Connectivity: Science, people and policy in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary

Keller, Brian D. and Wilmot, Fiona C. (eds.) (2008) Connectivity: Science, people and policy in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. Silver Spring, MD, NOAA/National Ocean Service/National Marine Sanctuary Program, (Marine Sanctuaries Conservation Series, ONMS-0)

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Abstract

Executive Summary: The Connectivity Colloquium evolved from an exhortation by Dan Basta, Director of the National Marine Sanctuary Program, to come together and assess what we know about the condition of our natural resources, identify information gaps and how to fill them, and transform science and management from an emphasis on documentation to a nexus for action. This purpose in some ways reflects the initiation of the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary itself, which was designated by an act of the U.S. Congress in 1990 in the aftermath of the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska and three major ship groundings of the Florida Reef Tract in late 1989. Over the next seven years NOAA worked with federal, state, and local partners to develop a comprehensive management plan for the Sanctuary implemented under a co-trustee partnership between NOAA and the State of Florida. (PDF contains 270 pages; 14Mb)

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