This online course explores how to use ocean science and knowledge to implement the BBNJ Agreement, and provides access to the existing ocean science and data platforms to enable effective operationalisation.
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 add any activities you are aware of, or have been involved in, here:
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JETZON recently set up a LinkedIn page in response to suggestions that it could be a valuable platform.
However, we could do with help running it. If you have talent/enthusiasm/energy to spare to run the JETZON LinkedIn page please contact jetzon.org@gmail.com
We are delighted to have two new projects join the JETZON community.
MESOFISH: Life history, Trophic ecology, and feeding of Mesopelagic Fish
Website: https://airamsl.github.io/MESOFISH/
The MESOFISH project (REF: 2025ECLI10) is a three-year multidisciplinary research initiative funded by Fundación…
This year’s DOOS Annual Meeting, “Collective Action, Lasting Change,” marks the fifth year of this gathering and five years of strengthened global collaboration to advance deep ocean observing, building on foundations laid by earlier efforts across the community. As we reach the midpoint of the UN Ocean Decade and enter a new era of ocean governance with the BBNJ Agreement, the meeting will…
One of the JETZON ECOP co-leads, Adamu Salisu, is looking for partners to develop a new project.
It would aim to quantify the flux of particulate and dissolved organic carbon from coastal regions, across the shelf and into the mesopelagic where it may fuel respiration.
He is particularly interested in the tropical west African system (…
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Marine Scientists: Add your voice to protect deep-sea biodiversity
In 2006, the UN General Assembly adopted a…
We are delighted to report that Dr. Elva Escobar Briones (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México; Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología) has been awarded the 2026 Mentoring Award by The Oceanography Society (TOS).
The prestigious award is made annually “for exceptional leadership in mentoring, tutoring, and teaching biological oceanography, fostering an inclusive and equitable…
A major new dataset bringing together measurements of marine microbial respiration from across the global ocean is now available:
https://www.bodc.ac.uk/data/published_data_library/catalogue/10.5285/4b…
Citation:
Robinson C.;…
We are very sad to pass on the news that Kristina Gjerde passed away last week. She was a long-standing member of the JETZON Steering Committee and an invaluable source of encouragement and advice, particularly in our ongoing attempts to engage with policy. She always brought insightful, positive suggestions to JETZON, strongly supporting ways to broaden access and engagement. She will be much…
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