Symposium Workshops
Confirmed Workshops & Discussions
There will be over 20 free workshops offered over the four core days of the Symposium. Spaces in most workshops are limited, so make sure to sign up when you register for the Symposium. For some, application may be required. Please see details below and prepare any required information for application prior to registration where expressions of interest with your application details will be taken.
Workshop/Discussion offerings will be scheduled:
- Tuesday 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
- Wednesday 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
- Thursday 1:30 pm - 4:00 pm
- Friday 9.00 am - 11:00 am
Note: These times are approximate and subject to change and noted exceptions. Final times for each offering will be announced when the full schedule is published in July.
| Title | Format | Days Offered | Start Time | Max Size |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Designing and analysing multiple driver experiments (1) | Workshop | Tues | 1:30pm | 24 |
| Future coastal food systems: methods for catalysing transformation pathways | Workshop | Tues | 1:30pm | 85 |
| Marine Policy Engagement 101 for Early Career Scientists | Workshop | Tues | 1:30pm | 40 |
| Ocean Acidification Capacity Sharing - A call for Action and Implementation | Workshop | Tues | 1:30pm | 80 |
| Sharing experiences from polar to tropical seas: learning across knowledge systems to guide action | Workshop | Tues | 1:30pm | 50 |
| Using natural analogues to investigate the effects of climate change and ocean acidification | Discussion | Tues | 1:30pm | 100 |
| Beyond tipping points: safeguarding biodiversity in a changing ocean | Workshop | Wed | 1:30pm | 60 |
| Exploring the OA-mCDR Connection: A community discussion for OA Practitioners | Discussion | Wed | 1:30pm | 75 |
| Ocean Acidification in Africa’s High-CO₂ Future: From Observation to Action | Workshop | Wed | 1:30pm | 50 |
| Speed Mentoring with Pier2Peer | Discussion | Wed | 1:30pm | 50 |
| OARS Framework for Action: An Introduction to Co-Designing Ocean Acidification Research for Decision Making | Workshop | Thurs | 7:30am | 40 |
| Designing and analysing multiple driver experiments (2) | Workshop | Thurs | 1:30pm | 24 |
| GOA-ON Workshop: building on our strengths and looking forward | Discussion | Thurs | 1:30pm | 100 |
| Ocean acidification as a collective action problem | Workshop | Thurs | 1:30pm | 80 |
| Blue carbon ecosystems and innovative technologies for enhancing carbon sequestration. | Workshop | Thurs | 1:30pm | 80 |
| Pacific Islands and Territories Ocean Acidification Network Country Planning Workshop | Workshop | Thurs | 1:30pm | 40 |
| Designing and analysing multiple driver experiments (3) | Workshop | Fri | 9:00am | 24 |
| Elevating coastal monitoring with traditional indicators and community partnerships | Discussion | Fri | 9:00am | 50 |
| Integrating Ocean Carbon Observations and Models | Workshop | Fri | 9:00am | 100 |
| mCDR: A policy perspective | Discussion | Fri | 9:00am | 100 |
| Ocean Acidification Biodiversity Task Force - Indicators and proxies in support of the GBF and BBNJ | Workshop | Fri | 9:00am | 40 |
Read more below for full descriptions of each offer.
Designing and analysing multiple driver experiments
Sinéad Collins, University of Edinburgh
Steeve Comeau, CNRS - Sorbonne University
Ben Harvey, Shimoda Marine Research Center, University of Tsukuba
Emma Forss, University of Edinburgh
Day(s) offered: Tuesday, Thursday, Friday
This interactive experimental design workshop is based on the MEDDLE resources developed by the Changing Ocean Biological Systems (COBS) infrastructure project. These workshops aim to highlight methodology and skills needed to design an experiment that is capable of answering your question (and asking a good question in the first place!).
The first part of each workshop guides participants through designing a multiple stressor experiment, through a combination of groupwork with feedback and short presentations by the workshop organizers on key concepts. In the second part of each workshop, the entire group will design an analysis strategy for one or more of the experiments.
This workshop will be given on three separate days. Participants should apply to the day that best suits their research interests:
- Tuesday: full-factorial (or nearly full-factorial) experiments, with examples mainly from microbial (eco)physiology and evolution experiments. Suitable for other systems that are easy to grow and manipulate in the lab in a large range of environments.
- Thursday: blocked experiments, with examples drawn from coral experiments. Suitable for systems where the number of experimental replicates is limited by logistics, but where environments can be controlled in the laboratory or other enclosure
- Friday: collapsed factorial or scenario experiments, including in situ experiments, with examples drawn from work in natural analogues such as CO2 vents, where environmental drivers may be confounded, or cannot be precisely manipulated.
This workshop is aimed at ECRs and graduate students, as well as established researchers who are new to multiple driver experiments, on designing and analysing multiple driver experiments with marine organisms.
All attendees need to have laptops with R studio loaded, have some experience using R, and basic statistical knowledge already (a good knowledge of regression). Participants will be sent material for preparation (approximately 2-3 hours of work needed) prior to the workshop.
*EXPRESSION OF INTEREST WITH APPLICATION REQUIRED*
Please provide a brief statement when registering (around 200 words) outlining:
- Your experience with single- or multiple-driver experiments, including a link to one of your multiple/single driver publications (if available)
- How you plan to incorporate multiple-driver experiments into your research.
- Your statistical training and experience with R (particularly with regression, generalised linear models, or mixed/hierarchical models)
Accepted applicants will be advised in advance of the conference. Those who aren't able to be accommodated will be encouraged to select another offering.
Future coastal food systems: methods for catalysing transformation pathways
James Butler, Cawthron Institute
Nick Cradock-Henry, Earth Sciences New Zealand
Jess Ericson, Cawthron Institute
Day(s) offered: Tuesday
With rapidly changing marine ecosystems, scientists and stakeholders must accelerate adaptation of coastal food systems to ensure that they can continue to support food security and livelihoods. Further, the necessary shift from terrestrial- to marine-sourced protein requires a rapid transformation of coastal food systems in the face of environmental uncertainty. This requires new approaches to planning, innovation and collaboration that foster agility, learning and flexibility.
This workshop aims to bring together researchers and stakeholders to present different approaches to transforming coastal food systems. They will exchange lessons learned, enabling them to learn from each other and improve their practices. Examples could include Living Labs, Supersites, knowledge broker networks and innovation hubs.
As well as presenting their own experiences, the organisers will invite colleagues known to be involved in such processes. There will also be an open invitation to other conference attendees.
Key outcomes will be enhanced understanding and learning amongst the attendees, and the establishment of an informal 'community of practice' to allow interactions to continue after the conference. The workshop may also initiate a scientific paper and other outputs (e.g. guidelines, on-line materials) to be shared within and beyond the community of practice.
Attendance is open to all who are interested. If you would like to contribute to this workshop through a 10-minute presentation, please use the space below to briefly describe the topic of your proposed talk and how it fits in with the workshop aims. We will collate all potential presentations, and depending on interest and time available, select those that best fit the scope of the workshop.
*EXPRESSION OF INTEREST FOR PRESENTATIONS*
If you would like to contribute to this workshop through a 10-minute presentation, please plan to prepare a brief description of the topic of your proposed talk and how it fits in with the workshop aims. This can be provided at time of sign up during registration. We will collate all potential presentations, and depending on interest and time available, select those that best fit the scope of the workshop.
Marine Policy Engagement 101 for Early Career Scientists
Carly LaRoche, GOA-ON Secretariat
Edith Mari, International Alliance to Combat Ocean Acidification
Amy Markel, SOEST (University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa)
Day(s) offered: Tuesday
This workshop will provide an overview of marine policy engagement, designed to support the next generation of ocean scientists with context and tools for contributing to meaningful ocean-climate action. Learn from members of the ocean acidification community engaged in marine policy leadership across local, regional, and international scales, including experts from the OA Alliance. The workshop will involve interactive components that allow participants to practice connecting their research to broader policy initiatives.
The target audience for this workshop is early career scientists who are interested in science-policy engagement in the field of ocean acidification.
The workshop is presented by the International Carbon Ocean Network for Early Career Scientists (ICONEC)in collaboration with the International Alliance to Combat Ocean Acidification. The OA Alliance is the only government-led initiative in the world outlining specific needs for effective management and policy response to acidification. ICONEC is a GOA-ON Community comprising over 350 early career members from 110 countries. Collectively, we strive to create a community of early career professionals who can interact and support each other as peers across international borders.
Ocean Acidification Capacity Sharing - A call for Action and Implementation
Katherina Schoo, IOC UNESCO
Kirsten Isensee, IOC UNESCO
Jan Newton, University of Washington
Lina Hansson, IAEA OA-ICC
Richard Bellerby, NIVA Norway
Day(s) offered: Tuesday
Capacity sharing in the field of ocean acidification research has been conducted for more than a decade to provide countries with the human and technical capacity to measure and report ocean acidification, to observe and project the chemical and biological impacts, and to develop mitigation and adaptation strategies.
The workshop will introduce the “Ocean Acidification Capacity Sharing Strategy and Implementation Plan” developed by UNESCO - Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC), IAEA Ocean Acidification International Coordination Centre (OA-ICC), and experts in the field, which builds on this decade of experience.
The Implementation Plan encourages a more holistic approach, moving from capacity development to capacity sharing, focusing on co-production and co-design by prioritizing science questions that reflect and are based on local realities.
The workshop invites participants interested and involved in capacity sharing as well as stakeholders from the scientific, indigenous, and ocean management communities to discuss success stories, barriers and gaps, regional and global needs, and plans for improved collaborations.
Sharing experiences from polar to tropical seas: learning across knowledge systems to guide action
Henry P. Huntington, Ocean Conservancy
Claudine Hauri, IARC, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Day(s) offered: Tuesday
Around the world, a rapidly changing ocean threatens ecosystems and coastal and maritime societies. At the same time, peoples around the world have developed many ways to accommodate high levels of variability in their environment. Responding to today’s changes requires resilient relationships with the ocean, which give us our best change of sustaining marine abundance in the face of multiple stressors.
This workshop will foster an advanced-level discussion about what we can learn from experiences around the world. We also welcome those new to the topic who would like to learn more about how societies have turned knowledge into action and what inspiration and lessons we can take from those experiences.
Examples of actions include clam gardens in Southeast Alaska, which both protect clam abundance and buffer against acidic water; the ahupua-a system in Hawai’i, stewarding fish ponds and the mountain slopes that drain into them; policies allowing flexible seasons for hunting marine mammals, to accommodate changes in sea ice and other ocean conditions; and the use of Indigenous Knowledge to improve ocean management through detailed, long-term, locally specific understanding.
We will also discuss tangible outcomes from the workshop, to share our experiences with wider audiences.
Using natural analogues to investigate the effects of climate change and ocean acidification
Samuel Rastrick, Institute of Marine Research, Norway
Ben Harvey, Shimoda Marine Research Center University of Tsukuba, Japan
Kumiko Azetsu-Scott, Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Day(s) offered: Tuesday
Natural analogues have been used to further our knowledge on the sensitivity of biological systems to climate change and ocean acidification. Assessing the capacity of different species for long-term acclimatisation and adaptation to OA, providing a means to scale-up from single-species responses to community and ecosystem level responses. Recently there has been growing interest in using more complex environmental mosaics as Natural analogues. Where multiple intersecting gradients in environmental conditions are used to investigate the interaction of climate drivers and other human activities (e.g. aquaculture, fisheries, metal contamination). Where such human activities are important to management and future proofing advice on the sustainable use of the marine environment in the context of a shifting climate. The aims of the workshop:
- Discuss recent advances in natural analogue research.
- Discuss the development of new methods in monitoring chemical oceanography, physiology, ecology, and statistics for use in natural analogues studies.
- Discuss how natural analogue research can be used to elucidate the effects of other human drivers on the marine environment in the context of climate change/OA.
- Discuss how to use natural analogue studies to better inform management and future proof advice. We invite presentations examining these key aims.
Attendance is open to all who are interested. If you would like to contribute to this workshop through a 5-minute lightening talk on one of the aims above, please use the space below to briefly describe the topic of your proposed talk and how it fits in with the workshop aims.
*EXPRESSION OF INTEREST FOR PRESENTATIONS*
If you would like to contribute a lightening talk during this workshop, please provide a brief statement (< 100 words) outlining the topic of your proposed talk and how it fits in with the workshop aims. This can be provided at time of sign up during registration. We will collate all potential presentations, and depending on interest and time available, select those that best fit the scope of the workshop.
Beyond tipping points: safeguarding biodiversity in a changing ocean
Lina Hansson, IAEA OA-ICC, OACIS
Sam Dupont, University of Gothenburg
Jean-Pierre Gattuso, CNRS, Sorbonne University, OACIS
Day(s) offered: Wednesday
Marine biodiversity is threatened by global and local pressures such as ocean warming, acidification, overfishing, and pollution. Scientists are often asked to determine tipping points, thresholds or planetary boundaries for environmental stressors - critical limits beyond which a significant ecological change will take place.
While it is tempting to explore these concepts to inform concrete management actions, quantification is challenging and complex, especially in the context of multiple environmental threats, ecological interactions, and long-term effects. In this workshop, scientists will gather to discuss common misconceptions around tipping points and boundaries, challenges for their quantification and discuss alternative concepts.
Exploring the OA-mCDR Connection: A community discussion for OA Practitioners
Diane Hoskins, Carbon to Sea
Jessie Turner, International Alliance to Combat Ocean Acidification
Aarthi Ananthanarayanan, Carbon to Sea
Day(s) offered: Wednesday
Efforts to advance carbon removal technologies are growing in response to the urgent need to address the climate crisis. Increasingly, ocean acidification (OA) practitioners are being asked to consider marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR) approaches, as part of a broader climate mitigation agenda and as a direct response to ocean acidification.
Importantly, mCDR strategies vary significantly, and do not uniformly affect OA. Governments need to leverage OA practitioner expertise, together with public and private sectors, to assess the benefits and drawbacks of different strategies on ocean ecosystems and acidification.
This community discussion will unpack the relationship between ocean acidification and mCDR, exploring the potential role for OA practitioners in designing emergent research, monitoring, evaluation, safeguards and communications.
Through presentations and roundtables, this discussion will aim to engage OA practitioners around questions such as:
- What type of baseline information is needed to evaluate the links between mCDR and OA?
- Who should be included in designing, developing, implementing, and monitoring pilot activities?
- Which locations are best suited for field tests?
- How can we design mCDR research to deliver on climate, acidification and/or other social and environmental outcomes?
The session will draw on recent resources from the International Alliance to Combat Ocean Acidification and research by the High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy on technology readiness.
Ocean Acidification in Africa’s High-CO₂ Future: From Observation to Action
Nayrah Shaltout, Co-Chair, OA-Africa Network, Alexandria University, Egypt, OA Africa Network
Sheck Sherif, Co-Chair, OA-Africa Network; United Methodist University, Liberia
Roshan Ramessur, Co-Chair, OA-Africa Network; University of Mauritius; OA-Africa Network
Day(s) offered: Wednesday
This workshop brings together African scientists, practitioners, and stakeholders involved in policy to delve into the ways ocean acidification (OA) is already impacting marine and coastal systems across Africa in high-CO₂ conditions. The goal is to shift from merely observing the issue to taking meaningful action. By drawing on experiences from West, North, East, and Southern Africa, the session will showcase African-led OA observations in upwelling and coastal systems, explore innovative monitoring methods in data-scarce areas, and discuss how to weave OA into existing observation networks.
Additionally, the workshop will investigate the vulnerabilities of ecosystems and socio-economic systems, touching on the effects on fisheries, aquaculture, blue carbon ecosystems, and the livelihoods of coastal communities. There will be a strong focus on pathways for adaptation and resilience, emphasizing the importance of co-producing knowledge with local communities and ensuring that scientific efforts align with Africa's development priorities.
A special segment will be dedicated to exploring nature-based solutions in a world with high CO₂ levels, examining the potential and limitations of mangroves, seagrasses, and other coastal ecosystems, while also critically assessing the risks and co-benefits from an African viewpoint.
The target audience includes both African and global OA researchers, early-career scientists, policymakers, practitioners, and international partners who are keen on regionally relevant, solution-focused OA science.
Speed Mentoring with Pier2Peer
Carly LaRoche, NOAA Ocean Acidification Program
Katherina Schoo, UNESCO IOC
Day(s) offered: Wednesday
The Pier2Peer Program invites symposium attendees to join us for a speed mentorship event. Meet with ocean acidification (OA) experts from around the world to discuss OA research, seek project feedback, and gather career insights. You'll have the opportunity to network with the broader OA community and build partnerships across disciplines and borders.
We welcome participants at any career stage and from any discipline to join. Pier2Peer is an international mentorship program that pairs mentees with experienced mentors in the field of ocean acidification.
The program aims to foster community among OA professionals, build long-term capacity to measure and address OA globally, and provide training opportunities to support careers in OA-related fields.
OARS Framework for Action: An Introduction to Co-Designing Ocean Acidification Research for Decision Making
Edith Mari, International Alliance to Combat Ocean Acidification (OA Alliance)
Kirsten Isensee, IOC - UNESCO
Jan Newton, Global Ocean Acidification Observing Network (GOA-ON)
Day(s) offered: Thursday at a special time of 7:30 – 8:50 am
In order to encourage a diversity of ocean acidification (OA) actions across different scales the UN Decade of Ocean Science endorsed OA Research for Sustainability Programme, has developed a framework for co-designing OA Information for Action. The framework identifies decision making categories that guide various user groups in navigating the best opportunities to harness linkages between their science and policy priorities.
Learn how to utilize the Framework to tie your research to management decisions, hear success stories and challenges, and connect with other people who are solving the same problems from different angles. Special focus will center on how to co-develop ocean acidification science projects with these different decision making categories in mind. Participants will be asked what co-design of OA research projects tailored to user needs look like and explore the steps for setting up successful decision-relevant collaborations from the start.
The format will include a mix of presentations and break-out sessions. Workshop participants will have the opportunity to contribute to the OARS Decision-Making Framework Working Group as regional champions, working to improve and promote the Framework locally and internationally through the UN Decade of Ocean Science.
*EXPRESSION OF INTEREST WITH APPLICATION REQUIRED*
Please plan to answer the following questions when expressing interest in this workshop during registration:
- Do you want to learn more about the OA Information for Action Framework launched under the UN Decade for Ocean Science OARS programme?
- Do you want to help the OARS community operationalize co-design of OA science for discrete decision making outcomes?
Accepted applicants will be advised in advance of the conference. Those who aren't able to be accommodated will be encouraged to select another offering.
GOA-ON Workshop: building on our strengths and looking forward
Jan Newton, Global Ocean Acidification Observing Network (GOA-ON)
Steve Widdicombe, University of Washington, University of Khorfakkan
Day(s) offered: Thursday
In this open event we seek to:
- Provide high-level recap of Global Ocean Acidification Observing Network (GOA-ON) activities and set stage for where GOA-ON is going next, seeking feedback from attendees;
- Share opportunities for GOA-ON members to get involved, such as through existing working groups, and assess need for new task forces;
- Facilitate discussion/other interactive activity among current and potentially new members.
GOA-ON is a collaborative international network established to address the following goals: improve our understanding of global ocean acidification conditions, improve our understanding of ecosystem response to ocean acidification, and acquire and exchange data and knowledge necessary to optimize modeling for ocean acidification and its impacts. Over the past 14 years, GOA-ON has bolstered ocean acidification observing and biological research, in addition to increasing local and regional collaboration through its 11 Regional Hubs.
This workshop is open to the GOA-ON community and those interested in joining GOA-ON to actively contribute. GOA-ON leadership will facilitate discussion among attendees on GOA-ON’s next steps and what priorities the network should focus on. GOA-ON will share opportunities for members to become engaged in and steer actions that span the interest of the entire network through working groups or other efforts.
Ocean acidification as a collective action problem
Sam Dupont, University of Gothenburg
Jessie Turner, OA Alliance and OARS
Edith Mari, OA Alliance and OARS
Lina Hansson, IAEA OA-ICC
Day(s) offered: Thursday
Ocean acidification (OA) can be considered within the framework of collective action. A collective action problem is a situation in which the short-term self-interest of individual actors conflicts with longer-term collective interests, generating a substantial risk that the collective benefit is not produced.
Solutions to OA differ in scales, from global (mitigation) to local (adaptation). Current framework predicts that collective action becomes more improbable as it becomes larger. This is a consequence of the increased number of actors, spatial and temporal distances to impacts, and complexity. This can be improved through intervention toward each actor (promoting fairness, concerns of all needs), relationship between them (building trust, reciprocity, communication) and at the societal level (improving social norms, developing capacity and technology in local institutions).
In this workshop, we will show how stakeholder engagement can help designing a realistic and timely strategic plan based on collective action theory to optimize the chance to address OA. Iceland will be used as a case study. Their egalitarian culture valuing independence, science, strong family ties, nature, and creativity, as well as progressive values, gender equality, and emphasis on self-sufficiency and community make it an ideal environment for such implementation.
Participants will have the opportunity to present and discuss challenges and opportunities within their country and use a fit-for-purpose methodology leading to collective action to address OA.
Blue carbon ecosystems and innovative technologies for enhancing carbon sequestration.
Peter Teye Busumprah, Ocean Rock Base and Africa Ocean Biodiversity Atlas (Ocean Biodiversity Atlas)
Olusola Adeoye, Nature Cares resources Centre
Mavis Essilfie Adwoa, Ghana Ocean Climate Hub
Day(s) offered: Thursday (1 hour)
This workshop explores the vital role of blue carbon ecosystems such as mangroves, saltmarshes and seagrass in carbon sequestration. It highlights recent technological advancements aimed at improving carbon capture and storage in marine environments. It also addresses the UN Ocean Challenge 5 & 8 which focuses on ocean-based solutions towards climate change and digital representation of the Ocean.
Participants will engage in discussions on best practices, innovation tools, strategies to optimize blue carbon potential and learn about examples from the African Ocean Biodiversity project creating a digital atlas for the blue carbon using their locally developed technologies.
Target audience: Environmental scientists, policymakers, Climate professionals, technology developers interested in blue carbon and carbon sequestration innovations.
Pacific Islands and Territories Ocean Acidification Network Country Planning Workshop
Rachel Hale, Earth Sciences New Zealand (formerly NIWA)
Carly La Roche, NOAA
Azaria Pickering, SPC
Day(s) offered: Thursday
This country focussed Pacific OA workshop aims to update the PI-TOA community on the progress of data collections and submission for SDG, assist with any barriers, and discuss activities related to the horizon scan activity.
Elevating coastal monitoring with traditional indicators and community partnerships
Aleluia Taise, National University of Samoa
Tina Taitaifono Marek, National University of Samoa
Azaria Pickering, SPC
Miriama Vuiyasawa, SPC
Manibua Rota, Kiribati Ministry of Fisheries & Marine Resources Development
Day(s) offered: Friday
This session will open with three short case studies from Fiji, Samoa, and Solomon Islands that illustrate how community-scientist partnerships have strengthened coastal monitoring. These examples will frame small-group discussions to identify traditional and community-defined indicators that can enhance OA monitoring programmes and provide communities with information that supports community-led adaptation and restoration efforts. The discussion will focus on practical ways to integrate these indicators into monitoring programmes in ways that strengthen these partnerships and improve knowledge sharing.
Target audience: although the case studies will focus on Small Island Developing States (SIDS), we welcome anyone interested in community-based monitoring partnerships and the use of traditional indicators in coastal monitoring.
Integrating Ocean Carbon Observations and Models
Liza Wright-Fairbanks, NOAA Ocean Acidification Program
Erica Ombres, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Day(s) offered: Friday
Ocean observing and modeling communities tend to act as distinct scientific enterprises composed of researchers with different skill sets, training, preferred methodologies, and vocabularies. As marine ecosystems are changing in a High-CO2 world, it is critical to co-develop ocean biogeochemical observing networks and models that support research and monitoring, decision making, operational forecasting, and other stakeholder applications.
This workshop will provide space for small group topical discussion centered on bridging the gaps between observers and modelers. The workshop may begin with introductory presentations about successful observer-modeler collaborations, and will provide ample time for ocean carbon observers and modelers to discuss best practices in research co-development and to workshop ideas for future collaborations.
The target audience includes researchers at all career levels who are interested in designing impactful observing systems and models.
mCDR: A policy perspective
Bonnie Hartfield, Ministry for the Environment, New Zealand
Matt Adams, Ministry for the Environment, New Zealand
Matthew Barbati-Ross, Ministry for the Environment, New Zealand
Day(s) offered: Friday (1 hour)
This session presents a policy perspective on marine carbon dioxide removal (mCDR), outlining how mCDR is currently being considered within government and policy settings.
The discussion will focus on the role of evidence, risk management, and regulatory considerations in assessing mCDR approaches, and how science–policy interfaces can support informed decision-making.
Ocean Acidification Biodiversity Task Force - Indicators and proxies in support of the GBF and BBNJ
Kirsten Isensee, IOC of UNESCO
Lina Hansson, OA-ICC of the IAEA
Sam Dupont, Biological Working Group of GOA-ON, University of Gothenburg
Day(s) offered: Friday
The world is living through a biodiversity crisis. The rapid pace at which the number of species have declined in recent decades has led to the assumption that a mass extinction is under way. Ocean acidification (OA) has been identified as a potential driver for biodiversity loss with consequences for marine ecosystems and the communities that rely on them for food and livelihoods.
The UN Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) has mandated member countries to actively combat this biodiversity crisis, and many are putting action plans in place for that purpose. However, there is no consensus on indicators to quantify and qualify the consequences of OA on biodiversity and management options.
Following a first workshop in April 2026, the biological working group of GOA-ON, supported by IOC and the OA-ICC, invites interested scientists and stakeholders to join this workshop to support the identification of proxies appropriate to assess the impact of ocean acidification on marine biodiversity within the EEZ (CBD) and beyond (BBNJ).
*EXPRESSION OF INTEREST WITH APPLICATION REQUIRED*
Please provide a brief (<150 words) explanation on why you would like to attend this workshop during registration. Please contact Kirsten Isensee for more information.
Accepted applicants will be advised in advance of the conference. Those who aren't able to be accommodated will be encouraged to select another offering.