New Zealand’s ocean and its future: knowledge, opportunities and management

Proceedings of a conference organised by the Royal Society of New Zealand

16 November 2006

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Foreword

Session one

• How we see the sea: mental models and management paradigms
  • Dr Morgan Williams, Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment
• The changing ocean: status, knowledge gaps, and future opportunities
  • Dr Philip Sutton, Victoria University of Wellington
• Living resources—opportunities/threats, knowledge, and management
  • Professor John Montgomery, University of Auckland

Session two

• Fisheries resource knowledge, management, and opportunities: Has the Emperor got no clothes?
  • Dr John McKoy, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
• The 96% solution: resources on and beneath the ocean floor
  • Dr Ray Wood, GNS Science, Lower Hutt
• Developing the New Zealand marine infrastructure
  • Dr George Hooper, Centre for Advance Engineering, University of Canterbury
  • K. Chong, Nexus Consulting, Christchurch

Session three

• Technology and viewing the ocean
  • Dr Alex Malahoff, GNS Science, Lower Hutt
• New Zealand’s oceans in 2060: plausible futures and public choices
  • Mr Chris Howe, WWF New Zealand