This important, forward-looking paper led by Karina Von Schuckman is a first major milestone towards a robust, multidisciplinary, evidence-based ocean indicators framework. Development of three out of nine proposed pilot indicators was led by IOCCP’s experts Veronique Garcon, Adrienne Sutton and Maciej Telszewski. Our role as the GOOS Biogeochemistry Panel more often than not is played by filling the science-policy nexus and this work is a prime example of how ocean knowledge should be used to shape policies.
Developing reliable, comparable, and regularly updated ocean indicators, backed by a unified international framework, is essential for delivering coherent, actionable insights that can guide global goals and protect the ocean's future.
We will continue working with our many partners led by Abed El Rahman Hassoun in the context of the recently started BioGeoSea Project to implement the three proposed biogeochemistry indicators:
- Ocean acidification
- Ocean Deoxygenation
- Net community production
as well as to develop additional focus on greenhouse gas fluxes and multi-stressor indicator.
We congratulate all the authors and are looking forward to future collaborations with colleagues in BioEcoOcean and ObsSea4Clim aimed at translating complex biogeochemical processes into actionable information across temporal and spatial scales!
