The members of the SCOR project Changing Ocean Biological Systems (COBS) gathered at the IAEA Marine Environment Laboratories in Monaco from 7-8 October 2024 for their annual meeting. The Working group has developed Best Practices and tools to plan meaningful multifactorial experiments in the laboratory to assess the impact of multiple stressors on marine organisms. It carries out capacity building activities to train scientists on the use of these resources. Still, key concepts to carry out multi-stressor experiments have not made their way to the broader scientific community.
During the meeting, the group discussed plans and strategies to incorporate new emerging concepts related to the field of multiple stressors, including the need to combine local and global stressors, as well as the incorporation of time from short term variability to long term evolutionary aspects. A plan for improving the communication of multiple stressor science was developed, from scientific capacity development to high-level policy.
The Working Group brings together experts from Chile, China, Germany, India, New Zealand, Sweden, UK and the US. The meeting was co-supported by SCOR and the IAEA Ocean Acidification international Coordination Centre (OA-ICC).
From 18-29 November 2024, the OA-ICC will organize the second edition of its Winter School on ocean acidification in a multiple stressor context, which will include some of the concepts and resources developed by the SCOR COBS Working Group.
OA-ICC, 11 October 2024.
