The UN Ocean Conference will take place in Nice from 9 – 13 June 2025, co-hosted by France and Costa Rica. Vanessa Yepes Narvaez (INVEMAR, Colombia), a member of the OBON Scientific Advisory Committee, will be giving a keynote speech at the flagship Ocean Decade Forum, on Wed 11 June.  Her talk will be part of SESSION I – CO-DESIGNING […]

OBON will be presenting at the One Ocean Science Congress taking place in Nice, France | 3–6 June 2025. OOS2025-1128 | Orals | T3-6The Ocean Biomolecular Observing Network: A global hub for biomolecular measurement of marine lifeThu, 05 Jun, 17:00–17:10 (CEST) | Room 4 In addition, there will be a number of other oral and poster presentations by representatives of OBON projects, or

Tadashi Kajita presented a poster at the 7th Annual Japanese eDNA Society Meeting, Tsukuba, Japan 1 – 4 December 2024 https://ednasociety.org/en/topics/the-7th-annual-meeting-of-the-edna-society/ https://pub.confit.atlas.jp/en/event/edna7

Friday 25 October 2024, 10:00 am to 11:30 am COT (UTC -5) GEO Pavilion at CBD COP 16 (Blue Zone) Observing biology and ecosystems in the ocean for effective biodiversity conservation This side event will share the latest developments, including capacity development opportunities and challenges, concerning existing, new and emerging technologies and methods for observing

OBON will be represented by Jodie van de Kamp (CSIRO) at the Australian Marine Sciences Association & New Zealand Marine Sciences Society Joint Annual Meeting 2024 (AMSA-NZMSS 2024), which will take place in Hobart, Tasmania, from 15th – 20th September 2024. The presentation will be entitled “The Ocean Biomolecular Observation Network – Towards Globally Coordinated

🌊 The OBON Network Spotlight: Updates & New Beginnings webinar series, hosted by the Ocean Biomolecular Observing Network (OBON), features presentations from projects endorsed as Ocean Decade initiatives under the OBON Programme. All recordings now available on YouTube Throughout September and October, you will have the opportunity to learn about the progress of existing projects

Two OBON projects (DNA-based approaches for fisheries monitoring and GOTeDNA) will be presented as part of a session at the 9th International Barcode of Life Conference in Belém, Brazil, from 3 -6 Sept 2024. The session, entitled ‘Contribution of marine (e)DNA (meta)barcoding to the goals of the UN Ocean Decade’ will take place at 11

Professor Willie Wilson (MBA) will deliver a presentation entitled “Ocean Biomolecular Observing Network (OBON) – A Hub for Biomolecular Measurement of Marine Life” at the 2024 Conference of the Challenger Society, taking place in Oban, UK from 2 – 6 September 2024. It is part of the session “Small and alive! The ocean’s biology at