About the Capacity Development Facility (CDF) and Matchmaking Platform
The CDF was established to address capacity development needs across and beyond the Decade ecosystem. One of our key upcoming initiatives is the Matchmaking Platform, developed in close collaboration with IOC OTGA and the Capacity Development Hub, and scheduled to launch in September 2025. The…
Several groups, including Environmental Defense Fund, Ocean Conservancy, and the Marine Conservation Initiative are working to advance an IUCN motion (see 1-pager ) and it’s currently in the comments phase.
A comment has been raised that one of the main calls in the motion—a…
Last year, a working group within the JETZON community on microplastics was created.
To bring together a broad community of academics interested in studying microplastics in the Twilight Zone, we have created a survey.
Prof Elva Escobar has been involved in creating an excellent Ocean Literacy web page, with materials for high school teachers and others for students both highschool and undergraduate.
This is the link:
https://www.icmyl.unam.mx/CulturaOceanica/index.html
The webpage is in Spanish and hosted by the National…
With many thanks to Katy Baker, who has been doing a great job of running our monthly calls in the Pacific timezone for some time but wishes to step down, we are looking for someone to take on this task.
It involves finding a couple of speakers for a call every two months (it alternates with the Atlantic timezone call) and running the call: introducing the speakers,…
Accurate assessment of the carbon export flux is crucial for estimating the magnitude of the biological pump, a critical component of the global carbon cycle. However, this flux is challenging to measure and therefore complementary approaches are usually combined to estimate it. The use of radioactive pair disequilibrium, particularly Th-234 / U-238, is one of the most popular methods.…
Angelee Annasawmy has created a great new board game, based on results of her research.
The game is called "Micronekton & Eddies" and can be played by 6 players at a time. The objective is for each player to perform diel vertical migrations while avoiding predators and being carried away by eddies.
This game has served as an…
Congratulations to Tom Longbahn (UIB) for winning a Starting Grant from the Trond Mohn Research Foundation for a 4-year project titled "DRIFT - Systematically Rethinking Advection and Cross-Ecosystem Subsidies".
This project aims to understand…
We will be highlighting a few areas every 6 months as ones particularly deserving of attention, in the hope of stimulating new activities within our community. For all of them we encourage you to think across the full range of possible activities: research ideas, technology, cruises in geographical gaps, new proposals, policy work, education materials…anything. Get creative!
…Join us at sea and onshore! Ocean Exploration Trust seeks out new discoveries in geology, biology, and archaeology while exploring little-known regions of the world’s oceans, and shares expeditions with explorers around the world via live telepresence. The international Nautilus Corps of Exploration consists of engineers, scientists,…
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