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By Taylor Goelz, Jonatha Giddens, Alfredo Giron, Harriet Harden-Davies, Evgeniia Kostianaia, Guillermo Ortuno Crespo, Erin Satterwaite, Edward Senkondo, and the membership of the former ECOP Internal Working Group http://digital.ecomagazine.com/publication/frame.php?i=707374&p=244&pn=&ver=html5

A view of the high Norwegian Arctic while aboard the research vessel Lance (July 2015). Rick Bajornas/UN, CC BY-SA Today, the world’s oceans are faced with threats at every turn – accelerating climate change, loss of marine biodiversity, and expanding resource extraction, including deep-sea mining, and more. These all come at a time when humanity’s dependence on …

A New Generation of Ocean Leaders Read More »

Alfredo Giron-Nava didn’t spot many peers at the inaugural meeting of the United Nations Decade of Ocean Sciences for Sustainable Development. The postdoctoral researcher was one of only six junior scientists at the event, held in Copenhagen in May 2019. Four of them began discussions on how to boost the representation of junior scientists in …

Early-career scientists bring energy, talent and diversity to leadership roles Read More »

The United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development 2021-2030 (the Decade) is a mere 5 months away and work has been ongoing to prepare for its arrival. As a whole, the Decade encompasses participative and transformative approaches to solving our world ocean’ issues with the ultimate goal of better benefiting both our oceans …

Ocean Decade: Beneath the Net: A Perspective on Fisheries from Alfredo Giron, PhD Read More »

A panel of early-career professionals from the OceanObs’19 conference in September 2019. Co-author Erin Satterthwaite is second from the left. Credit: OceanObs’19 Conference. Central to sustainable development is the vexing question of how we address the pressing needs of the present while sustaining essential resources for all future generations. The intergovernmental processes pursuing answers to …

To Achieve A Sustainable Future, We Need to Include Early Career Professionals in Global Decision-Making Read More »

Walter Munk “Failures” as a Young Scholar… (or were they?) Walter Munk, one of history’s greatest oceanographers, frequently mentioned his fear that young researchers are no longer pursuing high-risk, high-reward projects. Driven by competition for limited funding, strict career expectations, and apparent lack of encouragement, daring research projects led by younger researchers seemed to him …

The Spark We Need, for the Ocean We Want Read More »