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• Congratulations to Alistair Hobday on becoming a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (FTSE)
• Interesting read: How ChatGPT and other AI tools could disrupt scientific publishing
• Call for Expert Members for the 2024 Decade Advisory Board. Submit nominations by 30 October 
• Calls for nominations to represent Future Earth at IPCC’s 60th session, 16 - 19 January 2024, Istanbul, Turkey. Submit by 10 November 
•  Interesting read: Falling behind: postdocs in their thirties tire of putting life on hold
• Questionnaire: To develop a Southern Ocean ocean acidification collaborative hub. Complete by 20 November 
• Interesting read: Postdoc career optimism rebounds after COVID in global Nature survey
• Call for expressions of interest: UN Decade programmes. Submit by 10 December
• Interesting read: Karcher et al. (2023), Enabling successful science-policy knowledge exchange between marine biodiversity research and management: An Australian case study.
• Recently launched: Marine Ecosystem Assessment for the Southern Ocean (MEASO): Summary for Policymakers
• Interesting read: AI and Peer Review: Enemies or Allies?
• Updated and corrected version of GEOTRACES Intermediate Data Product 2021 available
• Timeline for next GEOTRACES Intermediate Data Product. Submit datasets by 15 May 2024
• Interesting read: Useful database tool acts as a ‘second brain’ to keep track of crucial information

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• Listen to Wen-Chen Chou, one of the new IMBeR SSC members tell you about his research.
• Call for nominations: Experts for the Ocean Decade Advisory Board. Submit by 30 October
• Call for nominations: Scoping experts for 2nd global assessment of biodiversity and ecosystem services. Submit nominations by 19 November
• Call for OCB Scientific Steering Committee (SSC) nominations including an early career member. Submit by 28 November

• UNESCO IOC Ocean Literacy Survey: 5-8 minutes to complete
• UN Decade Vision 2030 webinar: 2 November. Register now
• Call for participation: OCB Marine CO2 Removal Gulf of Mexico Regional Node
• 2023 CROCO Summer School webinar series: Overview of Advanced Methods, 13-17 November. Cape Town, South Africa or remotely on Zoom
• Informational Webinar: Sustainability, Research & Innovation Congress 2024. Learn about the objectives and discuss the Call for Contribution and themes
• Call for contributions: Sustainability Research and Innovation Congress 2024. Submit by 30 November
• Webinar: Using oral histories to improve MPA planning and management.
• Alaska Marine Symposium, Anchorage, Alaska, USA. 29 January – 2 February 2024. Register by 22 January 2024
• Save the Date: Pathways connecting climate changes to the deep ocean workshop, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA. 23-25 April 2024

Don't forget....

• Digital Twins of the Ocean Summit 2023, 9-12 November, Xiamen, China
• 11th Indo-Pacific Fish Conference, 20-24 November, Auckland, New Zealand. Register now
• Save the Date: Seychelles Coastal and Marine Science Symposium 2024, 22-24 May 2024. Apply by 30 November
• International Workshop: FAIR Data Practices for Ship-based Ocean Time Series. 9-12 January 2024. Bermuda

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