Hide Sakaguchi ⁦笹川平和財団 Sasakawa Peace Foundation⁩: The ⁦UN Ocean Decade⁩ provides the science diplomacy mechanism for cooperation in sensitive regional context, example Hurricane warning in the Chinese sea

De Laura Fleming, former #DelcroixAward for #oceanhumanhealth in Belgium Flanders Marine Institute - VLIZ advocating for sustainability in healthcare, and launching the BluePaper on OHH UN Ocean Decade

Supported by POGO member Flanders Marine Institute - VLIZ

Kestutis Sadauskas: ⁦Mission Ocean Waters⁩ collaborates and contributes to the ⁦UN Ocean Decade⁩, by making the #DigitalTwinOcean #EDITO happen ⁦Flanders Marine Institute - VLIZ⁩ ⁦EMODnet⁩ ⁦Mercator Ocean International⁩

EDITO European digital twin ocean collaborative effort will be instrumental in delivering the ocean prediction capacity UN Ocean Decade Mission Ocean Waters
Flanders Marine Institute - VLIZ EMODnet EU Maritime & Fish Copernicus EU

(1/10) Welcome to the deep sea, home of Falkor’s Carnivorous Sponge, a creature that uses hook shaped spicules to hold their prey.

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#toptenmarinespecies #taxonomistappreciationday #OceanDecade #GenOcean #marinespecies #deepsea

#MissionOcean Mission Ocean Waters me John Bell inspiring 450 young marine researchers and future generation implementing ocean solutions. Join the mission ocean and sign the charter!

Tomorrow: Flanders Marine Institute - VLIZ Marine Science Day 2024 in De Grote Post #Oostende vliz.be/vmsd/en. Full house with >450 registered participants. Book of Abstracts here: vliz.be/vmsd/sites/vli… #VMSD24

⁦Nagoya Protocol CBD⁩ & EU ABS regulation: ⁦VLIR⁩ ⁦OceanTeacher Global Academy⁩ ⁦Flanders Marine Institute - VLIZ⁩ Friday 28th Febr Masterclass on practical consequences for seagoing research, oceandata, marine biological collections. Contact us if you want to join this community of practice

VLIZ is at the first Sustainable Blue Economy Partnership Sustainable Blue Economy Partnership Symposium in Brussel today and tomorrow, presenting the DTO-Track project, funded under the first call, highlighting the effort of the ETN European Tracking Network database. #BlueEconomyEU

The Sustainable Blue Economy Partnership’s second joint transnational call is launched! 🚀🌊

This co-funded call aims to support transnational R&I projects over 36 months, addressing one of four priority areas.

More info: shorturl.at/bsJV2

#BlueEconomyEU

DARWIN200 in Punta Arenas | A Journey of Discovery: and what a journey! 25 years exploring Peale’s dolphin ecology in footsteps of Charles Darwin, now incorporating innovative observation technology with #UMAG ⁦Flanders Marine Institute - VLIZ⁩ ⁦⁦Marine@UGent⁩ darwin200.com/blog/darwin200…

Happening now at ⁦Flanders Marine Institute - VLIZ⁩ in #Oostende : Workshops on surface ocean pCO2 observations, synthesis and data products ⁦ICOS RI⁩ ⁦SOCAT⁩ More info here: icos-otc.org/node/223 ⁦David Ho⁩

VLIZ' Marine Regions releases version 12 of Maritime Boundaries. 🗺️ Version 12 introduces new and more detailed line types to enhance the representation of complex maritime boundaries. It is also updated with newly established baselines, treaties, and court rulings.…

We are less than one week away to the #EurOCEAN2023 conference & look forward to welcoming all participants in Vigo, Spain! In case you're unable to make it, the event will also be livestreamed on our YouTube channel: tinyurl.com/y4ebdr8v #OceanDecade #MissionOcean

I’ve been following the work of Wieter Boone at the Flanders Marine Institute - VLIZ Marine Robotics Center closely, especially the fieldwork in Greenland.

Happy to finally meet him in Ostend and get close to the marine autonomous vehicles such as the Gavia AUV ‘Barabas’ pictured here!

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Come join us for our next #OceansPast conference in Penryn, UK, from 25-28 June 2024!

Find out more about conference themes: oceanspast.org/opx.php

Abstracts submission will open in September 2023

#OceanHistory #HistoricalEcology #EnvironmentalHistory

New Study: #DeepSeaMining could negatively impact tuna stock in a myriad of ways.

“We shouldn’t be rushing into a decision that could significantly harm ocean ecosystems essential to planetary health and global food security,” says Douglas McCauley. pew.org/44Ab3oe

A Twin of Our Ocean? EDITO-The European infrastructure for a Digital twin of the ocean: Flanders Marine Institute - VLIZ Mercator Ocean International are building it, in co-design with the community of users, data providers and model developers, decision-makers…watch out for the pilots next June 2024!

Including Flanders Marine Institute - VLIZ’ 'From global gazetteer to global community' by MarineRegions Marine Regions