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• Interesting read: UN just forged historic deal to protect ocean life
• Interesting read: Coastal Management Revisited. Navigating towards Sustainable Human-Nature Relations
• Interesting read: Five tips to deal with a bad mentor 
• Call for SOOS Scientific Steering Committee nominations. Submit nominations (see nominations tab) by 31 May 
• Interesting YouTube videos: ‘Life in Academia’ contains interesting topics and useful advice 

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• Scientists or divers who have seen novel or interesting animal behaviours (e.g. interspecies interactions, behavioural adaptations to anthropogenic change, new wildlife aggregations or behavioural discoveries). BBC Natural History Unit are researching for Blue Planet III, please email [email protected] 

IMBeR Announcements

• ClimEco8 Summer School: Sustaining the ocean we need for the future we want!, 19-24 June 2023 in Koper, Slovenia. Apply to attend by 10 April

• Hybrid Low Cost Technologies & Data Workshop, 2 June 2023, Cape Town, South Africa. Submit abstracts by 31 March
• Call for abstracts: EuroGOOS Conference, Galway, Ireland. 3-5 October. Submit abstracts by 16 April 
• 2023 ESSAS Annual Science Meeting: Ecological, social and economic dynamics of high-latitude coastal systems , IMR, Bergen, Norway. 19-22 June
• Save the date: EurOCEAN Conference, 10-11 October, Vigo, Spain
• Save the date: 2024 UN Ocean Decade Conference, 10-12 April 2024, Barcelona, Spain

Don't forget....

• Call for abstracts: ICES Annual Science Conference. Submit by 21 March 
• Workshop: Assessing the impact of fishing on oceanic carbon, ICES, Copenhagen, Denmark, 24-28 April. Register by 11 April
• Call for session proposals: AGU23, San Francisco, CA USA, 11-15 December 2023. Submit proposals by 12 April
• SOOS Symposium: Southern Ocean in a Changing World, 14-18 August, Hobart, Australia. Submit abstract by 24 March. Register by 30 April
• 2023 ECNU International Forum for Young Scientists (Scholars) - Marine Sciences Subforum. The forum will be held on 2 March, and Marine Sciences Subforum will be held on 31 March
• Call for abstracts: EuroGOOS International Conference, Galway, Ireland, 3-5 October 2023. Submit by 16 April

IPO Host Announcements

• From IPO-China: 2023 Graduate Programs at SKLEC, ECNU. Apply by 15 June