“Awaken New Depths” “Catalyzing Action for Our Ocean & Climate” On World Oceans Day 2024, the State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research at East China Normal University, as the leading organization of the “Mega-Delta Programme” endorsed by the UN Ocean Decade, in collaboration with Shanghai Haichang Ocean Park and other organizations, organized the…
We are delighted to welcome Prof. Dongyan Liu from the State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research (SKLEC), East China Normal University, as the new Chair of the IMBeR Scientific Steering Committee (SSC), effective immediately, following approval by the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research and Future Earth. Dongyan is a distinguished scientist with an…
From May 27 to 29, 2024, Dr. Peng Lian and Yurong Mu of the CLimate Impacts on TOp Predators (CLIOTOP) Regional Programme Task Team, attended the Third AI Oceanography Forum held at the Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, in Qingdao, China. The forum was co-organized by the AI Oceanography Committee of the Chinese…
ESA-Future Earth Joint Program funding provides mentoring for the next generation of marine monitoring scientists The basic building blocks of the marine biosphere are phytoplankton, which are tiny floating plants that get their energy from photosynthesis. There are more than 100,000 different species of phytoplankton that thrive in different ocean regions. In the northwest Pacific…
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…
