ECOP Stories
Photo credit: Dimitris Poursanidis / Ocean Image Bank
ECOP Stories
ECOP Stories features an Early Career Ocean Professional from our global network, so we can learn more about, and amplify their work and find out how it fits into the wider scope of the Decade of Ocean Science.
We are currently searching for more ECOPs to share their story and have an open call for ECOPs working towards:
📡 Challenge 7: Expand the Global Ocean Observing System
🛜 Challenge 8: Create a digital representation of the ocean
Click the link below to fill in the interview and take part.
Click on the ECOP below to visit their interview.
Fisheries and Environmental Engineer at the National Institute of Marine Sciences and Technologies of Tunisia
Marine social scientist based in Yokohama, Japan, exploring relationships between people and the sea, mainly in the Asia-Pacific region
Founder, Managing Trustee and Executive Director and Co-Founder, Mass Communication and Social Media of Prameya Foundation, India
MSc Sustainability graduate with a paper on Ocean literacy and surfing, eXXpedition ambassador and coordinator of Citizens of Surf
Pacific Island marine scientist from Fiji, Archipelagic and Island States Forum Scholar
Knowledge broker for the NESP Climate Systems Hub and postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre for Marine Socioecology in Tasmania
PHD candidate studying the marine microbiome with the Marine Biological Association, Plymouth, UK
Member of EarthEcho International’s Youth Leadership Council, Indonesia
Assistant Manager for the Ocean Bridge program at Ocean Wise & National Program Assistant at ECOP Canada
Ocean literacy coordinator at the Observatory for Marine and Coastal Governance, Colombia.
ECOP Asia intern, co-lead for ECOP Malaysia Node and Marine Pollution and Toxicology researcher, City University of Hong Kong.
Martina Gaglioti Challenge 10
Marine biologist, cofounder of UN Ocean Decade Action TRASH TALK IN ACTION.
Rose Kirigo Challenge 10
Community engagement through mangrove restoration, innovation and restoration.
Subhashi Tania de Silva Challenge 10
Sri Lankan environmental journalist and student of environmental psychology.
Nuno Mussa Manuel Ussene Escamade Challenge 9
Marine Sciences Masters Student originally from Mozambique, studying in Brazil