Celebrating one year of the ECOP Programme!
In celebration of the one year anniversary of the ECOP Programme, we decided to look back over the course of the last year and acknowledge the key people and crucial …
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“Peek into Biodiversity and Beyond” A workshop summary by Anwesha Ghosh
The term ‘Biodiversity’ encompasses all forms of life on Earth and has been critical to human development and sustenance. For a long, scientists have studied biodiversity to disentangle the mysteries …
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Early Career Ocean Professionals are shaping the Ocean’s Future
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 New Generation of Ocean Leaders
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 …
Early-career scientists bring energy, talent and diversity to leadership roles
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 …
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Ocean Decade: Beneath the Net: A Perspective on Fisheries from Alfredo Giron, PhD
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 …
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To Achieve A Sustainable Future, We Need to Include Early Career Professionals in Global Decision-Making
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 …
The Spark We Need, for the Ocean We Want
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 …