Coastal Observing Lab in a Box (COLaB)

Overview Background and rationale Globally many countries face a significant hurdle in obtaining the necessary resources and knowledge to effectively monitor the coastal ocean. There is a common misconception that high end, expensive equipment is needed to monitor and study the coastal oceans. COLaB breaks this belief by using cost effective oceanographic instruments and methods …

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Coastal Marine Heatwave Interdisciplinary Research group (CMHIR)

Overview Background and rationale Our understanding about the drivers, processes and teleconnections that cause large-scale marine heatwaves (MHWs) has substantially improved (Holbrook et al. 2019, 2020). However, the implications of MHWs on the inner continental shelf are much less understood, despite the ecological importance and the relevance of this zone for the global economy. In …

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Action for Sustainable Ocean Acidification Research (ASOAR)

Overview Scientific rationale, societal benefits and policy relevance Changes in carbonate chemistry, termed ‘Ocean Acidification’ (OA), and the biological impacts this causes, don’t occur uniformly, but instead vary regionally across a range of spatial scales. The Global Ocean Acidification Observing Network (GOA-ON) highlighted this and identified a pressing need for targeted regional monitoring strategies that …

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CEODOS Chile: A consortium for surveying the coastal ocean in the eastern South Pacific

Overview The CEODOS program (co-coordinated by the COPAS center) is a new chilean initiative that will follow the present and future status of the biological pump along the entire coast of Chile every 5 years. There is a global agreement in the scientific community that the combination of climate change and human activities has a …

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Gulf of Mexico Oceanographic and Meteorological Observation Group (GMOMOG)

Overview Monitoring is key to numerical modelling efforts for predicting hurricanes and frontal systems, assessing and sustaining ecosystem health and function, managing marine resources, optimising restoration efforts and assessing anthropogenic impacts from climate change, eutrophication, loss of biodiversity, deoxygenation, acidification, overfishing and sea level rise. However, when in situ monitoring efforts are examined at a basin or …

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SEAGRASS – South East Asia project for General Regional Awareness of Seagrass by Society

Overview The Straits of Malacca is the second busiest ocean maritime trade route in the world with a passage of over a thousand ships a day transiting its waterways. Naturally, this brings with it a lot of environmental pressure and risks to existing natural habitats. However, there are still very special pockets of marine habitats …

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