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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…

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.

The “Expanding Earth Observation Data Applications to Empower Marine Biosphere Responses to Climate Change (EO-WPI) program was jointly funded by the European Space Agency and Future Earth to the State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research, East China Normal University in 2023. This program stems from the ongoing IMBeR study group activities of the Ocean Colour-based Plant species…

On 10 May 2023, the IMBeR International Project Office (IPO-China) held its second IMBeR Coffee Reception at the SKLEC building, ECNU, featuring two captivating presentations. Jing WEN, a postgraduate student from the School of Urban and Regional Science and an intern at IMBeR IPO-China, presented “The River Network of Shanghai”, offering a historical account of Shanghai’s…

The Ruth Patrick award was presented to Dr. Dongyan Liu at the 2023 Aquatic Sciences Meeting in Palma de Mallorca, Spain in June 2023. Dongyan Liu (2023), for discovering that the Yellow Sea green tide phenomenon initiated with intensive coastal aquaculture, for her research on the biophysical mechanisms and physiological attributes of the algae that explain the extraordinary growth and…