MBON, Marine Life 2030, GOOS and the AIR Centre hosted two special sessions at the VIII Ocean Best Practices (OBPS) workshop, bringing together the communities contributing to Biology and Ecosystem (BioEco) ocean observation and forecasting.
Session 1: 15th October, 08:30–10:00 UTC
Topics included:
- Welcome & Marine Life 2030 Ocean Decade Program (Aileen Tan Shau Hwai)
- Essential Variable Frameworks for Observing Marine Life (Masahiro Nakaoka)
- Progress on aligning biodiversity data to standards (Katherine Tattersall)
- IPBES report on methodological assessment on monitoring biodiversity (Patricia Miloslavich)
- BioEcoOcean: Co-creating transformative pathways to biological and ecosystem ocean observations (Ana Lara-Lopez)
Session 2: 15th October, 13:00–14:30 UTC
Topics included:
- Essential Variable Frameworks for Observing Marine Life (Frank Muller-Karger)
- Progress on aligning biodiversity data to standards (Ward Appeltans)
- The Ocean Data Information System (ODIS) and Ocean InfoHub (OIH) (Pier Luigi Buttigieg)
- Marco-BOLO: Marine Coastal Biodiversity long-term observations (Nicolas Pade)
- Picture Perfect: rapid classification of plankton (Keshnee Pillay)
