salmon and the White Sea herring at the European North of Russia in the 19th – beginning of 20th century based on historical catch data.
T. Fortibuoni, T. Bahri, M. Camilleri, G. Garofalo, M. Gristina, F. Fiorentino (2009). Nursery and spawning areas of deep-water rose shrimp, Parapenaeus longirostris (Lucas 1846, Decapoda: Penaeidae), in the Strait of Sicily (Central Mediterranean Sea). Marine and Freshwater Research (submitted)
R. Gertwagen (ed.), Chapters on Marine Environmental History of the Mediterranean and Black Sea from the Archaic prid until the 19th century, submitted to Research Series of International Journal of Maritime History
R. Gertagen, Multidisciplinary approach to the study of marine environment and fishing in the Medieval Eastern Mediterranean, submitted to International Jouranl of Maritime History
S. Raicevich, T. Fortibuoni, O. Giovanardi (2008). Integrating historical, statistical, anthropological and scientific sources to detect extirpation in threatened Mediterranean marine species. Submitted to International Journal of Maritime History .
Publications in preparation/planned P. Holm & D.J. Starkey, Ocean Yields. A history of Marine Animal Harvests T. Smith & Randall Reves, Whaling Charts A monograph incorporating the results of the seven HMAP Asia research projects will include
chapters by John Butcher (regional synthesis) Malcolm Tull (shark fishing in Indonesia), Jo Marie Acebes (historical whaling in the Philippines), Henry Chen (development of the Taiwanese offshore tuna fishery), Peter Reeves (Madras fish-curing yards), Brooke Halkyard (turtle fishing in north-west Australia), and Joseph Christensen (recreational snapper fishery of Shark Bay)
Lajus D., Ya. ALekseeva, A. Kraikovsky, Z. Dmitrieva, J. Lajus. “Population dynamics of Atlantic salmon in the Russian North in the 17-20th centuries and its main factors”.
Lajus D., Ya. Alekseeva, J. Lajus “Climate effects on biota of the Barents and White Seas: analysis of historical sources”.
Kraikovsky A., Z. Dmitrieva, J. Lajus “Monastic fisheries in the Russian North 16-19th centuries”.
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Kraikovsky A., J. Lajus, Z. Dmitrieva “Misreading remote nature: anthropological insights in environmental history”.
Ivanova T.S., Lajus D,L. Shatskikh E.V. Population dynamics of threespine stickleback in the White Sea.
Fortibuoni T., Giovanardi O., Libralato S., Raicevich S., Solidoro C. Changes in fish assemblages over the last two centuries in the Northern Adriatic Sea (Mediterranean) assessed by means of historical naturalists’ descriptions. In prep
T. Fortibuoni, R. Gertwagen, O. Giovanardi, S. Raicevich. Fishing activities in the Venetian Lagoon between the fall of the Serenissima Repubblica in 1797 till the I World War (1914): an overview (for International Journal of Maritime History)
T. Fortibuoni, O. Giovanardi, S. Libralato, S. Raicevich, C. Solidoro. Investigating historical fish community composition and changes between 1800 and 2000 in the Northern Adriatic Sea (Mediterranean) through the integration of naturalists’ descriptions and landings statistics (provisional title).
T. Fortibuoni, O. Giovanardi, R. Gertwagen, S. Raicevich. The development of fishery in the Northern Adriatic Sea from the end of the 19th century to present.4444
Gertwagen, R. The Marine and Fresh Water Fauna of the Byzantine,Medieval and Early Modern Black Sea
Video S. Raicevich Mescalchin P., Raicevich S., Fortibuoni T. Il mare. Com’era. Memorie di pescatori
(How was the sea. Fishermen memories). Promo delivered in December 2008 (subtitles in English will be soon available); full video to be completed by September 2009.
S. Raicevich: Web site http://85.18.13.15/ilmarecomera/Sito/home.html
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Appendix 4: Applications of HMAP data and knowledge
HMAP research efforts have attracted attention from within the community of the International Council for the Exploration of the Seas (ICES). ICES organized in August 2008 a Workshop on historical data on fisheries and fish [WKHIST] whose objectives were to a) compile an inventory of historical data on marine fisheries and fish stocks and the status of the data (paper, reference, digitized). The historical data should focus on the period 1850-1960 but earlier data should also be included; b) compile and develop methods for estimating changes in technical efficiency in historical fisheries; c) develop a workplan for case studies on historical stock dynamics in the ICES area and link this to overall changes in the environment. One of the chairs of the workshop was Bo Poulsen (RUC), who has been a major participant within HMAP since its inception. The workshop was very successful, a report is available, and ICES is now planning further activities related to the workshop outcome including a new study group and a theme session at a future ICES Annual Science Conference. These activities, if approved at the 2008 Annual Science Conference, will be helpful in promoting the utilisation of historical data and perspectives in the fisheries management and advisory process of ICES. Other HMAP results have been presented at the ICES workshop on Cod and Future Climate Change, June 2008 in Copenhagen. Historical (archaeological) data regarding development and presence of cod populations and fisheries were presented at the meeting and are used in developing workshop conclusions and recommendations. Historical data regarding bluefin tuna fisheries in northern Europe were presented at the World Symposium for the Study into the Stock Fluctuation of Northern Bluefin Tunas, Santander, Spain, April 22-24, 2008, which was organized by ICCAT and Spanish government agencies. Observations of bluefin tuna fisheries in the area before 1970 (start of ICCAT abundance time series) have since motivated ICCAT during its 2008 stock assessment meeting to extend its time series back to 1955 by incorporating historical data. The New Zealand Ministry of Fisheries, Aquatic Environment Medium Term Research Plan (2008), which funded the HMAP NZ project, stated in 2008 that this is “… a desktop review of current and historical information … to assess the extent to which New Zealand marine ecosystems have been affected by fishing and other anthropogenic forcing over the past 1000 years. This should provide a realistic baseline against which current and future status can be gauged.” New Zealand Ministry of Fisheries, Aquatic Environment Medium Term Research Plan (2008).
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Appendix 5: Milestones for HMAP 2009-2010 July to December 2009 Project Development of standard requirement, database and interface for gallery Image database July submitt Research Progress Report to Ministry of Fisheries NZ Taking Stock December - Submit Final Research Report to Minsitry of Fisheries NZ Taking Stock Contract for book contract with Cambridge University Press:“Ahab's Legacies: the geography of whales as seen by 19th century whalers”
World Whaling
Marine Fisheries Review: publish two papers in same issue with cover illustraton about gray whaling in eastern Pacific
World Whaling
Marine Fisheries Review: publish two papers in same issue with cover illustraton about gray whaling in eastern Pacific
World Whaling
Conservation Biology: submit New Zealand right whale population model World Whaling Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand: submit ms on NZ right whaling catch history
World Whaling
Journal of Cetacean Research and Management: submit ms on North Atlantic humpback whale removals, updating previous study with additiondata
World Whaling
Participate in gray whale modeling workshop at Stanford University World Whaling Manuscript: Tracking long-term changes in the success of fisheries management in the Baltic Sea, using fuzzy-logic approach
Baltic Sea
Manuscript: A Comparison of Regional Marine Biodiversity Studies and Their Application to Ecosystem Approaches to Management (EAM)’ for four ecosystems
Baltic Sea
Poster presentation at First World Congress on Environmental History in Copenhagen
White & Barents Sea
To complete synthesis of data including GIS White & Barents SeaPresentation at the XIII European Congress of Ichthyology, Klaipeda, September 9-11
White & Barents Sea
Presentation at the ICES Annual Science Conference (session on Climate Impact on Marine Fishes), Berlin, September 21-25.
White & Barents Sea
Paper “Population dynamics of Atlantic salmon in the Russian North in the17-20th centuries and main its factors”. (D.Lajus, Ya. ALekseeva, A.Kraikovsky, Z.Dmitrieva, J. Lajus) will be submitted to international journal.
White & Barents Sea
Paper “Climate effects on biota of the Barents and White Seas: analysis of historical sources” (D.Lajus. Ya. Alekseeva, J.Lajus) will be submitted to international journal.
White & Barents Sea
Paper “Misreading remote nature: anthropological insights in environmenthistory” (A.Kraikovsky, J.Lajus, Z.Dmitrieva) will be submitted to international journal.
White & Barents Sea
1st World Conference in Environmental History, Copenhagen, August 2009 Med. & Black Sea
September 2009: International Summer School of the Mediterranean and Black Sea in Trieste Italy
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December, 2009: submission of Ph.D of HMAP Mediterranean, entitled: “Fisheries in the Northern Adriatic and the Venetian Lagoon since the fall the Serenissima up to the present: an historic ecological approach”
Med. & Black Sea
Submission of book proposal embodying results of the HMAP Asia researcprojects
Asia
January to June 2010 Inclusion of HMAP images in gallery Image database First video online Outreach February- Hold policy briefing workshopps in NZ & Australia NZ Taking Stock February- Submit a public document sumarising research findings NZ Taking Stock Deliver Ahab's Legacies book ms to Cambridge University Press World Whaling Journal of Cetacean Research and Management: submit ms on Eastern NorPacific gray whale status.
World Whaling
Science: submit paper comparing genetic diversity based and catch historybased estimates of historical abundance of whales with Steve Palumbi
World Whaling
Publish charts of 19th century whale sightings and landings: on line and in print
World Whaling
Baltic Science Policy Brief and stakeholders meeting Baltic Sea Manuscript: Tracking long-term changes in the success of management of different ecosystem components in the Baltic Sea, using fuzzy-logic approach
Baltic Sea
Paper: "Population dynamics of threespine stickleback in the White Sea" will be submitted to international journal.
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Draft of policy brief prepared White & Barents SeaPolicy meeting with WWF and Russian Salmon Fund in Moscow White & Barents SeaPresentation at IPY Oslo Science Conference White & Barents SeaEarly 2010: defense on the Ph.D Med. & Black Sea Asia-Pacific Policy Briefing Asia Publication of HMAP Asia monograph Asia
July to December 2010 Oceans Past III conference at Trinity Broadening and inclusion of images from outside HMAP Image database Second video online Outreach DVD packet ready for release Outreach News releases for Policy Briefings/maps/books Outreach Publish popular book highlighting the findings and implications of the project
NZ Taking Stock
OP III Presentation: New Directions in the Assessment of Cetacean Populations Subjected to Whaling
World Whaling
Ahab's Legacies published Cambridge University Press World Whaling Manuscript based on Baltic SPB and stakeholders meeting Baltic Sea
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Manuscript: Conspicuous consumption and fish trade: New evidences fromBaltic port cities, 15th – 18th centuries
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Policy brief published White & Barents SeaPaper to Russian fisheries journal "Rybnoe khoziaistvo" submitted. White & Barents Sea2 -3 paper at the Oceans Past III conference at Trinity presented. White & Barents SeaSubmission in late 2010 the volume of legacy of Mediterranean and Black Sea, entitled: Historic changes in Mediterranean and Black Sea marine biodiversity and ecosystems since the Roman period
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Appendix 6: Education An enduring legacy of HMAP is the continued training of undergraduate and postgraduate students. Until now some 20 graduate students and scores of undergraduate students have received training in marine environmental history / marine historical ecology. Previous workshops and summer schools were instrumental in this. Half a dozen scholars have visited partner institutions for longer stays thus furthering exchange and dissemination of knowledge.
Outreach News release postings, the launching of a new website and the production of informational videos explaining the methods used by scientists to reveal the oceans’ past, have been amongst the most important tools the Outreach Office has used to generate a broader knowledge of HMAP in the past years. Two press releases were posted which resulted in very good responses from the media.
1. Press release presented the special issue of Fisheries Research “History of Marine Animal Populations and their Exploitation in Northern Europe” Volume 87, Issues 2-3, Pages 101-262 (November 2007). Link: http://hmap.ruc.dk/news/html/News_Release_Fisheries_Research.pdf
2. Press release presented the book “Oceans Past: Management Insights from the History of Marine Animal Population”. Link: http://hmap.ruc.dk/documents/Press_Release_Oceans_Past_140108.pdf
11 articles were written on the basis of the releases and more that 200 pages on the internet published the press releases or linked to them. A new and enhanced website was launched in the spring 2008. The goal has been to present all the HMAP case studies, as well as the HMAP structure behind it, in a simple and accessible everyday language, and to make navigation to pertinent information easier. An important feature of the new website has been the short films presenting HMAP case studies. Seven videos have been produced about the following projects: HMAP, New Zealand, SE Australia, two videos from the White and Barents Sea, Baltic Sea and Asia. All videos are available on YouTube and at the HMAP website, as well. Link http://hmapcoml.org/news/video/ 3 HMAP newsletters have been published.
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Appendix 7: Regional policy briefings Asia-SW Pacific regional summary of HMAP project results and policy implications Objectives: 1. Prepare documents that summarize the principal findings of the regional HMAP projects separately and collectively, place these within the global HMAP context, and outline the implications for marine policy. 2. Hold separate NZ and Australian policy briefing workshops for relevant national and local governmental agencies and other stakeholders (e.g. commercial and recreational fishing representatives, indigenous peoples) and conservation NGOs as a means of distributing and discussing the principal results and policy implications of HMAP projects. 3. Brief local and national media on the results of regional HMAP projects and their policy implications. Delivery on these three objectives will help to maximize the impact of the global and regional HMAP projects over and above the effects of science journal publications and scientific books. Ideally, separate policy briefings should be held in Australia and New Zealand as national stakeholders are unlikely to travel far to attend such a briefing. Draft outlines of the New Zealand and Australian policy briefings, provisionally scheduled for February 2010, have been prepared. The results and implications of our research are of interest to a variety of media. In NZ we will target Radio NZ National’s science program and Saturday Morning program, NZ Geographic magazine, Forest & Bird magazine and the science pages of the major daily newspapers. In Australia we will target the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, mainstream electronic and print media, and the serials and other media published by target institutions. Baltic cod, regional summary of HMAP project results and policy implications One of the most important outcomes of the Baltic HMAP is extension of the dynamics of the eastern Baltic cod population back in time at decadal and centennial scales. Our results confirm that during the 20th century, cod biomass was the highest during the early 1980s but might have been even higher 400 years ago. These results, interpreted in the context of new information on the ecosystem (incl., variability and dynamics of the key regime-forming abiotic parameters, upper-level trophic structure and interactions, abiotic-biotic coupling and mechanisms), and behavior and impacts of fishery provide new opportunities and challenges to use the historical information in setting new management baselines and improving the current understanding of historical performance of fish stocks under different ecosystem regimes. The main purpose of the current proposal is to communicate the Baltic HMAP findings, interpreted in the context of modern theory of ecosystem approach, to wider stakeholder and scientific community and facilitate the transition towards ecosystem based management of fish stocks in the Baltic Sea. Deliverables: 1. Policy Brief to be distributed to several relevant stakeholder groups like governmental bodies, national management authorities, NGOs, research institutes, and environmental groups. 2. Stakeholders interaction meeting to present the Policy Brief with three scientific presentations on relevant key findings from the Baltic HMAP and discuss the outcomes. It is intended to have the meeting together with the Baltic Regional Advisory Commission (BSRAC) and invite additional major regional stakeholders (incl., EU DG MARE, EEA, ICES, HELCOM) 3. Based on outcomes of items #1 and #2 above to produce research paper to be published in an international peer-reviewed journal (candidate journals: Marine Policy, Fisheries Research, Marine Ecology Progress Series).
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White and Barents Sea HMAP project summary and policy implications The following findings have direct significance in terms of policy implications: 1. Positive climate effect on Atlantic salmon abundance revealed by our studies of the 17-19th centuries catch data allows for better forecast of population dynamics of this species in the situation of the current global warming. Atlantic salmon has significant commercial and cultural importance in the Russian North, moreover, statuses of the Russian populations of the Atlantic salmon as one of the largest in the world are important for the general fate of this valuable species. 2. Our finding that the overall abundance of Atlantic salmon did not considerably changed through 17-19th allows us to debunk the common myth of superabundance of fish resources in the ancient Russian North and their early depletion. Our results show that main changes in the abundance of salmon occurred in the 20th centuries due to well-known anthropogenic factors such as timber-rafting activities, dam construction, destruction of the spawning grounds and overfishing of salmon during sea phase of its life cycle. Our studies help to better understand the carrying capacity of the ecosystems and prove that sustainable use of salmon was possible during centuries and thus provide baselines and considerations for its sustainable management in current climatically favorable situation. 3. Our studies provide a clearer understanding of the appearance of warm-water species during recent years. Changes in the ecosystems of the Barents and White seas were manifest also during warm periods in the past. Descriptions of these events in the past are useful for the prognosis of future changes in the ecosystems. Deliverables: 1. Organization of a policy meeting together with the World Wildlife Fund and the recently established Russian Salmon Fund in Moscow in May-June 2010 with involvement of governmental fisheries agencies and other central and regional stakeholders such as fisheries representatives, conservation NGOs and research institutes (such as All-Russian Institute for Fisheries and Oceanography, P.P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Polar Institute for Fisheries and Oceanography) to discuss management applications of HMAP projects in general and HMAP-Russia project in particular. Media coverage for this meeting will be organized on central and local levels. 2. Publication of a Policy Brief describing the main results of HMAP White and Barents Sea project. 3. Publication in the most important Russian fisheries journal (“Rybnoe khoziaistvo”) describing the main achievements of the HMAP White and Barents Sea team and their policy implications. This plan is feasible due to the contacts our team is already established with key NGO’s in the field such as WWF and Russian Salmon Fund. During 2008- 2009 Dmitry Lajus is involved in international activities around salmon conservation in general, working as an expert for the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and Marine Resources Assessment Group (MRAG Americas). Mediterranean and Black Sea Project: dissemination of results This project has been funded only during the last couple of years and synthesis is still ongoing. We do not propose a regular policy briefing for this research activity but to deliver on the synthesis level attained by other projects already during HMAP IV. The synthesis will take the form of a volume on methodological approaches and thematic topics. The first section will deal with methodologies (historical and ecological) and sources of information to be considered in applying the multidisciplinary HMAP approach in the context of the Mediterranean and Black Sea Region. The second section will be thematic and include selected papers by scholars
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belonging to different disciplines that deal with historical changes in biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea. The themes will be dealt with according to historical periods and longitudinally. The scientific editing will be carried out by Ruthy Gertwagen and Saša Raicevich. The volume will be delivered towards the end of 2010.
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Appendix 8: Curriculum Vitae, HMAP Steering Committee: Dr Alison Bronwyn MacDiarmid National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) Academic qualifications: BSc, 1979, University of Auckland, New Zealand MSc (Hons), 1981, University of Auckland, New Zealand PhD, 1988, University of Auckland, New Zealand Positions held: 2002-present Principal Scientist (Benthic Fisheries & Ecology), NIWA, NZ 2000-2002 Principal Scientist (Aquaculture & Fisheries Enhancement), NIWA, NZ 1997- 2000 Project Director (Ocean Biology & Marine Biology), NIWA, Wellington, NZ 1996 Visiting scientist, Florida Department of Environmental Protection, USA 1994- 1997 Programme Co-ordinator and Project Leader, NIWA, Wellington, NZ 1987–1993 Research scientist, MAF Fisheries Research Centre, Wellington, NZ 1986–1987 Assistant Lecturer, University of Auckland, Auckland, NZ 1981–1982 Research Assistant, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia 1981 Contract biologist, Taranaki Catchment Commission, Stratford, NZ Andrzej Antczak Unidad de Estudios Arqueológicos, Instituto de Estudios Regionales y Urbanos, Universidad Simón Bolívar, Apartado 89144, Caracas 1086A, Venezuela; email: maantczak@usb.ve Education: 1999 Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute of Archaeology, University College London. Research subject: The Prehistoric Shell Middens. 1994-1998 Ph.D. Prehistoric Archaeology, Institute of Archaeology, University College London, UK. Dissertation: Late Prehistoric Economy and Society of the Islands off the Coast of Venezuela: A Contextual Interpretation of the Non-Ceramic Evidence. Positions held: 2002-present: Lecturer in History of the Conservation of the Historical-Cultural Heritage and Origins of the American City, Universidad Simón Bolívar, Caracas, Venezuela. 2001-present: Director, Archaeology Research Unit, Institute of Regional and Urban Studies, Universidad Simón Bolívar, Caracas, Venezuela. 1991-1994: General Director, Fundación Científica Los Roques, Caracas, Venezuela.
Dr David J Starkey Positions Held: 2006-present: Reader in Maritime History, University of Hull 1994-2006: Wilson Family Senior Lecturer in Maritime History, University of Hull 1989-1994: Leverhulme Research Fellow in Maritime History, University of Exeter 1984-1989: Research Fellow in Maritime History, University of Exeter 1982-1984: Executive Officer, UK Civil Service Consultancy and Advisory Work: I serve on numerous national and international bodies, including the Advisory Committee on Historic Wreck Sites (UK Department for Culture, Media and Sport, 1998-2004), the British Commission of the International Commission for Maritime History, the Council of the Society
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for Nautical Research, and the Steering Committees of HMAP and the North Atlantic Fisheries History Association. I am also an editor of the International Journal of Maritime History. Henn Ojaveer Senior research scientist at the Estonian Marine Institute, University of Tartu. Professor and Head of Department on ‘Management of Ecosystems’ in Pärnu College, University of Tartu. Academic qualifications: Ph.D in ichthyology and fisheries in University of Tartu (Estonia) in 1997. Positions held:
He is currently member of the ICES WGITMO and SGBOSV member of ICES Baltic and Living Resources Science Committees (since 2004); member of the Executive Committee and Science Steering Committee of the European Census of Marine Life (EuroCoML, since 2004) and co-chair of the HELCOM coastal fish monitoring workshop series (since 2005). Has served as Head of the Lead Laboratory on Coastal Activities of the GEF-financed Baltic Sea Regional Project (BSRP, 2004-2007) and as a co-chair of the ICES SGBFFI (2005-2006). Has published ca 50 scientific papers.
James H. Barrett Education 1996 Ph.D. in Archaeology, University of Glasgow (Commonwealth Scholarship) 1992 M.A. in Archaeology, University of Toronto (Ontario Graduate Scholarship) 1989 B.A. Specialist in Anthropology, Minor in History, University of Toronto (with High Distinction) Positions Held
2007- Deputy Director, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge 2005-2007 Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Archaeology, University of York 1999-2005 Lecturer, Dept. of Archaeology, University of York
1996-1999 Postdoctoral Research Fellow and Adjunct Assistant Professor, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Toronto 1996 Visiting Scholar, Dept. of Archaeology, University of Cambridge Jeremy Bradford Cook Jackson Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO), University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, California 92037, U.S.A. Tel. (858) 822-2432; jbjackson@ucsd.edu Education Ph.D Geology, Yale University, 1971 M.Phil. Geology, Yale University, 1970 M.A. Geology, The George Washington University, 1968 A.B. Zoology, The George Washington University, 1965 Professional Positions 2006- Senior Scientist Emeritus, STRI 1998-2003 Director, Geosciences Research Division, SIO 1996- William E. and Mary B. Ritter Memorial Professor of Oceanography, SIO 1996-1997 Visiting Scholar, Naturhistorisches Museum, Basel, Switzerland 1991-2001 Director, Center for Tropical Paleoecology and Archeology, STRI Visiting Scholar, Wolfson College, Oxford University Marine Coordinator, STRI
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1984-2006 Staff Scientist/Senior Scientist, STRI 1981-1987 Research Associate, Department of Invertebrates, American Museum of Natural History, New York Julia A. Lajus Director, Centre for Environmental and Technological History, Department of History, European University at St. Petersburg, Gagarinskaia ul 3, St. Petersburg, 191187, Russia Ph. +7 (812) 579-9921 / and Senior Researcher, Institute for the History of Science and Technology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaia nab. 1, St.Petersburg 199034 Russia e-mail: jlajus@eu.spb.ru, Academic positions: Feb. 2009 – Feb 2010 – Marie Curie Research Fellow, School of Geography, Earth and
Environmental Sciences. University of Birmingham, UK. Oct. 2006 – Director, 2002 – 2006 - Researcher and HMAP Project Coordinator, Center for
Environmental and Technological History, Department of History, European University at St. Petersburg
1995 -- Researcher, from 2005 - Senior Researcher, Institute for the History of Science and Technology, Russian Academy of Sciences
1985 – 1995 -- Assistant, Chief Librarian, White Sea Biological Station, Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences
Malcolm Tull BSc (Econ), PhD, Associate Professor Associate Professor Malcolm Tull is presently the Dean of the Murdoch Business School. He has extensive experience teaching both undergraduate and postgraduate units in economic theory, economic policy, and economic history, and a wide background in administration at Murdoch University, having performed a key role in the early development of the Murdoch Business School. He has a strong international record of publications in the disciplines of maritime economics and economic history. He was joint editor of the prestigious International Journal of Maritime History from 2000-2008, the author of A Community Enterprise: the History of the Port of Fremantle, 1897 to 1997 (1997), a Senior Editor for the Oxford Encyclopaedia of Maritime History (2007), and co-editor of Port Privatisation: The Asia-Pacific Experience (2008). A Fellow of Murdoch University’s Centre for Asian Studies since 1999, Malcolm was appointed Principal Investigator for the Asian History of Marine Animal Populations Project in 2006, initiating his own investigation into Indonesian shark fishing as part of this multi-national project. In 2008 Malcolm was elected Vice-President of the International Maritime Economic History Association. He is currently President of the Economic Society of Australia Inc., Western Australian Branch. Malcolm continues to teach and to supervise honours and postgraduate students at the Murdoch Business School. Ms Michaela G Barnard Current Post: Research Associate, Maritime Historical Studies Centre, University of Hull Qualifications: BA History (Hull 1997), MA in Historical Research (Hull 1998) Ruthy Gertwagen
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Academic position Senior lecturer (since 2005) and Prof. of maritime history and underwater archaeology of the Byzantine, Medieval and Early modern Mediterranean at Haifa University and Oranim Academic College; Synergistic activities: March 2009 chair person of Membership Committee of International Maritime Economic History Association (IMEHA) June 2008 member of nomination committee of International Commission of Maritime History (ICMH) May 2008 member of Scientific Committee of FISPMED’s project. 2007; Member on Editorial board of International Journal of Maritime History (IJMH) February 2007 Member of HMAP international scientific steering group October 2005 Chairwoman and Teams Leader of Marine Animal Populations (HMAP) of the Mediterranean and the Black Sea 2007 acting co-advisor to Ph.D Research, entitled: Fisheries in the Northern Adriatic and the Venetian Lagoon since the fall of the Serenissima up to the present: an historic ecological approach” In 2000 I was one of the four founding members of the Mediterranean Maritime History Association 1995 member of the executive committee of the International Commission of Maritime History; I have published 20 research papers in international peer reviewed Journals and three books and edited (editor in chief) one volume on HMAP Mediterranean and Black Sea, another single-edited has been submitted. 1984, 1986-9, 1992, 1995, 2006 I have conducted land and underwater escavations and surveys in Israel, and in the Aegean and Ionian Seas Tim D. Smith Professional Affiliations: National Marine Fisheries Service: Fisheries Research Biologist, 1973-2005 University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI: Assistant Professor, Zoology, 1975-78 Academic Positions: Census of Marine Life: Steering Group History of Marine Animal Populations, 2002-present. International Whaling Commission: Member Scientific Committee, 1974-2005 US Marine Mammal Commission: Scientific Advisors,1975-1985 University of New Hampshire, Durham NH: Affiliate Professor, 2002-present.
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Appendix 9: Curriculum Vitae, HMAP Executive Committee:
Poul Holm Contact details: Work: Trinity Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland, www.tcd.ie/longroomhub Telephone: +353 1 896 8490, mobile: +353 (0)876188039 E-mail: holmp@tcd.ie I have published 4 single and 1 multi-authored books, 15 edited volumes, 101 research papers. Education 1979 cand. phil. (MA) history, University of Aalborg 1991 dr. phil., University of Aarhus Professional career 1979-82 Assistant Lecturer, Aalborg University 1983-85 Research Fellow, Statens humanistiske Forskningsråd (Danish Research Council for the Humanities) 1986-94 Senior Curator, Fiskeri- og Søfartsmuseet, Esbjerg 1994-99 Research Professor, Center for Maritim og Regional Historie (Fiskeri- og Søfartsmuseet/Aarhus Universitet) 2000-06 Professor, University of Southern Denmark, and 2002-06 Director of Research School for Studies in Marine and Coastal Environment, Heritage and Sustainable Tourism (MAST) 2005-6 Carlsberg Foundation Visiting Fellow, Centre for History and Economics, and Churchill College, Cambridge, UK 2006-2008 Rector, Roskilde University 2008- Professor, Academic Director, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Academic positions (current) 2006- Editorial member, Arts & Humanities in Higher Education (UK) 2007- Editorial member, Global environment (Italy) 2008- Editorial member, Marine Biodiversity (Germany) 2000- Member, Census of Marine Life, Scientific Steering Committee (global) 2008- Chairman, EU General Directorate for Research Working Group METRIS (Monitoring Emerging Research Trends in Social Sciences and Humanities) 2008- member, AHRC Programme on Landscapes and Environment
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Andrew A. Rosenberg Professor, Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans and Space and Department of Natural Resources, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 03824 EDUCATION Dalhousie University Biology Ph.D. 1984 Oregon State University, Oceanography M.S. 1980 University of Massachusetts, Amherst Fisheries Biology B.S. 1978 APPOINTMENTS Professor, University of New Hampshire Present Commissioner, U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy 2001 - 2004 Dean, University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH 2000 - 2004 Deputy Director, NOAA- NMFS HQ 1998 - 2000 Northeast Regional Administrator, NOAA-NMFS-NERO 1994 - 1998 Research Scientist, NOAA –NMFS-NEFSC 1990 - 1994 Lecturer, Imperial College of Science and Technology, London 1984 - 1990 SYNERGISTIC ACTIVITIES Senior Fellow and Advisor to the World Wildlife Fund; Advisor to the Fisheries Minister of Iceland; Senior Scientist, Communication Partnership for Science and the Sea; provide testimony to Congressional Committees and invited speaker for the Congressional Ocean Caucus; Chair of US National Committee, Census of Marine Life; advisor to UN Law of the Sea Office; NRC Panel member; Ecosystem Effects of Fishing; UN Panel of Experts, Global Marine Assessment COLLABORATORS IN THE LAST 48 MONTHS Prof. John Beddington, Imperial College, London Prof. Jeffrey Bolster, University of New Hampshire Dr. Andrew Cooper, University of New Hampshire Dr. Geoffrey Kirkwood, Imperial College of Science and Technology, UK Dr. Raymond Grizzle, University of New Hampshire Prof. Poul Holm, University of Southern Denmark Prof. Marc Mangel, Univ. California, Santa Cruz Dr. Larry Mayer, University of New Hampshire Dr. Tim Smith, Northeast Fisheries Science Center, NMFS, Woods Hole Prof. David Starkey, University of Hull, UK GRADUATE ADVISOR Prof. R. W. Doyle, Dalhousie University, Canada POST-DOCTORAL ADVISOR Prof. John R. Beddington, F.R.S. Imperial College, London
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Brian Royce Mackenzie Field of specialisation: fish population ecology and dynamics, climate change effects on marine populations and ecosystems, physical-biological interactions Present Position: Professor, Technical University of Denmark, National Institute for Aquatic Resources (DTU-Aqua), Charlottenlund, Denmark Education: 1992: Ph. D. (excellent), McGill University, Montreal, Canada. 1985: M. Sc., Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada. 1983: B. Sc. Hon., Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada. Previous positions: 1998-2007: Senior research scientist, Danish Institute for Fisheries Research, Charlottenlund 1994-1998: Research scientist, Danish Institute for Fisheries Research, Charlottenlund 1992-1994: Post-doctoral fellow, Danish Institute for Fisheries Research, Charlottenlund Awards: Post-doctoral fellowship from Danish Science Research Council, October 1993. Canada Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Post-Doctoral Fellowship 1992-1994. Dr. Max Dunbar Award for Oceanographic Studies, 1990, McGill University, Montreal, Canada. Canada Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Postgraduate Scholarship 1986-1989. Project awards and participation: Principle investigator, task coordinator, administrative coordinator of 2 EU Networks of Excellence, 5 EU, and 1 national project since 1994 investigating environmental effects on marine ecosystems and fish populations (Eur-oceans, MARBEF, CORE, STORE, STEREO, SAP, CONWOY). PI in Census of Marine Life History of Marine Animal Populations. Student teaching and supervision: 2 Postdocs (Norway, Italy) and 3 Master’s students supervised; presently co-supervising 1 Ph. D. student; guest lectures at universities. Publications: >40 publications in internat.-refereed journals; >24 reports & book chapters. 6 representative publications: MacKenzie, B. R., Poulsen, B. (submitted). Fishing and jellyfish eradicate fish 180 years ago. Marine Ecology Progress Series MacKenzie, B. R., Mosegaard, H., Rosenberg, A. A. 2009. Impending collapse of bluefin tuna in the northeast Atlantic and Mediterranean. Conservation Letters 2: 25-34 Eero, M., Köster, F. W., MacKenzie, B. R 2008. Reconstructing historical stock development of Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) in the eastern Baltic Sea before the beginning of intensive exploitation Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 65: 2728-2741 MacKenzie, B. R., Schiedek, D. (2007) Daily ocean monitoring since the 1860s shows record warming of northern European seas. Global Change Biol. 13: 1335- 1347 MacKenzie, B. R., Myers, R. A. (2007) The development of the northern European fishery for north Atlantic bluefin tuna Thunnus thynnus during 1900-1950. Fish. Res.: 87: 229- 239 Enghoff, I. B., MacKenzie, B. R., Nielsen, E. E. (2007) The Danish fish fauna during the warm Atlantic period (ca. 7,000-3,900 BC): forerunner of future changes? Fish. Res. 87: 285-298 Research community service: Associate editor (Europe and Africa), Fisheries Oceanography, 2003-2006 Co-organizer and co-chair of 7 international workshops and meeting theme sessions Chair, ICES Baltic Science Committee, 2002-2004 ICES Baltic Fisheries Assessment Working Group (1997-present) Steering Group Member: METAOCEANS, MARBEF (EU 6th FP Network of Excellence)
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Bo Poulsen 2006- Assistant professor, Department of Environmental, Social and Spatial Change 2002-2006 Employed as PhD-research fellow, as research assistant and as teaching assistant at the Institute of History and Civilization, University of Southern Denmark Degrees awarded: 2006 Ph.D., history, University of Southern Denmark 2002 Cand. mag. (MA), history, University of Southern Denmark 2000 BA, history, University of Århus Fellowships abroad: 2006 Visiting fellow, 1 month at the Max-Planck-Institut für Geschichte, Göttingen 2004 Visiting fellow, 6 months at the International Institute for Social History, Amsterdam Elected positions: 2006- Member, Project steering group for HMAP project on the Baltic Sea 2001- Member, editorial board of peer-reviewed Danish journal, Den jyske Historiker. 2006-2009 Member, local Planning Committee, 1st World Congress of Environmental History Award: 2006 Ph.D-thesis awarded the bi-annual Hoogendijkprijs for best publication on the history of Dutch sea fisheries Ongoing research 1) History of Marine Animal Populations, Census of Marine Life, 2000-2010. 2) INCOFISH, on sustainability in Integrated Coastal Zone Management, ICZM, where the goal is to reconstruct past ecosystems using historical material. 3) The Dutch-Danish project, ‘Close encounters with the Dutch, 1550-1750’, contributing with analyses of fisheries as part of the Dutch dominance in the North Sea region in the early modern period. 6 most recent publications, (total number of 20) ‘Historical exploitation of North Sea herring stocks. An environmental history of the Dutch herring fisheries, c. 1600-1860’ (unpublished PhD-thesis, University of Southern Denmark, 2006) Poul Duedahl, Jens Toftgaard Jensen, Mikkel Leth Jespersen and Bo Poulsen, (eds.) Biologismer, theme issue of Den Jyske Historiker, vol. 112, 2006 Bo Poulsen, Brian R. MacKenzie, Maibritt Bager and Poul Holm, 'Klimaforandringers betydning for fisk og fiskeri,' in: Morten Søndergaard, Brian Kronvang, Morten Pejrup and Kaj Sand-Jensen (eds.), Vand og vejr om 100 år - klimaforandringer og det danske vandmiljø, Viborg: Hovedland, 2006), p. 107-121. 'Visvangstrategie bij de Nederlandse Grote haringvisserij, 1856-1863,' in: NETwerk Jaarboek Visserijmuseum, vol. 17, (2006), p. 19-35. 'Markets, prices and consumption. The herring trade in the North Sea and Baltic region, c. 1600-1850,' in: Hanno Brand, Poul Holm and Leos Muller (red.), The Dynamics of economic culture in the Northsea- and Baltic Region (ca. 1250-1700) vol. 1, (Studies of the Groningen Hansa Research Center, 2007, in press). 'Talking Fish - Cooperation and communication in the Dutch North Sea herring fisheries' in: Louis Sicking & Darlene Abreu-Ferreira (eds.) Beyond the Catch. Interdisciplinary approaches to the North Atlantic fisheries, 1000-1850 (Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2007, in press).
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Anne Husum Marboe Born 1960 2007- Research Fellow, Department of Environmental, Social and Spatial Change, Roskilde University 2006-2007 Project Coordinator and Executive officer, History of Marine Animal Populations, Roskilde University 2002-06 Project Coordinator, Centre for Maritime and Regional Studies, University of Southern Denmark 2006 MA, history, University of Southern Denmark. Thesis: “Liberalisation or governmental control - An institutional perspective on the Danish Fisheries1849- 73.” 2003 BA, history, University of Southern Denmark 1991-99 Operational Manager, A/S Bioteknisk Jordrens, Esjerg/Kalundborg 1990 Environmental Engineer, Esbjerg Technical Academy Research interest My research interests focus on improving our understanding of the sociological valuation of marine biodiversity goods and services and on improving our understanding of the rationale behind valuation. My research interests are also focused on interdisciplinary studies in marine environmental history combining history, economic theory and natural science. In a broader scope my interest lies in the interaction between man and sea. Ongoing research I am currently involved with these research projects. 1) History of Marine Animal Populations, which is the historical component of the global oceanographic research programme, Census of Marine Life, 2000-2010. 2) MarBEF, Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning EU-network of excellence, Theme 3 Socio-economics. 3) INCOFISH, Integrating Multiple Demands on Coastal Zones with Emphasis on Aquatic Ecosystems and Fisheries, WP2 Shifting Baselines. Academic positions 1) Member of HMAP executive secretariat. 2) Project leader History of Nearshore Biodiversity project, Collaborative project HMAP-NaGISA, together with Dr. Robin Rigby, Kyoto University. 3) Member of the local organisation committee for ICEHO World Congress for Environmental History, RUC/Copenhagen, Summer 2009.
Publications N.J. Beaumont, M.C. Austen, J. Atkins D. Burdon, S. Degraer, T.P. Dentinho, S. Derous, P. Holm, T. Horton, E. van Ierland, A. H. Marboe, D.J. Starkey, M. Townsend, T. Zarzycki. Identification, Definition and Quantification of Goods and Services provided by Marine Biodiversity: Implications for the Ecosystem Approach in Marine Pollution Bulletin (accepted) Marboe, Anne Husum. 2004. Seals, Seal Hunting and Fishermen: The Seal Population in Denmark's Coastal Waters, c. 1750-1889 in Starkey, D.J. Loomeijer, F.R. Robinson, R. (ed.) Fish, War and Politics in the North Atlantic Fisheries, 1300-2003. Vlaardingen, Visserijmuseum te Vlaardingen; North Atlantic Fisheries History Association. Studia Atlantica 7, p. 120-26.
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Appendix 10: Cited literature Barrett, J., C. Johnstone, J. Harland, W. Van Neer, A. Ervynck, D. Makowiecki, D. Heinrich, A.K. Hufthammer, I.B. Enghoff, C. Amundsen, J.S. Christiansen, A.K.G. Jones, A. Locker, S. Hamilton-Dyer, L. Jonsson, L. Lõugas, C. Roberts & M. Richards. (2007) Detecting the medieval cod trade: A new method and first results. Journal of Archaeological Science. Volume 35, Issue 4: 850-861 R. C. Francis. (2001). The Exploited Seas: New Directions for Marine Environmental History. Historical Approaches to the Northern California Current Ecosystem, St. John's, Newfoundland: International Maritime Economic History Association, 2001. Research in Maritime History No. 21: 123-139 Jones, G.A. (2008) Oceans Past Management Insights from the History of Marine Animal Populations. Quite the Choicest Protein Dish’: The Costs of Consuming Seafood in American Restaurants, 1850–2006. London: Earthscan: 47-76 Lotze & Worm 2009 Heike K. Lotze and Boris Worm, Historical baselines for large marine Animals. TREE 1060 McClenachan, L. (2009) Conservation Biology, Documenting Loss of Large Trophy Fish from the Florida Keys with Historical Photographs (published online) Poulsen, B. (2008). Dutch Herring. An Environmental History, c. 1600-1860. Amsterdam: Aksant
Rosenberg, A.A., J.H. Swasey, M Bowman (2006). “Rebuilding US fisheries: progress and problems,” Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 4(6): 303-308
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RESPONSE/SUPPLEMENT FROM NEW HAMPSHIRE
Thank you for the reviews of the HMAP Phase V proposal. We are pleased that the
reviews are very positive, the reviewers are complementary about the vision and quality of our work,
and suggest no major changes to the proposal. We also note with thanks the reviewers’ suggestions
for elaborating on certain aspects of the proposal. Specifically, they suggest clarifying the policy
impacts of HMAP, our vision for the program post-2010 and placing the outreach activities in
greater context, including the relationship of HMAP to the rest of the Census. The Review
comments have highlighted these key areas of the report and below we supplement the proposal with
further discussion of these topics.
Policy impacts
It is a key objective of this renewal proposal to make sure that the HMAP findings are
effectively communicated to policy makers, and reviewers have rightly pointed out that this is an
important challenge for the program. We will certainly work hard to make policy makers aware of
our findings, by publications, working groups, and most importantly, by direct interaction. As noted
in the reviews, it is not sufficient to assume that because we publish extensively in the academic
literature or even are reported widely in the press, that policy makers are informed about the
implications of HMAP research. Direct interaction is essential. In fact, Prof. Rosenberg teaches a
seminar course at UNH on exactly this topic of the interaction of scientists and academic researchers
in a policy environment and several of the HMAP graduate students have taken the course. Further,
because the leadership team of HMAP are highly regarded senior researchers, we have good access
to directly working with policy-makers. For example, Prof. Holm is directly engaged with the
European Commission and is a member of the European Science Foundation Science Policy
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Working Group on European Landscapes. Prof. Rosenberg is working with the Joint Ocean
Commission Initiative in the US, the UN Global Marine Assessment Group of Experts and other
advisory bodies. In this regard, we have already had some success in including the Census and
HMAP in discussions of future ocean policy directions.
In this final phase of HMAP, we now have a broad picture of the history of the oceans
and the policy implications are sharpening all the time. The current Oceans Past II meeting and the
accompanying intense media interest have highlighted the issues of how our findings will affect
policy. In numerous interviews we have been articulating the policy implication of the former
productivity of the ocean for current and future efforts to rebuild depleted marine ecosystems. We
are demonstrating in a compelling manner that policy makers can shape goals for marine ecosystem
recovery that are not constrained to only the recently observed states of the ecosystem, but can take
into account a broader spectrum of system productivity, ecosystem complexity and spatial pattern.
HMAP will ensure that this will not just be a dialogue with the press for public consumption, but
will open an extended dialogue in policy settings. For example, the HMAP Gulf of Maine work is
being brought to the attention of the New England Fishery Management Council in the US.
Mediterranean researchers are engaged in the discussion over applying the Common Fishery Policy
in the Mediterranean, and HMAP has played a key role in the formation of a new ICES Working
Group on Fisheries History with a direct pipeline to policy makers. The report by the New Zealand
team will feed directly into NIWA policy. These efforts will come to fruition in this final phase of
the first Census.
We note the helpful suggestions of reviewer 1 to extend links US Marine Mammal
Commission and the US Arctic Commission. We are confident that Prof. Andrew Rosenberg’s
position as both a member of the HMAP executive team and as chair of the US CoML NRIC will
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position us well to make this happen. Prof. Rosenberg is working with the Aspen Institute on their
Arctic Management Dialogue and has extensive contacts with the MMC.
Reviewer 5 raises a question about the specific HMAP contribution to the Census. We
are confident that the temporal data and synthesis both for losses and recoveries are crucial to the
Census 2010 report, which will rely on this information to establish global and regional evaluations
of ecosystem health and trends. Further, we have close connection and substantial overlap with
FMAP, NaGISA and the Gulf of Maine Project and our results will be integrated in, for example,
some of the synthesis work currently underway by the NRIC’s.
Since we submitted the proposal the HMAP Russian team has made important steps
towards organizing a policy briefing on salmon. Dr Dmitry Lajus has met with WWF people and
also with the director of newly established Russian Salmon Fund, which is connected with the Wild
Salmon Center in US. They expressed a deep interest. The Russian team is invited to provide a
historical background chapter for a new guide on “Effective management of salmon rivers in
Russia”, which is important because the new regulation for leasehold of salmon rivers was issued in
Russia in the end of 2008 which potentially could facilitate the development of sport fishing and
provide better possibilities for its regulation and organizing salmon conservation.
Overall, we believe that now that HMAP has effectively established the discipline of
marine environmental history and our senior researchers are well recognized within their countries
and regions, we have great opportunity to connect directly to policy makers globally. Further,
HMAP has trained a large number of graduate students, many of whom are now engaged in their
careers in academia, governments or NGOs and they carry the HMAP approach with them. They
will influence the perspectives of policy making organizations for years to come.
The outreach goals
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Review 4 recommends some possible reduction in the budget without significant impact
on the synthesis phase, if required. We would comment that the project coordinator and outreach
officer, both part-time positions, have no other source of funding. Anne Marboe and Kira Paulli
Pravato have been key to the success of HMAP through the years. It would be detrimental to the
successful completion of the project if we lost one of them in the last phase. In addition, the
geographical scope of HMAP and the number of researchers engaged mean that our budget is spread
very thinly and the need for coordination is critical. While all of our project areas have successfully
pursued additional sources of funding, maintaining personnel (i.e. salaries) is the most difficult
budgetary challenge we face. That means that we need sufficient funding for core staff, and we are
barely meeting that requirement with this proposal.
Review 3 lauds as particularly imaginative the proposal for an HMAP image gallery for
use in educational and public outreach and for educational purposes, but expresses concern that
development of a substantial product with the time and resources available may be difficult. We
agree that this is a major stretch goal for HMAP but that the effort is worthwhile. We continue to
pursue additional funding to work with the museum community on an image gallery that will reflect
the HMAP project and the research approach. Prof. Holm has been invited to give a key note talk to
the International Congress of Maritime Museums in October this year and will highlight the image
gallery and interaction with museums. Displaying biodiversity and species size would certainly bring
new insights to the history of marine animal population as evidenced by the impact of the few
images we have posted to date on the website and in several publications (e.g. McClenachan et al.
2008). In addition, images of the coastal communities and their people, fisheries, and technology of
the past are particularly evocative as demonstrated by the extraordinary images used in many of the
presentations at the Oceans Past II symposium. Images and web facilities are educational tools and
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communicate directly with a broad audience, particular younger students. We continue to believe
that we should strive to create an image gallery that can be added to in years to come as an important
outreach component of HMAP. Additional funding is being pursued in the US, and institutional
collaboration with Danish fisheries museums is already secured. The concept is envisioned to be
attractive for local museums providing them an opportunity to display their collections in an
international research based context. Seed money, to get a project started on including local
collections from various places, is a small but important part of the budget to be expended as
follows:
1. Research assistant: 10 kUSD (matching funding applied for, Danish Museums Initiative Grant)
2. Technical support and program development, with institutional support from Trinity College and
Roskilde University: 10 kUSD
3. Equipment, travel and other: 10kUSD
4. Funding for collection of images and metadata, copyright issues: 20 kUSD
Reviewer 2 recommends that the image gallery should cover how and why technology
was developed, what inspired the inventors or the companies or the governments to undertake their
development, how much was an adaptation of military-related technology, what technology is
needed, perhaps desperately, for the future, and what are the questions, if any, of the unintended
consequences of the technology. While fishery technology development is part of some HMAP
projects, the reviewer’s suggestions would constitute a major new initiative in itself and is not
feasible for the final phase of the program. Of course the image gallery will contain material related
to the development of fishing gear and other technology that has played an important role in the
exploitation of marine ecosystem, but not to the extent suggested.
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We would like to develop the gallery in two dimensions (temporal and spatial) and four
themes:
1. Biodiversity (species and size)
2. Technology (vessels and boats, gear, processing)
3. Markets (markets, products, meals)
4. Culture (fishing communities, economy, spirituality and special places)
Metadata describing the image will be included and to that extent provide information to answer the
questions raised in the review.
In addition to outreach through the image gallery, HMAP has now developed a strong
linkage to the Census media and outreach program at URI lead by Darlene Trew Crist. In particular
we have worked to great effect with Ms. Trew Crist and Terry Collins on outreach for the Oceans
Past II meeting, resulting in articles, radio programs, TV flashes and other media stories on HMAP
ranging from Discovery, NGS, the NY Times, Radio Canada, the London Times and Le Monde to
Science. We plan to build on our effective collaboration in the integration of the HMAP results with
the Census more broadly in our communication and outreach efforts.
As the reviewers note, the HMAP Fishing Grounds mapping project, part of the synthesis
work begun under the last grant and to be completed in this final phase, will be an important
research product with great outreach potential (see figure below). Dr. Stefan Claesson, who did his
graduate work affiliated with HMAP and has recently published an important paper on the
management of cultural resources in the journal Marine Policy, is the lead for this mapping work
proposed for funding. We expect the mapping work to be an important part of the Census and Dr.
Claesson has begun work with the mapping group at Duke under Prof. Pat Halpin. The goal is to
integrate the historical research we are conducting with the broader efforts of the Census to
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incorporate into the Google Ocean efforts of Halpin and his co-workers. We believe this is
achievable under the proposed program of work.
Post-2010
HMAP has been successful in embedding its approach into various institutions through the
appointment of young staff in partner institutions, and the successful introduction of marine
environmental history in various curricula. The appointment of Prof. Poul Holm to a Chair in
Environmental History and Director of an interdisciplinary research institute at Trinity College
Dublin positions him well to carry the HMAP approach into the future. These are significant
legacies, with grant-raising potential for post-2010.
With regard to the situation at Hull, we have recently agreed with the University that the
HMAP data will be secured for the foreseeable future in an institutional repository called eDocs.
Moreover, the manager of the HMAP data team Michaela Barnard has been granted a continuing
contract in the History Department, with HMAP specified in her job description. This will help
secure the HMAP database in the long-term.
In the US, Prof. Rosenberg has been actively engaged in discussions, through the US
National Committee, with NOAA and USGS to transition the Census work from the first census to a
long-term public private partnership for research on marine biodiversity. USGS is engaged with
OBIS to maintain the Census database. Prof. Rosenberg has also made presentations to the NOAA
Science Advisory Board, and the National Ocean Council Joint Subcommittee on Ocean Science and
Technology and other government agencies on the role the Census can play in future US ocean
science and policy advice. HMAP is part of these discussions. The goal is to secure the future of the
Census in the US ocean science enterprise.
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In addition, HMAP researchers around the world continue to aggressively pursue funding
opportunities. HMAP at Murdoch Univ. in Australia recently completed a workshop on the Asia
Pacific program with the goal of proposal development. Researchers in the US are pursuing NSF,
NOAA and private Foundation funding. European researchers are seeking funds to continue HMAP
research well beyond the end of the first Census in 2010.
The reviewers have rightly noted that this is a critical issue for HMAP and all Census
projects. It is a high priority for the ongoing HMAP program and will receive our urgent attention
throughout this final phase of the program.
Overall, the reviewers have highlighted the key issues we ourselves are seeking to
address in this proposal. We hope this supplemental explanation of our proposed program clarifies
our thinking with regard to these issues, but as always are prepared to continue to strive to strengthen
the HMAP program in every way possible.
Poul Holm & Andy Rosenberg
Wednesday, 27 May 2009
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