GCOOS - SECOORA Joint Webinar Series: Ecosystem Services and the Blue Economy

Beginning in April 2024, the Gulf of Mexico Coastal Ocean Observing System (GCOOS) and the Southeast Coastal Ocean Observing Regional Association (SECOORA) are joining forces to co-host a webinar series. The goal of this webinar series, Building Synergy Across the US MBON & Ocean Acidification Networks, is to advance science in support of resource management and the blue economy by strengthening collaborations across the Marine Biodiversity Observation Network and regional Ocean Acidification Networks (GCAN and SOCAN).

This installment of the webinar series is Thursday, July 25th at 12 PM ET. We will be hearing from two speakers about Ecosystem Services and the Blue Economy:

MBON Speaker: Nathan Furey, Lead Investigator of the Coastal New England Marine Biodiversity Observation Network and Assistant Professor at the University of New Hampshire

Ocean Acidification Speaker: Jessie Turner, Executive Director of the International Alliance to Combat Ocean Acidification

The MBON portion of this webinar will focus on current tools for measuring marine biodiversity, particularly those of priority for the Marine Biodiversity Observation Network. Dr. Nathan Furey (University of New Hampshire) will discuss potential linkages between marine biodiversity and various ecological functions and ecosystem services.

For the OA portion of this webinar, Jessie Turner (International Alliance to Combat Ocean Acidification) will focus on how communication, education and collaboration drives OA policy at a national and international level, and how OA policy shapes the path for research that directly or indirectly looks at impacts of biodiversity.