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  • GEO Blue Planet 5th Symposium
    GEO Blue Planet 5th Symposium

    These symposiums aim to increase regional linkages, promoting collaboration between stakeholders and the observing community and gathering community feedback on the focus of GEO Blue Planet activities.

  • Call for Nominations: African and Adjacent Island States Ocean Decade Taskforce – Help build and advance the Ocean Decade across Africa
    Call for Nominations: African and Adjacent Island States Ocean Decade Taskforce – Help build and advance the Ocean Decade across Africa

    The Circular letter disseminates the Ocean Decade Africa Roadmap and calls on nominations for the Ocean Decade Taskforce for Africa and adjacent island States. Nominations can be submitted through an online form until 25 August 2022 at 23.59h UTC.

  • The United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development 2021-2030: Ocean Decade Africa Roadmap
    The United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development 2021-2030: Ocean Decade Africa Roadmap

    The Ocean Decade Africa Roadmap provides a vision and plan for diverse stakeholders to convene around a common set of priorities for the implementation of the Ocean Decade in Africa.

  • Accelerating Innovation, Science and Technology, and promoting the involvement of Women and Youth in Africa’s Oceans and Seas in the context of the Ocean Decade
    Accelerating Innovation, Science and Technology, and promoting the involvement of Women and Youth in Africa’s Oceans and Seas in the context of the Ocean Decade

    29 June 2022 | 11:30-12:45 | Blue Zone-Side Event Room 1

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News & Updates

  • 26 January 2023
    Vacancy: Head of the IOCAFRICA Secretariat
  • 10 October 2022
    Training course on remote sensing applied to oceanography, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, 21-25 November 2022.
  • 12 August 2022
    Creatures that crossed an ocean to find India
  • 09 August 2022
    Africa Hopes for a ‘Great Blue Wall’ in the Indian Ocean
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Upcoming Events

21 Nov 2022 | 08:00AM - 05:00PM
Training course on remote sensing applied to oceanography
24 Oct 2022 | 08:00AM - 05:00PM
GEO Blue Planet 5th Symposium
10 Oct 2022 | 08:00AM - 05:00PM
WIOMSA 12th Scientific Symposium: First Symposium announcement and call for abstracts!
10 Oct 2022 | 08:00AM - 05:00PM
WIOMSA 12th Scientific Symposium: First Symposium announcement and call for abstracts!
 

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Opportunities

01 Jan 2023 | 08:00AM - 11:00PM
Submit your (self-)nominations for membership of the World Climate Research Programme's Joint Scientific Committee (JSC). Deadline: 31 May 2022
07 Nov 2022 | 08:00AM - 11:00PM
Small Pelagic Fish: New Frontiers in Science and Sustainable Management
07 Nov 2022 | 08:00AM - 11:00PM
2022 Explorer-in-Training Program Application Period Now Open
10 Oct 2022 | 08:00AM - 10:00PM
12th WIOMSA Scientific Symposium: 2nd Announcement and Call for Abstracts
 

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Recent Publications

  1. The United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development 2021-2030: Ocean Decade Africa Roadmap
  2. Ocean Decade progress report, 2021-2022
  3. Marine Environment of the Moroccan Atlantic Coast published by the Hassan II Academy Press
  4. A 5-year Strategic Plan for OceanOPS 2021-2025
  5. The Science we need for the ocean we want: The United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-2030)
 

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