🌊🏝️Since 2022, the Gouvernement Monaco 🇲🇨 supports the MAB Young Scientists Award recognizing #ocean science in UNESCO Biosphere Reserves.

🚨 Are you a young scientist working in UNESCO Biosphere Reserves?

👉Apply until 15 May unesco.org/en/mab/young-s…

Meet us at the #OceanDecade24 booth Nr 10, every lunch time at 1:15pm. We will talk about our work on #eDNA , #invasivespecies and #MPA : protect 30% of the ocean but where?

Director General @unesco Audrey Azoulay opens the UN Ocean Decade Conference #OceanDecade24 . She calls for #openscience #OpenAccess to data and mapping biodiversity through OBIS.

Do you encounter any data-sharing-related challenge? Visit the Ocean Data Sharing Helpdesk at the #oceandecade24 Conference in Barcelona, Booth #10, to learn more! See you on 10-11-12 April 2024.
👉 oceandatasharing-dco.org/od-conference-…
OceanTeacher Global Academy OBIS Seabed 2030 UNESCO Ocean

OBIS will organise 3 info sessions during lunch break at #OceanDecade24 booth Nr 10. Come and find out more on how we support biodiversity observations, data processing and decision making related to marine invasive species and current and future marine protected areas.

12th session of the OBIS steering group is happening this week at MABIK in South Korea. After the hands-on sessions we will move into formals tomorrow. #sgobis12 #marinebiodiversity #fairdata

The OBIS secretariat now has two experts in #eDNA ! OBIS has a key role in several new projects that use eDNA or aim to further improve this technology for biological monitoring. Welcome Dr Saara Suominen and Dr Emilie Boulanger obis.org/2024/03/19/new…

OBIS and The Global Ocean Observing System (GOOS) are part of a new EU project BioEcoOcean which will develop a blueprint to guide ocean biological observing programs and raise the technical readiness for important Essential Ocean Variables (EOVs). obis.org/2024/03/13/bio…

Join our great team! The deadline is fast approaching. Apply before 15 March 2024 via the UNESCO portal at careers.unesco.org/job/Ostend-OBI…

Calling all researchers and contributors to aquatic #biodiversity projects! Help shape the future of #eDNA reference libraries and data repositories: complete our questionnaire to support standardization and interoperability efforts.
👉bit.ly/4bEf9QO
#eDNA quaPlan #DNA

The IODE secretariat is growing.
We have an open #vacancy for an OBIS Technical Coordinator.
👉obis.org/2024/01/25/vac…
deadline to apply: 22 February 2024

📣 Hiring: OBIS Technical Coordinator!

Seeking a skilled professional for the technical/scientific coordination and upkeep of our OBIS data system.
🔗 Apply here: ow.ly/txkg50Qvrwh

Deadline: Feb 22, 2024

We are hiring a technical coordinator to join the OBIS Secretariat in Oostende (Belgium). This is a UNESCO 🏛️ #Education #Sciences #Culture 🇺🇳 fixed term position. More information about this vacancy, and how to apply see careers.unesco.org/job/Ostend-OBI….
Deadline for applying is 22 Feb 2024.

Spending our weekend doing a first analysis of the results of the UNESCO 🏛️ #Education #Sciences #Culture 🇺🇳 eDNA expeditions in marine #worldheritage sites. LOTS of work but so exciting! Soon more. #bigdata #openscience #biodiversity #climatechange #conservation #eDNA #eDNA expeditions

Our colleagues and EMODnet #Biology consortium members OBIS have presented a poster at the EMODnet Conference titled 'OBIS/EMODnet Biology: high quality data, but not the complete picture'

Poster -> tinyurl.com/56jpctrm
Abstract -> tinyurl.com/4dj7en9w

Flanders Marine Institute - VLIZ

Fanny Douvere Audrey Azoulay UNESCO 🏛️ #Education #Sciences #Culture 🇺🇳 OBIS UNESCO Ocean The results of the eDNA expeditions are truly amazing. As expected in these UNESCO 🏛️ #Education #Sciences #Culture 🇺🇳 sites we also detected many threatened and endangered species from the IUCN Red List 👇- Our team Saara Suominen and Pieter Provoost are now analysing the remaining samples - stay tuned!