The Ocean Acidification International Coordination Centre (OA-ICC) hosted their annual expert group meeting at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Environmental Laboratories in Monaco on 28 June. The goal of the technical meeting was to report and foster discussion on the coordination of OA-ICC activities within the past year as well as plans for the upcoming year.
Included in the 18 participants of this meeting were focal points for the OA-ICC capacity building initiatives, data management and outreach, collaboration between natural and social sciences, best practices in ocean acidification research, among other efforts. This year marks the 5th year of the OA-ICC, as well as the 10th SOLAS-IMBER OA working group meeting, whose participants are closely involved in OA-ICC activities and who all attended the OA-ICC Expert Group meeting in Monaco.
