The Global Ocean Oxygen Network (GO2NE) is a IOC working group created in 2016 to help Member States address growing concerns about declining oxygen levels in the global ocean. Currently, the members of the core working group represent 21 institutions in 11 countries. In January 2018, this Network published a paper in Science that showed the amount of water in the open ocean with zero oxygen has gone up more than fourfold in the past 50 years. In coastal water bodies, including estuaries and seas, low-oxygen sites have increased more than 10-fold since 1950.

Featuring some of the world’s top experts in ocean deoxygenation, a new webinar series shares the latest scientific knowledge and explores the impacts of extremely reduced levels of oxygen in increasingly larger parts of the ocean, from the coast to the high seas.

Corporate author: Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission
Person as author: Breitburg, Denise, Grégoire, Marilaure, Isensee, Kirsten 
Language: English
Year of publication: 2018
Type of document: Programme and Meeting Document