The Future Oceans₂ IMBeR Open Science Conference will be held at Le Quartz Congress Centre in Brest, France. The Workshops will take place on the 15-16 June 2019 and the main conference will run from 17-21 June 2019.

Future Oceans₂ is the second IMBeR Open Science Conference and will provide an opportunity to join world leading researchers to present advances in science from all disciplines that contribute towards ocean sustainability for the benefit of society: understanding, challenges, and solutions

In addition to delivering an update of the pertinent science, Future Oceans₂ will foster productive inter-and trans-disciplinary discussions and provide a forum to strategically map future research directions. Within this context, Future Oceans₂ is based around three interlinked themes –

• Theme 1. Understanding and quantifying the state and variability of marine ecosystems;
• Theme 2. Improving scenarios, predictions and projections of future ocean-human systems at multiple scales; and
• Theme 3. Improving and achieving sustainable ocean governance.

Future Oceans₂ will be an exciting mix of talks (keynote, research, and contributed -up to 10 concurrent sessions each day), posters, workshops, focus groups, world cafés, and other innovative formats to engage delegates. The conference will be preceded by two days of workshops.

The Workshop “Getting the most out of Earth Observation data for marine & coastal science: new satellites, tools and research” or the session “Food Web Dynamics and Contaminants: Interactions with Global Environmental Change and Implications for Food Security” will address plastic pollution among other environmental issues.

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