WCRP-IOC Regional Sea Level Changes and Coastal Impacts: conference statement

The present state of sea-level science provides unambiguous evidence that sea level is rising and that the increase will continue to accelerate with unmitigated emissions. This requires that scientists closely collaborate with the stakeholder community to develop plans for responding to sea-level change affecting their coasts and to implement adequate adaptation measures. Without urgent and significant mitigating action to combat climate change, continued greenhouse gas emissions will almost certainly commit the world to several meters of sea-level rise in the next few centuries.

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Call for abstracts: 4th World Conference on Marine Biodiversity Special Session 5

The Biology and Ecosystems Panel of GOOS and the Marine Biodiversity Observation Network (MBON) are inviting abstract submissions to the 4th World Conference on Marine Biodiversity special Session 5 on: “Sustained observations of life as an integral component of coastal and ocean observing systems” (Montréal, Canada, 13-16 May 2018).

Chairs of the session: Patricia Miloslavich (University of Tasmania, Australia) and Eduardo Klein (Universidad Simón Bolívar, Venezuela). 

The goal of this session is to show temporal trends in marine biodiversity, distribution and abundance based on long term observations and datasets. Abstract submissions are welcome on case examples that illustrate how sustained ocean biodiversity observations help understand if, and how, ocean life is responding to global changes as well as on case examples of successful implementation of management practices based on long term data. 

Submission deadline of abstracts: 1 December 2017.

Launch of the Atlantic Ocean BluePrint Website

The BluePrint website for Ocean Observing in the Atlantic has just been launched: http://atlanticblueprint.net/

The BluePrint will lay out the principles and plans for sustained ocean observations in the North and South Atlantic. It will benefit from active engagement from all interested parties and partners.