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Linwood Pendleton presenting webinar on Marine Ecosystem Services Database

Fellow(s): Linwood Pendleton

The Marine Ecosystem Services Partnership (MESP) is a spatial portal and community of practice to help policy makers find data on marine ecosystem services and researchers who conduct these studies.  The MESP launched its website www.marineecosystemservices.org in May 2011.  The website offers a dynamic mapping tool that spatially represents the MESP database of over 2,000 values of economic valuation data.  The mapping tool allows users to burrow down through different types of data through spatial and thematic searches.  The MESP database is not intended to replace other valuation databases.  Rather, the Partnership strives to be a community of practice through which data users and managers can work collectively to better integrate ecosystem services data with marine policy needs.  The effort is directed by Duke University’s Nicholas Institute for Environmental Policy Solutions, in collaboration with The Ocean Foundation and Duke’s Marine Geospatial Ecology Laboratory. Learn more at www.marineecosystemservices.org. Register for this webinar at https://www1.gotomeeting.com/register/439569360.

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Linwood Pendleton

Linwood Pendleton

1994 Fellow
I am the ED of the Ocean Knowledge Action Network and the Science Director for the Moonjelly Foundation. I facilitate a close community of people from around the world who want to share knowledge about co-designing ocean science for a healthier and more diverse ocean. At Moonjelly, I work with our Indigenous and local partners to create new ways of applying bottom-up, trust-based philanthropy to fund traditional and local knowledge collection as well as Indigenous researchers and scientists.