In support of the United Nations Decade of Ocean Sciences for Sustainable Development (2021–2030), the American Geophysical Union (AGU), the Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO), and The Oceanography Society (TOS) are collaborating on a living special collection that curates and showcases the broad range of solutions-focused research that meets the Ocean Decade’s vision: “the science we need for the ocean we want.”
This special collection will highlight ongoing scientific research and innovative efforts that contribute to achieving the UN’s 2030 Agenda. It will offer an excellent opportunity to showcase your work and join a global community committed to sustainable ocean stewardship.
Special collection themes:
10 Challenges: Ocean Decade Challenges for collective impact
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Generate knowledge, support innovation, and develop solutions for equitable and sustainable development of the ocean economy under changing environmental, social and climate conditions.
- 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.
- 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.
- Ensure a sustainable ocean observing system across all ocean basins that delivers accessible, timely, and actionable data and information to all users.
- 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.
- Ensure comprehensive capacity development and equitable access to data, information, knowledge and technology across all aspects of ocean science and for all stakeholders.
- 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.
Read the full call for papers here: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/toc/10.1002/(ISSN)2169-9291.un-ocean-decade
AGU, ASLO, and TOS are inviting submissions that provide critical insights and data. The papers in this collection will then serve as a community-wide resource for shared understanding and informing policy decisions.
Instructions for ASLO Authors
Submissions to Limnology and Oceanography, L&O Letters, L&O Methods, and L&O Bulletin will be welcome until the end of December 2030. To submit your article, use the standard submission portal and select the collection’s title from the dropdown menu in the Special Collection field of the submission form. Submit your paper at www.aslojournals.org.
For questions, please contact the ASLO lead organizer Mik Bauer at [email protected].