The inaugural lecture of the 2024/2025 academic year, titled “Bringing multiple disciplines together to inform ocean governance across scales“, will be given by Dr Karen Evans (The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, CSIRO, Tasmania, Australia). The inauguration of the academic year will take place on October 17, 2024 at 11 a.m., at the Nicolaus Copernicus Astronomical Center and online (hybrid event).
Link to YouTube transmission.
Bringing multiple disciplines together to inform ocean governance across scales. For policy and decision making at national, regional and international scales to support sustainability, decisions need to be based on robust science and evidence. Connecting science with policy and decision making requires bringing multiple disciplines together to ensure that information is integrated and considers interactions between physical, chemical and socioecological components of the ocean within the context of the one health concept. This lecture will outline some initiatives that are working to connect ocean science with national and international governance structures and considering delivery pathways from ocean observations to data management to data products to information transfer.
Karen Evans s a principal research scientist with CSIRO based in Hobart, Tasmania. She leads and contributes to research focused on progressing scientific understanding of marine resources and achieving effective ocean management, particularly in relation to fisheries offshore wind energy development and threatened, endangered and protected species. Her projects deliver strategic research to national agencies, regional programmes in the Pacific and Indian Oceans and international agencies, including the United Nations. She currently co-chairs the Global Ocean Observing System expert panel on biology and ecosystems and co-leads the group of experts guiding the United Nations regular World Ocean Assessment process.
