Who Should Attend:
Dive shop operators, hotel and resort managers, conservation groups, coastal zone managers, fishing communities,marine scientists, mariculturists, tourism agencies, seascape and landscape architects, engineers, artists, government fisheries, environmental, and tourism policy makers, and others who seek the training necessary to design,construct and operate their own Biorock structures for reef restoration, erosion control, tourism, mariculture, remediation or marine science.
Since hands-on, in the water instruction is part of the workshop program, we recommend that participants interested in that portion be experienced, certified divers.
We anticipate attendance from Indonesia, many Asian countries and from around the world, making this workshop a unique experience for participants to learn from one another about coral reef problems and solutions.
What You Will Learn
The workshop will be comprised of lectures, slides and videos on the theory and practice of current and past mineral accretion projects and Biorock coral nurseries in Indonesia, Thailand, Papua New Guinea, Maldives, Mexico, Panama, US Virgin Islands, Jamaica, Palau, Seychelles, Saya de Malha, India, Cuba the United States and many other locations.
Participants will receive practical training in design, construction and maintenance of coral nurseries. They will work with local welders, dive shops, fishermen and Pemuteran villagers to construct, deploy and install new coral and fish nurseries. After the workshop there will be an opportunity for participants to apply their knowledge and skills in starting new projects in other parts of Bali, other islands of Indonesia including Lombok and Flores (near the Komodo National Park), or to start projects in their own home sites.