- A Virtual Global Meeting  

Workshop goals: to guide the development of best practices and operating practices, to promote their documentation, and to share them widely using the Ocean Best Practices System.  

Please register for the workshop HERE   

Plenaries: 5 and 19 October 2022 (each three hours long and covering 2 different time zones). 

Theme Sessions will arrange to meet between Plenaries, at times of their own choosing.

 Theme Sessions may cover any subject relating to ocean best practices and can be one hour or longer, on multiple days, as planned by the proposed session lead.  If you would like to propose a Theme Session, we look forward to hearing from you.  

Theme Sessions already confirmed: 

 1.  Arctic Best Practices

 2.  Best Practices in the Ocean Decade

 3.  BGC Profile Data

 4.  Blue Resources

 5.  Capacity Development

 6.  Coastal Observations for Under-Resources Countries

 7.  Data Interoperability

 8.  Decision Trees

 9.  Deep-Sea Observing

10. eDNA

11. Environmental Plastics - Citizen Science Observations

12. Fisheries and Aquaculture

13. Marine Biodiversity

14. Operational Forecasting

15. Organizational Co-operation

16. Policy and Best Practices

17. Seagrass Monitoring

18. Time Series Observations and Downstream Data Management

19. Transparency and Traceability in Ocean Observing

 Should you have any questions or new Theme Session proposal, please e-mail us at 

 info[at]oceanbestpractices.org