Who is IPOST?

Visit the IPOST website at www.ipost.org

THE IPOST STRATEGY STATEMENT

IPOST fosters improved collective understanding of coastal marine ecosystems to stimulate sustainable wealth creation in Canada's western coastal marine and ocean areas.

With the shift in British Columbia's coastal regions from resource exploitation to sustainable resource utilization and management, the knowledge-based economy has become integral to the resource economy. Science and technology provide an information base that can be combined with local knowledge for sound resource and environmental management. People and organizations can work together towards common goals, using that knowledge base to create sustainable development. This means that all communities must deal directly with science, and communicate, share ideas and knowledge, and cooperate in development activities. The Institute for Pacific Ocean Science and Technology (IPOST) helps them do so.

IPOST is a broadly-based not-for-profit organization established by the private sector, academia and governments to help bring them together in joint efforts involving the application of science and technology to coastal and ocean marine management.

IPOST's independent status gives it a unique capability to work jointly with the different sectors, helping them to form innovative alliances and partnerships capable of dealing with complex problems and issues.

IPOST's objectives (what we wish to achieve) are:

1. Increased S&T; capacity in BC's coastal and marine communities to help them participate fully in coastal and ocean marine management and the benefits of sustainable wealth creation.
2. Resolution of key marine science-based problems and issues which are constraining the development process.
3. Increase in our knowledge of the ocean and coastal regions, and dissemination of this knowledge to the community at large, thus building awareness of ocean related issues and their resolution.

For a full IPOST Executive Briefing download the attached .pdf file