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News and EventsCall for abstracts: Ocean Sciences Meeting 2022
Co-sponsored by the American Geophysical Union (AGU), the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO), and The Oceanography Society (TOS), Ocean Sciences Meeting (OSM) is the global leader in ocean sciences conferences. Please consider...
First Workshop of the UN Ocean Decade “Mega-Delta Programme”
On August 13, the 1st Mega-Delta Programme Workshop was held, with 26 scientists from more than ten countries participating online, including the members from Future Earth Coasts Executive Committee. Miss Chloe Nunn from IOC-UNESCO also joined this workshop on...
Rebuilding Coral Reefs: A Decadal Grand Challenge
Date of event: Tuesday 20 July 2021 Time: 12:00 UTC/ 14:00 CEST Venue: Online Register here Future Earth Coasts is happy to announce this virtual event where we will discuss the urgency of coral reef protection, efficient management measures and the science to...
The ocean in a changing climate: Rapidly growing risk of loss and damage?
We are happy to announce that the report 'The ocean in a changing climate: Rapidly growing risk of loss and damage?' which reflects the key messages of the expert dialogue held in January has been published. Organized by the Global Programme on Risk Assessment and...
Coastal and marine planning in the Westfjords, Iceland
Today we bring you news from the Sustainable Resilient Coasts (COAST), a Future Earth Coasts affiliated project seeking to establish the Northern Periphery and Arctic (NPA) region as a demonstration of how to deliver the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for the...
Webinar: Tools For Climate-Smart Decision Making
The European Space Agency (ESA) has joined forces with the Space Climate Observatory (SCO) to host a community webinar on 23 April 2021 (13:30-15:00 CET) to share progress in the development of tools that use Earth observations towards climate-smart decision...
CERTO: monitoring water quality at a global scale
Pictured: Satellite image of the Tagus estuary (via Certo-project.org) Water quality is a worldwide issue affecting food production, industry, nature, recreation and ultimately human wellbeing. Copernicus Evolution: Research for harmonised and Transitional water...
Threats to Biodiversity in Australia’s Burdekin River Basin
Pictured: The Burdekin Falls Dam, built in 1987, the largest dam in Queensland, Australia. ©CSIRO Prof Eric Wolanski, a FEC Academy member currently working at the Centre for Tropical Water and Aquatic Ecosystem Research (TropWATER) at James Cook University,...
Promoting Ocean Acidification Awareness and Research in Africa: a Virtual event
The OA-Africa Network and OA-ICC virtual event to promote Ocean Acidification Awareness and Research in Africa will take place on the 5th of February from 9 am to 12 pm (GMT). This event follows the OA Day of action side event held in person in Monrovia on the 8th...
South Africa’s largest estuarine lake mouth artificially breached in defiance of restoration efforts
Professor Anthony Forbes, FEC Academy Member, shared some interesting news with us. On January 6th the sand barrier separating the Lake St Lucia Estuary from the sea was artificially breached by the iSimangaliso Authority in apparent disregard of its own management...