US MBON All-Hands Meeting

The US MBON All-Hands Meeting brings the national network’s teams, working groups and partners together at The Edge at USF in St. Petersburg, Florida, with hybrid participation.

Goals

• Reach agreement on key messages about MBON national goals and the MBON strategic framework, share updates on data management (helpdesk and product highlights; data to support fisheries), and consider future planning.
• Strengthen links among US MBON teams and partners, and the connectivity across efforts.
• Encourage common activities and outputs: technology applications, data sharing, product development and stories that show the network’s value.

Day 1 (Wed 14 Oct): MBON team-lead updates (one speaker per project and working group); the MarineGEO strategy and MBON partnership; MoveBON; the Ocean Biodiversity Impact Initiative and biodiversity KPIs; global engagement (AIR Centre, WCMB, GOOS, GEO); national goals and strategic framing; Sanctuary Watch; and the Communications working group, including this website.

Day 2 (Thu 15 Oct): MBON data contributions to support fisheries, with OBIS and GBIF capabilities shown on a species of interest; linking the Animal Telemetry Network and MBON to inform conservation and fisheries management; afternoon field trip to Egmont Key.

Day 3 (Fri 16 Oct): the IOOS Marine Life Map; remote sensing and seascapes applications (NASA program update, PACE, animal tracking, dashboards, eDNA and plankton imaging, foundation models); eDNA in MBON (FAIR eDNA data tools, portals, a cross-node pilot of eDNA-based EBVs); and MBON business: next steps on national goals, species distribution modeling, and a special issue.