On 8 – 9 December 2025, a scientific discussion meeting will be held at the Royal Society in London, on the topic of marine biodiversity loss.
The meeting will be led by Professor Richard Sanders from the Norwegian Research Centre, Professor Alex Poulton from Heriot Watt University, Professor Stephanie Henson from the National Oceanography Centre, Dr Emma Cavan from Imperial College…
International workshop:
The role of marine biology in helping the ocean store carbon
2-4 March 2026, Glasgow, UK
The workshop is planned to take place immediately after Ocean Sciences 2026.
Marine organisms play a critical role in helping the ocean store carbon, but climate models struggle to make consistent predictions for how this may change in the future. This international…
We would like to give our topical themes (https://jetzon.org/current-themes) and extra push. So, we are looking for people who would be willing to take a lead for one the themes.
This doesn't have to involve a large amount of work. In the simplest instance it could be just putting out an advert on the JETZON webpage and running a call for interested people to discuss things, to try…
About the Capacity Development Facility (CDF) and Matchmaking Platform
The CDF was established to address capacity development needs across and beyond the Decade ecosystem. One of our key upcoming initiatives is the Matchmaking Platform, developed in close collaboration with IOC OTGA and the Capacity Development Hub, and scheduled to launch in September 2025. The…
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…
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.
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,…
Accurate assessment of the carbon export flux is crucial for estimating the magnitude of the biological pump, a critical component of the global carbon cycle. However, this flux is challenging to measure and therefore complementary approaches are usually combined to estimate it. The use of radioactive pair disequilibrium, particularly Th-234 / U-238, is one of the most popular methods.…
Angelee Annasawmy has created a great new board game, based on results of her research.
The game is called "Micronekton & Eddies" and can be played by 6 players at a time. The objective is for each player to perform diel vertical migrations while avoiding predators and being carried away by eddies.
This game has served as an…
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