Ocean Decade

CALL FOR PAPERS


In support of the United Nations' Decade of Ocean Sciences for Sustainable Development 2021–2030, The Oceanography Society (TOS), the American Geophysical Union (AGU), and the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO) are hosting a living special collection that showcases the broad range of solutions-focused research and capacity-sharing efforts that meet the Ocean Decade's vision: the science we need for the ocean we want.

We are soliciting papers that highlight and expand on the Ocean Decade's 10 challenges listed below.

Submissions to this collection of papers will be welcome until the end of December 2030.

Visit our Author Guidelines for more details on submitting a paper to Oceanography. Please be sure to choose "Ocean Decade" as the article type.

 

10 CHALLENGES

  1. Understand and map land and sea-based sources of pollutants and contaminants and their potential impacts on human health and ocean ecosystems, and develop solutions to remove or mitigate them.
     
  2. Understand the effects of multiple stressors on ocean ecosystems, and develop solutions to monitor, protect, manage and restore ecosystems and their biodiversity under changing environmental, social and climate conditions.
     
  3. Generate knowledge, support innovation, and develop solutions to optimize the role of the ocean in sustainably feeding the world's population under changing environmental, social and climate conditions.
     
  4. Generate knowledge, support innovation, and develop solutions for equitable and sustainable development of the ocean economy under changing environmental, social and climate conditions.
     
  5. Enhance understanding of the ocean-climate nexus and generate knowledge and solutions to mitigate, adapt and build resilience to the effects of climate change across all geographies and at all scales, and to improve services including predictions for the ocean, climate and weather.
     
  6. Enhance multi-hazard early warning services for all geophysical, ecological, biological, weather, climate and anthropogenic related ocean and coastal hazards, and mainstream community preparedness and resilience.
     
  7. Ensure a sustainable ocean observing system across all ocean basins that delivers accessible, timely, and actionable data and information to all users.
     
  8. Through multi-stakeholder collaboration, develop a comprehensive digital representation of the ocean, including a dynamic ocean map, which provides free and open access for exploring, discovering, and visualizing past, current, and future ocean conditions in a manner relevant to diverse stakeholders.
     
  9. Ensure comprehensive capacity development and equitable access to data, information, knowledge and technology across all aspects of ocean science and for all stakeholders.
     
  10. Ensure that the multiple values and services of the ocean for human wellbeing, culture, and sustainable development are widely understood, and identify and overcome barriers to behavior change required for a step change in humanity's relationship with the ocean.