OA Week 2025 - Caribbean Hub

The OA Caribbean Hub was established in 2023 following a Caribbean OA Needs Based Assessment Survey. The Global Ocean Acidification Observing Network (GOA-ON) has encouraged grass-roots formation of regional hubs to foster communities of practice for the efficient collection of comparable and geographically distributed data to assess ocean acidification and its effects, and to support adaptation tools such as model forecasts. Join us to learn about ocean acidification research and policy in the Caribbean! Moderator: Dr. Debbie-Ann Gordon-Smith The University of the West Indies, Mona, Jamaica Speakers: Dr. Isaiah Bolden Georgia Institute of Technology Hidden Ecological Messages within the Chemical “Heartbeat” of Caribbean Reef Ecosystems Dr. Natalia López Figueroa Gulf Coastal Ocean Observing System (GCOOS) Dr. Marko Tosic IOCARIBE of IOC (UNESCO) UN Ocean Decade and Ocean Policy in the Wider Caribbean