# Conference Participation * Co-convener: Solving the Sustainability Challenges at the Food, Climate Change, & Biodiversity Nexus (Solving-FCB) Bi-annual Meeting & Workshop, Universidad de Costa Rica San Pedro, Costa Rica February 10 - 14, 2025. * Co-convener: Solving the Sustainability Challenges at the Food, Climate Change, & Biodiversity Nexus (Solving-FCB) Bi-annual Meeting & Workshop, Vancouver, BC, Feb 27-March 1, 2023. * Convener: OceanCanada Partnership Conference; Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS; August 27 - 30, 2018 * Convener: OceanCanada Partnership Conference, Vancouver, British Columbia, May 24 - 27 2016 * Co-convener: Global Biodiversity Outlook 4 workshop at the University of British Columbia, May 10–14, 2014. * Convener: OceanCanada Partnership proposal workshop at the University of British Columbia, August 28-30, 2013. * Co-convener: ClimECO3 Summer Field School hosted by IMBER. Middle East University, Ankara, Turkey, 23-28 July 2012. * Chair: Session at the IIFET 2012 Conference entitled “Climate Change Impacts on the Economics of World Fisheries,” 17 July 2012. * Organizer and Moderator: Conference in Honour of Dr. Colin Clark – Developments and Challenges in Fisheries Economics, May 15-16, 2012. * Convener: Session at the AAAS Annual Meeting entitled “Whole-Ocean Economics: Global Fisheries Analysis Reveals Potential for Policy Action,” Vancouver, 20 February 2012. Presented talk entitled “Ecological and Financial Deficits: a Double Whammy for Future Generations.” * Moderator: Session at the AAAS Annual Meeting entitled “Sustaining People and Oceans: Governance in Marine Social-Ecological Systems,” Vancouver, 19 February 2012. * Scientific Committee member: International Symposium on the Ocean, Green Shipping and Sustainable Energy, Institut Océanographique de Paris, France, 28-29 April 2011. * Organizer: Session at the AAAS Annual Meeting entitled “Climate Change: Altering the Physics, Ecology, and Socioeconomics of Fisheries,” Washington Convention Center, 18 February 2011. * Co-convener: Symposium at the USSEE conference entitled “Pathways and Policies Toward Sustainable Fisheries and Marine Ecosystems”, American University, Washington, D.C., 31 May – 3 June 2009. * Organizer: Session at the 2009 North American Association of Fisheries Economists Forum entitled “Global Ocean economics Project”, May 17-20, 2009. * Co-convener: Session 4: Ecosystem services and values: ecological, economic, social and cultural, Rome, July 8-11, 2008. * Co-organizer: Session: Learning from cod to save tuna; 2008 AAAS Meeting, Boston, Feb. 15-19. * Organizer: 2005 North American Association of Fisheries Economists (NAAFE) 3rd Bienniel Forum, Vancouver, Canada. * Co-organizer: Fisheries economics conference in honour of professor Gordon Munro, UBC Campus, Vancouver, Canada, August, 2004. * Session Leader: Economic Valuation Session at the forthcoming World Fisheries Congress to take place in Vancouver in May 2004 ([Archive.org link](https://web.archive.org/web/20040903025613/http://www.worldfisheries2004.org/)). * Organizer: Economics of Marine Protected Areas Conference, University of British Columbia, July 6-7, 2000, Vancouver, Canada. * Convener: “Markets, Global Fisheries and Local Development” Workshop, Chr. Michelsen Institute, 22-23 March 1999, Bergen, Norway. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://cv.rashidsumaila.com/presentations/conference-participation.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.