Interdisciplinary collaboration to stimulate efficient decisions to reduce our impact on the oceans.

The oceans have always been seen as an infinite source of production and an easy way to massively develop the economy of countries. The anthropic activities have non-stop continued to develop, structure and industrialise. Today, the oceans have never been so exploited: fisheries, fossil extraction, marine traffic, coastal installations...

These economic activities currently generates billions of dollars at local, national and international scales. They have a direct critic impact on the human societies and also on the marine environment.

Now, what will be the ocean for the next decade?

What do we really want from the oceans?

Is it possible to seriously speak about sustainability? If yes, what should be the blue economy?

This webinar will bring together professionals, economists, researchers and students from financial companies, universities, research institutes, governmental and non-governmental organisations, working on the blue economy. The goal is to provide a forum to share current and future solutions on economy to make the ocean sustainable.

This webinar will be a contribution to the One Ocean Summit initiated by President Macron. This international event will will focus in particular on the regulation of the pelagic sea. It will be held in Brest, France, from Feb 9 to 11.

Speakers (alphabetic order):

Scott Barrett (Columbia University, USA),

Sven Biermann (Fisheries Transparency Initiative, Seychelles),

Nick Branigan (HMRC Fraud Investigation Service Edinburgh, UK),

Tanya Bryan (GRID-Arendal, Norway),

Mario Caña (GRID-Arendal, Norway),

Daniela Diz (Heriot-Watt University, Scotland),

Claire Jolly (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, France),

Julia Kercher (WoMen+Sea, Norway),

Ricardo Mourinho Félix (European Investment Bank, Luxembourg),

Yoshitaka Ota (School of Marine and Environmental Affairs, University of Washington, USA),

Linwood Pendleton (Ocean Knowledge-Action Network, France),

Mauro Randone (WWF Mediterranean Marine Initiative),

Olivier Thébaud (Ifremer, AMURE Research Center, France),

Piera Tortora (Co-ordinator of the Sustainable Ocean for All Initiative, OECD Development Directorate),

Cheung William (University of British Columbia, Canada).

Date: Feb 8, 2022

Location: virtual on Zoom.

Organised by Prof Olivier Adam, Sorbonne University (France), Dr Charlotte de Mille and Felix

Appelbe, Ocean Ambassadors (UK)

Contact : olivier.adam@sorbonne-universite.fr

Interdisciplinary collaboration to stimulate efficient decisions to reduce our impact on the oceans.

Symposium on High Underwater Sounds from Humans - SHUSH Virtual conference

We imagine the oceans as peaceful places, a paradise full of freedom and abundance. But the reality is quite different because of the pressures of human economic activities. These generate underwater noise which radiates in great depths. For the past 50 years, acoustic observatories have been deployed and studies have made it possible to estimate the effects of these anthropic sounds on marine ecosystems.

Today, the question is not to stop human activities, but to develop solutions that aim to reduce these impacts on the environment. Technical solutions already exist and are deployed. Others are to be invented and tested quickly. Because the next few years will be decisive. More than ever, we must protect the oceans.

This virtual symposium SHUSH will bring together professionals, engineers, researchers and students from industry, universities, research institutes, government organizations and NGOs, working on ocean noises and their potential effects. The goal is to provide a forum to share current and future solutions for mitigating the underwater noise. This symposium will also encourage interdisciplinary collaborations to stimulate efficient decisions to reduce our impact on the oceans.

Speakers (alphabetic order):

Olivier Adam (Sorbonne University, France),

Felix Appelbee (Ocean Ambassadors),

Eric Baudin (Veritas, France),

Paul Nguyen (Ensta Bretagne, France),

Charlotte De Mille (Ocean Ambassadors),

Damien Demoor (Naval Group, France),

Nicolas Entrup (OceanCare, UK),

Nadège Gandilhon (France),

Hervé Glotin (CNRS LIS, University of Toulon, France),

Michael Jasny (NRDC, USA), Heleen Middel (NTNU, UK),

Orla Robinson (Port of Vancouver, Canada),

Tom Smith (BMT Global),

Brandon Southall (Sea-inc, UK),

Laura Williamson (Ocean Science Consulting Limited, UK).

Date: Sept 13, 2021

Location: virtual on Zoom.

Organised by Prof Olivier Adam, Sorbonne University (France), Dr Charlotte de Mille and Felix Appelbe, Ocean Ambassadors (UK)

IF YOU ARE UNABLE TO ATTEND ON THE DAY, THE SERIES OF VIDEOS WILL BE AVAILABLE ON THE OCEAN AMBASSADORS WEBSITE AS WELL AS LINKS BEING SENT TO ALL TICKET HOLDERS POST EVENT.

Life-Writing Beyond Words: Listening to Animals is the second in a termly series exploring the non-verbal in life-writing, with contributions from Martin Bencsik, Katherine Collins, Eleanor Morgan, Olivier Adam and Aline Penitot.

Life-Writing Beyond Words is a research network and termly series of public events, hosted by myself Felix Appelbe along with the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing, and Ocean Ambassadors, that explores how we move between words and the non-verbal.