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How is our health linked to the ocean?

08 June 2020

Join the SOPHIE project on World Oceans Day to find out how human health is linked to the ocean, and how the ocean depends on us.
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Virtual Ocean Literacy Summit - Launch EU4Ocean Coalition

08 June 2020

Join the Virtual Ocean Literacy Summit on World Ocean Day, the occasion where we will officially launch the EU4Ocean Coalition. The Commissioner for Environment, Oceans and Fisheries, Virginijus Sinkevičius will be addressing the need for a stronger connection between Europeans and the ocean.
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EMB Spring Plenary 2020

27 May 2020 to 28 May 2020

The European Marine Board Spring Plenary meeting will take place on Wednesday 27 and Thursday 28 May 2020 and will be held online. The event was intended to be hosted by the University of Gothenburg but current circumstances mean this is not possible. The plenary documents are now available on the restricted member pages.

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Big Data in Marine Science Webinar

29 April 2020

This webinar was the launch for the new EMB Future Science Brief on Big Data in Marine Science.
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People, Ocean and Health Webinar

30 March 2020

The final conference of the SOPHIE Project which was scheduled for 30 March 2020 in Brussels was cancelled and replaced with a webinar to launch the Strategic Research Agenda for Oceans and Human Health Research in Europe. 

 

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Brown Bag Lunch n°4 on Blue Carbon

14 February 2020

On Friday 14 February 2020, EMB hosted its 4th Brown Bag Lunch to discuss Blue Carbon. Blue Carbon refers to organic carbon that is captured and stored by the oceans and coastal ecosystems.  In particular, the vegetated coastal ecosystems of seagrass meadows, tidal marshes, and mangrove forests sequester and store more carbon per unit area than terrestrial forests and are now being recognised for their role in mitigating climate change. Prof. Hilary Kennedy from the University of Bangor (UK) is one of the leading experts in Europe on this topic and she provided some insight on the latest developments in this field.

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Stakeholder workshop around the EMB Position Paper No.25 "Next Generation European Research Vessel"

23 January 2020

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Key environmental challenges & the role of the Sustainable Development Goals

19 November 2019

The European Marine Board’s Policy Brief No6 ‘Navigating the Future V: Recommendations for the Ocean Decade’ will be launched at European Parliament on 19th November, 2019 as part of the 'Key environmental challenges & the role of the Sustainable Development Goals' event. The Policy Brief provides recommendations developed by European experts, as part of Navigating the Future V, to ensure that ocean science supports and guides the implementation of the SDGs, which is the focus of the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainability (2021-2030). There is a need for a solutions-oriented, transdisciplinary marine research agenda to address the societal outcomes of the Ocean Decade. An increased use of ocean resources is required to achieve the SDGs and this must be done within the context of protecting biodiversity and ecosystem services to ensure their long-term sustainability. This event is co-organized by the European Bureau for Conservation and Development.

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EMB Autumn Plenary 2019

05 November 2019 to 06 November 2019

The EMB Autumn Plenary Meeting will be held on 5 November 2019 in Berlin, Germany and will be hosted by KDM. An open session on 6 November will be held jointly with the EurOcean Foundation
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EMB Brown Bag Lunch: How marine stations address societal challenges

02 October 2019

What would the perfect network of biodiversity observatories in Europe look like, what would it be able to achieve, how would it make the lives of Europeans better, and how would it make policy-makers’ work easier? Dr. Matthew Frost, MBA Deputy Director and President of the European Network of Marine Stations (MARS) sparked the conversation on this topic at EMB's 3rd Brown Bag Lunch Session on Wednesday 2 October at the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences in Brussels.

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