Welcome to the March 2025 special issue of Oceanography on A Vision for Capacity Sharing in the Ocean Sciences. This issue is in progress and articles will be posted as they are available. Please check back for new articles.

SPOTLIGHT • Enhancing Fisheries Development in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Role of Participatory Processes and Cross-Disciplinary Strategies in Research
By Kafayat Adetoun Fakoya, Abdulwakil Olawale Saba, Ayodele Oloko, Shehu Latunji Akintola, Kafayat Oluwakemi Ajelara, Ayojesutomi Abiodun-Solanke, Mayowa Anifat Olasope, and Ismot Olajumoke Olabamiji

SPOTLIGHT • Using Digital Twins of the Ocean to Build Capacity in the Wider Caribbean Region
By Ali L. Hochberg, Lorna Inniss, Joana Akrofi, Kadean Blake-Smithen, David A. Farrell, Magali Gonçalves, and Rahanna Juman

SPOTLIGHT • Developing Capacity for Transdisciplinary Studies of Changing Ocean Systems
By Paul E. Renaud, Andrea Belgrano, Sam Dupont, Philip W. Boyd, Sinead Collins, Thorsten Blenckner, Michael Drexler, Jason M. Hall-Spencer, Carol Robinson, Charlotte T. Weber, and Cristian A. Vargas

SPOTLIGHT • The Ocean Foundation’s Ocean Science Equity Initiative: An Example of a Comprehensive, Intentionally Co-Designed Capacity Development Effort
By Alexis Valauri-Orton, Brian K. Arbic, Marcia Creary Ford, Kaitlyn Lowder, Edem Mahu, Courtnie Park, Katy Soapi, and Aileen Tan Shau Hwai

The Coastal Ocean Environment Summer School In Nigeria and Ghana: The Value of Long-Term, Sustained Capacity Sharing
By Brian K. Arbic, Johnson Adjetey, Andrews Agyekumhene, Mosunmola F. Akinwunmi, Lailah Gifty Akita, Lois Anderson, Joseph K. Ansong, Kwasi Appeaning Addo, Eunice K. Asamoah, O. Olawale Awe, Christian Buckingham, Janae’ Collier, Aline J. Cotel, Richard Damoah, Owoyemi W. Elegbeleye, Riccardo Farneti, Madeline Foster-Martinez, Carly Frank, Stephan Howden, Rachel T. Idowu, Winifred M. Johnson, David Kaiser, Peter Knoop, Angela M. Lamptey, Aderonke Lawal-Are, Andrew J. Lucas, Edem Mahu, Paige Martin, Dimitris Menemenlis, Nubi Olubunmi Ayoola, Ebenezer S. Nyadjro, Elvis Nyarko, Ngozi Oguguah, Anthi Oikonomou, Mumin Oladipo, Tashiana Osborne, Richmond Kennedy Quarcoo, Daniel T. Quaye, Abdulwakil O. Saba, Adam C. Simon, Temitope O. Sogbanmu, Senam Tsei, and Georgios Vagenas

SPOTLIGHT • Knowledge Sharing and Capacity Development to Promote Early Career Ocean Professionals in Small Island Developing States: The SmartNet Approach
By Sanae Chiba, Khushboo Jhugroo, Steven J. Bograd, Jörn O. Schmidt, Jennifer M. Jackson, Hanna Lachance, Mitsutaku Makino, A. Miguel Piecho-Santos, Hiroaki Saito, Erin V. Satterthwaite, and Naya Correia Sena

SPOTLIGHT • The IAEA Ocean Acidification International Coordination Centre Capacity Building Program: Empowering Member States to Address and Minimize the Impacts of Ocean Acidification
By Sam Dupont, Carla Edworthy, Celeste Sánchez-Noguera, Marc Metian, Jana Friedrich, Sarah Flickinger, Ashley Bantelman, Carolina Galdino, Frank Graba, Olga Anghelici, and Lina Hansson

SPOTLIGHT • Backyard Buoys: Meeting Needs of Coastal, Indigenous Communities Through Co-Design and Co-Production
By Jan Newton, Sheyna Wisdom, Melissa Iwamoto, Roxanne Carini, Jordan Watson, Sebastien Boulay, Duncan Mactavish, Jennifer Hagen, Joe Schumacker, Dua Rudolph, Dolores deBrum-Kattil, Pua Tuaua, Eric Brown, Scott Burch, John Hopson Jr., and Jenny Evans

Building and Sharing Ocean Sciences Capacity Through Project-Based Learning
By Ebenezer S. Nyadjro, Anthi Oikonomou, Abdulwakil O. Saba, Edem Mahu, Georgios Vagenas, Joseph K. Ansong, Paige E. Martin, Andrews Agyekumhene, Eunice K. Asamoah, Richmond Kennedy Quarcoo, Janae’ Collier, and Lailah Gifty Akita

SPOTLIGHT • Unleashing Potential: Collaborative Research as a Catalyst for Capacity Building and Enhancement
By Winnie N.A. Sowah, Philip-Neri M. Jayson-Quashigah, Donatus Yaw Atiglo, Sien Van Der Plank, Victoria Dominguez Almela, Romario Anderson, Jadu Dash, Emma Tompkins, and Kwasi Appeaning Addo

SPOTLIGHT • Capacity Building and Connecting Practitioners Through the Global Mangrove Alliance
By Laura Veverka, Emily Forinash, Elena Roddom, Apri Susanto Astra, Benjamin Christ, María Claudia Díazgranados, Jennifer Howard, Emily Landis, Pilar Jacobo, Hannah Pickard, Mark Spalding, and Marice Leal

SPOTLIGHT • Critical Connections: Transdisciplinary Capacity and Youth Engagement for Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries and Coastal Communities
By Emi Koch and Ratana Chuenpagdee

SPOTLIGHT • The International Master’s Program in Oceanography and Applications in Benin
By Gaël Alory, Ezinvi Baloïtcha, Isabelle Dadou, Casimir Da-Allada, Yves Morel, Frédéric Bonou, Sandrine Djakouré, Nick Hall, Yves DuPenhoat, Norbert Hounkonnou, Bernard Bourlès, and Alexis Chaigneau

SPOTLIGHT • The Marine Biodiversity Observation Network Pole to Pole of the Americas: Building a Community of Practice for Detecting Rapid Changes in Coastal Biodiversity
By Nicolas Moity, Gregorio Bigatti, Frank Muller-Karger, and Enrique Montes

SPOTLIGHT • Deep Ocean Early-Career Researchers Dive into Data Management Training
By Stace E. Beaulieu, Leslie M. Smith, and Karen Stocks

SPOTLIGHT • Enhancing Global Ocean Science Networks: The Impact of SCOR’s Travel Grant Initiative
By Emily Twigg, Patricia Miloslavich, Edward R. Urban Jr., and Rebecca Zitoun

SPOTLIGHT • Underwater Acoustics for All: Expanding Capacity with Education and Low-Cost Sensors
By Kathleen J. Vigness-Raposa, Lora J. Van Uffelen, Mumin O. Oladipo, Eunice K. Asamoah, Abdulwakil O. Saba, Ngozi M. Oguguah, Aderonke O. Lawal-Are, and Kyle M. Becker

SPOTLIGHT • Artificial Intelligence Literacy for Ocean Professionals is Needed for a Sustainable Future
By Erin Satterthwaite and Matthew Robbins

SPOTLIGHT • Ocean Acidification Capacity Is Needed at All Levels to Develop a Multistakeholder Ocean Acidification Action Platform
By Jan Newton, Steve Widdicombe, Kirsten Isensee, Sam Dupont, Sarah Flickinger, Kalina Grabb, Elise F. Keister, Katherina Schoo, Amy Kenworthy, and Alexis Valauri-Orton

SPOTLIGHT • Capacity Building with Volunteers: Divers and Boaters Collect Data on Southern California Bight
By Craig Gelpi, David Kushner, Andrew Solomon, and Sean Eckley

Brian Arbic, University of Michigan
Frank Muller-Karger, University of South Florida
Johanna Diwa-Acallar, IOC/UNESCO
Nicolas Moity, Charles Darwin Foundation for the Galápagos Islands and the School of Environmental Sciences, Ulster University
José Muelbert, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande
Nubi Olubunmi, Nigerian Institute for Oceanography & Marine Research
Digna Rueda Roa, University of South Florida
Aileen Tan Shau Hwai, School of Biological Sciences, Universiti Sains Malaysia

Support for production of this special issue was provided by the US National Science Foundation (NSF), Office of Naval Research (ONR), National Oceanic and Atmopsheric Adminstration (NOAA), and the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR)