Don't miss attending IMBeR Future Oceans3 Submit abstracts by 20 March 2025! |
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IMBeR (Integrated Marine Biosphere Research) approaches the conclusion of its transformative journey (2016–2025) and is excited to host the IMBeR Synthesis and Future Planning Conference (Future Oceans3, FO3). This pivotal event will bring together IMBeR’s diverse science teams, representatives from international organizations, policymakers, and early career researchers to reflect on the past decade-long achievements, share rich collaborative experiences, and shape the future of marine biosphere research.
IMBeR organizes theFO3around three major themes: Looking Inward: Reflecting on IMBeR’s scientific achievements over the past decade (2016-2025). Looking Outward:Reviewing IMBeR’s interactions with relevant scientific projects, programs, organizations, and initiatives. Looking Forward:Envisioning the future of marine biosphere research post-IMBeR.
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Sorted alphabetically by surname More speakers to be confirmed |
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IMBeR invites prospective participants to submit abstracts for the following sessions. The organizing committee will select submissions for oral or poster presentations within the available time and space. Plenary sessions and poster presentations will enable participants to engage with broader themes and network with colleagues beyond your selected session. |
Choose a session and submit an abstract by 20 March 2025! |
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We will also use the virtual event platform Whova to facilitate poster sessions and networking opportunities. Only registered attendees will have access to the app. |
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Sessions
Session 1: Understanding multi-stressors of marine environments and achievements and challenges from ecosystem resilience and environmental management
This session addresses the effects of environmental stressors on biogeochemical cycles in marine ecosystems, either in isolation or in concert. Potential stressors include, but are not limited to, nutrient enrichment, pollutants, acidification, and hypoxia. Presentations for understanding ecosystem resilience to changing environmental conditions, including climate-driven effects (warming, extreme weather, sea level rise), are also welcome...[read more] |
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Session 2: Achievements from IMBeR Grand Challenge 2 and opportunities for IMBeR 3.0: from scenarios, predictions and projections to actions, solutions and interventions
This session aims to synthesize and celebrate IMBeR’s key achievements under Grand Challenge 2 and discuss the strategic opportunities for building on these achievements and taking advantage of IMBeR’s unique strengths in IMBeR 3.0. Over the past decade, IMBeR’s Grand Challenge 2, “Improving scenarios, predictions, and projections of future ocean-human systems...[read more] |
Session 3: Blue Transformations: Governance for the ocean-climate-biodiversity nexus
This session explores governance transformations required to address the ocean-climate-biodiversity nexus and the implications for the blue economy and society. Profound changes are needed in the structures, processes, rules, and norms that catalyze radical and sustainable reconfigurations of social, political, economic and ecological aspects of oceans. Potential entry points to explore blue governance transformations...[read more] |
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Session 4: Stakeholder engagement in complex ocean multilevel governance settings
Engagement with stakeholders transforms scientific and policy processes. The journey of participation in the marine domain has been long and challenging, evolving from a contested issue to a mainstream approach. Today, participation is regarded as critical for enhancing the scientific foundation of decision-making and ensuring the legitimacy of policy-relevant science...[read more] |
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Session 5: Island biodiversity and ecosystem multifunctionality in the Anthropocene
With less than 5% of the global terrestrial area, marine islands hold 20% of the world’s biodiversity. Biodiversity on marine islands is characterized by unique biogeographic, phylogenetic and functional characteristics, and plays a crucial role for sustaining ecosystem multifunctionality globally. However, marine islands are also experiencing a disproportionate loss of endemic species and a disproportionate gain of invasive species, due to increasing negative human impacts...[read more] |
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Session 6: Coastal blue carbon ecosystem: carbon resources evaluation, sources-sinks processes and management collaboration
In the maintenance of Earth’s ecological balance and mitigation of climate change, blue carbon ecosystems (BCECO) play a crucial role. As one of the major carbon sinks on the Earth’s surface, BCECOs absorb a significant amount of carbon dioxide and store it in marine organisms and seabed sediments, effectively slowing the trend of global warming. Although about 83% of the global carbon cycle occurs in the oceans...[read more] |
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Session 7: IMBeR strategic partnership: Recognizing interfaces and building synergies with relevant projects and UN Ocean Decade Programmes
Marine scientific research strives to address complex and interconnected challenges, international collaborations across projects, programmes, organizations, and initiatives are essential to developing Earth System views. This session will explore the boundaries, connections, and synergies between IMBeR and other relevant scientific efforts within Global Research Projects of SCOR and Global Research Networks of Future Earth, international initiatives of the UN Ocean Decade family, and other potential partners...[read more] |
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Session 8: Synthesizing ecosystem-social interactions in coastal seas
Continental marginal systems are supporting human well-being from important and valuable goods to services, but anthropogenic activity and climate change have substantially altered the oceans and are impacting their ability to sustain ecological and human communities. Integrating environmental, ecological and economic knowledge of continental margin systems, and how these systems may change under different perturbation scenarios, is imperative to understand the interplays between human uses of the oceans, present management strategies...[read more] |
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Session 9: Optical remote sensing in the Northwest Pacific and the Central Indo-Pacific Oceans
Optical remote sensing has become an indispensable tool for studying oceanographic and coastal processes, offering valuable insights into coastal water quality, primary productivity, marine biodiversity, and climate-driven changes. By leveraging satellite-derived data, researchers can monitor algal blooms, sediment dynamics, coral reef health, fisheries, and coastal pollution, supporting sustainable marine resource management and ecosystem conservation...[read more] |
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Session 10: Coastal ecosystems in a warming sea (Update Coming Soon)
Session 11: Tropical research/capacity building (Update Coming Soon)
Session 12: SIBER and the Second International Indian Ocean Expedition (Update Coming Soon)
*Each session will invite an Early Career Researcher to serve as a co-convener and/or rapporteur as the program develops.
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Meeting Secretariat: IMBeR International Project Office Contact us:imber@ecnu.edu.cn Due to the Spring Festival, the IPO Newsletter January 2025 will be released in early February. |
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