PREP4BLUE Webinar Series
This autumn, PREP4BLUE is continuing its webinar series titled "Planning for Citizen Participation in Mission Ocean & Waters."
Over three one-hour sessions, participants will learn how to design a project, work package, or programme of activities in alignment with the citizen engagement targets of the EU Mission: Restore Our Ocean and Waters By 2030 (or Mission Ocean). The webinars are designed as bite-sized, targeted sessions that will equip the audience with key information and knowledge of where/how to access more details or expertise. The schedule for the autumn 2023 series is below.
The webinar series is aimed primarily at anyone applying for Mission Ocean funding under Horizon Europe. It will also be of interest to current Mission-funded projects, as well as those working on citizen engagement in marine and freshwater-related activities across the NGO, industry, research, community, citizen science groups, and local government sectors.
The European Commission's ambition in relation to citizen engagement with Mission Ocean falls under a handful of clear themes. Each of the webinars in this series is structured around one of these themes. Overall, the series will equip the audience with the knowledge required to orient project proposals and restoration, anti-pollution, and other related activities towards the Mission's targets in relation to citizen engagement.
PREP4BLUE is a Horizon Europe project (grant no. 101056957), funded by the European Union.
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Webinar Series Schedule
Webinar 1: Community Based Social Marketing for Mission Ocean: An Introduction
REGISTRATION: PLEASE REGISTER HERE
Date/time: Tuesday 24th October, 16.00 CEST, Online
Details:
This webinar will introduce the theory and methods of Community Based Social Marketing (CBSM). Mission Ocean policy documents and Horizon Europe Work Programmes make consistent reference to the necessity of taking a "whole of society" approach and integrating citizen participation into Mission activities at every level. A key aspect of this will be to influence positive behaviour change. For Mission-funded projects, this will need to be done in a disciplined, measurable way.
The cornerstone of sustainable and healthy communities is behaviour change. Sustainability requires that individuals and businesses engage in diverse actions, such as reducing pollution, increasing water and energy efficiency, increasing voluntarism, and protecting native species. Research demonstrates, however, that the traditional approach of using ads, brochures, or websites to encourage behaviour change simply doesn't work. A new approach, CBSM, is being used effectively by public and private organisations around the globe.
This webinar will take examples of CBSM being used as a tool across marine and freshwater-related initiatives to discuss how integrating this approach into Mission Ocean project proposals will help to achieve the Mission's ambitious goals in relation to coastal and river ecosystem restoration and pollution elimination, based on a leveraging of citizen activity in support of the Mission.
About the trainer: Dr. Doug McKenzie-Mohr, Community-Based Social Marketing
For over three decades, Dr. Doug McKenzie-Mohr has been working to incorporate scientific knowledge on behaviour change into the design and delivery of community programs. He is the founder of community-based social marketing and the author/co-author of three books on the topic. One of these books, "Fostering Sustainable Behavior," has been recommended by Time Magazine and has become requisite reading for those who deliver programs to protect the environment. Doug is also the author of the Fostering Behaviour Change Minute newsletter, which is read weekly by nearly 20,000 subscribers. His work has been featured in the New York Times and he is the recipient of the American Psychological Association's inaugural award for innovation in environmental psychology and the World Social Marketing conference's inaugural award for contributions to the field of social marketing. He is a former Professor of Psychology and currently an adjunct professor at the University of Victoria and Royal Roads University in Canada. More than 75,000 program managers have attended workshops on community-based social marketing that he has delivered internationally.
Webinar 2: Citizens' assemblies and deliberative processes for Mission Ocean
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Date/time: Tuesday 7th November, 9am CET, Online
Details:
NOTE: This webinar is scheduled at 9am CET as we are working with a 12-hour time difference for our facilitators. Although this is early for the Atlantic coast, the recording will be forwarded to all those registered after the session. Please do register if you are interested, even if you may not be able to attend on the day.
At the core of Mission Ocean's citizen engagement targets is a commitment to trialling innovative democratic processes and organize citizen assemblies to engage coastal, riverine, lake and inland sea-dwelling communities in the decisions and activities that affect them. Establishing citizen assemblies for Mission Ocean and creating an EU wide network of such processes is a key upcoming challenge of the Mission. This is reflected in the Mission Implementation Plan and yearly Horizon Europe Work Programme call topics.
In this two-part webinar, participants will learn the practical aspects of implementing citizen's assemblies and other deliberative processes within the context of a research project. Drawing from a recent example of such a process, the webinar will cover:
- Best practices for citizens' assemblies
- How long a process takes from beginning to end
- Budget
- Gaining political/institutional buy-in
- Finding participants and ensuring inclusion
- The kinds of activities undertaken in each session
- What to do with the result
- Following all this, we will reflect on the specific challenges that Mission Ocean presents for such processes (multiple languages, stimulating basin-level activity and networking, whether to link to other processes or starting from scratch?).
These webinars will be useful to those writing proposals for projects with a strong participatory element aligned with Mission Ocean targets. It will also be of interest to any group or initiative that engages citizens in marine and freshwater activities.
Invitation to contriubute articles
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).
Szczecin Marginal Seas Webinars | May 2023
We warmly invite you to join a third presentation of the Szczecin Marginal Seas Webinars series within summer semester 2022/2023
for the Webinar to be held on May 25, 2023, 2:00 pm (CET).
Please, join our meeting for the lecture:
Sunderban delta system, India: revisiting the coastal form-process dynamics
Dr. Snigdha Ghatak1, Prof. Gautam Sen2
1 Geological Survey of India, Kolkata, India
2 School of Oceanographic Studies, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, India
to be presented by:
Dr. Snigdha Ghatak
Geological Survey of India, Kolkata, India
Abstract
Networked by a complex tidal waterways, mudflats and series of small islands, the Sunderbans Delta System, located at the northern apex of Bay of Bengal (covering an area of 10,000 km2), harbors world’s largest mangrove ecosystem. The Ganges-Brahamaputra-Meghna river delta is represented by a low-lying flood plain covering more than 90,000 sq. km in India and Bangladesh and grades into a more extensive sub-aqueous delta and deep sea fan complex. Known to be recognized as UNESCO world Heritage site, 62% of the total area falls within Bangladesh and 38% in India.
Geological/geomorphological studies and analysis of historical and recent maps/imagery for the Indian part of the Ganges-Brahmaputra composite macrotidal deltaic coast reveals a continuous trend of shoreline retreat over past hundred years. The long-term as well as the short-term prediction of morphological behaviour in the coastal zone and sediment transport in response to changing environmental conditions is an important issue in the perspective of sustainable development practices. Interaction between coastal processes operative over long (up to 100 years) and short-term period (5-10 years) and mainly two-dimensional evolution of the deltaic shoreline with special reference to sea level rise has been a matter of continued interest to the researchers. A GIS integrated information on long term coastal erosion/accretion rate reflected in the shoreline change index map for West Bengal (including open coast west of Hoogly estuary up to Digha) coast shows that about 75% of the total coastal segment is under retreating condition while 25% of this coast is under stable to advancing condition. This, together with field observations in Hoogly estuary suggest, tidal flow is one of the pivotal processes that controls the transportation and sorting of sediments driving the shoreline/landform changes within the coastal inlet, at least over decadal to sub-decadal scale. Unfortunately, quantification of shoreline change caused by short-term parameters is very difficult due to the inherent complex nature of the process interaction and lack of regular measurements of landform changes in response to these processes. To account for the effect of long term processes the present study shows, sea level rise over long time scale alone, can account at the best for 50-60% of the shoreline retreat following Brunn’s rule. This suggests that sea level rise, over a longer time frame plays a permissive role for shore line retreat for this coastal tract in presence of the other coastal processes like wave, tide etc. As an alternative, a spatio-temporal correlation based empirical model that can account indirectly for the cumulative effect of the short-term processes reflected into the shoreline change over long-term period correlating continuous along shore variation of sea level rise scenarios (for Ghoramara, Sagar and Bhangaduani Islands) was developed. The projected configuration of the islands for different time intervals and for a set of Sea Level Rise (SLR) scenarios shows that generally, with increase in sea level rise rate, rate of erosion increases. Model derived SLR scenario from forecast and hindcast situations indicate a falling trend of rate of sea level rise over last hundred years. The captured SLR for 1988-2001 was 2.8mm/yr. (Sagar) which is not on the higher side. At this rate of sea level rise the western half of the deltaic coast (Digha to Maushani Island) is under lesser threat of erosion compared to the uninhabited, forested eastern part of the deltaic coast (3.1mm/yr. SLR). The general agreement of the projected model output with the observed shoreline configuration establishes the predictive potentiality of the empirical model. As a way forward, the Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS) framework derived inputs are further being integrated into the existing empirical model to improve its efficacy. The present model outputs are also compared with few coastal area morphological models (viz., Digital Shoreline Analysis System -DSAS) developed by others for predicting shoreline changes. The present knowledge base with further research is expected to open up new vistas for coastal zone management plan in this vulnerable populated tract of deltaic coast.
The seminar will be held in an online form on the MS Teams platform.
The meeting room will be open from 1:30 pm (CET), but the seminar will begin at 2:00 pm (CET).
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AMU Invited Lecture Series in Marine Geosciences I
We cordially invite you to participate in the online lecture entitled "Benthic Foraminifera: Their Diversity and Role in Deep-Sea Ecosystems," which will be delivered by Prof. Andrew J. Gooday from the National Oceanography Centre - Southampton, UK. The lecture is part of the "AMU Invited Lecture Series in Marine Geosciences I," organized by Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań as part of the ID UB UAM program. The lecture will take place on Thursday, May 18th, at 16:30, on the MS Teams platform (link: https://t.co/hmK54rPj5K). The lecture and the open discussion following it will be conducted in English.
Information about the lecturer and the lecture:
Professor Gooday is the author of 223 papers (H=57) focused mainly on foraminifera and deep-sea environments. He has broad interests in the biodiversity, biogeography and ecology of modern benthic foraminifera, xenophyophores, and gromiids (testate protists). Andrew Gooday is an undisputed authority in these areas. He is mainly interested in deep-sea environments, species taxonomy, marine ecology, and linkages between biotic and abiotic factors. He serves as Associate Editor of Deep-Sea Research I journal. Nowadays, he works on foraminiferal biodiversity and biogeography combining classical morphological methods with modern molecular approaches to define species ranges more precisely.
Abstract:
Foraminifera are a major group of shell-bearing (testate) protists that have an outstanding fossil record and are widely used as proxies for environmental conditions in ancient oceans. However, foraminifera are also very important constituents of modern marine benthic ecosystems and often constitute a dominant faunal group in deep-sea environments. In this talk, I will review what is known about their biodiversity and likely ecological roles in deep-sea habitats, particularly on the vast abyssal plains that occupy much of the deep ocean floor.
Szczecin Marginal Seas Webinars - summer semester 2023
- InterRidge 2023 Webinar Series | Dr. David W. Scholl
- Szczecin Marginal Seas Webinars in March 2023
- Szczecin Marginal Seas Webinars on January
- EMBracing the Ocean - for artists
- Szczecin Marginal Seas Webinars - January
- Szczecin Marginal Seas Webinars: Extreme processes shaping coastal landscapes in rapidly deglaciating Arctic