Nereus Program

🔈Upcoming virtual workshop on 'Blue Economy Planning'

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🗓️Tuesday, Sept 15
⏱️10:30am PDT

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http://ow.ly/1LFm50BdKe3 (register before Sept 14)

🔈Upcoming webinar on Tuesday Sept. 8

Launching the latest Blue Paper ‘The Human Relationship with our Ocean Planet’.

Register here 👉 http://ow.ly/jhxG50BbgUQ 🌊

[Recording available].

New study by Nereus member Gabriel Reygondeau, Guillermo Ortuño Crespo, Daniel Dunn and Pi Pat Halpin👏👇

Beyond static spatial management: Scientific and legal considerations for dynamic management in the high seas Natural and human stressors in the high seas act across a wide range of spatial and temporal scales. These include direct interaction such as fisherie…

University of Washington's EarthLab and The Nippon Foundation have officially launched the Ocean Nexus Center! Read more below to learn about this exciting new interdisciplinary research group 👇

UW EarthLab and The Nippon Foundation launch Ocean Nexus Center The University of Washington and The Nippon Foundation today announced the launch of the Nippon Foundation Ocean Nexus Center, an interdisciplinary research group at the UW that studies changes,...

Watch the new YouTube video series with Nereus Program researchers discussing current and future ocean topics such as international ocean governance, biodiversity, social equity, climate change, and more!

The videos are a companion to the "Predicting Future Oceans" book published last year, letting you watch each fellow describe their research in 5-minute segments. Check it out!

Link: https://www.youtube.com/user/NereusProgram/playlists

Are you an Early Career Ocean Professional (ECOP)? Then please fill out a survey for the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development! You can give your insight on capacity development, science knowledge gaps and opportunities

Link: https://mailchi.mp/unesco/early-career-ocean-professional-survey-ocean-decade

New Senior Post-Doctoral Fellow position opening at UN environmental programme (UNEP-WCMC)! Deadline to apply is December 8, 2019.

Application Link: https://www.unep-wcmc.org/vacancies/senior-post-doctoral-fellow-ad1116

UNEP-WCMC is seeking a Senior Post-Doctoral Fellow to make an immediate and significant contribution to their healthy ocean strategy by integrating climate change into spatial conservation planning. They will have the opportunity to work at the science–policy interface by using academic research & theory to support decision makers in understanding the potential impact of climate change upon their current network of MPAs and aid their management response. (Abridged from job posting)

Please join us at UBC in Vancouver for a Policy in Practice talk by Andrés Cisneros-Montemayor, a resource economist that specializes in marine social-ecological systems. Welcome remarks will be provided by Professor Rashid Sumaila.

Please extend an invitation to anyone who may be interested or share our invitation.

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A Blue Economy: Achieving a Socially Equitable Marine Industrial Revolution | School of Public Policy and Global Affairs Join our Policy in Practice talk by Andrés Cisneros-Montemayor, a resource economist specializing in marine social-ecological systems. Welcome remarks will be provided by Professor Rashid Sumaila.

The book 'Predicting Future Oceans' is available now! It's the culmination of ocean research and provides a synthesis of diverse perspectives on the future state of oceans from both natural & social sciences. Topics include , , , , , and more!

Link: https://www.elsevier.com/books/predicting-future-oceans/cheung/978-0-12-817945-1

NEW PAPER: Guillermo Ortuño Crespo, Daniel Dunn and Patrick Halpin are co-authors with others on a paper that stresses the need to consider the full scope of marine fish biodiversity in new treaty negotiations among UN States

Title: High-seas fish biodiversity is slipping through the governance net

Link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-019-0981-4

Andrés M. Cisneros-Montemayor and William Cheung are co-authors on a new paper published today in the open access journal PlosOne - 'A metadata approach to evaluate the state of ocean knowledge: Strengths, limitations, and application to Mexico'.
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0216723