For the 61% of the ocean that lies in areas beyond national jurisdiction, the development of a new international agreement for the conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity is now underway (BBNJ agreement):…
Kristina Gjerde is a High Seas Policy Advisor for the International Union for Conservation for Nature (IUCN). Among her additional roles, she is on the Executive Board of the Deep-Ocean Stewardship Initiative (DOSI),…
The Deep-Ocean Stewardship Initiative (DOSI) Climate Change and Fisheries working groups have joined over 100 aquatic scientific societies in calling for drastically curtailed global greenhouse gas emissions to avoid the worst impacts of…
We are delighted to announced that biological oceanographer Sanae Chiba is joining Lucy Woodall and Nélia Mestra as co-lead of the new working group on Pollution & Debris in the deep sea. Sanae…
Challenger 150: A roadmap to address UN Ocean Decade Objectives (Extracted from a poster presentation by Howell et al. (2020) delivered at eDSBS) The Ocean Decade will commence on the 1st January 2021,…
We are delighted to announce that Lucy Woodall has taken a leadership role in the new DOSI working group on pollution and debris in the deep sea. This group aims to 1) improve public…
Congratulations to DOSI Advisory Board member and renowned Marine Biologist, Judith Gobin, on being appointed Professor of Science at the University of West Indies. Judith, who is Head of the Department of Life…