SCOR WG 162 OASIS – UN Ocean Decade Endorsed Project
Aimed at developing an Observing Air-Sea Interactions Strategy
SCOR Research Project GEOTRACES – UN Ocean Decade Action attached to the Decade Coordination Office for Ocean Data Sharing
Focused on marine biogeochemical cycles and distribution of trace elements and their isotopes
SCOR WG 159 DeepSeaDecade
Aimed at developing a global plan for survey/sampling deep-sea ecosystems to underpin deep-sea research is a key contributor to the UN Ocean Decade endorsed programme Challenger 150 – A Decade to Study Deep-Sea Life
SCOR Infrastructural Project IOCCP – International Ocean Carbon Coordination Project
Key contributor to five UN Ocean Decade endorsed programmes related to ocean observations, oxygen and acidification (e.g. Global Ocean Oxygen Decade, Ocean Acidification Research for Sustainability)
SCOR Infrastructural Project SOOS – Southern Ocean Observing System
Southern Ocean Action Plan for the Decade : An initial roadmap to strengthen links between science, industry and policy, and encourage internationally collaborative activities to address existing knowledge and data gaps.
SCOR Research project IMBeR – Integrated Marine Biosphere Research (IMBeR)
ClimEco8 Summer School (2023) – UN Decade Endorsed Activity
International Networking Connector by IMBeR, MEOPAR, Ocean Frontier Institute (2022) – UN Decade Endorsed Activity
IMBeR West Pacific Symposium 2021 – “Changing West Pacific Ocean: Science and Sustainability” – UN Decade Endorsed Activity
IMBIZO6 – Buoyant Solutions for Ocean Sustainability (2021) – UN Decade Endorsed Activity
ClimEco7 Summer School (2021) – UN Decade Endorsed Activity
Future Ocean 3 (2025) – UN Decade Endorsed Activity
SCOR WG 157 MetaZooGene – an endorsed action attached to the Marine Life 2030 – UN Ocean Decade project
Metabarcoding zooplankton diversity
SCOR research projects IMBeR and SOLAS (Surface Ocean Lower Atmosphere Studies) – Contributing to Ocean Negative Carbon Emissions (ONCE) UN Ocean Decade Project
Other lead partners with IMBeR and SOLAS are ICES, PICES and WCRP.
WG 169 GLUBS – UN Decade Endorsed Project
GlobalHAB – contributing partner to the Endorsed Action, the Harmful Algal Bloom Solutions (HAB-S) Programme
JCS Chemical Speciation Taskgroup (formerly WG 145 MarChemSpec) – UN Ocean Decade Endorsed Action
The Marine Chemical Speciation (MarChemSpec) Action is hosted under the OARS Programme.
IQOE – Low-Cost Hydrophone Task Troup
Development of a prototype low-cost hydrophone by the IQOE’s Task Group has been endorsed as an Action associated with the Ocean Decade Research Programme on the Maritime Acoustic Environment (OD-MAE)
To be proposed or seeking endorsement:
SCOR WG 153 FLOTSAM on floating litter – working together with GOOS, Copernicus and other organisations toward a global observing system for debris (IMDOS) – to be proposed as a UN Ocean Decade programme
International Indian Ocean Expedition II – seeking endorsement