Sustainable Fisheries & Coastal Zoning in Montserrat: Legal & Institutional Assessment of Authorities & Approaches

In February 2015, the Government of Montserrat and the Waitt Institute signed a memorandum of understanding to launch Blue Halo Montserrat, a comprehensive ocean and coastal management project with a goal of sustainable management of Montserrat's ocean and coastal waters. BHM seeks to develop a Montserrat Sustainable Ocean Policy that will ensure long-term health of Montserrat's waters through ocean zoning, protected areas, and fisheries reforms. This Report is an evaluation of Montserrat's laws and institutions to support the design and implementation of a comprehensive ocean zoning and management system in the country as part of the Blue Halo Initiative. The Report identifies existing authorities to achieve a comprehensive ocean zoning system in the waters surrounding Montserrat, evaluates potential options for ocean planning and management implementation, and provides recommendations for ways to develop a comprehensive ocean management system for Montserrat. The Report recognizes that comprehensive ocean management should build from the existing legal system, take pragmatic steps given anticipated capacity and funding, and provide effective incentives and requirements to ensure compliance and long-term sustainability of ocean resources

Effects of Climate Change on Aquatic Invasive Species and Implications for Management and Research (PowerPoint presentation)

Contents: Five Key Lessons from Report Climate Change Effects on Aquatic Ecosystems Climate Change Effects on Aquatic Invasive Species may… Other stressors may… Why focus on AIS? This Report Includes Report Process Climate Change & Invasion Pathway Climate Change & Interacting Stressors AIS Management Activities State Managers’ Reported Concerns Capacity to Adapt to Climate Change Accounting for Changing Conditions Information & Research Needs Research Recommendations Possible Next Steps On-going Activitie

Effects of Climate Change on Aquatic Invasive Species and Implications for Management and Research (PowerPoint presentation)

Contents: Five Key Lessons from Report Climate Change Effects on Aquatic Ecosystems Climate Change Effects on Aquatic Invasive Species may… Other stressors may… Why focus on AIS? This Report Includes Report Process Climate Change & Invasion Pathway Climate Change & Interacting Stressors AIS Management Activities State Managers’ Reported Concerns Capacity to Adapt to Climate Change Accounting for Changing Conditions Information & Research Needs Research Recommendations Possible Next Steps On-going Activitie

Evolution specification evaluation in industrial MDSE ecosystems

Domain-specific languages (DSLs) allow users to model systems using concepts from a specific domain. Evolution of DSLs triggers co-evolution of models developed in these languages. When the number of models that needs to co-evolve increases, so does the required effort to do so. This is called the co-evolution problem. We have investigated the extent of the co-evolution problem at ASML [1], provider of lithography equipment for the semiconductor industry. Here we have described the structure and evolution of a large-scale ecosystem of DSLs. We have observed that due to the large number of artifacts that require coevolutionary activity, manual solutions have become unfeasible, and an automated approach is required. A popular approach for automating co-evolution is the operator-based approach. In this paper we have evaluated the operator-based approach on a large-scale industrial case-study of twenty-two DSLs and 95 model-to-model transformations with a revision history of over three years, and have revealed deficiencies in existing operator libraries. To address these deficiencies we have presented a topdown methodology to derive a complete set of operators