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This project was developed in consultation with the fishing communities of the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI). Important guidance came from a past commercial fisher who now works as an Enforcement Officer for the Department of Fisheries and Marine Resources Management. He stated that many of the fishers and fish workers do not really understand…

Since April 2020, the Ocean Frontier Institute and Meopar (Marine Environmental Observation, Prediction and Response Network) have hosted the IMBeR International Project Office based at Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Sadly, this four-year hosting commitment will be coming to an end on 31st March this year, and the IMBeR IPO in Canada will be…

Shenghui Li, co-chair of IMBeR’s Interdisciplinary Marine Early Career Network (IMECaN), has been selected as one of twenty young ocean leaders to lead the East Asian Seas Congress 2024 Youth Forum. This is organised by the Partnerships in Environmental Management for the Seas of East Asia (PEMSEA) in collaboration with Korea’s National Ocean Science Museum…

IMBeR – Integrated Marine Biosphere Research – along with its predecessor IMBER – Integrated Marine Biogeochemistry and Ecosystem Research – has a legacy of almost 20 years of driving research for ocean sustainability. IMBeR has now started a process to develop a new science plan to be launched after 2025 when the current Science Plan…

The Reef Environmental Education Foundation is the world’s largest marine citizen science organisation (www.reef.org). The REEF Volunteer Fish Survey Project marked its 30th anniversary this year, and almost 300,000 underwater surveys have been performed by volunteer citizen scientists. These surveys constitute the largest open-access marine life sightings database in the world which is used by…

Gabriella Akpah Yeboah Priyatma Singh Mia Strand IMECaN is pleased to introduce three new IMECaN Organising Committee members. You can read more about Gabriella, Priyatma and Mia here.

A collaboration of 200 scientists from 19 countries produced a report for policy makers, which is the first comprehensive assessment of trends in Southern Ocean ecosystems. The Marine Ecosystem Assessment for the Southern Ocean (MEASO) shows that climate change is the most significant driver of species and ecosystem change in the Southern Ocean and coastal…

We are delighted to welcome five new members who have joined IMBeR’s Scientific Steering Committee (SSC) . The SSC is responsible for the implementation of the IMBeR Science Plan (2016-2025). More information about the SSC is available here.

This new paper from an international team of IMBeR researchers is an outcome from a workshop at IMBIZO6 on “lighting the grey zone” that explored how human dimensions can be included in decadal-scale prediction systems. The paper reviews information needs for decision-making at decadal scales and explores the challenges of integrating human elements into decadal…