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In celebration of World Ocean Month, the U.S. National Science Foundation Division of Ocean Sciences invites you to the 7th annual Frontiers in Ocean Sciences Symposium on Monday, June 30, 12:30–4:30 PM (EDT). This free, virtual event spotlights scientists advancing ocean research and features a discussion on a publicly-available consensus…

AccelNet BioGeoSCAPES and the Center for Chemical Currencies of a Microbial Planet (C-COMP) are pleased to announce a co-sponsored in-person Modeling Workshop, taking place September 10–12, 2025 at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) in Woods Hole, MA, USA.

This workshop will bring together…

Several groups, including Environmental Defense Fund, Ocean Conservancy, and the Marine Conservation Initiative are working to advance an IUCN motion (see 1-pager ) and it’s currently in the comments phase. 

A comment has been raised that one of the main calls in the motion—a…

We are looking for 1-2 ECOPs to work with Adamu Salisu as  the joint leads for the JETZON ECOP network. If you have ideas you want to pursue with the ECOP group that's great, but even just being willing to get people together to talk, for them to come up with and discuss ideas, would be very valuable.

At the same time we would like to extend many thanks to Yéssica Contreras-Pacheco…

The BBC Natural History Unit is embarking on an ambitious and exciting challenge, to make a 3-episode series dedicated to the remarkable inhabitants of the deep. Each episode of "Project Odyssey" will take the audience on a wild journey to meet the most incredible animals and habitats on earth and reveal how they shine a light on our own existence.   …

Last year, a working group within the JETZON community on microplastics was created. 

To bring together a broad community of academics interested in studying microplastics in the Twilight Zone, we have created a survey. 

 THE CALL FOR DECADE ACTIONS NO. 09/2025 IS OPEN!
 
The vision of the Ocean Decade is ‘the science we need for the ocean we want’.

You are invited to contribute to that vision by requesting endorsement for transformative Decade Actions via Call for Decade Actions No. 09/2025.

For JETZON, actions are particularly encouraged under our current themes:

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Prof Elva Escobar has been involved in creating an excellent Ocean Literacy web page, with materials for high school teachers and others for students both highschool and undergraduate.

This is the link:

https://www.icmyl.unam.mx/CulturaOceanica/index.html

The webpage is in Spanish and hosted by the National…

With many thanks to Katy Baker, who has been doing a great job of running our monthly calls in the Pacific timezone for some time but wishes to step down, we are looking for someone to take on this task.

It involves finding a couple of speakers for a call every two months (it alternates with the Atlantic timezone call) and running the call: introducing the speakers,…

Please provide input by 30 April.

It’s that time of year when the UN Ocean Decade ask us to update them on what has been happening in JETZON in the last 12 months.

Anything related to the Twilight Zone is valid. Media interview, school engagement, peer-reviewed paper, workshop, books, games. Anything.

Please just…