Save the date for the 8th EMB Open Forum on Bridging between marine science and policy to support the Ocean Decade in Europe” which will be taking place on Wednesday 1 December 2021. This will be a hybrid event held at BluePoint in Brussels and online.
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Jana Van Elslander joined the European Marine Board Secretariat as Executive and Finance Officer on Monday 16 August 2021. Jana obtained a bachelor’s degree in Applied Psychology at the HoWest University of Applied Sciences in Bruges, Belgium. Once graduated, she decided to go in a different direction. For the last few years she has worked as operations manager for an international fashion company where she handled sales, logistics and general operation. At EMB, she will manage the day-to-day running of EMB as well as handling finances and HR matters.
You can find her contact details here.
In her new blog, EMB Young Ambassador Dr Natalija Dunić talks about how she has been inspired to initiate a new oceanography outreach programme in her native Croatia.
The new EMB Policy Brief launched today (pdf) focuses on in situ Ocean observations and highlights their benefits, funding and governance challenges, and the investment needed for their transformation and sustainability.
On 4 June 2021, the new EMB Working Group on Marine Renewable Energy met for the first time during the kick-off meeting held online. The meeting was chaired by Takvor Soukissian (HCMR, Greece) and Anne Marie O'Hagan (UCC, Ireland).
EMB Executive Director Sheila Heymans is a co-author in one of three new papers presenting a new tool for assessing the impacts of reduced nutrient inflow into European rivers and the ocean. This work has relevance for the Marine Strategy Framework Directive and the achievement of Good Environmental Status in European waters.
No matter where you live, what you do or the scale of your pledge, we can all act together for a healthy ocean in Europe and beyond. EMB has joined the Make Europe Blue campaign and is ready to make action to protect the ocean and bring the Blue to everybody in Europe
Scientists have proposed the first steps towards a united global plan to save our ocean, for the sake of human health. In a commentary paper published in the American Journal of Public Health the researchers, including co-authors from the European Marine Board Secretariat, call for the current UN Ocean Decade to act as a meaningful catalyst for global change, reminding us that ocean health is intricately linked to human health.
Ana Rodriguez joined the EMB Secretariat on Monday 3 May 2021 as a Science Officer. Ana Rodriguez (PhD 2019) obtained a B.Sc. degree in Biology at the Eberhard-Karls University of Tübingen (Germany) and subsequently completed an international M.Sc. in Marine Biodiversity and Conservation at Ghent University (Belgium), Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology (Ireland) and Anton-de-Kom University (Suriname). She conducted her joint PhD degree at Heriot-Watt University and University of St Andrews (UK). Ana has experience working on marine conservation topics at WWF as well as at the European Commission. At EMB, she will take on the new upcoming H2020 project EcoScope which will focus on ecosystem-based management of fisheries, as well as other activities within the Secretariat.
In the run-up to the EMB Spring Plenary 2021 meeting, this social media campaign highlights the connections between those who have a link to EMB, even though meeting in person is still not possible. Anyone with a link to EMB is invited to engage on Twitter, Instagram or Facebook!