This event has been postponed due to the COVID-19 outbreak. New dates are TBD and will be announced as soon as possible.

The MBON Pole to Pole is preparing a third workshop to build on activities and achieved goals from training activities in Brazil and Mexico. The purpose is to continue the development of a community of practice dedicated to understanding change in marine biodiversity and generating knowledge and products that inform conservation and management efforts across the Americas.

During this workshop participants will:

1. Develop a set of indicators of biodiversity change in coastal communities;
2. Develop a comprehensive list of macro-invertebrate and macro-algae species for the region;
3. Agree on a minimum set of physical variables that should be collected during biodiversity surveys of coastal areas;
4. Learn to access and use satellite seascapes and other remote sensing variables to characterize environmental conditions at survey sites;
5. Test methods for surveying rocky shore biodiversity using photo-quadrats and imagery analysis;
6. Develop specific Dawin Core vocabularies for flora and fauna of rocky shore and sandy beach communities;
7. Continue to publish survey datasets collected during 2019 and 2020 to the Ocean Biogeographic Information System (OBIS);
8. Analyze survey data collected since NaGISA to the present to examine biogeographical patterns and detect biodiversity change in coastal communities along both coasts of the continent.

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In order to participate, you will need to complete the Application Survey below (be sure to scroll down within frame), or by visiting the survey directly at https://forms.gle/e3Wi23k53psARePo6, before the survey deadline of January 17, 2020 at 11:59pm (EST).