Have a great research stay! 😊

If you're attending the UN Ocean Decade and wanna know more about how marine heatwaves are affecting coral populations in the Mediterranean, pass by my poster. Last chance today! 💙🪸

After the speeches of Rafael Sardá Borroy CEAB-CSIC and colleagues today at the UN Ocean Decade, it is clear that not all projects, activities and companies at sea can be considered 'Blue Economy' because simply they are not sustainable. Blue Economy=marine conservation first !

While I am a big fan of ⁦EU @EU #EU Tweeting for Charity!⁦EU @EU #EU Tweeting for Charity!_MARE⁩ ⁩ I was pleased to hear ⁦Dr Imogen Napper⁩ put keynote speaker Kestutis Sadauskas back on track ‘we cannot rely robots cleaning the ocean of plastic’ this kind of techno optimism is a distraction that brings false hope!

UN Ocean Decade conference started yesterday with an excessive amount of good words for my taste, given the urgency of the matter in hand.

It's refreshing and hopeful to hear critical perspectives coming from Peter M Haugan and other great panellists.

#OceanDecade24

🌊 #oceandecade24 🌊

Satellite meeting at the 2024 Ocean Decade Conference: 'Long-term engagement in the Polar oceans: A decade of international action'
🗓️ 10 April, 13:15-14:45 CEST

Integrating Climate and Ecosystem Dynamics SOOS AWI Media European Polar Board (EPB) PA2F MEASO BIOPOLE PolarRES

🦪 To encourage #OAAction across the UN Ocean Decade, OARS Ocean Decade has outlined 6 key decision-making categories for identifying #OceanAcidification information needs for mitigation and adaptation actions. #OceanDecade24

Hoy, visitando el ICM-CSIC, el instituto de investigación del CSIC más grande de investigación marina de excelencia.

Es un orgullo que forme parte de la candidatura de Ajuntament de BCN para acoger un centro colaborador del Decenio del Océano dedicado a la economía azul.

End of the Marine Protected Areas forum we ICM-CSIC have co-organized in UN Ocean Decade. They face many risks (e.g. industrial fisheries and climate change) + emerging ones (cruises, deep-sea mining and offshore wind farms). Insufficient management. Conservation not guaranteed.

Our researchers Janire Salazar🪸 and Laura Figuerola participated in the #OSES workshop focused on fostering ocean literacy and environmental awareness among youth through sport

Sport et Citoyenneté ICM-CSIC Universitat de Barcelona IRBioUB Observadores del Mar Federació Catalana d′Activitats Subaquàtiques

#oceanliteracy #CitizenScience

New Article!! If interested in sponge-microbial associations check out our latest contribution. Finally out on Communications Biology!!

Interesting talk on the citizen science projects of the Observadores del Mar by Joaquim Garrabou (mostly trying to be at the sea) and Paula López Sendino during the #OceanDecade24 week. ICM-CSIC

Un gran pioner i exemple del que ara anomenem ciència ciutadana. Aquestes dades s'han fet servir a estudis de companys del Dpt. Oceanografía Física i Tecnològica de l 'ICM-CSIC.
Barcelona Expert Center ICATMAR

Dragar els fons per a abocar sorra a les platges, devastant la rica i valuosa biodiversitat del litoral, és una solució tan ineficaç com insostenible: ecològica i econòmicament parlant
elconfidencial.com/medioambiente/…

Enhorabona Esther i companyia 👏👏

Congrats Josep and happy to be on board with you all 😊

Ecoblanqueig. n, m. Conjunt d'estratègies de màrqueting que duu a terme una empresa per a promoure la percepció que els seus productes són respectuosos amb el medi ambient.
📢 La gespa artificial no pot ser ecològica ni sostenible! Catalunya Ràdio

#GlobalWarming may cause a new wave of biological invasions into the #Mediterranean Sea, this time from the tropical Atlantic, contributing to the build up of a novel ecosystem in the basin. Lotta Schultz, Silvia Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn
pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

bbc.com/news/uk-wales-…

Although my forthcoming NHM fossil book won't be published for another 12 months, it can already be ordered from Amazon.