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DECADE ACTION INCUBATOR 10 Ocean spikes a fever: Marine heatwaves (MHWs) over the monsoonal ocean areas and their social and ecological impacts We are not new to the heatwaves in… Continue reading Incubator 10
DECADE ACTION INCUBATOR 6 Save our corals: a partnership programme catalyzing knowledge and ocean science solutions to enhancing coral reef resilience It is never too much to emphasize the vital… Continue reading Incubator 6
DECADE ACTION INCUBATOR 3 Advance the application of remote sensing to coastal habitat mapping and monitoring Coastal habitats – mangroves, seagrass, salt marshes and coral reefs—are vital ecosystems. They store… Continue reading Incubator 3
Despite their close link to high ocean productivity, upwelling systems remain poorly investigated in the South China Sea and its adjacent seas. Ongoing and future actions to rectify this were… Continue reading Need to accelerate ‘upwelling’ studies highlighted at 2nd WESTPAC Workshop on Upwelling
2 August 2019, Tokyo Japan, the three-day UN Ocean Science Decade Regional Planning Workshop (RPW) for the North Pacific and Western Pacific Marginal Seas (RPW-NPWPMS) in Tokyo, Japan culminated in a wide… Continue reading Regional Planning Workshop sets the stage for actions in the North Pacific and Western Pacific Marginal Seas for the UN Ocean Science Decade for Sustainable Development
An IOC side event entitled “the Development of an IOC Regional Network of Training and Research Centers (RTRCs) on Marine Science in the Western Pacific and its adjacent regions: as… Continue reading Development of a Regional RTRCs Network for the UN Decade of Ocean Science
More than forty experts from countries and international organizations in the North Pacific gathered in Bangkok, Thailand, 29-30 November 2017, in an effort to support the second cycle of the… Continue reading UN’s Second World Ocean Assessment Makes a Start in the North Pacific
The newly established Advisory Group of the IOC Sub-Commission for the Western Pacific (WESTPAC) convened its first meeting in Bangkok, Thailand, from 27-29 March 2013. The meeting was organized by… Continue reading WESTPAC Advisory Group newly elected in 2013 met in Bangkok
Five regional experts were newly elected to be the members of the WESTPAC Advisory Group in January 2013. These members will initially serve one term of two years 2013-2014, expected… Continue reading WESTPAC Advisory Group Ready to Move on
