Join us for a virtual networking session designed to connect Early Career Ocean Professionals (ECOPs) working on or interested in the intersections of climate change, fisheries, and blue foods. Meet fellow ECOPs working on climate and food system challenges, share your work, and learn about opportunities for collaboration. The session will include time in breakout rooms to encourage discussion and community building.

Date: May 22, 2025

Time: 1pm EDT (UTC-4)

This webinar series is jointly hosted by the UN Ocean Decade Programs Blue Food Futures, Fisheries Strategies for Changing Oceans and Resilient Ecosystems (FishSCORE), Sustainability, Predictability, and Resilience of Marine Ecosystems (SUPREME), Sustainability of Marine Ecosystems through Global Knowledge Networks (SmartNet), and Fisheries and Marine Ecosystem Model Intercomparison Project (FishMIP) and endorsed project Basin Scale Events to Coastal Impacts (BECI) and this particular event was planned in collaboration with the USA ECOP node.

This webinar series highlights current efforts and challenges at the climate-fisheries nexus. Presentations and discussions will range from data-driven efforts to better understand oceanographic and biological changes affecting fisheries, to how the results can be used to inform fisheries management, aquaculture, and sustainable food decisions, to the many ways people and broader communities are being impacted by and adapting to changes in marine ecosystems and marine resource use.