IMBeR

Integrated Marine Biosphere Research

http://www.imber.info/

Steele Ocean Sciences Building, Oxford Street, Halifax, NS, Canada

Established: 2001

Organisation type: Project
Geographical scope: Global
Member countries:
Participating countries: Albania, Algeria, Antarctica, Argentina, Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Benin, Brazil, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Ecuador, Egypt, Fiji, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Greenland, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kenya, Korea, Republic Of, Macao, Madagascar, Maldives, Malta, Mauritius, Mexico, Monaco, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, Netherlands, New Caledonia, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Oman, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Russian Federation, Saudi Arabia, Seychelles, Solomon Islands, South Africa, Spain, Sri Lanka, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Province Of China, Tanzania, United Republic Of, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Trinidad/Tobago, Turkey, Turks/Caicos Islands, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States, Uruguay, Viet Nam, Zimbabwe
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Organisation’s vision:

Ocean sustainability under global change for the benefit of society.

Organisation’s mission:

Promote integrated marine research and enable capabilities for developing and implementing ocean sustainability options within and across the natural and social sciences, and communicate relevant information and knowledge needed by society to secure sustainable, productive and healthy oceans.

Organisation’s objectives (if different from the Mission):

To understand, quantify and compare historic and present structure and functioning of linked ocean and human systems to predict options for securing or transitioning towards ocean sustainability:
- Grand Challenge I: Understanding and quantifying the state and variability of marine ecosystems
- Grand Challenge II: Improving scenarios, predictions and projections of future ocean-human systems at multiple scales
- Grand Challenge III: Improving and achieving sustainable ocean governance.

Keywords

  • Marine Ecosystems
  • Marine Research
  • Ocean governance
  • Ocean-human systems
  • Sustainability

Activities

  • Data management, interoperability, sharing, access, open data policies
  • Providing scientific advice for policy makers
  • Science coordination
  • Training scientists/technicians