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…
IMBeR supports the 2nd International Mega-Delta Meeting. Professor Richard Bellerby, Co-Chair of the IMBeR-FEC Continental Margins Working Group, gave a plenary talk titled “Opportunities from Mega-Delta Research through Cross-Fertilisation with UN Decade Programmes”. More information about the event is available on here. By: ECNU November 6th saw the grand opening of the 2nd International Mega–Delta Meeting hosted…
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.
The IMBeR Eutrophication Study Group convened its eighth meeting and conducted its inaugural training session with a resounding success. This event took place from 22-23 September 2023, combining an in-person gathering in Weihai, Shandong province, China, with participants online. The occasion was one of the four sub-sessions of the Conference for the Northeast Asia Region…
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…
Nominated by the IMBeR International Project Office – China, Dr. Maryam Ghaemi, director of the Persian Gulf Oceanography Center, was awarded the honor of SCOR Visiting Scholar in 2023 and was invited to the State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research in East China Normal University for academic exchanges. On Oct. 10, Maryam gave…