Building Capacity in Biological Ocean Observations to support the conservation and sustainable use of BBNJ

11 July 2017

United Nations Headquarters

New York,
United States



Agenda



1 Welcoming Remarks
1.1 Vladimir Ryabinin (Executive Secretary of the IOC of UNESCO)
1.2 Michael Lodge (Secretary General of the ISA)
2 Panel Presentations
2.1 Biological and ecosystem monitoring to support area-based management including MPAs, guidelines and lessons learned from the Great Barrier Reef (Piers Dunstan, CSIRO, Australia)
2.2 New technologies in biological ocean observations, e.g. environmental DNA (Gabrielle Canonico-Hyde, NOAA, USA)
2.3 Training in taxonomy, an example from the International Phytoplankton Intercomparison test using the OceanTeacher Global Academy platform (Rafael Salas, Marine Institute, Republic of Ireland)
2.4 Deep Sea Resources and long-term ecosystem function monitoring, UHawaii-ISA partnership (Henry Ruhl - NOC, Southampton, UK)
2.5 Deep Sea Mineral Resources and Habitat: towards a solid environmental impact assessment (Sandor Mulsow, ISA)