Develop open access teaching and learning resources for educators and researchers:
Based upon our MEDDLE Best Practice Guide
We will train scientists in multi-driver research across a variety of programs: PhD, MSc, summer school, conferences, and online courses.
2. Advocate towards coordination and a consensus amongst experimental approaches:
Provide data-based guidance through existing programs such as the Gordon Research Conferences and Ocean Global Change Biology workshop, which is run every 2 years.
Maximize overlap between different experimental approaches and analyses to allow tighter intercomparison.
3. Progress science towards a more holistic approach:
Address how multiple drivers will reshuffle marine ecosystems across a longer timescale.
Develop strong conceptual frameworks key questions.
Survey the ocean biological community as broadly as possible (in partnership with IMBeR - Integrated Marine Biosphere Research).
Bridge disjoints between models, experiments and observations.
Publish framework and ensure it is available on our website and publicized at meetings.
4. Publish a framework:
Ensure it is available on our website and publicised at meetings.
Publish short articles with both the scientific media and with scientific journalists.
5. Link to societal questions:
Develop dialogue with socio-ecologists.
Engage with IOC-endorsed and other initiatives to promote an interdisciplinary process-based approach within the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development.