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Agenda & Speakers
 John Bones has more than 30 years experience in land and coastal management, planning and environmental assessment with the public and private sectors in British Columbia and Alberta. He has directed BC government programs on coastal planning and policy, environmental emergencies, and land administration, and coordinated strategic planning programs in BC’s North and Vancouver Island coast. He negotiated the MOU between Canada and BC on Ocean Strategy Implementation, designed BC’s coastal planning program, and has been intimately involved in strategic plans prepared for Vancouver Island, the Central Coast and recently the Haida Gwaii Land Use Agreement. John was an Assistant Deputy Minister, Integrated Land Management Bureau from 2006 to 2008 before leaving government to start his own consulting service. He has extensive experience in meeting facilitation, report writing, and reaching agreement on complex land and resource issues.
 Robin Brown is the Manager of the Ocean Science Division of the DFO Science Branch and is located at the Institute of Ocean Sciences in Sidney B.C. He has worked in ocean science in various specializations for 32 years. These have included biological, chemical and physical oceanography, remote sensing and data management. He has worked in the North Pacific, the Arctic and the North Atlantic. He has been the Manager of the Ocean Science Division since 1999 and is responsible for a team of 70 scientists and technicians working in coastal waters, the North Pacific and the Arctic.
 Neil Davis is currently the Project Coordinator for the BC Marine Conservation Analysis. He works with a collaborative, multi-sectoral Project Team to assemble spatial information about Canada’s Pacific Ocean and engage marine user groups. Over the past 10 years, Neil has worked in research, planning, and university education related to ecology, conservation, and sustainable resource management. He also holds a master’s degree in marine resources governance.
 Russ Jones, M.Sc. P.Eng is Technical Director of the Haida Fisheries Program in Haida Gwaii. Russ lives in Skidegate and manages the Haida marine planning initiative including a Haida marine traditional knowledge study. He earned a Master of Science in Fisheries at the University of Washington in 1988.
 Stephanie Moura is Director of the Massachusetts Ocean Partnership (“the Partnership” or “MOP”), an independent, broadly representative public-private partnership supporting development and implementation of integrated ocean management for Massachusetts’ coastal oceans. MOP’s work includes serving as stakeholder forum for collaborative problem solving on difficult ocean management issues and facilitating synthesis and development of processes, data and tools to improve the integration of natural and social science with management. For nearly 20 years, Stephanie has worked on marine and coastal resource policy/management issues and has developed complementary experience in managing multi-stakeholder processes. From 1998 to 2006, she managed large combined sewer overflow (CSO) projects, and the associated public involvement programs, for the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority in accordance with responsibilities under the Clean Water Act to minimize sewage discharges to the Boston Harbor watershed. Prior to that, she spent six years as a project manager and mediator/facilitator with a Boston-based dispute resolution firm. Notable multi-stakeholder projects included managing and facilitating a statewide roundtable on beneficial reuse of biosolids (New York) and facilitating a multi-day workshop to explore ecosystem-based management in the Bering Sea. Stephanie also worked on sustainable fisheries management and habitat issues for a national environmental organization. She earned her B.A. in Marine Biology/Environmental Policy in 1984 from University of California, Santa Cruz and her M.A. in Urban and Environmental Policy in 1990 from Tufts University.
 Born in the Netherlands and raised in Edmonton, Des Nobels has lived on B.C.'s north coast for the last 37 years. He draws upon more than 25 years of experience as a commercial fisherman in northern waters, where he fished as a deckhand in a number of fisheries and was Skipper of the gillnet vessel, Vonni Dee. For many years, he sat on the North Coast Advisory Board, providing advice to Fisheries and Oceans Canada on salmon gillnet fisheries, and has provided input to many other committees regarding fishing issues. He is currently the Director for Area "A" with the Skeena Queen Charlotte Regional District, the Northern Coordinator for the T. Buck Suzuki Environmental Foundation, and is the Chair of Friends of Wild Salmon, a coalition of North Coast - Skeena residents who are concerned with the welfare of northern salmon stocks.
 Elliott Norse has worked at the conservation science-policy interface for his entire career. After earning his B.S. in Biology from Brooklyn College, he studied the ecology of blue crabs in the Caribbean for his Ph.D. at University of Southern California and his Postdoctoral Fellowship at University of Iowa. Starting in 1978 he worked at the US Environmental Protection Agency, President’s Council on Environmental Quality (where he defined biological diversity as conservation’s overarching goal), Ecological Society of America, Wilderness Society and Ocean Conservancy before founding MCBI in 1996. Elliott’s 140+ publications include 4 books: Conserving Biological Diversity in Our National Forests (1986), Ancient Forests of the Pacific Northwest (1990), Global Marine Biological Diversity: A Strategy for Building Conservation into Decision Making (1993) and Marine Conservation Biology: The Science of Maintaining the Sea’s Biodiversity (2005). He is a Pew Fellow in Marine Conservation and Adjunct Professor of Marine Conservation Science and Policy at Duke University Marine Laboratory, served as President of the Society for Conservation Biology’s Marine Section, and received the Nancy Foster Award for Habitat Conservation from the National Marine Fisheries Service. In 2008, Brooklyn College named him its 2008 Distinguished Alumnus.
Gordon Sloan is a mediator and teacher of conflict resolution and dispute resolution. For over 20 years, he has been a national leader in a range of facilitative third party interventions. He has facilitated discussions from interdepartmental federal dispute resolution forums and provincial government consultations to municipal planning exercises. He has mediated and facilitated thousands of disputes. He teaches in government, private and academic settings and designs conflict management systems. Gordon's degrees are in Religion and Law. He is a founding partner in ADR Education, a national conflict resolution firm which can be found at www.adreducation.ca
 Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, Paul Sprout holds a Technical diploma from the BC Institute of Technology and degrees in Biology and Business Administration from Simon Fraser University. He entered the federal Public Service in 1977 as a Biologist with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans. Since beginning with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Mr. Sprout has held a variety of positions such as Area Director, North and South Coast of British Columbia, Regional Director of Operations, Associate Assistant Deputy Minister, Fisheries Management and most recently Regional Director General, Pacific Region, all of which have contributed to his extensive experience in dealing with Canadian domestic fishing issues. Paul Sprout has been instrumental in the implementation of the 1999 Canada US Salmon Agreement as well as fisheries management policies on the Pacific and Atlantic coasts. Mr. Sprout has represented Canada as Co-chair of the Canada US Pacific Salmon Commission and will continue to do so as Chair.
 Rick Steiner is a Professor and Conservation Specialist for the University of Alaska Marine Advisory Program, based in Anchorage. He has been a faculty member at the university since 1980, stationed first in northwest Alaska and then Prince William Sound. Today, he has primary responsibility for providing conservation and sustainability extension outreach from the university. His specialty is ecological conservation, and he has worked internationally on conservation and sustainable development issues - including in Russia, central Asia, south Asia, Japan, Korea, Europe, South America, Central America, Africa, the Middle East, and Indonesia. As the University of Alaska's marine advisor for the Prince William Sound region of Alaska from 1983-1997, he was involved in oil/environment issues and provided leadership in response to the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill in 1989. He led emergency response, proposed establishment of the Regional Citizens Advisory Councils and helped to craft the Oil Pollution Act of 1990. He first proposed that the governments and Exxon settle their damage claims, leading to the historic $1 billion settlement used largely to protect coastal habitat.
 Art Sterritt is currently the Executive Director of the Coastal First Nations (CFN) in Vancouver, British Columbia. As Executive Director he provides leadership and vision to ensure the CFN achieves its goal of an ecologically and economically sustainable coast. The CFN is an alliance of First Nations on British Columbia's North and Central Coast and Haida Gwaii working together to develop and implement regional conservation-based economic strategies in forestry, fisheries and tourism. Art, a member of the Gitga'at First Nation, has more than 30 years of experience in the areas of Aboriginal Rights and Title, as well as self-government and community economic development. Art also is a well-known carver (wood, stone and jewelry) in B.C. and Canada. His work can be found in museums and private collections throughout North America. Art Sterritt, the executive director of the Coastal First Nations, provides leadership in the implementation of the Coastal First Nations vision for a sustainable coastal economy.
 Michael Weber provides strategic advice and oversight for oceans, coasts and fisheries programs, including the California Coastal and Marine Initiative and the Sustainable Fisheries Fund. Most recently, Mr. Weber served as an advisor to the California Fish and Game Commission in implementation of Marine Life Management Act. Previously, he directed programs on marine protected areas, sea turtle conservation, and fisheries conservation at the Center for Marine Conservation in Washington, D.C., and worked as special assistant to the Director of the National Marine Fisheries Service in the United States Department of Commerce. Mr. Weber has written dozens of articles and reports on marine conservation and advised in the production of television specials and exhibits on marine conservation. Books written or co-authored by Mr. Weber include, among others, The Wealth of Oceans (2005), From Abundance to Scarcity: A History of U.S. Marine Fisheries Policy (2002), and Fish, Markets, and Fishermen: The Economics of Overfishing (1999). |
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