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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.
SPECIAL ISSUE FEATURES
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
Special Issue Guest Editors
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 Muehlbert, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande and the Institute of Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania
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
Sponsors
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)