UN Decade Tropical Americas Transparent and Accessible Ocean Co-Design Workshop

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Figure 2: Fleets of autonomous oceanographic vehicles and sensors together with crewed ships and satellites track and sample ocean features in a coordinated way, as part of MBARI’s CANON project.

There is a strong need to improve marine ocean observation and prediction systems to progress management, decision-making, and governance in the Tropical American region

10 May, 2021

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A virtual session of the UN Decade Ocean Tropical Americas Workshops series was hosted by IOC of UNESCO - IOCARIBE last 29th July 2021 and co-chaired by Edgard Cabrera (Member Regional Planning Group Western Tropical Atlantic - UN Decade Ocean Sciences for Sustainable Development).

This session will result in a short regional discussion paper that will include recommendation on the availability of open access to data, information, and new affordable open-source technologies, to integrate earth system/social sciences, and cross sectoral participation to share resources, mobilize constituencies for national policy and community decision-making processes, and, reduce the asymmetry between the countries in the region, including the island states.

The meeting is part of a workshop series convened in accordance with the Western Tropical Atlantic Action Plan for the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development 2021-2030, for the seven societal outcomes, to be held during the period of July-October 2021, in accordance with the Regional Western Tropical Atlantic Planning Group Action Plan. Please check below and the event calendar for the next webinars of this month.

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