Contents /Index

1.0 Introduction:

2.0 Environmental Sustainability in our Marine Environment

3.0 The Biodiversity of life within the ecosystems

• 3.1 Ecosystem Integrity
  • 3.1.1 Key Species
  • 3.1.2 Biodiversity and the Need to Conserve
  • 3.1.3 The interconnections between life forms
• 3.2 Integration and interconnections of Marine Ecosystems
• 3.3 Ecosystem Services

4.0 Physical Story

• 4.1 sensors and data collection for research
• 4.2 the importance of pH
• 4.3 oxygen depletion
• 4.4 Ocean pollutants
• 4.5 Other anthropogenic influences in the physical ocean world.
  • 4.5.1beach modification and implications

5.0 Humans as part of Ocean Systems

• 5.1 Fisheries Policies for Sustainable Development.
• 5.2 The ecosystem approach
• 5.3 Fishing Down the Food Web
• 5.4 The precautionary principle
• 5.5 Ocean Food- what's in your diet?
• 5.6 Aquaculture for a sustainable food supply
• 5.7 Need for Protected Areas
• 5.8 The Ecological Footprint
• 5.9 Marine Industry and Resources of the Area.
• 5.10 Historical
• 5.11 First Nations role

6.0 A Choice of FUTURES

• 6.1 Futures : how our actions impinge upon the possibility of maintaining marine ecological sustainability.
• 6.2 The obligations we have to act now
• 6.3 Thresholds in Systems
• 6.4 Global change means Ocean Change.
• 6.5 The tools to act.
• 6.6 Profiles of individuals and their contributions to achieving the Goals of the Earth Charter:

7.0 Educational Curricular Links

• 7.1 B.C.Curricula
• 7.2 Pan-Canadian Objectives
• 7.3 UNESCO curricular materials

8.0 Types of Demos and Displays Needed

• 8.1 Development of a Google Maps site for public contribution:
  • 8.1.1The Southern Vancouver Island Marine Ecosystem Map
  • 8.1.2 See the example of the Race Rocks Topography map: http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?f=q&ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=116976515220086504185.00043fbaab8763a63fe54&t=h&z=18&om=1

9.0 Take-aways:

• 9.1 Information, web resources: e.g. Coastal Ocean Resources Maps and Videos
• 9.2 Action The Implications for Individual Responsibility.

This file was created in 2008 as a marine education resource supported by the Shaw Ocean Discovery Centre in Sidney

Website courtesy of racerocks.com & Lester B. Pearson College. Copyright: 2008 Garry Fletcher Marine Education Consulting,