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Research and Communication

Table with dates and destinations of the various research trips for the Research and Communication web page

Research visit	Main purpose/activities
Grenada, 16-18 February	Inception visit; meeting with Chief Fisheries Officer; scoping secondary site data; presentation on LAMP to Moliniere/Beausejour MPA stakeholder committee
Dominica, 7-12 March	Inception visit and workshop on the Soufriere/Scott’s Head Marine Reserve Local Area Management Authority (SSMR/LAMA); meeting with Chief Fisheries Officer; scoping secondary site data; SSMR/LAMA fieldwork for primary data
Grenada, 11 April	Carriacou workshop with Sandy Island Oyster Bed MPA (SIOBMPA) stakeholder committee on drafting co-management agreement
Grenada, 21-24 June	Share findings from Dominica LAMA with members of Grenada National MPA Committee others; communication research with members of the news media; present LAMP and findings on LAMA at first stakeholder meeting of Woburn/ Clarkes Court MPA.
Dominica, 18-22 July	Meeting to share and validate the draft report on the SSMR/LAMA including SSMR site visit by Grenada MPA stakeholders; regional panel discussion on communication between marine research and policy
Grenada, 29 July-1 August	LAMP-sponsored news media tour of the official launch of the SIOBMPA and workshop with Grenada media on communication related to LAMP and MPAs
Grenada, 11-14 August	LAMP Termination Workshop with Dominica SSMR/LAMA stakeholders and participants from all three Grenada MPA stakeholder committees; meetings on production of Grenada public service announcements related to LAMP and MPAs

Project Reports

McConney, P., M. Pena, C. Haynes, L. Deane. N. Leotaud and I. Mclymont-Lafayette. 2010. An institutional perspective on the local area management authority of the Soufriere/Scotts Head Marine Reserve, Dominica. Local Area Management Project. CERMES Technical Report No. 36. 84pp. [pdf]

Deane, L. 2010. Communicating to support local area management. Local Area Management Project. CERMES Technical Report No. 37. 55pp. [pdf]

McConney, P. L. Deane and M. Pena. 2010. Governance of Grenada’s Marine Protected Areas and Local Area Management Project Terminal Workshop. Local Area Management Project (LAMP). CERMES Technical Report No. 38. 47pp [pdf]

Project Videos

On 20 July, 2010, in the conference room of the Garraway Hotel in Rousseau, persons from the Dominica Fisheries Division, members of the SSMR
LAMA and its stakeholders assembled for the taping of a Regional Panel Discussion on “Communication between marine science and marine policy”.

The five panelists were of varying backgrounds and expertise and included: Dr.
Patrick McConney, CERMES; Indi Mclymont- Lafayette, Panos Caribbean; Nicole Leotaud, Caribbean Natural Resources Institute (CANARI); Roland Baldeo, Grenada Fisheries Division; and Andrew Magloire, Dominica Fisheries Division with Kamala JnoBaptiste Aaron as moderator.