Capacity Building

In keeping with UNU-INWEH’s mandate as a UN agency, we consider our role to include outreach and capacity-building, within Nakheel, more generally in Dubai, and in the wider region. To this end, we are undertaking a number of activities that will raise capacity for sustainable marine environmental management. These include the engagement of graduate and undergraduate students from the region on the project, development of collaborations with management agency or academic scientists in the region, and the mentoring of staff within Nakheel and EHS-Trakhees. They also include training workshops on relevant topics, both in-house to Nakheel Environment Department personnel, and regionally to environmental managers from around the Gulf. We have continued our seminar series within Nakheel, with seminars on a diversity of topics specific to the project, offered by various members of the team, on an approximately six-week schedule through the year.

Training Workshop on Marine Environmental Monitoring Methods

Zayed University, Dubai, UAE, 15-17 February 2009

Marine Ecology Monitoring and Methods Workshop

Nakheel Environment Department, Dubai, UAE, 28-30 August 2007

Posters presented at various conferences

Fish communities on the world's warmest reefs: What can they tell us about impacts of a climate change future? Presented by John Burt at the Fisheries Society of the British Isles Conference, Belfast, Ireland, 26-30 July 2010.

Reef fish community structure throughout the eastern Arabian Peninsula. Presented by David Feary at the 6th WIOMSA Symposium, Réunion Island, 24-29 August 2009.

Differences in fish communities on artificial reefs of different ages in the UAE. Presented by Andrew Bauman at the 11th International Coral Reef Symposium, Fort Lauderdale, USA, 6-12 July 2008.

Managing off-shore reclamation to ensure sustainable coastal ecosystems: Focus on Dubai. Presented by Hanneke van Lavieren at the 11th International Coral Reef Symposium, Fort Lauderdale, USA, 6-12 July 2008.

Effects of coastal development on coral reef fish communities in Dubai, UAE. Presented by Paolo Usseglio at the 11th International Coral Reef Symposium, Fort Lauderdale, USA, 6-12 July 2008.