IOC-UNESCO Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) Forum

OBIS and UNESCO Marine World Heritage Sites
OBIS and UNESCO launch a two-year eDNA project to monitor fish biodiversity across marine World Heritage sites, providing globally standardised data on climate vulnerability.
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Terceira Island Workshop 2025: Marine Biodiversity Data
A hands-on workshop on mobilising marine biological datasets to OBIS, with field training on rocky intertidal monitoring using MBON Pole to Pole protocols. Terceira Island, Azores, November 2025.
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Uruguay Rocky Shore Monitoring Workshop
MBON Pole to Pole partners gather in Uruguay for a hands-on workshop on rocky shore monitoring protocols, advancing standardised intertidal biodiversity surveys across the Americas.
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MBON All Hands 2024: Ten Years of U.S. MBON
The U.S. MBON celebrated the tenth anniversary of its pilot projects at its annual All-Hands Workshop in New Orleans, bringing together scientists, agency partners, and international collaborators.
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Ocean Best Practices Workshop
A workshop bringing together practitioners to document, share, and align best practices for marine biodiversity observation across instruments, regions, and disciplines.
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BioSound working group session on estimating marine biodiversity with passive acoustic monitoring.
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