Ocean Assemblage

The group is expected to continue to facilitate intersessional consultations on the review of the Commission’s Rules of Procedure and the draft guidelines for reporting in-kind contributions, in addition to its usual remit with regard to programming and budgeting matters.

The group will mainly work by correspondence after the issuance of IOC Circular Letter 2915 under the lead of Prof. Karim Hilmi (Morocco). The group is composed of members from the following Member States: [to be updated by 21/01/2023] Argentina, Bangladesh, Belgium, Benin, Canada, Egypt, Germany, Japan, Kuwait, Norway, Turkey, UK, and USA.

The work of the IOC Intersessional Financial Advisory Group is carried forward by the sessional Financial Committee established when the Assembly meets in plenary session in June 2023.

*** AS WITH ALL OUR COURSES IF THE DATES / TIMES DO NOT SUIT YOU PLEASE CONTACT US AND WE CAN ARRANGE ALTERNTIVE DATES AND TIMES ***

You can take this course together with the Coral Reef Conservation course on the same day and get a discount. Look at our events for more details or contact us before booking.

Project AWARE® Specialist (Newly Revised) Uniting scuba divers and water enthusiasts to make a difference. By earning this certification, you’ll be aware of the most pressing problems facing aquatic environments and how to protect them. Project AWARE’s philosophy is to mobilize a global force of scuba divers and water enthusiasts who care about protecting the world’s water resources and choose to make a difference – one dive at a time. By earning the Project AWARE Specialist certification, you’ll be aware of the most pressing problems facing vulnerable aquatic environments and know what everyday actions you can take to help protect them. Anyone who has an interest in the aquatic world should take this course. There are no prerequisites, age restrictions or water sessions required for this non-diving specialty. Through virtual classroom discussions, you learn:

– How Project AWARE unites scuba divers and water enthusiasts to make a difference.

– About environmental issues in the ocean commons and coastal zones.

– About fisheries challenges and sustainability problems.   –

– What’s happening to coral reefs and reef inhabitants.

– Your role in protecting aquatic environments.

At the end of this course you receiver an electronic PDF certificate to recognize your attendance. If you are a qualified PADI diver then this course can count to your Master Scuba Diving Rating. In order for this to count you should upgrade your certificate to a PADI PIC Certification Card (This will be a E-Card you will need the PADI app to display this). We can discuss how to do this at the time of the course. (Cost is an additional £75).

What’s included as standard ?

– Electronic PDF Certificate of attendance.

– 24 months Access to our website which shares valuable resources on project aware. And all the materials you need for the course.

At additional cost, depending on the ticket you choose, we will also include

Course Hand out and Work Book, and a printed on card certificate of attendance – These are posed out second class to UK addresses, and posted out before the course. Please allow 7 days for delivery and chance for you to read through.

If you are thinking of doing the Coral Reef conservation course as well, take a look at our combined event, which runs on at weekends and will be delivered in English only. Its the participants responsibility to ensure that you have good internet access, and capable of running Skype preferably from a pc. Webcams are optional but audio is a requirement. An email with a link will be sent to you when your place is confirmed. Please ensure your email address given is correct. You don’t have to have skype installed you can join by the web client.

International Attendance. We are happy to extend this course outside of the UK. We regret for the moment Workbooks and certificates can not be posted out to places outside of the UK mainland. You will still receive an email PDF certificate and all required materials can be viewed under the resources on our website.

Refund Policy :- A full refund is not possible if cancelled less than 14 days in advance of the course. You may however reschedule your course to be a date with in 90 days of the original course booking.

Once we receive your order, we will email you information within 48 hours. If you have not received an email please check your Junk/Spam settings. Our email address is courses@trainmetodo.co.uk

The Oceans Research in Canada Alliance (ORCA) 2023 ‘Together, Let’s Build a Strong Canadian Contribution to the Ocean Decade’ Meeting aims to provide a platform for sharing information, building on existing collaborations and establishing new partnerships across the diverse Canadian ocean community and in support of Canada’s contribution to the Ocean Decade. This event is being hosted by ORCA in partnership, and on location, with the Canadian Meteorological and Oceanographic Society (CMOS) Congress being held that same week.

The programming and format will feature:

• Opportunities to share ideas and stimulate collaboration and cooperation across disciplines, sectors, and thematic areas;
• A comprehensive mix of presentations, thematic workshops, and scientific programming;
• Keynote presentations, an interactive panel discussion, Ocean Decade-themed breakout groups, and seven concurrent interactive sessions.
• Active participation of the Ocean Decade Champions and their associated thematic communities of practice.

Connect with leading edge scientists, landscape architects, and climate activists to explore Indigenous Knowledge and sea-level rise issues

The Wild Bird Trust membership, local DNV residents and interested publics are invited to attend our second annual symposium (June 3rd, 2023, 10am-2pm, Maplewood Flats Nature House) to connect with leading edge scientists from UBC’s Living with Water Institute, Indigenous Knowledge keepers, and practitioners exploring sea-level rise issues in Burrard Inlet.

We will consider global and local impacts on climate change and sea-level rise, explore actions and innovations being taken, understand how Indigenous Knowledge is guiding solutions, and consider landscape architecture alternatives on the site. Speakers will be present in the nature house, as well as across the site through scheduled nature walks.

By centering climate solutions with Indigenous Knowledge we can effectively apply both a justice lens and a science lens to this crisis. Hear from a wide range of professionals and academics who use tools to address the sea-level rise here in Coast Salish lands and waters. Public policy on climate change adaptation must include education and orientation to practical local solutions.

Through our 2nd annual symposium we bring hard science and technical solutions to the waterfront of the DNV. Climate action can not be led and solved by technicians and specialists, it has to be conducted and advanced by the public. This program directly trains local residents and provides opportunities to apply knowledge systems in situ at Maplewood Flats. This makes one of the key sites in North Vancouver more adaptive and resilient to the impacts of climate change by centering solutions in the public domain.

HOW TO ATTEND: This event will be onsite at the Nature House and on the trails. After registering, you will receive an email confirmation from Eventbrite. We will also send you a Volunteer Intake Form that we invite you to complete in advance of the session.

Tickets are $20 including lunch. FREE for Coast Salish.

Coffee and bannock served from 10:30-11am and bowl of soup served at 1-1:15pm

We are celebrating Ocean Week 2023 alongside the rest of Canada as the country with the largest coastline in the world.

We have built an expert panel to be with us on June 3rd to talk about their work and connection to how water shapes us.

Thank you to Canadian Ocean Literacy Coalition and Canada Ocean Week for funding this event in Pincher Creek. We’re excited to be part of the nationwide event!

Starting at 1:00 pm: Katie Morrison, the Executive Director of CPAWS, Southern Alberta Chapter and Shannon Frank, the Executive Director of Oldman Watershed Coalition will be here for presentations and a panel discussion alongside local artist,Karen Tamminga-Paton.

Karen will be giving an artist talk on her time as an artist working with the Canadian Ocean Literacy Coalition at the IMPAC 5 conference (the Fifth International Marine Protected Areas Congress) in Vancouver this past February.

Mural Project

As a way to engage students in learning about watersheds and the water system, we are hosting another community mural inside of the Lebel Mansion.

The 2nd floor has a wall that needs a little love and what better way to engage kids in a local community space than to have their help painting a mural on the wall!

If your kids would like to join us you can sign up for our June 2nd and 9th Art Classes at the links below:

After School Art ages 6-9

Artists @ Heart ages 9+

In celebration of Ocean Week Canada 2023, oceanographer John Roff will be presenting his talk “Drawing Lines on the Oceans – Planning for Marine Conservation” at the St. Margaret Sailing Club.

Planet Ocean is 71% covered by water. Life originated here and the greatest diversity of living things is still found here. Without our oceans there would be no life on ‘Earth’.

Systematic conservation of marine life and environments has been slow to develop compared to the terrestrial part of our world.

This talk will ask (and start to answer) questions such as:

• Why, as terrestrial beings, should we be concerned with conservation of marine environments?

• How can we decide what parts of the oceans should be protected, and how can you draw lines on an ocean?

• How much of the marine environment should be protected?

• How can marine conservation be adapted to the effects of climate change?

John Roff is presently a consultant to WWF Canada and WWF International on marine conservation planning in the Canadian Arctic Ocean and wider International Arctic Ocean and president of the St. Margaret’s Bay Stewardship Association.

With advanced degrees from Cambridge University and Newcastle University, John Roff’s extensive marine conservation background includes: past European Scholar in the European Union Erasmus Mundus Programme, teaching graduate courses in Marine Conservation, at the University of Algarve in Portugal and University of Ghent in Belgium and previous Canada Research Chair at Acadia University, Nova Scotia, in Environment and Conservation. He is author of over 100 peer reviewed scientific articles, and numerous reports on various aspects of aquatic ecology and the environment. John has worked all over the world, from the arctic to the tropics, in all three of Canada’s oceans, with emphasis on coastal temperate Atlantic waters. John is also an avid sailor.

This event is free and open to the public. Advance registration is required due to capacity limits.

Doors and bar open at 6:30 p.m.

Presentation starts at 7:00 p.m.

The new topical resource collections that include NOAA videos, lesson plans, webinars, web stories, virtual reality, and much more are a great one-stop-shop for educators interested in topics, such as climate change, ocean acidification, ocean sound and the impact of noise. This webinar will dig into the collections for coral reefs and kelp forest ecosystems so that you can start using these educational materials right away to bring the ocean into your classroom or facility.

Led by the U.S. National Marine Sanctuary Foundation, Capitol Hill Ocean Week (CHOW) is a series of events exploring sustainable use of the Great Lakes and the ocean, with a strong emphasis on U.S.-based policy and action. This year, the theme of the week is the importance of greater ocean-climate connections in policy and action. On June 6, ocean and climate stakeholders will engage with elected representatives on ocean policy issues. The hybrid event will also have workshops and discussions throughout the week.

On 6-7 June 2023 in Lisbon, BlueBio will hold two major events. The first is the end-term evaluation of the 19 projects from the Cofunded call in 2018. The second is the mid-term evaluation of the 10 projects from the 1st Additional Call in 2020.

ABOUT THE UN WORLD OCEANS DAY CELEBRATION

The ocean covers the majority of the earth, but only a small portion of its waters has been explored. Despite humanity’s utter reliance on it, and compared to the breadth and depth of what it gives us, the ocean receives only a fragment of our attention and resources in return.

But tides are changing.

To celebrate the United Nations World Oceans Day 2023 theme, Planet Ocean, the United Nations is joining forces with decision makers, scientists, private sector executives, civil society representatives, indigenous communities, celebrities and youth activists and more to put the ocean first.

JOIN UN WOD 2023

Join us on 8 June 2023 for United Nations World Oceans Day hosted by the Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea of the Office of Legal Affairs in partnership with Oceanic Global and supported by Panerai.

Through the UN World Oceans Day 2023 theme  Planet Ocean: Tides are Changing, We will discover how Earth is more than it may seem, and generate a new wave of excitement towards cherishing and protecting the ocean and the entirety of our blue planet.

2023 PROGRAM

Through a series of keynotes, roundtable discussions, spotlight presentations, and performances, the day will underscore humanity’s interconnectivity to the ocean and illustrate its cross-sector potential. Global thought leaders and advocates will also shed light on missed opportunities and ongoing work to bridge gaps across representation, knowledge, and capacity building to better understand the ocean for all that it has to offer – and for the wonder that it is

This year’s United Nations World Oceans Day (UN WOD) celebrates the theme Planet Ocean: Tides are Changing. In celebration of the 2023 event, the United Nations are joining forces with decision makers, scientists, private sector executives, civil society representatives, indigenous communities, celebrities and youth activists to underscore how earth is more than it may seem and finally put the ocean first.

Tune-in for the live broadcast on 8 June 2023

The annual event will be broadcast live on Thursday 8 June 2023 on UN TV. UN WOD 2023 is hosted by the United Nations Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea, Office of Legal Affairs(DOALOS) in partnership withOceanic Global , supported by Panerai, with contribution by Discover Earth.

By registering for the virtual event, you will receive updates on the full-program, featured speakers, ways to amplify World Oceans Day and more! We invite you to Save-the-Date and join us for the virtual broadcast of this globally reaching event on 8 June, 2023.

In celebration of World Ocean’s Day, Dalhousie’s Faculty of Science is hosting it’s third annual ocean’s themed panel discussion.

This year’s discussion will include subject matter experts from Dalhousie University and the community, to explore an in-depth conversation on shark conservation and research in Nova Scotia.

Guest speakers include, Kirsti Burnett (BSc’15) (SHARCC), Dr. Chris Harvey-Clark (Dalhousie), Dr. Manuel Dureuil (PhD’19)(SHAARC), Dr. Fred Whoriskey (Ocean Tracking Network) and event moderator, Vanessa Schiliro.

Join the discussion to learn about the fascinating behaviors of sharks and the latest research taking place in Nova Scotia. Members of the audience will have the opportunity to ask questions following the discussion.

Contact us:

Have any questions? Email jocelyn.adams@dal.ca.

June 10th – OTTAWA, ONTARIO

In collaboration with the Summer Solstice Indigenous Festival, on June 10 visitors will:

• Experience a live book reading of Nibi’s Water Journey from Anishinaabeg author Sunshine Tenasco
• Learn about Indigenous culture and the importance of clean drinking water.
• Explore how to tackle large environmental issues that may seem “too large to face” and how every action big or small is important.

Details

Address: Canadian Museum of Nature, McLeod Street, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Cost: Free
Format: In-Person
Category: Presentation, Interactive Event, Indoors, Story-telling / Book Launch
Region: Great Lakes and St. Lawrence
Audience: Kids & Families, Adults
Accessibility: Wheelchair Accessible, English, French

Coastal Zone Canada Conference 2023

June 11 – 15, 2023  Victoria, B.C.

Engaging keynote speakers, panel discussions and break-out groups

Network with hundreds of people with a passion for the coastal environment

Our first in-person conference since CZC2018 in St. John’s!

We are very excited to host you in-person at the beautiful Victoria Conference Centre in Victoria, British Columbia from June 11 to June 15, 2023, and know many of you need to start planning.   Registration for CZC2023 is now open.  The pricing table for the conference is set out below.

Click on Register Now in the table below to complete registration using our conference platform Ex Ordo.

Link to table: https://coastalzonecanada.org/czc2023/#conf-4

OMAE 2023

42nd International Conference on Ocean, Offshore & Arctic Engineering

Join your colleagues from industry, academia, and government at the 42nd International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering (OMAE 2023) in Melbourne, Australia from June 11 – 16, 2023.

Welcome from the OMAE 2023 Conference Chairs

Welcome to the 42nd Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering Conference (OMAE) in Melbourne, Australia, hosted by the OOAE Division of ASME. OMAE combines Academia with Industry to adapt scientific achievements into practical applications for a smart, sustainable, and safe use of our oceans.

We, the organizers, are very excited to greet you. This is the first time the OMAE conference will be held in both the Southern & Eastern Hemispheres simultaneously. OMAE 2023 will promote the relevant engineering research and applications in the vast region of Australian waters, and more generally in Oceania and South- Eastern Asia. In return, the visitors will have a chance to meet and learn from researchers and engineers working in unique marine environments whose diversity is unprecedented. We have three exciting special symposia lined up to celebrate Australia’s contribution to research, to highlight the nations in the Pacific Ocean and to promote the Blue Economy research activities underway in the region.

The Ocean Technology Council of Nova Scotia, in partnership with the Government of Canada, the Province of Nova Scotia and COVE, is pleased to present the H2O: Home to Overseas Conference on Monday, June 12 to Wednesday, June 14, 2023, at the Halifax Convention Centre.

CANADA’S PREMIER EVENT FOR THE OCEAN TECHNOLOGY SECTOR

The Home to Overseas Conference is rapidly becoming Canada’s premier event for the ocean technology sector and is attracting significant international participation—there were 25 countries represented in 2021.

Ocean technology is defined as a horizontal sector covering the technologies applicable to such sectors as marine defence, marine energy (offshore extractive and renewable), marine environmental monitoring, marine transportation, aquaculture, fisheries and marine tourism.

The H2O Conference is an ideal event to engage with the ocean technology industry. The conference will include international delegates, research, development and commercialization presentations, and B2B meetings. This year’s conference will also include on-water demos at the Centre for Ocean Ventures & Entrepreneurship (COVE).

NEXT STOP: SEATTLE IN 2023!

For the 16th edition of our conference, Green Marine is heading to the West Coast, more precisely to Seattle, WA! Save the dates: the conference will take place from Monday, June 12 to Wednesday, June 14 at the Grand Hyatt Seattle Hotel.

GreenTech is the not-to-be-missed event of the year for anyone interested in the maritime industry, green technologies, and innovation in sustainable maritime transportation.

The program always includes renowned speakers, state-of-the-art exhibitors, networking opportunities with a large array of people keenly interested in sustainable maritime transportation, and more!

The annual conference allows Green Marine to pursue its mission since the profits generated by the event are entirely reinvested in the improvement of the environmental certification program.

From Theory to Practice: How Can Energy System Modelling Support Atlantic Canada’s Transition to Net Zero Emissions.

Atlantic Canadian policymakers, businesses, and households are confronted with many “what if” questions about the future of our region’s energy system. Energy system models can provide the structure and transparency needed to explore these questions and to enable informed and inclusive decision-making on the path to net zero greenhouse gas emissions.

In this context, Net Zero Atlantic (NZA) and the Energy Modelling Hub (EMH) invite you to join us in Halifax, Nova Scotia on June 12th and 13th, 2023 for the first regional Atlantic Canadian Energy System Modelling Conference. With a focus on bringing theory to practice, the conference will feature presentations, panels, and workshops that will explore how energy system modelling can support Atlantic Canada’s transition to net zero greenhouse gas emissions. Bringing together policymakers, business leaders, researchers, and energy system modelers from across Atlantic Canada and beyond, the Forum will 1) help to enable regional collaboration around energy system planning and 2) integrate Atlantic Canada with the national energy system modelling community.

Day 1 of the event will feature several thematic speaker sessions with a focus on critical, current energy system topics in Atlantic Canada including: hydrogen, interregional transmission, distributed energy resources, population growth, and more.

On Day 2, NZA and EMH will facilitate a series of panels and workshops to 1) help Forum attendees put energy system modelling insights into practice and 2) define next steps for the energy system modelling community in Atlantic Canada.

This event will be held at Pier 21, 1055 Marginal Rd 1055 Marginal Road Halifax, NS B3H 4P7.

REGISTER HERE

Welcome to the 29th Underwater Technology Conference

Securing global energy

At Grieghallen in Bergen, Norway 13 – 15th June 2023

Relive the 28th annual Underwater Technology Conference that took place at Grieghallen in Bergen, Norway 14 – 16th June 2022.

Experience Canada’s premier interactive on-water event

On June 14, 2023, COVE hosts the premier event for on-water demonstrations of the latest marine technology innovations. COVE Demo Day features interactive and engaging demonstrations from world-leading marine technology innovators, all on-site at COVE’s facility in Dartmouth.

As part of the OTCNS-led H2O Conference, COVE Demo Day delivers a high-quality production showcasing the best in marine innovation and research.

Be a part of the action at COVE Demo Day!

In 2022, over 350 manufacturers, service providers, and business leaders from over 180 organizations and 21 countries attended COVE Demo Day. Guests enjoyed hands-on demonstrations from over 30 different companies showcasing revolutionary marine technology innovations. This year, we aim to make COVE Demo Day bigger and better with more dynamic programming and unbeatable networking opportunities.

This will be the 8th in IMBeR’s Climate and Ecosystems (ClimEco) Summer School series. ClimEco summer schools are designed for 60-70 post-graduate students and early career researchers, and are led by an extraordinary interdisciplinary group of marine scientists, many who are leaders in their respective fields.

ClimEco8 is an endorsed United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development activity.

When and Where

ClimEco8 will be held from 19-24 June 2023 at the ZRS-Mediterranean Institute for Environmental Studies in Koper, Slovenia

Focus of ClimEco8

The United Nations declared 2021-2030 as the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development. The objective is to motivate international efforts aimed at improving ocean health by providing the science necessary for sustainable development of the oceans to underpin ‘The ocean we need for the future we want’. Achieving this, however, needs more than more than ‘just’ more data and knowledge. It will require new approaches for understanding and tackling complex socio-ecological problems in their entirety. It will require an increased focus on building ocean literacy and public support for ocean futures. It also needs scientists and decision-makers to identify how to facilitate the use of available science and encourage the necessary change of behaviours, and the implementation of policies— at individual, local and global scales — that will leverage greater environmental benefit. The task at hand is a challenging one, that will require scientists to be able to work across disciplines, across knowledge systems, and with a diversity of stakeholders.

The marine environment consists of complex systems. These involve interconnected aspects with delicate trade-offs between exploitation by human activities and conservation of natural resources.

Sustainable socio-economic and environmental interference with these systems requires a fundamental scientific knowledge base. The EU and Member States are tackling many environmental challenges with different approaches, through legislation and interventions in many sectors. The concept of marine Good Environmental Status (GES) is at the core of most of the policy challenges.

In this context, the MSFD EU directive has provided a fundamental milestone towards the cooperation and integration of national efforts. Yet there are key scientific challenges that remain to be addressed, notably towards the understanding of the processes underlying the dynamics of the marine ecosystem impacted by human activities. Member States are struggling to make efficient and effective their huge investments in data collection and reporting, and in adopting appropriate interventions. Moreover, they are now facing the revision of the MSFD with new inputs that need to be incorporated into the process.

JPI Oceans (Joint Programme Initiative on Healthy and Productive Seas and Oceans) is an intergovernmental strategic platform that coordinates and integrates research efforts on marine and maritime challenges. It has been officially adopted in 2011 by the Council of the European Union and involves relevant ministries and research funders from European Member States, Associated Countries, and international partners in different typologies of actions (https://jpi-oceans.eu/).

In November 2019, JPI Oceans has launched a Joint Action called “Science for Good Environmental Status (S4GES)”, to better understand marine ecosystems, how multiple activities impact the environment and how the requests of the MSFD can be fulfilled (see S4GES and Sprovieri et al., 2021).

Eleven national institutions from the participating countries have agreed to adopt an innovative approach for the assessment of GES. A first observational campaign on board of the RV Belgica has been carried out in July 2023 and data analysis is now providing preliminary results.

This is an opportune time to debate the new results from different initiatives within the scientific community, to promote a salient knowledge-based support to policy, and to give new substance to interpretation of GES.

Ocean Race Mission: The Ocean Race will visit nine iconic international cities over a six-month period, with leg one starting from Alicante, Spain, and passing through Genova, Italy – The Grand Finale – on 25-26 June 2023. This year the Ocean Race will set a link with the Mission Ocean & Waters. Italian Ministries, MEPs, and the President of the European Parliament, Roberta Metsola, have been invited to attend the event which may be attended by the Commissioner too.