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On Friday 12 June 2020, EMB Executive Director Sheila Heymans gave an overview of how the EMB has been developing, promoting and linking marine science to societal challenges in the past 25 years. She did this as the guest speaker on the AIR Centre Networking Fridays, moderated by Wendy Watson-Wright.

On 8 June 2020, the new EMB Working Group on Underwater Noise met for the first time during the kick-off meeting held online. The meeting was chaired by Frank Thomsen (DHI, Denmark) and Sonia Mendes (JNCC, UK).

Today EMB launches Policy Brief No. 8 on “Policy Needs for Oceans and Human Health” (pdf), produced together with the EU-funded SOPHIE (Seas, Oceans and Public Health in Europe) project of which EMB is a partner.

EMB’s 6^th Future Science Brief on ‘Big Data in Marine Science’ was launched today during a dedicated webinar, with over 400 participants. The publication is the outcome of the work of the EMB Working Group on Big Data, which kicked-off in May 2019.

Today EMB launches Policy Brief No. 7 on “Next Generation European Research Vessels” (pdf) at the EUROFLEETS+ project meeting in Lisbon.

We are delighted to introduce our two new EMB Young Ambassadors! We can now announce that Natalija Dunić, a PostDoc from EMB Member the Institute of Oceanography and Fisheries (IZOR) in Croatia, and Alessandro Cresci, a PostDoc at EMB Member the Institute of Marine Research (IMR) in Norway, have been selected! You can find out more about them here. We look forward to working with them.

On 10-11 February 2020, the EMB Working Group on marine geohazards and the blue economy held its kick-off meeting in Rome. The group will deliver a Future Science Brief highlighting the importance on increasing our knowledge on marine geohazards and the risks they can pose to current and future activities at sea and the population at the coast.