In December 2024, The Oceanography Society (TOS) plans to publish a special issue of the open access journal Oceanography on “A Vision for Capacity Sharing in the Ocean Sciences.” Details can be found at https://tos.org/capacity-sharing-special-issue.
Letters of interest should be emailed to Oceanography Editor Ellen Kappel (
The special issue has several goals:
(1) describe the benefits around the world of sustained capacity building and capacity sharing in ocean science, technology, and applications;
(2) identify barriers and gaps;
(3) share best practices on how to build and sustain efforts;
(4) highlight the importance to jobs and the economy;
and (5) identify synergies among existing and new capacity-building and capacity-sharing programs.
We encourage manuscripts that contribute to the goals of UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021–2030) and efforts that look beyond 2030.
There will be no cost to authors for publishing articles in this special issue. Copy editing, design, and distribution is supported by grants from the US National Science Foundation (NSF), US Office of Naval Research (ONR), US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR).