Our Coastal Water Quality
Friday, 28 March in Galway
9:30 am Galway Salthill Seagrass Field Trip Meet at Salthill BlackRock Pier to celebrate Galway Bay urban waters and biodiversity. Field trip led by coastal and marine scientist to Kevin’s seagrass bed nested in a mosaic of reef, sand and boulder fields. Who is who in these waters and habitats. Citizen and official monitoring and protection.
11 am Registration in the Hardiman Hotel, Eyre Square Galway with coffee
11:20 am Official Welcome in the Connemara suite, The Hardiman.
11:25 am Introduction and international more4nature EU horizon project context
Karin Dubsky, Coastwatch, More4Nature
11:30 am Session 1 | What Coastwatchers have come across in the coastal zone and access to env. information and public participation: Facilitator : Karin Dubsky
12:30 am Session 2 | Authorities set out WaterPollution Prevention & Halt: Alert Information and Action Panel
Facilitator:
1:30 pm Lunch Break
2:15 pm Session 3 | Citizens and Authority Collaboration
Plenary preparation and break out session
Facilitators:
Introduction : Brief overview of our current alert systems and vision for change
2:25 pm Break out into theme tables to draft rapid alert system
Finfish aquaculture | Table 1 | new government aquaculture license plans provides an opportunity for public participation - finfish focus |
Shellfish and other aquaculture | Table 2 | New government aquaculture license plans and MSP opportunity for public participation shellfish and other |
Erosion and flood control | Table 3 | Climate change, more erosion and flooding. Citizen alerts to to dangers.risks and inappropriate/unauthorised control |
Oil pollution risk from boats and incidents | Table 4 | How can oil pollution risk control and reaction to a citizen alert be made most effective |
water abstraction and nutrient management | Table 5 | Coastwatch citizen science is picking up high nutrient horticulture and water abstraction issues in horticulture. Explores citizen monitoring and alerts |
Catchment alert and management around features e.g. seagrass | Table 6 | The model has been discussed and developed in the first 2 workshops. see workshop 1 report annex 1. |
Wild Card Table | Table 7 | If needed or if another table gets too big |
3:10 pm Results Feedback by theme and table
3:30 pm Official Close
Any Query? Contact Karin Dubsky kdubsky@coastwatch.org or 086 8111684
With support of Galway City Council