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Interdisciplinary research for the sustainable management of the marine environment, climate change and food security: Case Studies from the Western Indian Ocean

SOLSTICE-WIO is a four-year collaborative project funded by the UK Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF). Launched in October 2017, it brought together recent advances in marine technologies, local knowledge and research expertise to address challenges of sustainable management of the marine environment, food security and climate change facing the Western Indian Ocean region. As SOLSTICE is coming to an end, project researchers from the WIO countries and the UK have produced a series of presentations based on their work. These presentations highlight project successes in research, stakeholder engagement, communication, and science into policy. 

8th November
The North Kenyan Banks – the new frontier for food security and economic growth (including the launch of the Special Issue of OCMA East African Coastal Current ecosystems: at the frontier of climate change and food security)
Duration: 1 hr 48 mins

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  1. Introduction
  2. Special Issue Overview: East African Coastal Current Ecosystems
  3. MOOC video - Introduction to the North Kenya Banks Fishery
  4. North Kenya Banks ecosystem’s productivity; looking into the past, present and future
  5. Upwelling and productivity over the North Kenya Banks
  6. Projected climate change impacts on marine ecosystems along the path of the East Africa Coastal Current
  7. Large projected declines in marine fish biomass for Kenya and Tanzania in the absence of climate mitigation
  8. The North Kenya Banks: summary of the policy relevant information

15th November
Living marine resources of the Pemba Channel – at the frontier of climate change and food security (including the launch of the translational material for fishery management and communities)
Duration: 1 hr 42 mins

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  1. Introduction
  2. MOOC Video - A Small Fish with a Big Mission
  3. Small pelagic fishery of the Pemba Channel: Perspectives, Approaches and Challenges within a Sustainability Framework
  4. Communicating our research
  5. Interannual monsoon wind variability as a key driver of East African small pelagic fisheries
  6. Variability of mackerel fish catch and remotely-sensed biophysical controls in the eastern Pemba channel
  7. Towards longer term adaptation strategies for small-scale fishers in Tanzania
  8. New insights into Pemba Channel’s marine environment
  9. Using ocean robots to study the marine ecosystem of the Pemba Channel

22nd November
Environmental drivers and socio-economic consequences of the South African Chokka squid fishery collapsing (including the launch of the DSRII Special Issue “Dynamics of the Agulhas Bank, South Africa – ecosystem shifts and future trends in the squid fishery”)
Duration: 1 hr 59 mins

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  1. Introduction
  2. Stakeholder opening remarks
  3. MOOC video - Introduction to the South African Squid Fishery
  4. SOLSTICE South Africa
  5. Field campaign and capacity building
  6. Launch of Special Issue: "Dynamics of Agulhas Bank, South Africa - ecosystem shifts and future trends in the squid fishery"
  7. Benthic turbidity and impact on squid catch
  8. Links between squid catch variations and biophysical mechanisms in South African waters
  9. The role of the Agulhas Current in Chokka squid paralarvae retention on the Agulhas Bank: a particle tracking approach
  10. Agulhas Current Upwelling Drives increasing Deoxygenation of African Coastal Seas

29th November
Marine technologies for ocean sustainability and the Massive Open Online Course “Ocean Science in Action”.
Duration: 1 hr 49 mins

Start video from:

  1. Introduction
  2. Massive Open Online Course “Ocean Science in Action”
  3. MOOC video - A day in the life of the marine robotics team
  4. Using marine robots for marine management and conservation in the Western Indian Ocean
  5. Enhancing Western Indian Ocean readiness for marine robots
  6. Modelling WIO upwelling systems: at the cross-roads of ocean dynamics and socio‑economics
  7. Agulhas influence on the Agulhas Bank phytoplankton biomass during seasonal upwelling : a Machine Learning and Remote Sensing approach
  8. Preparing for climate change: challenges and opportunities for conservation, artisanal fisheries and seaweed harvesting
  9. Summary of readiness

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