Daniel Dunn and Robert Blasiak will be participating in an exciting Facebook Live event by Science Advances to coincide with the start of the BBNJ Treaty negotiations and the publication of the corresponding special issue. It takes place onTuesday, September 4th, at 4:00PM EST. To join this event and ask questions, go to https://www.facebook.com/ScienceAdvances/videos/664573037259022 and comment! For any questions, please email [email protected].
High Stakes on the High Seas – A Facebook Live on Science Advances Research In Coordination with UN Meeting
Human activity on the high seas, waters beyond the jurisdiction of any nation, is creating major challenges and risks. This summer’s special issue from Science Advances – including 8 new reports, all freely available – details these risks and challenges in a way the editors ofScience Advances hope will be useful to researchers and policy makers, including those at the UN Meeting on the Law of the Sea being held in New York City next week.
Please join us for a Facebook Live with researchers who published in this special Science Advances collection, and who will discuss relevant issues—and take questions. Among their findings are:
- Only 30 institutions hold a full 84% of all patents related to marine specimens
- Mining of mineral deposits on mid-ocean ridges is increasing, though scientists have ideas about how to design no-mining network areas, to help conserve deep-sea ecosystemsglobal industrial fishing is dominated by wealthy nations, and five nations in particular: China, Taiwan, Japan, South Korea, and Spain
- Without government subsidies more than half of high seas fisheries would be unprofitable
Speakers will be Jennifer Jacquet (High stakes on the high seas), Robert Blasiak (Corporate control and global governance of marine genetic resources), Daniel Dunn (A strategy for the conservation of biodiversity on mid-ocean ridges from deep-sea mining), and Kristina Boerder (Global hot spots of transshipment of fish catch at sea
To join this event and ask questions, go tohttps://www.facebook.com/ScienceAdvances/videos/664573037259022 and comment! The live broadcast will begin Tuesday 04 September at 4:00pm US ET. For any questions, please email [email protected].
Also, here is a list of all the studies in the collection:
http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/8/eaau8235
http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/6/eaar5237
http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/6/eaat2504
http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/7/eaar4313
http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/7/eaat7159
http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/8/eaau2161
http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/8/eaar3279
http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/8/eaat8351
http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/4/8/eaat3681
Cover Photo: Phillip Cass
