GEOTRACES – UN Ocean Decade Contribution to the Decade Coordination Office for Ocean Data Sharing
Focused on marine biogeochemical cycles and distribution of trace elements and their isotopes
GlobalHAB – Contributes to the UN Ocean Decade Endorsed Programme Harmful Algal Bloom Solutions (HAB-S)
Enhances knowledge and understanding of the causes and effects of HABs
IMBeR
– UN Ocean Decade Endorsed Events: Future Ocean 3 (2025), ClimEco8 Summer School (2023), International Networking Connector by IMBeR, MEOPAR, Ocean Frontier Institute (2022), IMBeR West Pacific Symposium “Changing West Pacific Ocean: Science and Sustainability” (2021), IMBIZO6 “Buoyant Solutions for Ocean Sustainability” (2021), ClimEco7 Summer School (2021)
– IMBeR Regional Programme ICED (Integrating Climate and Ecosystem Dynamics in the Southern Ocean) contributed to Southern Ocean Action Plan 2021-2030
Ocean sustainability under global change for the benefit of society
IOCCP – Contributes to UN Ocean Decade Endorsed Programmes: Global Ocean Oxygen Decade, Ocean Acidification Research for Sustainability, and Ocean Observing Co-Design
Coordination actions around ocean carbon and biogeochemistry observing systems
IQOE Low-Cost Hydrophone Task Group – UN Decade Endorsed Project hosted under the Ocean Decade Research Programme on the Maritime Acoustic Environment
Advancing marine bioacoustics through affordable technology
SOLAS
– UN Ocean Decade Endorsed Events: 10th SOLAS Summer School (2026), SOLAS Open Science Conference (2024)
– Contributes to UN Ocean Decade Endorsed Programmes: Global Ocean Negative Emissions, Global Ocean Oxygen Decade, Ocean Acidification Research for Sustainability, OASIS, and Ocean to Climate Seamless Forecasting Systemm, and UN Ocean Decade Endorsed Project Coastal-SOS
Aimed at understanding the key biogeochemical-physical interactions and feedbacks between the ocean and atmosphere
SOOS
– Contributed to the Southern Ocean Action Plan 2021-2030
An initial roadmap to strengthen links between science, industry and policy, and encourage internationally collaborative activities to address existing knowledge and data gaps
– Contributes to the Decade Collaborative Centre for the Southern Ocean Region
Coordinates international efforts to protect and conserve the Southern Ocean.
– Coordinates the UN Ocean Decade Endorsed Project Southern Ocean Flux Capability Working Group (SOFLUX) hosted by OASIS
Enhancing Air-Sea Flux Observations in the Southern Ocean
– Contributes to UN Ocean Decade Endorsed Programme Antarctica InSync
Addresses the need for large, collaborative and synchronous observation across the Antarctic ocean, land and atmosphere
WG 145 MarChemSpec – UN Ocean Decade Endorsed Project hosted under the OARS Programme
Provision of state-of-the-art, user-friendly software for chemical speciation calculations
WG 157 MetaZooGene – UN Ocean Decade Endorsed Project hosted under the Marine Life 2030 Programme
Metabarcoding zooplankton diversity
WG 159 DeepSeaDecade – Contributed to UN Ocean Decade Endorsed Programme Challenger 150
Developed a global plan for survey/sampling deep-sea ecosystems to underpin deep-sea research
WG 162 OASIS – UN Ocean Decade Endorsed Programme
Aimed at developing an Observing Air-Sea Interactions Strategy
WG 169 GLUBS – UN Decade Endorsed Project hosted under the Ocean Decade Research Programme on the Maritime Acoustic Environment
Open-access platforms to assist in analysis of passive acoustic monitoring data