Region: Indian Ocean

Western Indian Ocean Marine Science Association (WIOMSA)

📚 Category: Multidisciplinary

🏷️ Topics include: Biology/Ecology; Policy/Governance; Career Development Support

📍 Country/Region: Indian Ocean

The Western Indian Ocean Marine Science Association (WIOMSA) was established as a regional, non-profit, membership organization in 1993 and registered in Zanzibar, Tanzania in 1994 as a non-governmental organization.

The organization is dedicated to promoting the educational, scientific and technological development of all aspects of marine sciences throughout the Western Indian Ocean (WIO) region (consisting of 10 countries: Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, South Africa, Comoros, Madagascar, Seychelles, Mauritius, Réunion (France)), with a view toward sustaining the use and conservation of its marine resources. WIOMSA has a particular interest in linking the knowledge that emerges from research to the management and governance issues that affect marine and coastal ecosystems in the region.

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Indo-Pacific Seagrass Network

📚 Category: Biology & Ecology

🏷️ Topics include: Seagrass

📍 Country/Region: Indian Ocean; Pacific Ocean

The Indo-Pacific Seagrass Network (IPSN) aims to build capacity, foster learning exchange and conduct collaborative research on seagrass and their associated fisheries across the Indo-Pacific. The benefit of a research network is that relatively small amounts of work carried out collaboratively by many people have the potential to answer questions relating to patterns and processes that occur on large spatial-temporal scales.

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