Oceanic top predators (sharks, tunas and billfishes, marine mammals, turtles and seabirds) have ecological, social and economic value globally. These wide-ranging species are the focus of international research undertaken by IMBeR’s Climate Impacts on Oceanic Top Predators (CLIOTOP) regional programme. 

IMBeR is very pleased to be partnered with the Global Ocean Oxygen Network (GO2NE) - Enhancing global ocean oxygen science from local seas to the global ocean to preserve ocean health and human well-being and encourage those of you who are able to, to attend this side event.

IMBIZOs are IMBeR´s flagship conferences and IMBIZO5 is the fifth in the series. They are limited to about 120 participants, which we have found is a good size for stimulating discussions. Participants are selected on the relevance of their abstracts, so you must submit one to be considered.

The overall theme is Marine biosphere research for a sustainable ocean: Linking ecosystems, future states and resource management.

The meeting comprises plenary talks, poster sessions, debates and other events, but the major part is dedicated to three concurrent but interacting workshops.

You need to choose to attend one of the following:

• Critical constraints on future projections of marine systems (co-Chairs: Laurent Bopp and Eric Galbraith)
• Metabolic diversity and evolution in marine biogeochemical cycling and ocean ecosystem processes (co-Chairs: Gerhard Herndl and Tatiana Rynearson)
• Management Strategy Evaluation: Achieving transparency in natural resource management by quantitatively bridging social and natural science uncertainties (co-Chairs: Ingrid van Putten and Cisco Werner)

Don´t miss out! Submit an abstract for your workshop of choice!

There is limited travel support, but requests for funding will only be considered once you have been notified that your abstract has been accepted and you can attend IMBIZO5

Marine Plankton: A practical guide to ecology, methodology and taxonomy - Claudia Castellani and Martin Edwards (Eds.)

Ratana Chuenpagdee, leader of the Too Big To Ignore (TBTI) project and member of IMBeR’s Scientific Steering Committee and Human Dimensions Working Group, gave a plenary talk at the ICES/PICES Symposium on the Drivers of Dynamics of Small Pelagic Fish Resources (March 2017, Victoria, BC). The title of her presentation was Small fish, big stake: Vulnerability and adaptation of small-scale small pelagic fisheries to global changes.

The delegation, led by Dr. Richard Bellerby, were in Norway to visit several institutions