Join us for our second annual showcase, featuring lightning-style presentations from our member organizations, grantees, and other partners who are working towards an equitable, just & sustainable world where people and planet thrive.
MAY 18 | 1:00 PM | ONLINE
Presentations include:
The “Sea Weaver” project from Leo Hummel, Nippon Foundation Ocean Nexus Center
Lessons from Urban Indigenous Immigrants: Integrated Social & Ecological Dynamics of Informal Communities with Leann Andrews and the rest of the 2020 EarthLab Innovation Grants team
The Communities of Ocean Action on Ocean Acidification, Bronte Tilbrook (CISRO) and Peter Swarzenski (IAEA) will provide updates about progress made on the Voluntary Commitments (VC) and other developments. They will be joined by Roshan Ramessur (OA Africa Network) and Kirsten Isensee (IOC-UNESCO) who will share lessons learned from their VCs during the past year. UN-DESA will conclude the meeting by giving a brief demo on how to submit your own VC and use the COA online resources.
The New England Fishery Management Council will be hosting two Scallop Research Share Days on Thursday, May 6, 2021 and Wednesday, May 12, 2021. Both sessions will be held by webinar and are scheduled to begin at 9:00 a.m.
Share Days provide an opportunity for award recipients of the Scallop Research Set-Aside (RSA) Program to “share” their findings with fishery managers and the public. This year, other scallop researchers who are conducting studies on topics that have been identified by the Council as research priorities also will have the chance to share their work.
Council Chairman Dr. John Quinn said, “Scallop Research Share Days are a great opportunity for fishery managers and stakeholders to learn more about ongoing scallop research in our region. Expanding the scope of this event to include researchers outside of the Scallop RSA Program will help the Council determine where to focus future RSA priorities. I encourage anyone who’s interested in the scallop fishery to join both of the webinar sessions for this event and listen to the short overviews of the important scallop research that’s being conducted in our region.
The presentations will include talks on: • The impacts of offshore wind development and ocean acidification on the scallop resource and fishery; • Scallop recruitment, growth, aquaculture, and transplanting; and • Conservation engineering and bycatch monitoring.
The wide range of topics will inform scallop managers of current research areas and help to identify future research needs. In June, the Council will set Scallop RSA research priorities for the 2022 and 2023 award cycle.
The Council annually “sets aside” 1.25 million pounds of scallop meats that can be used to support research in the fishery. The Council then determines research priorities for each award cycle. NOAA Fisheries manages the RSA competition and administers the program. The share day schedule and webinar registration information follow on the next two pages.
Collecting shells with his son inspired sculptor and surfer Justin Prough’s futurist approach to a new series of sculptures, reliefs, and digital works. The artist’s reimagined seascapes display at TAG Gallery on Los Angeles’ Miracle Mile, April 13-May 8.
LOS ANGELES — Rediscover the beauty of our coastal waters with sculptor Justin Prough’s Shallows. Inspired by the spiraling shells, alien bones, and sea-weathered driftwood collected with his children along the world’s beaches, the artist creates a potential future that considers a shared ecology between man and mollusk.
Artist Justin Prough captures a futurist approach with his new series of sculptures, reliefs, and digital works on display now at TAG Gallery. [Photo Credit: Justin Prough]
“Humanity’s chemistry experiment is reshaping Earth’s air and water, more quickly than at any other time in our planet’s history,” states Prough, a long-time coastal resident and surfer. “Decades of fossil fuel burning, and other man-made air pollutants are carried by winds and mixed into coastal waters causing chemical reactions that threaten vast coastal ecosystems.”
In Shallows, Prough’s assemblage pieces use seashore debris to craft fantastic, fine art seascapes. Concerned with the ecology behind his creations, Prough catalogued the artifacts, noting the location and species of each find. Art and science became an instructional and informative tool for the artist as Prough made many of his discoveries with his son and daughter. Ocean acidification is a primary focus for the show, as many of the found shells used in each sculpture are endangered by continued sea temperature and chemistry changes.
“I dream of a time where we once again live in harmony with nature,” continues the artist. “My sculptures imagine future seascapes and whimsical, biomechanical structures as a way to connect us to our present world and encourage change for a better tomorrow.”
Shallows, a solo fine art exhibit from Prough, displays at TAG Gallery in Los Angeles, April 13-May 8. Register for the free virtual artist talk occurs Friday, April 30, 6pm PT, with guest speaker Dr. Sarah Cooley, Director of Climate Science at Ocean Conservancy®. Additional exhibitions from artists Sküt, with Deep and Wild, and Douglas Teiger, with Spectrum, also exhibit at TAG.
Prough is an award-winning, Los Angeles-area creative director and artist. Building upon the surfing and skateboarding culture of his youth, the artist is often found with his family along Surfrider Beach, County Line, and El Porto.
Title: Effects of hypoxia and ocean acidification on swimming behaviors of Calanus pacificus
Committee co-chairs: Julie Keister, Danny Grünbaum
ABSTRACT: Environmental stressors such as hypoxia and ocean acidification are occurring in an increasing number of coastal systems and impact a range of marine species. In this seminar, I will discuss results from two sets of laboratory experiments examining the effects of hypoxia and acidification on the behavioral response of the calanoid copepod, Calanus pacificus. I will discuss changes in mortality, average depth, and swimming speeds after being exposed to chemical conditions that are already experienced in situ by organisms in places like Puget Sound, WA. Understanding behavioral responses to chemical stressors is necessary to understand how larger-scale population and trophic dynamics are going to be impacted by environmental change in the future.
Location: Universidad Nacional Pedro Ruiz Gallo – Lima, Perú.
Context
The 5th Symposium on the Ocean in a High-CO2 World is being organized by the Pedro Ruiz Gallo National University in cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). This Symposium follows the symposia in Paris in 2004, Monaco in 2008, Monterey in 2012, and Hobart in 2016, which were all key events for the international community of researchers studying ocean acidification and related stressors. The 5th symposia will maintain the traditional focus of the four previous symposia and look at ocean acidification and associated impacts on marine organisms, ecosystems, and biogeochemical cycles. Ocean acidification will be considered in combination with other global changes such as warming and deoxygenation. The Symposium is inter-disciplinary and contributions are expected to detail advances in observations, modelling, field and laboratory studies. Dedicated sessions will emphasize processes and impacts as well as consequences for humans and their potential responses through policy and management.
Goals
The main objective is to achieve a better understanding of the impacts of ocean acidification on different marine ecosystems, as well as on the aquaculture industry; promote the participation of interest groups and the socialization of the problem, mainly the representatives of governments and decision makers, with the aim of adopting a state policy to deal with the acidification of the ocean, in accordance with UNESCO SDG 14 on Life Below Water whose target 14.3 says “minimize and address the impacts of ocean acidification, including through enhanced scientific cooperation at all levels.” The 5th International Symposium will bring together scientists, academics, government representatives, aquaculture entrepreneurs and fish farmers, and students from many countries around the world to present, analyze and evaluate the most relevant results related to ocean acidification and its multiple stress factors, the situation current ocean acidification and various approaches to mitigate, forecast and model capacities, as well as experimentation.
COVID-19 virus update
The 5th Symposium on the Ocean in a High CO2 World has been rescheduled to 2022 due to the COVID-19 outbreak. The meeting venue remains the same, and workshops associated with the symposium should also be rescheduled. Abstract submissions will remain open until 24 April 2022. Senior authors of abstracts already submitted will be contacted to provide an opportunity to modify or update the abstract and the type of presentation (oral or poster).
Discover threats to our oceans and join us to brainstorm solutions to protect and clean our ocean. Participants will engage in experiments about threats such as ocean acidification, erosion and oil spills. Presented by Miami EcoAdventures. Space is limited for this online event. Registration is required. Zoom link will be emailed to registrants within 24 hours of the event start time. Ages 6 yrs.+
• Government Led Responses to Ocean Acidification • Understanding Biological Impacts to Keystone Fisheries and Aquaculture • Monitoring and Regional Networks that Can Help Inform Government Response and Investments
This workshop will occur April 28 1400 CET- 1645 CET and is tailored for participants in:
Belgium Canada Denmark France Finland Germany Greenland Iceland Ireland Netherlands Norway Poland Portugal Spain Sweden United Kingdom
It is imperative that governments and civil society continue to advance the suite of science and policy actions that will be needed to support food security and sovereignty, increase resilience of marine ecosystems and build a sustainable ocean economy. This is reflected in commitments to the UNFCCC, UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), and is especially relevant for supporting the target of SDG 14.3 to “Minimize and address the impacts of ocean acidification”.
As the science, research and observed impacts of ocean acidification continue to grow, there is an ongoing need for increased knowledge exchange and expertise on the substance and process for developing local, regional and national responses in the face of cumulative climate driven ocean change.
This 90-minute webinar will provide a snapshot of OA vulnerability and risk assessments that have already been conducted and highlight strategies and methodologies that account for socio-economic and cultural vulnerabilities.
EPOCA
BIOACID
UK Ocean Acidification Research Programme
MedSeA project
xFOCE
eFOCE