Recent News

UNEP-WCMC Launches a New Website
New online platform makes available a multitude of resources to support the national ecosystems assessment processes
OBIS Partners with UNESCO's Marine World Heritage Sites in Global Project to Study Biodiversity
OBIS Partners with UNESCO’s Marine World Heritage Sites in Global Project to Study Biodiversity
OBIS Partners with UNESCO's Marine World Heritage Sites in Global Project to Study Biodiversity
Marine Life 2030 Endorsed as a UN Ocean Decade Action
We are pleased to announce that Marine Life 2030 program was endorsed as a UN Ocean Decade Action.
Marine Life 2030
Programme proposal: submitted by MBON partners to the first call for Actions by the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (the Ocean Decade) from the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC).
ARMS-MBON
As part of a global initiative originally developed by the Smithsonian Institute, a marine biodiversity observation network (MBON) has deployed more than 130 Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structures (ARMS) in the vicinity of marine sanctuaries as well as industrial locations (e.g. ports, and marinas) in Europe and the polar regions.
COVID-Delayed Arctic Research Cruise Yields Late-Season Data
Researchers studying the Bering and Chukchi seas for three weeks in October found no ice and a surprisingly active ecosystem as they added another year’s data to a key climate change record.
Joint US-Canada Zooplankton Workshop on Modeling Abundance and Distribution of Zooplankton Prey for North Atlantic Right Whales in Canadian and U.S. Coastal and Shelf Waters
Convened by Chris Orphanides, NEFSC Protected Species Branch, NOAA Fisheries; Catherine Johnson, Bedford Institute of Oceanography, Canada DFO; Jeffrey Runge, University of Maine, MBON
A New Collaboration Seeks to to Assess and Monitor Biodiversity Hotspots where Marine Megafauna Share Habitat
BioTrack is a collaborative network that maps and tracks hotspots through biotelemetry and biologging. The approach integrates tracking data from tagged marine megafauna (e.g., sharks, teleosts, marine mammals, seabirds, and reptiles).
MBON and AOML Characterize Seascapes Biogeographic Regions to Understand Phytoplankton Assemblages in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary
MBON, with NOAA/AOML, has characterized seascapes for the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary (FKNMS) and southwest Florida shelf nearshore environment using multivariate satellite and in situ measurements (MBON/CoastWatch Seascapes products: The effort illustrates best practices developed by MBON in collaboration with the South Florida Ecosystem Restoration Research (SFER) project and NOAA/AOML.
Ocean Scientists Create Global Network to Help Save Biodiversity
Ocean scientists have been busy creating a global network to understand and measure changes in ocean life. The system will aggregate data from the oceans, climate and human activity to better inform sustainable marine management practices.