By enhancing international collaboration and coordination and providing advice and recommendations to the G7, the G7 Future of the Seas and Oceans Initiative is supporting actions to strengthen and sustain ocean observations for a more sustainable ocean future.
Open and accessible: the Digital Twin of the Ocean
Retirement of the JOIDES Resolution: end of one era, the start of another
Mapping for high seas protected areas
When discovery leads to protection for glass sponge reefs
When the side-scan sonar first picked up unexpected mound features in the Hecate Strait and Queen Charlotte Sound, which runs along the west coast of Canada, nobody expected them to be ancient yet living glass sponge reefs, especially since reef-building glass sponges were thought to have gone extinct during the Cretaceous period.
From the seawire: ocean news in May 2023
A hub of collaboration for the Sargassum Problem
Supporting Africa's aquaculture with earth observation
Part of Phase II of the GMES & Africa programme, the MarCOSIO Consortium leverages satellite data to provide decision support tools for marine and coastal management. One key service they offer focuses on detecting and monitoring algal blooms, enabling aquaculturalists to make informed decisions about the running of their operations.