A second meeting of the EMB working group on Valuing Marine Ecosystems (WG VALMARE) was held at the Marine Institute in Dublin on 01 October. The working group, chaired by Melanie Austen of the Plymouth Marine Laboratory (PML), is working to deliver a strategic position paper outlining what tools should be developed for the valuation of marine ecosystem services and their benefits and how these tools can be used to facilitate decision making processes towards sustainable management of the seas and oceans. Find more information on WG VALMARE here.
Featured on the picture, from left to right: Stephen Hynes, Melanie Austen, Harold Levrel, Claire Armstrong, Ralf Doring, Soile Kulmala, Peder Andersen, Adriana Resurreicao and Niall McDonough.