LACOBON eDNA Capacity building workshop

10 -14 November 2025 The POGO-supported Latin American and Caribbean Ocean Biomolecular Observation Network (LACOBON) delivered a hybrid eDNA Capacity building workshop at INVEMAR’s headquarters in Santa Marta, Colombia, from 10 to 14th of November 2025. It gathered practitioners, stakeholders, professors, university students and environmental authorities from 20 institutions across the Latin America and Caribbean […]

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Scaling Autonomous Integrated Global eDNA Observations (SAIGe)

OBON is pleased to announce the opening of a Call for Expressions of Intent to apply for the OBON-SAIGe microgrants aiming to accelerate eDNA monitoring by supporting 1-year projects involving topics such as autonomous sampling, standardising protocols, building data infrastructure, expanding reference libraries, and citizen science initiatives using eDNA kits. This funding is part of

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OBON Network Spotlight: Projects Wave 2025

🌊 The OBON Network Spotlight: Projects Wave 2025 webinar series, hosted by the Ocean Biomolecular Observing Network (OBON), features presentations from projects endorsed as Ocean Decade initiatives under the OBON Programme. Held during October, it provided viewers with the opportunity to learn about the progress of existing projects and be introduced to newly endorsed ones.

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IMarEST | Unlocking Ocean Secrets: Marine Mammal Monitoring Through eDNA

A webinar by the Marine Mammals SIG 4pm – 5pm BST 22 September 2025 About the event: Environmental DNA (eDNA) is revolutionising how we detect and monitor marine mammals, offering a non-invasive, highly sensitive tool for assessing species presence in vast and remote ocean environments. Following strong interest during our recent IMarEST Defra mNCEA Marine Mammal

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OBON – FAO Workshop

Bringing Biomolecular Innovation to Sustainable Fisheries and Aquaculture Highlights from the OBON Fisheries and Aquaculture Workshop | 2–4 September 2025 | FAO Headquarters, Rome, Italy (see below for Spanish language version of report) In early September, the Ocean Biomolecular Observing Network (OBON) convened an international workshop at FAO Headquarters in Rome to explore how biomolecular

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