UN Decade Public Outreach Event

October 6, 2021

Colleagues:

On Friday 17th September, the Division of Ocean Sciences held a public webinar on several NSF supported projects and initiatives as part of the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development “laboratories” program.

The UN Decade “laboratories” are coordinated outreach events that take place over a three day period, with each “laboratory” being based on a theme or goal of the UN Decade. The recent event was part of the UN Decade’s “predicted ocean” theme and consisted of four presentations aimed at a general public audience.

The event was introduced by Lindsay Martin (GEO) and the presentations included:

Dr Joellen Russel, University of Arizona, on the Global Ocean Biogeochemical array https://www.go-bgc.org/.
Dr John Trowbridge, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, on the Ocean Observatories Initiative https://oceanobservatories.org/.
Dr Phoebe Lam, University of California Santa Cruz, on the GEOTRACES program https://www.geotraces.org/.
Dr Chris Parsons (OCE), on the National Deep Submergence Facility https://ndsf.whoi.edu/.

A video of the webinar can be found here https://www.nsf.gov/geo/oce/ocean-obs/ocean-observing-webinar-video.mp4. (Note: the size of the video is 600+ MB)

Sincerely,

Terry Quinn

Division Director, OCE

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